Ben Parr at Mashable says Bing, Microsoft’s latest search engine offering, is doing well. So well, in fact, that its bigger than Digg, Twitter and CNN.
But none of that matters if Bing doesn’t grow and find a way to compete with Google . So after a month, where are we? We knew that Bing was growing, but [...]
Allfacebook has a great post which should do well on Reddit and / or Digg, since potheads love promoting their neverending love of pot marijuana advocacy is probably the second and fourth most popular topics on those social news sites. Their title should rock since it combines a classic lead in “How to … ” [...]
Ben Parr asks “Why Social Media Revolts Take Place”, and goes through the usual places (crib notes: they do something that seriously cheeses its users, obviously visible in hindsight). I think the better question is “what would have happened if said sites didn’t cave to their users?” Hulu, Facebook, Twitter (and, say Digg) all generate [...]
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Almost 8 months into its public launch, Pownce is looking like a bit of a lame duck.
Which is strange (or not).
On paper, Pownce seems like a better Twitter than Twitter, given that you can also share files (up to 100 MB in size), as well as embed photos, videos, or MP3’s. Plus, [...]
I am not a web designer, nor a code developer, nor digerati, technorati or any other sort of new media guru. But I am blogger who has an interest on topics ranging from the evolution of all media, the social web, web2.0, marketing, and a trailmix of everything in between. I am also the former [...]
From the “oh yeah — its that important” department”, Om “GigaOm” Malik reports how beneficial being “buzzed” has been for GigaOm.com. And of course he’s referring to Yahoo Buzz, which is a social news type of site that was launched some months ago. Its funny how some news gets lost in the wake of other [...]
So, in a threaded comment-ango on Friendfeed today, I noticed an odd comment by a Friendfeedster that seemed out of place. So out of place, it almost smelled … blog spammy. Sure enough, someone (Hutch Carpenter) mentioned that this comment was popping up in all kinds of places by the same person, and perhaps this [...]
