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A2SM Podcast #28: The Web is Changing. Are you Ready?

September 17, 2010 By 1 Comment

In Today’s Podcast:

Social Media Podcast
Facebook, are Changes-a-Coming?
Facebook Testing Twitter-Like “Subscribe To” Feature
http://www.allfacebook.com/facebook-subscribe-to-2010-09
Facebook Currently Testing Profile Search Without Filters
http://www.allfacebook.com/facebook-currently-testing-profile-search-without-filters-2010-09

Google cedes to Facebook Regarding Social Web
http://googlewatch.eweek.com/content/google_vs_facebook/google_me_we_hardly_knew_ye_as_facebook_foil.html

Google Instant and How it Affects Search
http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Search-Engines/How-Google-Instant-Will-Impact-SEO-639514/

Future Web: Is Google Still Relevant?
The Web Is Dead. Long Live the Internet
http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/08/ff_webrip/all/1
Will apps really kill the web?
http://www.imediaconnection.com/content/27505.asp

Search Engines That Are NOT Google:
http://blog.hubspot.com/blog/tabid/6307/bid/6570/9-Awesome-Search-Engines-That-Aren-t-Named-Google.aspx

Major Changes to Twitter. What’s up with That?
Twitter Aims to Duplicate YouTube’s Success
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/twitter_aims_to_duplicate_youtube_success.php

Seesmic Desktop Goes Beyond Twitter: Becomes a Platform for All Things Real Time
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/seesmic_desktop_goes_beyond_twitter_real_time_platform.php

Picks:
Jody: ispionage.com (ppc “spy” software) See also: http://www.spyfu.com/
Neal: Seesmic Desktop (http://seesmic.com/)

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 48:00 — 44.2MB)

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Link Post for April 29th

April 29, 2010 By Leave a Comment

This is the A2SM Link Post for April 29th. To see more of the bookmarks we’ve found, check out our Delicious Feed

  • BREAKING: Twitter Usage In America: 2010 – Twitter Usage In America: 2010, a report released today from Edison Research/Arbitron Internet and Multimedia Series, is among the most significant data released to date on Twitter. A three-year project that is both nationally representative and projectable.
  • Tim Ferriss: 7 Great Principles for Dealing with Haters – Dealing with negativity online can be tough, which was why we were all ears when Tim Ferriss, author of The Four Hour Work Week, took the stage at The Next Web ‘10 event in Amsterdam to discuss how to learn to love haters.
  • 5 Reasons Google and Search Won’t Dominate The Next Decade – Over the past few years, there has been an underlying shift in the way we use technology in our lives. This could be simply described as moving from user-initiated (search) to auto-serving (suggestions) technologies, and it’s about to change the way we live, communicate, make money, shop, collaborate and more. Instead of actively searching for things, we will be presented with them, as we live our lives.
  • New Report Details the State of Twitter [STATS] – A recent report on Twitter usage in the U.S. by Edison Research concludes that 87% of all Americans are now aware of Twitter — up from 5% in 2008 — but only 7% of the population actually use it.
  • Steve Jobs: Flash Is No Longer Necessary – Steve Jobs has just posted a long open letter on Flash, listing all the reasons why Apple has decided not to support it on the iPad, iPhone and iPod touch.
  • LinkedIn Follows Facebook And Twitter Into ‘Follow’ Model – LinkedIn has been working to make its professional social network, well, more social. With the massive popularity of Facebook, and Twitter, it makes sense for LinkedIn to use some of the feature from these networks in order to make its platform more social. Last fall, Linked integrated with Twitter, allows users to Tweet from its platform and send Tweets from outside clients to LinkedIn with a hashtag. Today, LinkedIn is launching a small yet very familiar feature: the ability to “follow” a company’s profiles.
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Link Post for April 21st

April 23, 2010 By Leave a Comment

This is the A2SM Link Post for April 21st. To see more of the bookmarks we’ve found, check out our Delicious Feed

