Social Media Explained by Video

I just came across this great description of Social Media over at Common Craft. If you have a few minutes it’s worth checking out.

From the Common Craft post:
“This video focuses on basics of social media: new technology that makes everyone a producer and tools that give everyone a chance to have a say.”
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MySpace Gets a Facelift

Let’s face it. MySpace is not really known for it’s great design.
In fact, they constantly get bashed for it. Just the other day, I found this on Digg. It’s a Firefox add-on, called AmIOnMySpace, that saves you if you “accidentally” navigate to MySpace, and takes you back to the website you just came […]

Microhoo Finally Goes Kaput, Yahoogle Stirs to Life

A while back I wrote about Microhoo and how the Yahoo! - Microsoft merger was not to be. In the past few weeks Microsoft and Yahoo! have been in talks about arranging some sort of deal, and were in talks about the sale of just Yahoo! Search to Microsoft while Yahoo! kept control […]

Kanye’s Glow in the Dark Tour

So I’m going to the Kanye West concert tonight at the HP Pavilion in San Jose. It’s a part of the Glow in the Dark tour which looks sweet. Check out some of these pics:
Kanye on an extended stage

Kanye - Glow

N.E.R.D. on stage

[Source: Kanye West’s Blog.]
Who else will be there:

Rihanna
Lupe Fiasco
N.E.R.D.

Hopefully I’ll get […]

The CNN.com Effect

I wrote a post a while back about the Yahoo! Buzz-Effect and how it sends tons of engaged traffic to publishers. Well yesterday, Techcrunch issued a report that shows the reverse side of this social news site-to-publisher relationship. The post was about the social news site Mixx and the large amounts of traffic […]