Category Archives: Social Media

How I choose to who to follow on Twitter

Yes, no doubt I love Twitter. I have TweetDeck open almost all the time (I have to close it when I want to focus on writing in a serious way) so I can keep up news, tips, and what my … Continue reading

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Foursquare’s Answer to Getting More Users: Facebook Places

When Facebook Places launched, I think many people expected the rest of location-based games and services to just wither on the vine. Turns out that Foursquare has been seen record-setting signups since Places hit the scene—Foursquare celebrates four consecutive days … Continue reading

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Return of the long form—Tweet thee no more?

There’s been a lot of buzz (pun intended) about the return of the “long form blog”—which is kinda ironic that blog posts are now considered “long form” content—Leo Laporte is trying to get back into posting more regularly after a … Continue reading

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Facebook Places might become the best aggregator for locations

We can stop wondering and waiting, Facebook Places was announced yesterday (after much waiting, I must say). I was relieved to see Foursquare was there. Sure I don’t think they looked happy about it. Something like the king or queen … Continue reading

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Yep, I called it: Foursquare fires a privacy shot across Facebook’s bow

Yesterday we all got word that Facebook is announcing something Wednesday and that the something was going to be some location services like Foursquare. My gut told me that if Facebook did announce a location/checkin system that privacy would be … Continue reading

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If Facebook launches “location services” would you use them?

Word has come from Mashable and All Things D that Facebook is announcing something on Wednesday and the rumour is that we’re going to see the much-anticipated location services to take Foursquare, Gowalla, and Yelp head on. I’m a reasonably … Continue reading

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Just as a little follow up to a post from almost a month ago—I’m back in Twitter’s search index: what will the result be?—yes, there has been a difference. The main difference is more traffic to posts from the tweets … Continue reading

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There is something different about Foursquare friends, methinks

Later today, because I’m still cogitating on chapter/lesson 3, I’m going to send the first 25% of Teach Yourself Foursquare in 10 Minutes to my editor. The reason that I didn’t send them yesterday as per the schedule is that … Continue reading

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Share Your Foursquare Memories for Teach Yourself Foursquare

Since the cat is out of the bag—Book Three Revealed! Teach Yourself Foursquare in Ten Minutes—that I’m writing about Foursquare for my third book, I want to pull the community into the book as well. Like all the social media … Continue reading

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If Twitter Can’t Handle the Heat, Why Don’t They Spread the Load?

Fine,I’m a broken record . But, still Twitter is becoming as essential as email to not only communicate with each other, but spread news. Important news. So why can’t they just fine a way to decentralize themselves? Twitter’s a product … Continue reading

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Prediction: Hunch & Quora gather a ton of buzz, then fizzle out

You all know that I pride myself on trying to be helpful to people. I make time to answer questions, solve tech problems, offer insight without a thought of charging money for my sage wisdom. To be honest, I genuinely … Continue reading

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