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Why Alps Bethneck is 5 Years Old

Ari Herzog

This is a guest blog post by Stephen Black. Blogs — “web logs” as they were first called, began to appear. One night in 2006, over Tiger beer and carrot cake at a hawker center , my designer friend Little Ong told me about Multiply. Another friend, Dinnertube , started posting videos on Youtube in 2006.

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Learning 2.0 - The Things

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Things* (Note: Details about each task will be activated every week with posts related to each item) Week 1: Introduction ( official start of week August 7th) Read this blog & find out about the program. Week 2: Blogging Set up your own blog & add your first post. Register your blog on PLCMC Central and begin your Learning 2.0

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The FASTForward Blog " Managing Personal Knowledge: Setting a Foundation for Transformation? : Enterprise 2.0 Blog: News, Coverage, and Commentary

Buzz Marketing for Technology

The debate was recently posted on again in a useful way on this blog by Tom Mandel, Transforming enterprise work â?? He also closes his piece with another thought that is consistent with a number of posts on this blog, including mine. In the early days of blogs, Tom was skeptical of their role for knowledge workers.

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API Widget Economy: Social Media Business Podcast

Laurel Papworth

Companies that open their business databases and stream that data out, can have an army of hundreds of thousands (mostly) unpaid developers creating Facebook apps, iPhone apps and blog widgets to help sell their products and services. In November 2000 they opened up the API and by 2006 had 5 billion API calls a month.

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7 Traits of Highly Effective Viral Videos

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

It shows the power of mashup. Peace, Jackie Reply Al June 30, 2010 at 12:49 pm This post was also featured on our Education Blog, here is a link to it: [link] Reply Cancel reply Leave a Comment Be sure to wrap all code in <code></code> tags. This blog is written and maintained by Tamar Weinberg. © 2006-2010 Tamar Weinberg.

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How to Build Community for Niche Site Success

ProBlogger

When I first started blogging about my three legged dog Jerry back in 2006, never in my wildest dreams did I think helping those facing amputation for their dogs would be my full time job five years later. For details about the fledgling Tripawds site, don’t miss my submission for the 2008 ProBlogger Video Mashup.

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How to Get More Views on YouTube: Tips and Tricks for Social Media Managers

agora pulse

Creating a fun mashup with a good soundtrack is a surefire view grabber. As with your website or blog, images matter. Embed videos into your blog posts. From the box that appears, copy the HTML code and paste it into your blogs HTML. YouTube is owned by Google who bought the site in November 2006.