  • 5 More Ways to Go Green for Earth Day – There are many ways to take part in the environmental movement on the social web. With Earth Day rapidly approaching this Thursday, we decided to revisit our post from a few weeks ago on ways to go green with social media.
  • Facebook Reveals FriendFeed’s Future [VIDEO] – Last August, when Facebook bought Twitter competitor FriendFeed, many of its core users were shocked and concerned, even speculating as to whether the social networking giant would shutter the startup and absorb its tech as part of a new feature or product.
  • Facebook Open Graph: What it Means for Privacy – At Facebook’s F8 Developer Conference today, the company fleshed out its plans to become the social center of the web. With the new Open Graph API and protocol and the ability to integrate websites and web apps within your existing social network, the platform will become more robust than ever before.
  • Facebook Makes Major Announcements at F8 [LIVE] – Here at Facebook’s F8 Developer Conference in San Francisco, Facebook Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg is making major announcements to an audience of developers and press.
  • If You Link Your Facebook Profile Data to Pages, then You Make that Information Public by Default – Facebook’s new user profile Pages transition tool includes an obvious and yet not obvious way that users might make personal information more publicly available. (via @nealwiser)
  • Facebook’s Plan To Automatically Share Your Data With Sites You Never Signed Up For – In anticipation of a slew of new features that will be launching at f8, today Facebook announced that it was once again making changes to its privacy policy (you can see our post outlining these changes here). One of the biggest changes that Facebook is making involves applications and third-party websites. We’ve been hearing whispers from multiple sources about these changes, and the announcement all but confirms what Facebook is planning to do. In short, it sounds like Facebook is going to be automatically opting users into a reduced form of Facebook Connect on certain third party sites — a bold change that may well unnerve users, at least at first.
  • Facebook To Release A “Like” Button For the Whole Darn Internet – There will be lots of news leaking about Facebook’s product announcements at their upcoming F8 Developer Conference in April. That’s because they’re already starting to test out a lot of the new stuff with third party developers, and once two people know a secret, it isn’t really a secret any more.
  • Facebook To Launch Meebo Bar Clone On Its Quest To Take Over The Web – In the last few days, we’ve uncovered some major new features that Facebook is going to announce at its f8 developer conference, including its plan to offer a Like button for the entire Internet and a creepy auto-Connect feature that will share your data with sites you never signed up for. Now we’ve heard from multiple sources about a third major product the company plans to unveil: a persistent Facebook toolbar that third-party sites can integrate that sounds a whole lot like the Meebo Bar.
  • The f8 Preview: How Facebook Plans to Take Over the Web – Facebook’s third f8 developer conference kicks off tomorrow in San Francisco and online, with the social networking company likely to announce what is essentially a game plan to not only socialize the web, but to marginalize the pre-social web. But while such a plan indicates a tussle with fellow upstart Twitter, the real battle is Facebook vs. Google.
  • Everything Facebook Will Announce At f8: The Definitive Guide – Want to know what Facebook will be announcing at f8 tomorrow? We’ve got the definitive guide straight from Facebook. In addition to announcing a number of new tools during a keynote at f8 tomorrow, Facebook will be hosting a “New Tools” track for developers focused on four key topics: “Open Graph and Social Plugins”, “Facebook Credits”, the “Graph API”, and “Better Analytics Through Insights”. What do all these things mean? Here’s the rundown.
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Link Post for April 20th through April 21st

April 22, 2010 By 1 Comment

This is the A2SM Link Post for April 20th through April 21st. To see more of the bookmarks we’ve found, check out our Delicious Feed.

  • As Facebook’s f8 Developer Conference Approaches, a Recap of Its Rumored Launches – Facebook’s first f8 developer conference in two years is happening next Wednesday, and it will feature big announcements from the company. Here’s our look at the latest hints and rumors about what might be launched.
  • Why Doesn’t Facebook Look Like This? –
  • Measuring The Value Of Social Media Advertising – Nielsen and Facebook recently joined forces to develop ad effectiveness solutions to determine consumer attitudes, brand perception and purchase intent from social media advertising.
  • Apple (Allegedly) Loses Prototype iPhone HD, Demands Its Return – Today, Apple is expected to announce yet another blockbuster financial quarter, with sales of its iPhone smart phone likely doubling when compared to the same quarter a year ago. But that isn't Apple's biggest news this week. Instead, the company is scrambling to undo the harm caused when one of its engineers lost a prototype iPhone HD, a device Apple is expected to announce this June. The prototype ended up in the hands of a nefarious gadget blog, which not only gleefully published photos and videos of the device but also later outed the employee who lost it.
  • How Social Media Can Effect Real Social and Governmental Change – People have always used the “social media” of their time to effect change. Without belaboring history, consider that some of the most widely-felt changes in the Western world were made by “bloggers” using the technology of their day. Paul of Tarsus (St. Paul), wrote newsletters (epistles) that substantially influenced Christianity throughout the Mediterranean. Martin Luther brought church abuses to light and initiated the Protestant Reformation through his 95 updates (theses), and Thomas Paine spread his blog (printed pamphlets) about democracy to the masses in the ramp up to the American Revolution.
  • 5 Unique Ways to Use Twitter for Business – Given that Twitter as a platform supports nearly limitless applications for business use, we thought it time to highlight some of the newer Twitter-for-business opportunities that aren’t so obvious.
  • AT&T Unveils Buzz.com – AT&T is officially opening up its recommendation service, Buzz.com, to the public. We wrote about the project when it was still in beta in January. The service is essentially Yelp meets Yellowpages.com and it shares a lot of similarities with the new Google Places.
  • Hitler "Downfall" Parodies Removed from YouTube – The movie studio responsible for the award-winning, German-Austrian film Downfall (German: Der Untergang) has asked YouTube to take down several videos from the massively popular subtitled “Hitler finds out…” meme, and the site has complied.
  • Facebook Turns Off Facebook Lite – Facebook has stopped supporting its stripped-down Facebook Lite website. If you go to the old Facebook Lite address you’ll be redirected to the regular Facebook homepage.
  • Government requests directed to Google and YouTube – Like other technology and communications companies, we regularly receive requests from government agencies around the world to remove content from our services, or provide information about users of our services and products. The map shows the number of requests that we received between July 1, 2009 and December 31, 2009, with certain limitations.
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Link Post for April 2nd through April 3rd

