Seesmic, in its efforts to be the Grand Central Station for social network updates, has "acq-hired" Ping.fm. Where Seesmic has mostly focused on the ability to consume social web information on various platforms, Ping.fm supports a variety of posting options.…
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How to Access Facebook When You Can't Log in
While trying to log into Facebook a few days ago, I got the message, “Your account is temporarily unavailable due to site…
Read MoreNew Facebook Features: @Mentions, Browse Friends by City
Facebook is rolling out “@ mentions” similar to those found in Twitter. According to the Facebook blog: Now, when you are writing…
Read MoreGoogle Reader Adds Easy Sharing, Other Features
I read a lot of online publications, and I like to share interesting articles with clients and friends on Twitter. If you…
Read MoreFacebook Pages Now Supported By Status Update Services Ping.fm, HelloTxt
We recently covered status update services Ping.fm and HelloTxt, competitors in the growing market for tools and services that help social media…
Read MoreHow We Talk About Social Media
Reading Eric Berlin's recent post about HelloTxt, I went back to some old files and opened up a presentation I gave last summer at BizJam Seattle and was treated to some entertaining content. At least, it was funny to me. I just had to laugh at the way I struggled to come up with compact, clear ways of categorizing and naming social media tools. How easy it is to forget that everything we use and talk about every day now--just one year later--didn't have a set of agreed-upon terms or even standards and, in many cases, still don't. So I thought I'd share some slides from my old presentation to demonstrate the evolution of our social media vernacular in such a short time span.…
Read MoreSay Hello To HelloTxt As Status Update Service Space Heats Up
Just as services designed to help social media enthusiasts manage multiple online profiles are becoming increasingly popular, services designed to manage posting…
Read MoreUse Ping.fm to Reach All Your Online Profiles at Once
Often it’s the (seemingly) simple applications that turn out to be the most powerful, and the most popular. Twitter is a great…
Read MorePalm Pre Losing Mojo Each Day the SDK is Held Close
Just yesterday, I was on camera saying how much I’m looking forward to the Palm (s PALM) Pre. With my first-gen iPhone…
Read MorePing.fm Gets Angel Investment From LinkedIn Founder And Creative Commons CEO
Ping.fm, a social media application that lets users cross-post messages to multiple sites has received an undisclosed amount of angel fundin……
Read MoreSocial Web's Big Question: Federate or Aggregate?
Inventor and tech-philosopher Dave Winer Twittered tonight that federation is the hot thing, pointing to a New York Times article about Facebook Connect. And just like that he touched upon the third rail of our increasingly social web. The big question facing the social web depends on the direction it needs to take. A sharp increase in the number of web services and social networks has many of us yearning for a single sign-on, which has lead to the idea of "federation." On the flip side, we also want one place to manage our diverse web services in one place.…
Read MoreITunes Adds FOX HD, Sells 200M TV Eps.
Apple announced today that it added straggler network FOX to its HD offerings, giving iTunes high-definition TV programming from all the major…
Read MoreSonic.Net's SF ComMuniFi Plan
[qi:045] Update: Dane Jasper of Sonic.Net left a comment saying that this is their own initiative and the equipment is coming from…
Read MoreHow to Work the Room
So you’ve got your engineering degree, and your marquee MBA, and a business-plan. You’re on your way. But at some point you’re…
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