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Social Media Cheat Sheet

In: Social Media

10 Mar 2010

I found this to be a really cool, and informative breakdown of the main social media sites, along with their positive and negative benefits.  This was originally created by Drew McLellan.  Click the picture to see a larger version.

Behind The Scenes Of Twitter’s Growth

In: Social Media

1 Mar 2010

Check out this very cool infographic representing the programming continually being performed on Twitter.  To make sure the social networking site can handle its growing user base, the code behind the site has to be constantly revised and improved upon.

Ben Sandofsky, an engineer at Twitter, used a data vizualization program called Code Swarm to illustrate [...]

Foursquare Adds More Services

In: Social Media

9 Feb 2010

As location-based applications continue to evolve, Foursquare continues to try differentiating itself.  After announcing a partnership with Bravo last week, new partnerships with Zagat , Warner Bros and HBO are being rolled out.
This is actually pretty cool.  With the Zagat deal, there will be quality reviews to applicable restaurants and locations.  Foursquare users will also [...]

People Care More About Apple Than Obama

In: Internet| Social Media

1 Feb 2010

So apparently all I blog about anymore is social media statistics!  I’ve been working on some articles, but these cool infographics keep popping up.
What is your take on the following stats?  Is it a sad commentary on our society that the iPad generates more buzz than the State of the Union Address?  Or should this [...]

Five Percent Of Twitter Users Create Most Of The Noise

In: Social Media

1 Feb 2010

I found this to be really interesting.  If Twitter was only 100 people, which section would you be in?

Facebook vs. Twitter vs. MySpace

In: Social Media

28 Jan 2010

The Chicago Tribune put together this is cool three year look at the number of monthly unique visitors to Facebook, Twitter, and MySpace.  Twitter has a lot of catching up to do!

Reserve Your Desired Twitter Name

In: Social Media

20 Jan 2010

Well technically, this doesn’t “reserve” the name, but read on if the Twitter name you really want isn’t available.  According to Twitter’s Terms of Service:
“An account is considered inactive if it hasn’t been logged into or updated in over 6 months. Inactive accounts may be automatically removed from Twitter. To keep your account active, be [...]

Twendly Finds Experts On Twitter

In: Social Media

12 Jan 2010

A new website called Twendly is out, and it’s a great new way to find subject matter experts on Twitter.
Previously, if you need to find an expert on “social media” for example, searching for the term on Twitter was barely helpful.  Searching for a term on Twitter only shows you the most recent tweets featuring [...]

Why Are There So Many Social Media Gurus?

In: Humor| Social Media

29 Dec 2009

This is a hilarious cartoon from HubSpot:

Banned Passwords On Twitter

In: Social Media

28 Dec 2009

If you have an account on Twitter, you may have been told during the sign-up process that your password was “too obvious.”  Who would’ve thought that the password “secret” is obvious?
TechCrunch recently discovered that the obvious passwords are actually coded in to the site.  Here is a TXT file of all 370 banned passwords.  What’s [...]


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