Fake following in social media: Yay or Nay?

On August 28, 2008, in Social Media, by Mike Fruchter

In the world of social media, establishing, engaging, maintaining and growing your follower base is crucial for any type of success. We use a variety of social networking sites, tools, and platforms to establish and broadcast to our potential and existing follower base. Power in numbers often dictates and dominates the said outcomes. We work [...]

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The bookmarking system on FriendFeed

On August 21, 2008, in Social Media, by Mike Fruchter

The bookmarking system I am referring to is liking something on FriendFeed. Liking an item not only serves as an encouraging vote for the content author, but it also serves as a great bookmarking tool.
In addition, the liking feature performs as a:

Presence system
Bookmarking system
Recognition system

The river of content flows fast and furiously on FriendFeed. Often, [...]

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Getting social with bookmarking on FriendFeed.

On August 19, 2008, in Social Media, by Mike Fruchter

I posted a few days ago on FriendFeed about wanting to get more social with my bookmarking. I primarily was referring to using all the features of Diigo to their full extent. One of which is the ability to comment on bookmarks. Hutch Carpenter recently commented on some of my Diigo bookmarks. This is what [...]

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Make FriendFeed & Twitter your social portal

On August 17, 2008, in Applications, by Mike Fruchter

Created by Ray Grieselhuber, Gridjit uses the FriendFeed & Twitter API extensively to create an interactive social portal home page.  It visually organizes your FriendFeed and Twitter time lines into columns. It spreads out your time line by user, and shows that users’ most recent posts, in arrangeable blocks, distributed vertically across the grid.

This could [...]

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Shiny Badges

On August 13, 2008, in Social Media, by Mike Fruchter

In the quest towards becoming early adapters, we often sign up for anything and everything.  It seems every other day there are new services launching. Most of us feel we need to stake an early claim within that service just in case the it actually takes off. While a few make it, the majority fade [...]

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Viral on FriendFeed

On August 8, 2008, in Digital Marketing, Social Media, by Mike Fruchter

I am always on the search for the latest and greatest social media applications. I am often too quick to sign up for a service based solely on hype. Perhaps most of us technophiles are an easy sell. Mention the word “beta” and you have a new instant subscriber, no questions asked. Whether or not [...]

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The last few days on FriendFeed

On August 6, 2008, in Social Media, by Mike Fruchter

Last week I decided to stray from the herd on FriendFeed. My mission was to spend five days getting to know the people that I follow better. For five days I only commented, liked and shared content of individuals in my member circle. For the most part the experiment was a success. My mistake was [...]

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