Social Media Blog

Facebook is becoming a standard in the social networking space.  The identity factor and viral growth based on this identity and tools for adding new members are significant.

Facebook gives us a second chance to “do over” the mistakes of Myspace.

I you’re not already using Facebook, you’ll soon be invited or will hear a story about other friends using it and updating their profiles on a regular basis.

James Rivington on TechRadar.com recently posted the Top 15 Tips for Facebook.  I love this list.

1. Use Facebook mail instead of proper email
2. Add old friends and then forget about them
3. Adding people you don’t even know
4. Adding single-serving holiday friends
5. Accepting friend invitations from people you don’t know
6. Update Facebook profile when you’re supposedly ill
7. Write on a wall instead of communicating privately
8. Moan in your Facebook status
9. Other irritating status updates
10. Upload drunken pictures the morning after
11. Joining ridiculous chain-mail groups
12. Starting said groups
13. Lazy grammar and spelling mistrakes
14. Upload photos to Facebook and deleting originals
15. Inviting me to be a Zombie Pirate Snot Monster

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With the buzz this month all about Google’s Chrome, the latest Firefox update probably won’t get much attention.  This Firefox update is critical and fixes some security issues.

Fixed in Firefox 3.0.2 - Get Firefox Update

MFSA 2008-44 resource: traversal vulnerabilities
MFSA 2008-43 BOM characters stripped from JavaScript before execution
MFSA 2008-42 Crashes with evidence of memory corruption (rv:1.9.0.2/1.8.1.17)
MFSA 2008-41 Privilege escalation via XPCnativeWrapper pollution
MFSA 2008-40 Forced mouse drag

Firefox probably had a bit of a “fire” under their rear ends this month in looking at the enthusiasm of Google Chrome.  I see the lesson learned is that the techie crowd wants speed and also doesn’t mind some usability improvements. Read the rest of this entry »

Looks like Digg has a new round of funding.  Kevin Rose may have cashed in on this round.

Digg has raised $28.7 million in a Series C round of funding. The company made the announcement earlier this morning. Highland Capital Partners is leading the current round, which will see Highland partner Richard de Silva join Digg’s board of directors.

Well deserved - these social media sites deserve funding if they make it this far and show a business model as strong as that of Digg.

Let’s face it, most social media users stay well away from the ads.  Regular social media website users either block or blank out the ads on any given website page.

Do you click ads?

We certainly aren’t writing this post to encourage ad clicks and it’s important to state that up front.  I stopped clicking on ads many years ago.  I’m pretty sure that when pop up ads became popular I grew to hate ads so much that I began blocking them out visually (or mentally) when I was on a website.

I still end up following a website link every now and then that puts me on a website that pops and ad up and if I’m lucky, firefox or the Google toolbar blocks the pop-up ad.

I’ve used Google Adsense myself and for the moderate traffic my site commands, it produces enough revenue to cover the monthly hosting bill.  It’s very important that as an Adsense or any ad publisher that you not try and trick the system to encourage ad clicks.

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An interesting slideshare.net presentation provided by Brent Leary.

The presentation highlights some key social media factors utilized by the Barack Obama political campaign that have social media marketing implications for traditional business owners.

Please share your feedback on the implications of utilizing social media in similar ways for varied media presentation objectives.

The Internet and social sharing of information has allowed the 2008 political campaign to not only reach new levels of information sharing from the candidates, but it also allows specific media to be shared in television markets where it would not normally be seen. Read the rest of this entry »

The Republican National Convention hosted Sarah Palin who spoke Wednesday night.

The Vice Presidential candidate accepted the nomination for the VP position.  Govenor Palin said that she was ready for the challenge of this position.

Sarah Palin Flickr Photo

photo by asecondhandconjecture

One of the latest outcomes of the rise of social media is the instant delivery of perspectives and information from bloggers.  Bloggers actively report the political blog scene (blogoshere) and are now considered in some venues as credentialed news reporters.

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Andriod vs. iPhone….

Open, closed system. Does anyone care about Andriod. Any ideas?