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Facebook roundup for 4/10/2012

Think the Facebook acquisition of Instagram is a good thing? I have one word for you: Friendfeed!

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Tactic #7: Bookmark socially!

This entry is part 10 of 13 in the series Top 10 Tactics and Tools

Although the perspective focuses on Delicious, the message is clear; Bookmarking has more value when you use a tool that saves your bookmarks out to a website where they can be accessed or shared from any computer to any computer or user… My favorite tool of this sort is called ‘FriendFeed’. Here’s a little on [...]

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Is your website a ‘billboard in the desert’?

In December of last year, I embarked upon an experiment to see if I could leverage a website with a blog combined with social media tools to increase traffic to a site. In that month, my sandbox site had a grand total of 670 pageviews. In the month that ended yesterday, I had a total [...]

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Testing ‘Google Recommended Reading’…

My readers know I’m a huge fan of Google Reader to aggregate news and ideas. Lately, I found a great new plugin called Google Recommended Reading from C. Murray Consulting that allows me to leverage my shared items in Google Reader as post or sidebar content. Currently, I use FriendFeed to accomplish this, but if [...]

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My 14 top tools for thought leaders

It’s always interesting to go back and see where you were a year or so ago thoughtwise and what you may have learned since then. My ‘old post promoter’ randomly brings up old posts and this one, looking back on 2009 is very interesting to me. In it we find the genesis of what I [...]

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5+ reasons why you have to love tumblr!

Leaving for Germany as I am tomorrow morning, I’m moving way too fast to do this justice, but if you’re a social media maven or online community manager [or both!], tumblr is a tool that you may have overlooked for it’s sheer simplicity. If that’s the case, look again. Here are at leas 5 reasons [...]

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At least 3 reasons why I’m not Buzzing with enthusiasm

Image via CrunchBase At least two people in the Googleverse are underwhelmed with Buzz; me and internet maven Richard Scoble. Scoble bats first… “Together with a lot of web workers, I depend on being able to skim through information sources quickly. Services like Google Reader are well-optimized for doing this, especially in List mode. (To [...]

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Writing a killer blog

…without killing yourself in the process. Good thoughts from Louis Gray… Writing a Killer Blog (Without Killing Yourself) View more presentations from Louis Gray.

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With new Facebook Groups, FriendFeed’s gone mainstream. Two years late.

Image via CrunchBase What’s really striking about the new Facebook Groups is that they truly are “FriendFeed gone mainstream”. When I first saw the new Facebook Groups I thought, “My, they look a lot like FriendFeed”. That’s no surprise either, the team that pioneered realtime discussion and sharing groups at FriendFeed now works at Facebook [...]

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Einstein’s Razor or FriendFeed?

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Which one will win out? One of the maxims I always try to keep in mind is ‘Einstein’s Razor’. In case you aren’t familiar with it, Einstein’s Razor states that “things should made be as simple as possible but no simpler”. I try to apply that to my life in many ways, but especially when [...]

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