I am sitting in the session hosted by Mark Murnahan, author of Twitter for Business – Twitter for Friends, to get his take on how businesses can use Twitter to spread reach and increase their audience. Benefits of Twitter: building relationships networking and referrals – it is not about direct sales all the time, but…
Monthly Archives: December 2009
Warning: A possible Facebook app scam – fb_activat
Suddenly I saw a stream of friends claiming you need to activate your account on Facebook so Facebook can make more server room (yeah ok). They all pointed for you to load this application. The crazy thing is, this is not how Facebook activates accounts, nor do they require you load another application. Here is…
TripIt launches Blackberry beta – the review
The beta email arrived about one hour ago and I am loaded and ready on the BlackBerry Storm. You go through the normal steps to download OTA (over the air) the application itself. From there you are welcomed with the following screen forcing you to the mobile web to authorize the mobile application: What I…
Newspapers new forefront and it isn’t RSS – maybe it’s Newscred
Building your own online newspaper can be done with some sites like Newscred (which just launched v2), which pulls from various news sources via RSS and then makes a pseudo newspaper interface. I use these myself to give the look and feel of newspapers, with my favorite being Feedly, hands down. The Feedly interface is…
