Social Media

Google Plus vs. Facebook

Published September 18, 2011 | By admin

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Google Plus vs. Facebook: Who Will Win In the Battle of Social Networking Sites?

Surely Facebook felt very little guilt when all of Myspace’s fans began ignoring their accounts and started networking by the thousands through Facebook instead, but I wonder how they will feel now that the tides have turned. Pretty soon Google may know exactly what it feels like when Google + takes the world by storm in the very near future. It should not come by surprise that Google is trying to hop on the social networking bandwagon again as they have tried in the past with platforms like Google Buzz and Google Friend Connect. But the new Google attempt at social networking has got a lot of features that it didn’t have before, and a lot of features that Facebook only wishes it could have. Read more... (584 words, 2 images, estimated 2:20 mins reading time)

Posted in Social Media | Tagged facebook, Google, Google Buzz, Google Friend Connect, Social network, Social network service, Twitter | 71 Comments

Signing Up for the New Digg Alpha

Published August 19, 2010 | By admin

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For the last year or so, I have visited Digg randomly or rarely. I tried Digg for a while, but always felt I was posting in the wrong category. So I only visited when others asked for it. And then a few weeks ago, I got a notice that someone was following so I went to login and the login didn’t work.

So now I am signing up for Digg Alpha so I can paste 6a597fd2647d468bbfe408607517b7b8 here and get it in my feed to verify my site. Nice trick, Digg. But it is pretty cool that from now on, my posts will automatically be sent to you. Read more... (335 words, 6 images, estimated 1:20 mins reading time)

Posted in Social Media | Tagged digg alpha, new digg, Social Media | 53 Comments

The Inner Workings of the Twitter Machine

Published May 16, 2009 | By admin

I am not quite sure why a made my last post a cliff hanger. To tell you the truth, I was running out of time and decided to just cut the post in two parts. The machine is rather simple and mine is geared to affiliate marketing, but I will explain it so that you can create one for just about any topic or industry.

Now I now there will be questions about spam whenever any sort of automation enters the conversation. Spam is how you cook it. This Twitter account I actually use. The automation is there because I don’t use it as often as I would want to. It picks up the slack when I am away.

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Posted in Social Media | Tagged Seesmic, TweetLater, Twitter | 16 Comments

A Twitter Machine

Published May 14, 2009 | By admin

I must admit I can’t help. I see one technology and try to attach it to another. And then another and another. I originally learned to program so I could create things. But now all I really have to do is look around for tools that work well together.

I have had my first Twitter account for over a year now and just topped 1600 subscribers. With that account, I tweet things and go through new followers and follow anyone that interests me, manually. I rarely go looking for people for follow. My second Twitter account is a few months old and had less than 200 subscribers, so I tried an experiment. But let me show you the results first. Read more... (187 words, 2 images, estimated 45 secs reading time)

Posted in Social Media | Tagged Twitter, twitter automation | 12 Comments

Listening to Twitter

Published April 3, 2009 | By admin

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Twitter has changed search and has also changed the meaning of the term “up-to-date”. This is no longer waiting until the next scheduled news cast. And forget the newspaper. Even Google is not that fast. And who needs to read a whole page when you can get the gist of what’s going on in 140 characters. Alright, I went to far with the last one. Reading is good and something I wish I had more time for, but my mission to carry a library around in my head is doomed to failure. Read more... (770 words, 2 images, estimated 3:05 mins reading time)

Posted in Social Media | Tagged Google, Search, Social Networking, Tweetdeck, Twitter | 28 Comments

The Changes at Bloghology Social Network

Published February 11, 2009 | By admin

Despite being immersed in the internet for 12 hours a day at times, I am not quite sure of the definition of a social network. Some are for bookmarks, some for articles and some for liking and commenting. My definition now is a site that I don’t own and I can put stuff on. What makes it social is that other people can see it. I was going to add “and interact”, but I don’t think that is necessarily a common denominator. Read more... (502 words, 3 images, estimated 2:00 mins reading time)