By Jeff on March 10, 2010
SAN FRANCISCO–For game developers whose industry experience predates not just Facebook but even Mark Zuckerberg, you might expect that abandoning making big, complex games for simple titles like Farmville and similar social projects would be anathema.
But to hear a panel of respected industry veterans who spoke before a packed house in a huge room at [...]
Posted in Social
By Jeff on February 11, 2010
Add a “Buzz This” link to your site or posts:
Take this URL:
http://www.google.com/reader/link?url=http://concerts.com/&title=Check%20out%20Concerts.com&srcURL=http://concerts.com/
And add your own URL, TITLE, and srcURL
Here is a button to use:
UPDATE:
I did find that you can get a bookmarklet though from the Google Reader site that will let you share URL’s via a bookmark:
http://www.google.com/buzz/jeff.fall/b84fNzqo61i/found-this-post-http-paininthetech-com-2009-02-06
Posted in Google, Social
By Jeff on February 2, 2010
The Truth About Social Media
Over the next five years social media marketing is projected to grow at an annual rate of 34%, according to Forrester Research. Social networks have also proven to be an effective way to gauge – and achieve – Internet marketing success, offering unlimited opportunities for feedback, promotion, brand-building and monetization.
“If you [...]
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By Jeff on January 15, 2010
I just added some more Google Friend Connect goodness to my site. I am now testing it out for my comments on my posts. We will see how it goes.
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By Jeff on January 13, 2010
There are 2 updates that are slated as coming early in 2010 according to the FB Developer Roadmap. They may not seem major, but they could be. No longer will your app be able to depend on users having your app on a user’s left narrow box. App’s will now be confined even further and [...]
Posted in Facebook Development, Social |
By Jeff on January 4, 2010
Do you have a ning site and want to hide the ugly ning bar at the top of the page? Simply use this CSS:
#xn_bar {
display:none;
}
And it is gone…
Posted in General, Social |
By Jeff on December 22, 2009
Companies not using social media to correctly engage their customers is the biggest problem online today. You see it all the time, whether it be from large mainstream brands like Wal-Mart or smaller niche places like a local tv station. There seems to be a lot of broadcasting and not a lot of [...]
Posted in General, Google, Social |
By Jeff on December 14, 2009
URL shorteners, like bit.ly, have become a popular way for people to share links on Twitter while taking up as few of the allotted 140 characters as possible. But saving space is just one of the benefits that shorteners provide. Others include getting traffic analytics like how many people are sharing links from which sites. [...]
Posted in Facebook Development, Social |
By Jeff on December 14, 2009
I watched the Google infomercial on CNBC last week and I was struck by a comment by of the Google engineers involved with Android. To paraphrase what they said, more and more young people are using smart phones like the iPhone and Android to connect to the Internet instead of using computers. With the 3G [...]
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By Jeff on December 9, 2009
Because of Google, Watch What You Say On Facebook
Google recently announced a new real-time search feature to their well-used search engine. Under the new set of features, Google users will be able to track real-time conversations on sites such as Twitter, MySpace and Facebook.
So, if you are a Facebook user and your profile is set [...]
Posted in Facebook Development, Social |