Social media web has always lured marketers: that’s where your customers are, just go ahead, pretend to be their friend and sell them anything!
Social media community is a great way to approach people, to make them trust you and to fool them, right? Well, no, and those who think so, do not get the point.
You are a power social media user, you have hundreds of friends on Facebook and thousands of followers on Twitter but you are ONLY popular on the Internet? Would you like to take part of your Internet social media life offline?
Here are a few stylish examples of social media business cards:
This comic I came across recently got me into thinking about how people disagree on social media. Really, often this makes me really sad:
Your Facebook profile probably unites people from all layers of your life: personal life, past life, business life.
Here are a few steps to make sure you still keep this lives separate:
There are not really many good Digg tools to play with and the following one is a nice exception from the rules:
Digg FireFox Extension offers an array if options which make web browsing enjoyable.
It is great fun to take a look at how now popular web 2.0 sites used to look like years ago, when they were just launched.
Now, let’s try to imagine how those sites will look 10 years from now:
[based on this article, please note some images on the old… Read more
How many places are you trying to keep up with? Just for once sit down and try to count. I don’t remember doing that for ages, the only obvious answer is “Too many”. Therefore I was actually great to come across these two apps visualizing web life in the form of mice-looking charts:
It has always been quite a shaky ground verifying your online identity and proving you look exactly like you want people believe you do. It is so easy to find a less popular celebrity photo, save it at your computer and then upload each time you register a new social media profile.
In 2007 a quartet of former Googlers took an idea and ran with it. The idea, to bring social content and news to a centralized aggregation location, did not run far. Once touted to be the next big thing in social networking, FriendFeed apparently did not have much to offer in… Read more
How could anyone see the media insanity disguised as “coverage” of Michael Jackson’s life and death (Every. Single. Minute. Of. His. Life.) and wonder how the death of a celebrity, albeit one of the most popular celebrities in recent memory, preempt stories of freedom protests in Iran? More currently, is anyone… Read more
