Renaissance 2.0
Even though the song is about 25 years old it fits so well in today’s internet age. With all of the friends we make online these days on all of the social networks this song kind of says it all. Even if most of us never meet in person, somehow we’re all linked together in…
Tears for Fears finally hit the big time with this number one song “Everybody wants to Rule the World” in 1985. The original title was “Everybody wants to go to War” but thank goodness they changed it! The mood and feeling of the song just wouldn’t have gone well with that title. The music video…
“You’re All I Have” by Snow Patrol is one of my favorite songs. I still can’t understand how it never really became a big hit single. I’m usually pretty good at predicting whether or not a new song will be a hit or not on the charts. I was dead wrong about this one but…
In my latest piece for Mashable, “20+ Tools to Make Any Email Inbox More Social”, I shared ways you can enhance your email experience whether it’s Outlook, GMail, Thunderbird or Apple Mail. Some of the tools were covered in one of my posts about Outlook but most of them were new which made writing it…
I was tagged by Chris Brogan to contribute a post about best practices for social media marketing in response to Mitch Joel’s Six Pixels of Separation. Since I mostly blog about technology I will share my take on this question from that perspective. How does someone from a tech point of view look at social…
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I just discovered that hashtags have been dead since July 10, 2008 and hardly anyone even noticed it. I accidentally stumbled across the corpse when I tried to visit some of the recent hot hashtags that many people on twitter have been meticulously using such as #Gnomedex and #DNC08. At first, I thought they were…
I had the pleasure (or displeasure) of reviewing a new startup called SocialU on mashable.com in a post called Social Networking Air App SocialU wants to be your everything. On paper it looked like a great idea but once you installed it and started using it things went south in a hurry. My piece was…
The 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing are officially over now and what a spectacle it was. I think all Olympic games have their own special unique voice so no one can ever declare one better than any others, especially the ridiculous statement that some IOC presidents used to make about a particular event being the…
By now, everyone should know about Hashtags on Twitter. You create a hashtag by using a pound (#) sign along with the keyword of choice (i.e. #iphone) and that message will become a part of the iphone hashtag page. Here’s the main screen that’s displayed: The exciting part that many people don’t know about is…
