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Venture into the world of social media with news, commentary, and reviews, from social media maven, Muhammad Saleem.
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Obama-Biden: Open Government, Now Open For Questions
Its something that I have been anxiously waiting for to happen ever since I first got involved with socially driven sites - and began to understand their true power - and it has finally become a reality. Imagine my surprise when I saw that Obamas change.gov site had introduced a mechanism for sugges …
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How to build and launch a social news site in 3 weeks
Check out this interview that Webjackalope conducted with the Tipd team. The team explains exactly how they managed to build and launch the social news site for financial news, ideas, and tips, in just 21 days!
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Tip’d turns 1.0 - A community for financial news, ideas, and tips
Hey everyone, wanted to announce that Tipd, our socially driven community for financial news, ideas, and tips has turned 1.0. Please drop by the blog to check out all the changes. Also, read more coverage: Moolanomy, Four Pillars, Blueprint for Financial Prosperity, Cash Money Life, Five Cent Nicke …
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Tip’d - A community for financial news, ideas, and tips
Hey everyone, wanted to announce the launch of Tipd, a socially driven community for financial news, ideas, and tips. Please drop by, sign up, and give the site a try. I have taken the responsibilities of community director at Tipd, so if you have something to say, please get in touch! Also, read m …
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It’s the Quality, Stupid!
Erick Schonfelds discussion of Technoratis State of the Blogosphere said something quite alarming, Blogging is a volume game. The more you post, the more chances there are that someone else will link to one of your posts. (Technorati rank is based on the number of recent links to your blog). The maj …
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The BETA Tag: Crowdsourced Product Testing
Royal Pingdom asks a very pertinent question today, why is half of google in beta? Google is known for keeping their products in beta (much) longer than most other companies. But exactly how many of their products are in beta? When we here at Pingdom investigated this, it turned out that out of the …
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Understanding ‘Real People’ - Are You Creating Value?
people can and will carve out the time for social media IF they see a reason to. There is a prevailing thought among pundits that real people dont have time for social media, which, if true, has major implications for anyone behind a social web startup wanting to build a monetizable audience To unde …
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attending blogworldexpo 2008? attend my panel, let’s meet up
i will be at blogworldexpo 2008, speaking on a panel along with dan gray, michelle naranjo, and scott monty (confirmed so far). We will be covering topics related to establishing blogger credibility and how to be taken seriously on the web. in order to properly review a product, you have to experien …
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guest post at mashable: are ping.fm & co. solving the problem or exacerbating it?
i’ve written a guest post at mashable debating whether ping.fm and similar sites are helping fix our fragmented networks or worsening the fragmentation. ping.fm finally announced its open beta today and not everyone is rejoicing. when i first started monitoring these services that allow you to send …
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guest post at read/writeweb: the case for an apple inetwork
i’ve written a guest post at read/writeweb making the case for the next version of itunes to go truly social. itunes social networking and collaborative filtering (recommendations) system, coupled with the iphones versatile wireless communication and media sharing capabilities, topped off with media …
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guest post at read/writeweb: has yahoo! buzz lived up to the buzz?
i’ve written a guest post at read/writeweb looking at the state of yahoo! buzz in the wake of the most recent changes. since they opened the submission process to everyone, the buzz surrounding the site has really been at a high. desperate publishers and marketers who were previously locked out of t …
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guest post at search engine land: social media marketing roi - metrics and analysis
i’ve written a post on search engine land covering some basics of social media content marketing, roi metrics, and analysis. when you take the advice above, keep in mind that businesses cannot succeed in social media without obeying the principles of authenticity, integrity, transparency, and partic …
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guest post at mashable: ma.gnolia goes open source, but bookmarking is dying
i’ve written a guest post at mashable exploring the state of social bookmarking, social news, and personal bookmarking. would love to read your feedback on the topic. while ma.gnolia’s efforts are commendable they don’t predict a very bright future for the site and the ongoing decline in use and imp …
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is a virtual slave trade… okay?
among the speculation on what facebook is application making $1 million a month, one application that was named as possible candidate was friends for sale. not to be a kill joy but if you look at what the application is actually about, you will probably have just as hard a time as myself, believing …
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digg wants to democratize public dialogue
when some of the most dedicated community members on the social news and networking site, digg, staged temporary boycott in january, they hardly knew the impact their actions would have. in the short-term they had to bear with an exceptional amount of irrational bad press, unnecessary and misdirecte …
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conversations about social media - august 15-17, 2008
here’s a recap of the most active conversations from the social media room. etiquette in the age of social media twitter hurting entire industry? twitter adds threaded replies the webs dirty little secret what happened to pownce? 9 ways to enlarge the social media audience corporate social media in …
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conversations about social media - august 13-14, 2008
here’s a recap of the most active conversations from the social media room. where blogging is headed value of social media and social networking do startups work better as subsidiaries? social network popularity around the world turn friendfeed into your social headquarter the google black hole a …
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conversations about social media - august 11-12, 2008
here’s a recap of the most active conversations from the social media room. no time for blogging is it spammy or savvy marketing? your medium is dying social networks: definition, history, and scholarship twitter going fremium? advice on personal branding as always, everyone is welcome to join the …
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conversations about social media - august 8-10, 2008
here’s a recap of the most active conversations from the social media room. how profound is it? the anonymous side of the net connections between web 2.0 companies and investors immunity or community? guest-tweeting: why so serious etiquette as always, everyone is welcome to join the room and st …
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conversations about social media - august 6-7, 2008
here’s a recap of the most active conversations from the social media room. half of u.s. adults use social media the olympics and social media marketing new firefox digg extension released introducing the conversation prism say no to no comments as always, everyone is welcome to join the room and …
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