Remove Microblogging Remove Mobile Remove Social Networking 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

The Innovative Educator: 5 Things You Can Do to Begin Developing Your Personal Learning Network

Buzz Marketing for Technology

5 Ways to Begin Building Your Personal Learning Network 1.0 1-Join a professional social network. technology) and EduBlogger World (for education bloggers) and I launched a social network called iTeach/iLearn (enhancing instruction with tech across the content areas). Join My Social Networks.

Education 279
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

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

article thumbnail

An Introduction to Tumblr

Buffer Social

It’s a microblogging social platform that allows its users to post various types of content, from text and photos to music and videos. You can also set a unique URL for your blog and add a theme song. We’ll go through what it is, how it works and how you can get started using it today. What is Tumblr?

Tumblr 122
article thumbnail

Twitter versus Plurk: Not Even in the Same League

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

The only similarity is a 140 character limit for posts — so Plurk is essentially a microblogging platform. Plurk: Real Nested Conversations Brought to the Microblogging Platform A few days ago, I noticed via Twitter search tool Summize that Aaron Brazell had been talking about me on his Twitter stream.

Twitter 199
article thumbnail

How to Use Facebook for Business and Marketing

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

In fact, you’re likely spotting the shift; instead of companies posting their URLs on television commercials, they’re asking their followers to join them on Facebook. The EA Mobile Human Tetris project takes you to a Facebook application where everyone participates in a game of Tetris. After all, Facebook could eat the web.

Facebook 279
article thumbnail

Best Internet Marketing Posts of 2009

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Social Media: Getting Started Why You Have to Engage in Social Media, Even if You Don’t Want to (A Smart Bear): Jason Cohen (@asmartbear) makes a compelling argument into why social media must be considered, even if you have no interest in it. The article has examples of how social media worked too.

Marketing 265
article thumbnail

Fifteen Years of Online Social Interactions

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

but I was an early adopter of social networks from when I first opened my 3.5″ On the other hand, my first ever interaction on AOL was with someone who was separated from my social network by only one degree. I’m a little younger than that (finally, I can say that!), hour (after a flat rate of $9.95

MySpace 101