April 4, 2010 By Leave a Comment

This is the A2SM Link Post for April 2nd through April 3rd. To see more of the bookmarks we’ve found, check out our Delicious Feed.

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Link Post for March 31st through April 1st

April 3, 2010 By Leave a Comment

This is the A2SM Link Post for March 31st through April 1st. To see more of the bookmarks we’ve found, check out our Delicious Feed.

  • Six ways Gmail revolutionized e-mail – CNN.com – Thursday marks the sixth birthday of Google's pioneering e-mail service: Gmail.
  • Our Choice: The Funniest April Fools Jokes – It’s that date again, folks. If you’ve seen an amazing new service or something that sounds too good to be true, it probably is — very few companies take April 1 seriously. Reports of April Fools jokes are pouring in; as we do every year, we’ll mention the ones that are either very funny or amazingly clever.
  • April Fools 2010 From Google & Others – Today is a worst/best day for journalists or bloggers, depending on your worldview: April Fools Day. Many technology companies come out and try to fool people with fake or funny news. Below is a collection of, what appears to be, April Fools Day hoaxes from Google and other search related companies for the day. I do hope to continue to update it throughout the day.
  • Q&A: Personal vs. Professional Branding in Social MEdia – Dan Schwabel is not only a personal branding expert, he’s someone I’ve come to know and respect over the years…and definitely someone I consider a friend. We recently sat down to discuss Engage and the resulting interaction culminated in a wonderful discussion that explored the state of professional and personal branding in the era of new media.
  • TweetDeck Taps TwitVid For Video Sharing, Replacing 12seconds – TweetDeck is switching its default video Tweeting platform today, from 12seconds to TwitVid. TwitVid.com will serve as the video service across all existing TweetDeck products, as well as all new products released by TweetDeck in 2010
  • Unvarnished: A Clean, Well-Lighted Place For Defamation – Today, Unvarnished makes its beta debut. It’s essentially Yelp for LinkedIn: any user can create an online profile for a professional and submit anonymous reviews. You can claim your profile, but unlike LinkedIn, you have to accept every post, warts and all. And once the profile is up there’s no taking it down.
  • YouTube Blog: Latest Changes to Video Page: New Playlist Experience, Integrated Comments & More – The video page overhaul that's underway now is one of the biggest redesigns in YouTube history. It's been a month since we offered a sneak peek of the new look and functionality, and in that time we've been gathering your feedback, looking at data, and tweaking elements to ensure that the page is as clean and useful as it can be.
  • YouTube Blog: The Video Page Gets a Makeover – From the Queen of England to the queen of your 'hood, from aspiring filmmakers to Hollywood studios, from high school graduation videos to citizen reports of revolutionary moments in Iran, it all has a home on YouTube. This creates a really big challenge: how do we design a site that reflects so many different users, experiences and videos? This is a question we've thought about a lot since we launched in 2005. The result of some of this thinking (some might say over-thinking) is a video page chock-full of features that reflect a lot of different things to a lot of different people, but can feel cluttered and a little overwhelming. We've spent a lot of time over the last 10 months asking ourselves some tough questions about this page and posing some of those questions to you in blog posts, roundtable discussions, one-on-one conversations with the community and even on forums like our Product Ideas for YouTube page
  • YouTube To Roll Out New Design For All Video Pages Today – A YouTube partner just forwarded us an e-mail he received from the Google company, stating that all videos will be transitioned to the newly designed page some time today.
  • Less Than One Third Of Tweets Come From The United States, Study Says – Paris-based Semiocast, which helps brands understand and interact with real-time Web services, has again done a study on Twitter usage. After finding that only 50% of tweets are in English, based on an analysis of 2.8 million tweets, the company has now looked at nearly five times as many Twitter messages in order to gain more insight on the increased international presence of the popular micro-sharing service.
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Link Post for March 13th through March 15th

March 16, 2010 By Leave a Comment

This is the A2SM Link Post for March 13th through March 15th. To see more of the bookmarks we’ve found, check out our Delicious Feed.

