Social Media Category

Long URLs. Charles Dickens long.

Published Wednesday, April 29th, 2009

DickensURL is the next big thing in URL-modification. While the rest of the world worries about shrinking long URLs, Dickens takes it one step further. DickensURL converts the ugly into “wonderful works by Charles Dickens.” Curious, I plugged in my website’s URL. What I got was a page reciting several lines of one of Dickens’ [...]

Google vs. Facebook vs. Microsoft vs. MySpace

Published Tuesday, April 7th, 2009

A new partnership between MySpace and Microsoft was announced last week. According to Mashable, the deal includes several key components. “MySpace and Microsoft announced today that the MySpace website will be available for Windows Mobile this summer. In addition, they announced that MySpace would be supporting Microsoft’s Silverlight platform (a rival to the popular Adobe [...]

Using Twitter for SEO

Published Sunday, April 5th, 2009

Twitter is the talk of the town these days. Everyone is weighing in on Twitter’s business model and features like trends and search, and what they all mean for industry giants like Google and Facebook. In my opinion, there’s another important aspect to the Twitter question™*: SEO. Twitter is the next big thing in SEO [...]

Google vs. Twitter

Published Saturday, March 28th, 2009

I just read an interesting article on Jonathan Mendez‘ take on the impending Google vs. Twitter battle. For a few weeks now, there’s been widespread discussion of Twitter incorporating search functionality into their site. Many believe it will spell trouble for Google. Twitter’s search can provide real-time results, something Google lacks. But, as Jonathan Mendez [...]

On the Social (network) Scene

Published Thursday, January 29th, 2009

By now, no one has to define the term “social network.” It’s all but common knowledge, at least to their users. I, for one, love using them and reading about them, for a number of reasons. On the one hand, sites like Facebook are a great way to keep in touch with friends and family. [...]