What’d I Miss? Top Findings from 12-29 – 01-04

January 4, 2009

I’ve been enjoying several of the latest posts over at the Online Community Strategist blog by Angela Connor. Her posts Your Tombstone in 140 Characters or Less and Are we taking the 140 character limit to the extreme have caused me to really think about the impact of microblogging on how we communicate. Rather than [...]

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What’d I Miss? Top Findings from 12-22 – 12-28

December 28, 2008

On Dec 27th, Loic Le Meur wrote a blog post stating that We need twitter search by authority. Many twits were up in arms about this, as it seemed to infer that number of followers was directly related to the authority or influence of an individual. By 28th, however, his request came true, as a [...]

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What’d I Miss? Top Findings from 12/15 – 12/21

December 21, 2008

You Don’t Need Facebook Connect or Google Friend Connect to Socialize – Gigya has offered a similar service (allowing site owners to tap into users’ social relationships from several online communities) for a few months. I first heard of Gigya last year, when I was investigating different widget distribution platforms. I considered them a third [...]

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What’d I Miss? Top findings from 12-01 to 12-07

December 7, 2008

During the Great Thesis Black Friday Sale of 2008, I purchased a developer’s licence for the thesis blog theme. I transitioned “Go the Distance” (my running blog) to thesis, and am working on some other projects as well. It’s been been interesting to learn the ‘best practices’ for customizing this powerful theme, and one of [...]

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What’d I Miss? Top findings from 11-24 to 11-30

November 30, 2008

No unifying theme for this week’s findings-

I found Faris Yakob’s post on Spreadable Media via Noah Brier’s blog. Spreadable Media argues that the use of the term “viral” for content we wish to have spread via social media is “a complete inversion of the viral model.” Or as Faris puts it,
This metaphor is very [...]

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what’d I miss? Top learnings from 11-17 to 11-23

November 23, 2008

Ok, so generally weekly wrap-ups happen on Friday.. but what are you going to do with new information on Friday, when your brain is already shutting down? Here’s a “things to talk about Monday morning at the water cooler” post—things I learned last week. Interestingly enough, all mobile-related..

The google search application for the iPhone now [...]

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