News for September, 2008

Facebook Tips

Thursday, September 25th, 2008

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 [...]

Firefox 3.0.2 Update and Google Chrome Note

Wednesday, September 24th, 2008

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 [...]

Digg Funding

Wednesday, September 24th, 2008

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 [...]

Do You Digg The Ads?

Saturday, September 13th, 2008

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.
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.  [...]

Barack Obama’s Social Media Lesson to Small Businesses - Presentation

Thursday, September 11th, 2008

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.
Barack Obama’s Social Media Lesson to Small Businesses
View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: crm 2.0)

Please share your feedback on the implications of [...]

John McCain Interview by Maine Local NBC Affiliate Goes Popular on Digg

Thursday, September 11th, 2008

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.

Sarah Palin U.S. VP Candidate Stirs Up the Political Blogs

Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008

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.
photo by asecondhandconjecture
One of the latest outcomes of the rise of social media is the instant delivery of perspectives and information from [...]