Category: Social Media
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How to find good music online with social media
In a recent post over at the Future Shop Techblog I started talking about various Internet Radio ‘stations’. Today I realized I didn’t talk about one of my ‘go-to’ online music sources blip.fm It’s not your average music service. Blip.fm is a hybrid social media site and music discovery service, focused around the concept of…
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Still wondering why people follow me on Twitter
Last year, I wrote a couple of posts exploring the reasons why people follow me on Twitter: Wondering why people follow me on Twitter? The reasons why people follow me on Twitter Well a year has passed since I did that basic research, and Twitter has been ‘improved’ in the meantime — revised ReTweet function,…
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Using Google Wave to ‘book club’ Trust Agents
Earlier today I responded to a tweet by @gregbd about forming a reading club for Trust Agents: And now we’ve done it. It’s a public Wave that you should be able to find by searching with:public "Trust Agents" in the Google Wave search box, and since it’s public, feel free to join in and share your…
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I get a new label
The following post is a QuickHit™ — an article or post I found online and thought was important enough to share directly with you. Of course, you’ll see my thoughts or opinions prepended or appended to this post, otherwise I’m just scraping content, and that’s not the intent. According to this article on MarketingDaily, I’m…
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Blogging at 31312 ft.
As I write wrote this I’m was cruising along at 485 mph, just over 30,000 ft. Over the Rockies. This vista was shot with my digital camera, and wirelessly uploaded to my flickr account. The tech that let’s me post this (delayed, as my airline doesn’t have in-flight wi-fi yet) is pretty commonplace these days —…
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3 books I’d give as Christmas presents
I’m spending much more time in malls and shops this month — must be the season. One of my favourite places to spend time is a book shop. Any book shop. Something about them just make me happy. This year, I spotted three books that I’m considering either giving or getting for myself, just ’cause they’re…
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Getting Twitter Spam? Here’s how I deal with it
This is the second part of a post series I started a few days ago, dealing with Twitter spam. How to avoid becoming a Twitter spammer [part one] How to deal with Twitter spam [this article] What got me thinking about it was the recent spate of incoming DM tweets from trusted people I follow. I received…
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Want to get more ReTweets (RT)?
I just had a quick conversation with a friend about ReTweets. Not enough for a full blog post, but an idea I didn’t want to not write about. The concept is to leave enough room so that anyone who wants to retweet you doesn’t have to work to do it. Here’s a simple formula I use: 140 -…
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How to avoid becoming a Twitter spammer, the easy way
Over the last few weeks I’ve been receiving spam on Twitter from trusted people I follow. It’s not that they’ve all been overcome by the need to monetize their Twitter accounts (there, I said monetize in a blog post, I’m doomed), rather, they’ve fallen victim to diabolically-crafted account phishing schemes and their Twitter accounts are…
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How to make your WordPress blog mobile friendly
Earlier this week WordPress.com (the free blog hosting site) announced that they’re including two new mobile friendly templates in their offering. This is absolutely awesome. I say this from the perspective of a iPod Touch owner who often surfs blogs on the device. The more mobile friendly websites get, the more people will be able…
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Revisiting my 5 favourite iPhone, iPad & iPod Touch applications
It’s been almost six months since I picked up my iPod Touch and posted about my 5 favourite iPhone & iPod Touch applications, so I thought it’d be time to see if they’re still my favourite, and if not, which are now. Here’s my previous picks: The iTunes Application Store Flight Control Evernote Google Apps Safari And…
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The top three URL shorteners for ReTweets
If you use Twitter at all you know that tweets really are the essence of tight-writing, since you’ve only got 140 characters to work with. If you’re planning to include a link to other web content or leave space so that others can retweet your tweet, your character count drops further. Savin’ the tweet, one…