Renaissance 2.0
Our personal lives have begun to merge and blend into our professional lives online thanks to the massive success of social networks like Twitter and Facebook. Our once separate virtual worlds have begun to collide, mixing friends with clients and coworkers with family members. It all reminds me of a hilarious episode on Seinfeld called…
SocialCast offers a free 10-user social networking platform for the enterprise. It includes a twitter-like micro-blogging service as well as a friendfeed-like aggregator for your social profiles on other services such as Facebook, delicious, youtube, etc. Yet Another Twitter for the Business? Yes, there are a slew of twitter clones for the enterprise available…
Many social websites nowadays provide news feeds – constant updates of changes since your last visit. However, finding all these feeds – to put them in Google Reader, for instance, can be tricky. Well, I’ve taken the hassle out of this chore by putting the URLs of many of the most popular feeds into one…
I just updated the map of Web 2.0 services and aggregators that most of us use on a regular basis to manage our lives online and offline. Which of these do you use? Which others do you use instead that don’t appear on here? Please share them in the comments. Note: Click the map and…
Everyone seems to be jumping on the Twitter bandwagon these days. The news is full of celebrities talking about their peeps and their tweets. This includes politicians who continue to use the micro-blogging platform to express themselves and inform the people. Some are concerned about security risks or whether or not their congressman should be…
Here’s a new Twitter short movie that shows the impact each and every person you follow has on your social network! Have you ever had someone “hog the line” and cause a stir like this? The Betty Boop song might explain why some do what they do online.
2009 will be the Less is More year as increasing numbers of startups become shutdowns and people start to focus on using less services. The waves of early adopters has already begun to settle down and even the most excited web 2.0 proponents (myself included) realize that there are only so many minutes in a…
Don’t look now but FriendFeed is getting a little greedy these days. It no longer seems content to be merely a social networking aggregator. It seems to want to be a content provider instead of just a conduit for all our information. How so you ask? Well, it’s always provided a platform to post messages…
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I’ve always thought that it would be so much fun if we could go to the movies online with a bunch of our social networking friends. We could watch a movie and chat while we watched it in real-time. I’ve actually sent the suggestion to Hulu, one of the best online video services available today…
Believe it or not, Microsoft can actually help you create the ultimate social media tool! If you use Microsoft Outlook 2007 as your email client then you have the basic foundation for creating a powerful social networking monster. Here’s how I use my most important communication tool on a daily basis. Most organizations have Microsoft…
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