Im on Facebook, you probably are too. What about your organization? Have you taken the time to make a page or group for your brand? Here are five great reason why you should get your organization on Facebook today. 1. Its where your audience is. Even without knowing who your organization is or what they [...]
Sort form: No direct way, use a third party tool. Long form: Since MySpace (finally) opened its API, there are applications being created with the intent to sync it up with Twitter, but they havent gotten it right yet. Min Tweets, MiniTweet and Tweet! are all applications that display within your MySpace page, but do [...]
Today I was asked by my book club to join GoodReads. Trying to circumvent the tedium that is part of new membership, (having to enter in every book I ever read), I turned to Facebook. I had already gone through the mind-numbing exercise of finding past readings with iRead, the Facebook application, so I expected [...]
Listen, Facebook, we have to talk. We have a lot of fun together. We go through photos, play scrabble, chat with friends, its great. But lately I’ve started to see a side to you that I’m finding rather aggressive. I am speaking specifically about your new “People You May Know” area on the main aggregate [...]
I had a couple realizations this morning while adding my social network feeds into Friendfeed.com. The first was that I have the good fortune of getting “robleto” as my handle a lot. I suppose that comes with being on the cutting edge. The second was that I ‘m not sure what to do with Friendfeed. [...]
The South by Southwest conference in Austin once again proved to be a fantastic opportunity to feel the pulse of the industry and see where the bleeding edge is and how much catching up we have to do. I will happy to discover that this year I didn’t feel at all behind the curve. My [...]
It’s so simple really, and not at all new. It’s the original Facebook model, before it became huge. Twitter is about proximity. Over the past year I have sent about 100 Twitter “tweets”. Over the past week I doubled that. Why? All the people who I am following, and who were following me, were all [...]
So, the company I work for, The Motley Fool, just launched a really cool new online game “” CAPS.The premise (as I understand it) is that there are these guys like Jim Kramer on CNBC who yell and bellow “pick this stock” or “pick that stock” with no accountability. There