  • Details: Twitter’s New @Anywhere Platform – Twitter CEO Evan Williams just announced at SXSW that his company is taking another step to integrate with the rest of the web with a new platform called @anywhere. Operators of third-party websites will be able to plug in @anywhere to integrate some basic Twitter functionality without requiring their users to navigate away from a page.
  • Wait, Did Ev Williams Just Interview Umair Haque? Weird. – When SXSW sets up its festival, you have to assume they want the best and most engaging keynotes possible. If the public reaction to Umair Haque’s interview of Twitter co-founder Ev Williams is any indication, they failed. Badly.
  • First Dot-com Celebrates 25th Birthday – Exactly 25 years ago, computer manufacturer Symbolics, Inc, registered the first .com web domain ever: symbolics.com. By today’s design standards, and considering how websites looked back in the late ’80s and early ’90s, it’s quite decent, although a bit short on content.
  • Seesmic Announces Silverlight Desktop Platform with Plugins – Seesmic demonstrated a new desktop client for Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn today. Since it’s based on Microsoft’s cross-platform Silverlight software, it works on both Windows and Mac computers. Seesmic has also opened the software up to third-party plug-in development.
  • The Rise of Foursquare in Numbers [STATS] – Despite that short amount of time, Foursquare has more than half a million users, 1.4 million venues and 15.5 million checkins, and it’s still growing. Experian Hitwise decided to use this milestone to analyze Foursquare’s growth.
  • On Google’s Impending China Decision, and How It Has Lost Its Impact – Two months ago, Google threatened to shut down its China search engine over censorship. Yet until today, its China search engine has stayed up with results still censored. Now the search company is finally expected to announce that it’s going to actually follow through and slowly shut down its China search engine.
  • New Version of Digg Revealed – At the “Bigg Digg Shindigg” event at the South by Southwest Interactive Conference (SXSWi), Digg CEO Jay Adelson revealed that the popular social bookmarking site is getting a major overhaul, teasing the audience about new features such as personalized feeds and the return of the Digg leaderboard.
  • What Google Will Do in China (SXSW Presentation) – Kaiser Kuo presented today at SXSW about Google in China. He spoke about how the Google situation will impact Chinese Internet users, other companies and the Chinese government.
  • OneLogin: Enterprise-Class Security Services and OpenID For The Small and Medium Sized Business – ReadWriteEnterprise – We're seeing a lot more discussion on the topic of single-sign on for SaaS environments. The issue is becoming more important as security emerges as a top concern for companies considering making the move to cloud-based environments.
  • Will Google’s Cloud be a Cozy Nest for Aviary? – ReadWriteCloud – Aviary, the online creative platform is a visionary tool. When it launched a few years back, the irony of a Flash based Photoshop competitor was, well, ironic.<br />
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    With the launch of Aviary in Google's App Marketplace, we can say that the company is close to making lightening strike twice, this time around creating a home for the creative professional and their most important assets.
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Link Post for March 4th

March 6, 2010 By 1 Comment

This is the A2SM Link Post for March 4th. To see more of the bookmarks we’ve found, check out our Delicious Feed

