Archive for social networks

The End of Twitter as We Know It

Excerpt: Yes, it was bound to happen, Twitter has been "attacked" by a number of profit-seeking Internet Marketing folks. What started out as a neat little social network that allows you to keep tabs on your friends, even if they are going to the bathroom, is rapidly turning into a modern free-for-all links

StumbleUpon BURIES Digg

Excerpt: Read any of the Internet SEO related forums (like Digital Point) and you will find that people are flocking more towards StumbleUpon than ever before.  I'm not sure what it is but it appears that users are getting fed up with the politics of Digg, the clicky circles.

Creating Online Comics

Excerpt: My friend Todd, an avid comic book geek, runs a really cool online comic website called KillJoycomics.com - Comics for Cynics.  I've been asked to be a guest artist for the site, so I decided to come up with cool little comic for the site. I write/draw the comic using Flash and send the final

Twitter and Jott - The New Face of Social Networks

Excerpt: As if SMS texting wasn't a big enough annoyance...check out these two sites, Twitter and Jott.  Two places that help keep others informed of what the heck you are up to.  Jott.com - Now you can call a web service from your phone and speak a message you would like to send to you friends.&

27 New Career Choices for Brittany Spears

Excerpt: Or Britney Spears, however you want to spell it.  Michael over at wolf-howl.com has recently demonstrated two crucial search engine marketing concepts, buzz targeting and link baiting.  With all the hoopla of Britney Spears' horrible attempt at a comeback, Michael decided to be creat

The Facts of Life Are All About Bongs

Excerpt: Technorati Tags: drugs I found this hilarious clip from an old episode (heck, I guess they are all old) of the Facts of Life.  I remember when it first aired, but also I do remember seeing bongs/pipes being sold at commercial record stores.  My favorite line of this clip is "We're a t

Taking on Wordpress and Flickr

Excerpt: I've recently installed Community Server over on Emailfriends.com as an experiment in social networking and to extend the user experience to Emailfriends.com.  This platform is pretty cool and is 100% ASP.NET 2.0/C#.  Everyone is used to running social networking apps with PHP/mySQL, so t

Mr T and Social Networking

Excerpt: I always try to relate old school pop-culture icons with new technology.   I do?  Well, sometimes.  Ok, I do it alot in conversations with people and yes I do get looked at funny. But this one really makes sense.   I've been really spending alot of time visiting socia

YouTube Starting to Go Down the Tubes?

Excerpt: Not to long ago Geoffrey Mack over at Alexa put up the latest Alexa traffic graph for YouTube.com and made the observation that YouTube's traffic has gone flat. His only explanation was that this trend had started at the same time Google announced the acquisition of YouTube for $1.65 billion in sto

Why Should Google Buy YouTube?

Excerpt: As you've probably heard, Google has purchased YouTube for something like 400 gazillion dollars worth of stock.  This kind of purchase may seem like some revised horror story from the first dot com dot bomb erra.  What the heck is Google thinking buying a compnay that has no revenue plan?

Proof that Google Video Stinks

Excerpt: I've always said that Google Video just totally stinks.  The interface is not good, the video streaming is bad and searching and sharing videos is just not as clear cut as it should be.  YouTube.com did it the way video sharing should be done.  It seems that Google would agree with me

Copy Writing for Cash

Excerpt: Copy Writing,  Article Generation and Killer Sales Pages Professional copy writing is important for conveying the image of your business online. Our professionals know that writing for the web is a science and should be taken seriously. Killer Sales Pages to Pull In Sales and Leads Sales cop

What is Social Networking?

Excerpt: You know I am still wondering about this whole social networking deal. Yes it seems to work, but I don't now if I'm totally sold on the whole concept. Social networking sites like Digg, Friendster, Facebook and Myspace are pretty neato, but you know do you actually get alot of marketing power