Yahoo has been going through troubled times and it looks like they are trying to drop some dead weight, including MyBlogLog, Yahoo! Picks, AltaVista, Yahoo! Bookmarks, Yahoo! Buzz, and (GASP!) Delicious – surely the pre-eminent social bookmarking …
URL: http://blogs.forbes.com/billbarol/2010/12/11/the-deep-p…”If it’s new, unproven and likely to be out of business before dinnertime, I want it. If it requires a hefty capital investment, great. If it locks me into a proprietary system that th…
Some good points here about the dangers of adopting a ‘me too’ strategy as opposed to amplifying your own strengths. Maybe Google should stop trying to be a social network and look to providing better integration between its myriad products (vidoe…
URL: http://www.examiner.com/online-marketing-in-san-diego/i…Some useful information about the Facebook Profile page changes. One of the big changes to all this is a change to the way Facebook will roll the change out. Often criticized for makin…
Social media consultants are an inexcusable waste of money, says Milo YiannopoulosAmplify’d from www.telegraph.co.uk These are the social media gurus, a rag-tag crew of blood-sucking hucksters who are infesting companies of all sizes, on both side…
URL: http://memeburn.com/2010/11/12-social-media-personality…Which one are you? Maybe also ask your network…they may disagree with your self-assment!See this Amp at http://amplify.com/u/gpyq via Amplify.com
Facbook – you either love it or you hate it. I hate it – but Mark Zuckerberg does at least seem a nice sort of chap. Maybe he’ll settle down and get married soon – that will add a sense of reality to his life!Amplify’d from www.mercurynews.comHis …
URL: http://www.thestarphoenix.com/Improve%20your%20Facebook…Facebook fan pages are a great way to promote your business or organization, are easy to maintain and they keep your personal profile separate from your business page. To its credit Fa…
Some interesting and pertinent points made by Sir Tim Berners-Lee, regarding the ‘coralling’ and siloing of information on the web. He cites Facebook as a particular example of how they capture user-generated information and hold it hostage. I als…
Thanks to Bill Ives for the blog and to Stan Garfield for defining the ten principles. Great stuff! Amplify’d from billives.typepad.com One – Communities should be independent of organizational structure. They should be based on the content. Two –…