  • Facebook Officially Launches Resized Photos – Looking to upload larger photos on Facebook? It’s now possible thanks to Facebook rolling out some features first announced in January. Images have now been increased “by almost 20 percent to 720 pixels to give [users] higher quality photos”. While on the surface this isn’t a big deal, Facebook run the largest online photo storage product which means this is a relatively substantial technical feat.
  • Ali Fedotowsky Dumps Facebook For “The Bachelorette” – Weeks after leaving ‘the Bachelor’ as a contender to keep her job at Facebook, Ali Fedotowsky has quit Facebook and is set to star in the new season of ‘The Bachelorette’. She made these revelations during her appearance on the Jimmy Kimmel show.
  • Viral Facebook Page Wants To Make ‘Hella’ An Actual Number – You’ve probably seen some unusual Facebook Groups and Fan pages lately, and the petition to make “Hella” a real number is just one more. However its initial appeal to a small group may be ending as it’s beginning to catch fire and go viral.
  • Facebook’s Deal With Omniture Could Lure More Big Companies to Its Performance Ads – Although a range of companies provide analytics services for Facebook Pages and applications, and a handful offer automated purchasing of Facebook’s performance advertisement inventory, Facebook is now officially partnering with a big player in both areas: Omniture.
  • Bing’s Facebook Page Gets 400,000 New Fans in a Day Through Ad Offer in Farmville – In the latest example of brand advertising integrated into social games, Microsoft ran an advertising offer for Bing within Zynga’s hit game FarmVille on Tuesday. If users became a fan of Bing’s Facebook Page by clicking on a sponsored ad on the bottom right of the FarmVille main page, they’d receive 3 Farm Cash (FarmVille’s virtual currency). The effort was apparently successful, as Bing’s page went from slightly more than 100,000 fans on Monday to more than 500,000 as of earlier today.
  • Facebook Promotes Mobile Services to Users Who Log Off the Web Site – It’s already clear that Facebook believes mobile devices are a key way for users to access its service, and the company has occasionally tested ways of making its mobile site and mobile apps more obvious. But now it’s going even further.
  • Kwedit Gets Slammed On Colbert, But Raises $3.3 Million To Soften The Blow – Kwedit, the innovative new alternate payment product for social games and just about any other virtual good, is on a roll. They’ve raised a second round of financing – $3.3 million in a round led by Maveron. And they were also on the Colbert Report last night. Just, not so much in a good way.
  • WSJ: Facebook Revenues For 2010 Could Hit Between $1.2 To $2 Billion – Late last year, we published a list of the top 10 IPO candidates of 2010. Leading that list was Facebook, which has grown to 400 million users and is finally starting to turn on the revenue pumps as it works toward its inevitable IPO. But this evening, the Wall Street Journal published an article penned by Jessica Vascellaro that may dash the hopes of anyone who thinks that will happen in the immediate future. The lengthy piece, which is well worth reading in its entirety, touches on quite a few issues related to Facebook’s history and its future, and largely revolves around CEO Mark Zuckerberg — who doesn’t sound all that keen to take his company public.
  • Google: Desktops Will Be Irrelevant in Three Years’ Time – Speaking at the Digital Landscapes conference at UCD, European director of Google’s online sales John Herlihy said that Google is mostly oriented towards mobile devices, claiming they’ll become more important than desktop PCs.
  • Twitter Speeding Toward 10 Billion Tweets – About one year ago Twitter reached a huge milestone: one billion tweets. Four months ago, five billion tweets were served. And now, in about one day, Twitter should reach another very important milestone: 10 billion tweets.
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Link Post for January 22nd through January 24th

January 24, 2010 By Leave a Comment

This is the A2SM Link Post for January 22nd through January 24th. To see more of the bookmarks we’ve found, check out our Delicious Feed.

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Link Post for January 8th through January 9th

January 9, 2010 By Leave a Comment

This is the A2SM Link Post for January 8th through January 9th:

  • iPhone Beats Droid, Nexus One And Droid Eris In Touchscreen Performance –
  • Can the Skiff save the magazine industry? – There has been quite a bit of talk about Hearst’s Skiff ereader and we got a hands-on last night before the show closed. The device is about as big as a Kindle DX (11.5-inch display and a very thin bezel) but quite thin (.25-inches). They use a metal board spun-coated with e-ink instead of a glass sheet for the screen, which will definitely prevent the heartbreak of shattered ereaders for the next generation of readers. It uses Sprint’s 3G network.
  • Google Toilet Paper : Optimize Your Wipe | Search Engine Journal – Here’s a fun Friday post about what could be easily mistaken for a new Google product launch to accompany the Nexus One and other new Google products : Google Toilet Paper (which gives a new meaning to “just Google it”).
  • MediaPost – news and directories for media, marketing and online advertising professionals – If you were on vacation, similar to me, during the end of December you might have missed Twitter's big announcement. The company acquired Mixer Labs, the creator of GeoAPI, which provides developers with the ability to query data. That data can come from about 16 million businesses and thousands of points of interest. The technology also offers developers a layer on which to handle complex geographical queries and location-based services.
  • National Weather Service: Twitter Storm Reports – GeoTagging is the act of associating geographical information with something, and Twitter has recently added the capability GeoTagging individual Tweets. This allows the NWS to correlate each Tweet to your location when it was sent. This capability will help to enhance and increase timely & accurate online weather reporting and communications between the public and their local weather forecast offices.
  • Wanted: Your Weather Reports, Geotagged and Tweeted – If your natural reflex when the weather gets rough is to tweet about it, that reflex can now help the National Weather Service do its job better thanks to a new Twitter storm reporting program.
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