Social Networking – Tools & News
4 awesome Social Sharing Toolbars for your blog
Jan 5th
Building traffic and engagement is key to successful websites and blogs. Content sharing is an increasingly important activity on Facebook and Twitter (primarily), and it will only grow with content curators becoming increasingly influential.
Until now, we’ve had Tweet and Facebook Like buttons in individual blog posts, but social toolbars are becoming increasingly popular.
Social toolbars not only provide your visitors with an easy solution for sharing your content, which integrate your social media presence directly into your blog or websites. Social toolbars typically include a search bar, RSS feed, social networking links and buttons to tweet, like and share your content.
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How to embed your Foursquare check-ins in Google Maps
Jul 27th
I absolutely love this, as I can now easily remember the places I checked in but also take a look at my shout-outs! Here are the three easy steps you need to follow:
1) Log into your foursquare account and head over to http://foursquare.com/feeds/
2) Copy the URL for your KML feed and paste that URL into the search box
3) Add ?count=1000 (or more/less depending on your number of checkins) after the .kml extension
Voila! Here’s a map of all your checkins (Click picture to enlarge)
N.B: Best avoided if you do not wish to share your location with the rest of the world
More >mflow – Twitter meets iTunes meet Spotify
Mar 21st
It is becoming more and more difficult for the music industry to ignore the basic economics of the their industry: unenforceable property rights (you can’t sue everyone) and zero marginal production costs (file sharing is ridiculously easy); as long as there is a free alternative (file sharing), the price of music will have to fall towards free.
Enters mflow, the new music-sharing service, which may well challenge illegal downloading (to a certain extent) but could also seriously threaten other online music retailers.
mflow is a Last FM (music discovery), iTunes (buying music), Spotify (streaming) and Twitter hybrid. mflow is an engaging and fun More >
My thoughts on Google Buzz so far
Feb 13th
With last week’s rollout of Google Buzz, Google has fired its first serious salvo at Facebook in the battle for the social networking crown… But is Google Buzz really all it’s cracked up to be?
So where does Google Buzz fit in the Social Media world?
From what I’ve seen, Google Buzz seems to fit in between blogging and Twitter. Mashable currently use it to ask 140+ characters questions to its readers, thus taking the conversation to another level, a real-time forum perhaps.
The main issue I have with Google Buzz at the mo, is content overload.
Will Google Buzz going kill More >
Facebook: what does your profile picture say about you?
Feb 1st
I’ve been busy in the last couple of weeks , hence the lack of blogging but here’s a quick one for the road – the credit goes to @jetube for this
According to Nico, girls have only use four different types of Facebook profile pics and coming to think of it, his analysis is pretty accurate!
1) The single girl… will have a picture of herself dancing, on holiday, with a girlfriend/best mate or their pet
2) The girlfriend… will upload loved up couple pic…
3) … a few years down the line, this will be replaced by wedding photos, awww
4) Add another couple of More >
Good-bye Flickr Pro
Jan 23rd
I’ve fallen out of love with Flickr…
I have been a Flickr Pro user for a number of years, but recently decided not to renew my Pro account. Flickr was the place where I kept my travel shots, but also indulged in a little macro photography now and again.
The Flickr community is awesome and I’ve discovered a number of truly amazing photographers over the years… I am a firm believer that the photo-sharing site can be a very powerful conversational tool, and should be included, whenever possible, in your overall social media strategy.
Flickr has however failed to keep up with other social networking sites More >
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