In this post, I wanted to show you one of the useful additions to the new Sphinn platform; networking. This feature lets you filter the articles on the site to submitters you trust and want to follow. Underneath each submission there is an add button, as you see below. Click this to add this person [...]

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AFAIK this is a first time Twitter has appeared in the world of Dilbert. Goes to show how far the service is progressing into the mainstream. A recent report by eMarketer suggests that Twitter user numbers could exceed 26m in the US alone. Global estimates have been put at 35-45m current users. Even with the [...]

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It’s easy to avoid disasters with hindsight and hopefully 10yrs as a domain registrar, web producer and marketer has given me some. In my opinion, here are 12 defensive steps which you should take right now. 1. Ensure Your Domains Have Accurate WHOIS records Sounds simple but you wouldn’t believe how many domain registrations have [...]

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WhosTalkin is a new search engine for the social media landscape. It searches across 40+ popular social media applications, providing in depth results not usually seen in the mainstream search engines. In their own words: WhosTalkin.com is a social media search tool that allows users to search for conversations surrounding the topics that they care [...]

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Twitter has released their most detailed guidelines yet on what they consider spam within their system. Commercial users take note. Although they emphasise that commercial or promotional use of Twitter is allowed the following activities may be considered spam and result in account suspension. 1. Following other accounts in order to gain attention to your [...]

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Jaiku have finally completed their much anticipated move to the Google App Engine. They have also moved the platform out of its closed status and given existing users an unlimited number of invitations. This email was sent out a few minutes ago: We’ve been working on the Jaiku service over the weekend after finding an [...]

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What is SocialMedian.com? From Mashable.com: You can follow different topical news groups – which are a collection of activities from people interested in the same topic (called News Networks) – or subscribe to updates from other users (called Newsmakers). On your homepage, you can then filter between the activities in your News Networks and the [...]

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Here’s a quick link opportunity I’ll share with you. Quite a few people have pondered about getting links from the uber-popular Twitter. I had much the same thoughts as NickyCakes when I first saw that the only followed links in the service pointed to the posting applications. Strangely enough there is a much easier link [...]

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As my regular readers know, we recently launched an RSS aggregator called SocialBlogroll.com. The project went very well and it’s now happily churning through 1500+ news feeds from the online marketing community. Viewing all those feeds and blogs made me realise that more than a few people out there aren’t aware of the following tips. [...]

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For my last post on the subject it seemed fair to interview the person who invented the viral, Adam and get his point of view on the Stumble-fad. What did he think about it all and how does he answer his critics.

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