Have you noticed that Facebook has re-designed the Home Page? It now displays a News Feed and a Live Feed.. Since this re-design, did you know that Facebook has already chosen which of your friends will be displayed in these feeds and which will be hidden? You probably haven’t noticed, but Facebook has decided that [...]
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Guide to Advanced Twitter Search
For the uninitiated, Twitter is a platform where information sharing and conversations happen in real-time. It is where breaking news appears first.. often significantly before appearing on live TV.. and sometimes up to tens of minutes before being reported by the major online news sites. Even as I’m typing this, companies and businesses are integrating [...]
Monitoring Your Industry with Social Media
This video nicely and succinctly shows how businesses can monitor their industry using social media. It’s presented by Adam Ostrow and is sponsored by UPS. Here are links to some posts of mine that cover and explain the services mentioned: Platforms Facebook Pages Blogging Directories Wefollow Software CoTweet Hootsuite It’s your industry.. always on and [...]
Share Files on Facebook with Box.net
Want to be able to share files with your friends on Facebook? Box.net allows you to easily share files, documents, music, etc with your friends on Facebook. It is simple and it is free. I have previously shown how you can share files on LinkedIn with Box.net.. that post outlines the steps involved in uploading [...]
Social Media Count
The use of social media is accelerating at a rate unheard of in the history mankind. More and more people are using social media to connect with friends and customers, communicate and send & receive news and information.. all in real-time. Gary Hayes has compiled a great social media counter based on recent statistics that [...]
The Rise of Facebook
Great video on the rise and growth of Facebook.. and it’s not going to stop any time soon. Facebook has Google in its sights that’s for sure.
Google Easter Eggs and Hidden Gems
An Easter egg is a hidden feature that the programmers have deliberately put in their software, often for their own amusement. Generally, it is something entertaining but hidden, and has been put there on purpose by the developer. A true Easter egg needs to satisfy the following criteria, Hidden and un-documented Reproducible Not malicious Entertaining [...]
The Alltop Information Funnel
Alltop is an RSS news aggregator that pulls in content from thousands of sources from around the internet.. so you don’t have to. Alltop is like an online magazine rack for all your favourite topics.. for stuff like social media, food, travel, photography, news, law, football, education, finance.. plus hundreds of other topics, from over [...]
How to Create Friends Lists in Facebook
A great way to filter out the noise when it comes to displaying your friend’s activities, is by creating friends lists. My News Feed displays a mish mash of content from all my friends and connections. You can easily filter out what your work friends are doing, or what your family are doing, or what [...]
The WordPress Security Guide
Security is a very important, but often overlooked aspect of blogging. There are many tools and plugins that can be integrated into your WordPress blog that can help harden and secure it from hackers and spammers. This guide on WordPress security will hopefully add an extra layer or two in helping to secure your online [...]
