Remove Digg Remove Microblogging Remove Tools Remove URL
article thumbnail

Social Media Citizens Hate BP + 4 Other Social Media News Items

Firebelly

Twitter to Change Links and How They Are Displayed By Ben Parr In an effort to bypass the obscurity of shortened links and to prevent malware and phishing attacks, Twitter has begun the rollout of t.co, its official URL shortener, along with some major changes to how the microblogging platform handles links.

article thumbnail

How friendfeed Can Teach You About Your Friends

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

For your blog, any URL will do, and if you are writing for a blog with multiple authors, FriendFeed parses through the authors and only features blog posts written by you. This way if I go to digg/reddit/SU before Friend Feed, I don’t see duplicates. I actually think the links are coming from Digg and StumbleUpon.

Plaxo 103
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

How I Network on Friendster, Facebook, MySpace, and LinkedIn Â?

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

I needed to differentiate Digg from social media because they actually are part of a distinctive community (and as you know, I’m very passionate about Digg so it really did deserve its own category). LinkedIn is a industry tool. I started with LinkedIn and while it is a great tool like you said, Facebook is way more fun.

MySpace 114
article thumbnail

3 Golden Business Rules for Social Media Engagement

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

They hear about tools, put forth a miserable effort, and are either too busy or just lazy. As mentioned, I reserve the right to edit your name and URL when that happens. It actually encourages people to use the third party tools rather than the twitter.com web interface in my opinion. I’m glad you like my blog policy!

article thumbnail

6 Things Parenthood Taught Me About Social Media Marketing

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MrBabyMan , Digg’s top user, was an unknown once. Social media tools can allow us to grow, can even help us to accomplish great things together (i.e. Reply Tamar Weinberg June 11, 2010 at 9:31 am Juliane, feel free to share the URL here. Digg Diigo Disqus Dopplr Facebook Fetch Flickr FriendFeed gdgt Google Reader Identi.ca

article thumbnail

7 Deadly Blog Writing Sins

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

One tool I’ve recently discovered is Scribe SEO. I do not think your name is “How to Attract New Customers&# and have edited your comment and URL as explained in the blog policy. Digg Diigo Disqus Dopplr Facebook Fetch Flickr FriendFeed gdgt Google Reader Identi.ca But we carry on, don’t we?

Blogger 250
article thumbnail

50 (of the) Best Twitter Guides, Stats, Tips and Tools of 2010 (So Far)

Webbiquity SMM

71% of business users now say Twitter is a useful tool, up from 59% a year ago. Which tools are most helpful? You’ll find the answers to these questions and many more here in 50 of the best Twitter tools, posts, how-to guides and rants of 2010 so far. in Twitter, track URL mentions, create feeds from searches and more.

Tools 207