With so much focus on “building” and “adding” friends, karma, votes, points, followers, kudos et al, we may tend to lose sight of the quality of our online connections and friendships. Does size really matter when it comes to building your online community? In short, more could equal less.

I have this imperfect habit of adding […]

That was the conclusion reached by market research company IDC  in a recent study as described by MediaWeek. It seems that while IDC recognizes the aggressive growth rate of social networks, they see ads being ignored.
According to IDC’s report (U.S. Consumer Online Attitudes Survey Results Part III), more than three quarters of social […]

Many of us, me included has dealt with information overload at some point, and because the internet is limitless, the creation of social media sites are always popping up. I’m sure a lot of the social media fanatics out there try out every social media site that comes up, but at some point there […]

Last week I posted here about how I’d recently attended a Nokia Open Lab workshop on social media and the future of the mobile web. Well, Nokia has recently released some of the footage they share, and this is a video of me kicking off my workshop on how business can adopt social media and […]

If you use the many popular social networking sites, such as Facebook, Flickr, Twitter and Digg, you might want to give Flock a try. Flock is powered by Firefox, so you may think it’s similar or even the same, but it isn’t. There are many things in Flock that make your social network […]

This week, Facebook will be phasing out its old layout in favor of the “New Facebook.”
The new site features tabbed browsing for applications as well as a new look for profile and home pages.
Before this week, users were able to choose which version of the site to use and were able to share comments about […]

You may have seen a video of Matthew Harding dancing in incredible locations from all around the world. His video is in amazing HD from Vimeo. And his story is told on his blog.
Even more incredible…the thousands of people who followed Matt on his blog and joined him for a dance in locations all around […]

Want to be like Kobe Bryant? Well, don a pair of Hyperdunks by Nike.
Want to have millions of viewers spread a word of a video for you? Then have the reigning NBA MVP jump an Aston Martin.
But here’s a note. Don’t make the video too slick. Make it look raw. Make it look like Kobe […]

Today’s post is from Chris Bennett, the President and Founder of 97th Floor, a leading edge SEO Firm. Learn about the Digg phenomenon and the value it delivers from a marketing perspective.
If you have a website or blog – and even if you don’t – Digg.com is an incredibly valuable resource. If […]

I expect something tasteful in a place of mourning and remembrance. Maybe I am old-fashioned but ads for LavaLife, who has never been the most subtle advertiser in the dating industry, on a site meant to be a memorial for loved ones is not what I expect to see. Imagine heading down to your local […]