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muhammad.saleem's social media mavenmuhammad.saleem's social media mavenVenture into the world of social media with news, commentary, and reviews, from social media maven, Muhammad Saleem. Articles
digg town halls announced
2008-02-01 19:39:00 the first results of our conversation with kevin and jay are already here. we?re always looking for ways to have more conversations with you to learn how we can improve digg. to do this on a regular basis, we are launching a series of digg town hall meetings. we?re holding the first of these the evening ... More About: Digg , Town
what a shame: times.co.uk caught spamming social sites
2008-01-31 10:04:00 it’s not a shame that the offender was caught, but a damn shame that such a well-respected institution has to go through this. working on behalf of the times, a sitelynx employee posted thousands of links to community and social news websites, including mahalo, del.icio.us, stumbleupon, metafilter, yahoo! answers, ma.gnolia, and netscape’s propeller. his actions were ... More About: Social , Spamming , Sites , Times , Caught
the drill down: kevin rose and jay adelson talk to the community
2008-01-25 23:06:00 on wednesday January 23rd, a core group of submitters to social bookmarking site digg.com, represented here by digg users andy, mu, reg, and david cohn, collected all their major grievances against digg and issued them in a statement. we discussed these issues in a live forum, with over 150 digg users in attendance. in this ... More About: Community , Talk , Rose , Kevin Rose , Kevin
from revolt to resolution in 12 hours or less
2008-01-24 12:19:00 note: for more information on the entire event, plus the complete conversation with kevin rose and jay adelson, please listen to this week’s episode of the drill down (which will be posted as soon as possible). update: part 1 has been released. update: coverage on nytimes, wsj, gawker, and the complete blogosphere coverage. if you’re plugged into the ... More About: Hours , Revolt , Resolution
guest post at search engine land: leveraging social media sites to increase
2008-01-24 11:00:00 i?ve written a post on search engine land explaining the impact of social media on search rankings and visibility. note: this is not an invitation to abuse social news sites to game your search rankings or search visibility. use this as a guide to understanding how social media affects your search rankings and use it to ... More About: Social , Media , Post , Search , Search Engine
guest post at problogger: face to face with the matthew effect - making you
2008-01-22 15:24:00 i?ve written a post on problogger on the matthew effect in the blogosphere. as james surowiecki makes the case in his book the wisdom of wrowds, ?ideas are meant to triumph not because who is (or who is not) advocating them but because of their inherent value?? but in reality this is hard (though not impossible) ... More About: Post , Face , Effect , Guest , Matthew
justin khoury interview - exclusive interview with muhammad saleem
2008-01-22 09:59:00 if i mentioned the user name ?msaleem? out of a pool of over one million registered users to a regular contributor over at digg - or propeller for that matter, chances are they?d know whom I?m referring to. a self professed social media maven, extremely talented writer, creative thinker, and university student, saleem is considered ... More About: Exclusive , Muhammad , Interview , Justin
guest post at techcrunch: 9 reasons why the digg story sells
2008-01-22 04:09:00 i?ve written a post on techcrunch on why digg has been embraced by the mainstream media and the blogosphere alike. so why does the digg story sell so well? here?s a look at 9 elements that make a good story - one that people embrace and propagate through their networks - and how digg has taken ... More About: Story , Post , Digg , Reasons , Guest
guest post at search engine land: 7 tips to win the social news beauty page
2008-01-15 23:13:00 i?ve written a post on search engine land giving out 7 tips that will help your next social news submission shine above the rest. how can you increase your chances of appealing to an average digger, stumbler, or other social media user, and actually get them to vote for your content? read on for all 7 tips. this ... More About: News , Social , Beauty , Tips , Post
the easiest way to make your community happy
2008-01-14 00:04:00 the simple fact that you have a community around your service or a readership around your blog means that you’re doing at least something right, and that people want to participate. at the same time, however, the participants aren’t always necessarily happy or as happy as they could be. what amazes me about this situation ... More About: Community , Happy , Make
what do you do if the rule-breakers aren?t punished?
2008-01-12 02:19:00 while reading the wisdom of crowds by james surowiecki, i came across an old (but highly applicable) forbes article titled are you a chump? the article is a commentary on the american tax system, tax avoidance, and whether it makes sense. let’s think about this problem. the money that the government gets from tax collection goes ... More About: Breakers , Rule
trust that makes the web go ?social?
2008-01-11 03:26:00 what is the first, most important element that you need to have before you even begin to think about building a community? the answer is undoubtedly trust. without trust, platform owners cannot get community members to participate, content producers can’t create audiences (and have the community members share their content), and community members will have ... More About: Social , Trust
the ?el farol? problem in social news
2008-01-09 03:30:00 the el farol bar problem, as james surowiecki explains in his book the wisdom of crowds, goes something like this:imagine that there are a certain number of people and on a particular day, they all want to go to a bar called el farol. the problem is that the bar is rather small and if ... More About: News , Social , Problem
why hey! nielsen is nielsen?s best move yet
2008-01-08 00:47:00 to get a sense of why i think this could be the case let’s first look at how nielsen media research currently operates (as james surowiecki explains in his book, the wisdom of crowds) and then at how hey! nielsen is making their job easier, better, and cheaper for them. most people with even a passing ... More About: Move , Nielsen
is socializing ruining social news?
2008-01-07 03:30:00 many of the quality-related flaws of social news sites can simply be attributed to the fact that they aren’t mainstream enough. as these sites grow larger, we can hope to see them become more diverse and shed most of their biases (i.e. pro-apple and anti-microsoft, pro-nintendo and anti-sony, and so on). at the same time, ... More About: News , Social
digg bury recorder? don?t get too excited
2008-01-04 02:46:00 more than a few people have pointed me towards a tool created by ajax economy that purports to record all bury data for any submission made to digg, asking for comments. i would love to see a tool like this that works and captures 100% of the data but here’s why you shouldn’t get too ... More About: Digg , Recorder , Excite , Cord
what is a top ?social news user? anyway?
2008-01-03 21:10:00 there are several objective ways to determine someone’s rank or to fit someone into an artificial hierarchy on a socially driven site, and i will cover some of the existing ones and offer some thoughts of my own. what you will note is that no single objective measure is enough and we need some way ... More About: News , Social , User
social news and the quest for ?reward?
2008-01-03 09:01:00 according to james surowiecki, author of the wisdom of crowds, what’s interesting about decision markets such as the iem (iowa electronic markets) and the hsx (hollywood stock exchange) is that they function fairly well without much (or any) money at stake. however, evidence suggests that such markets operate better (i.e. the people participating in these ... More About: News , Social , Quest , Reward
should social news be a republic rather than a democracy?
2008-01-03 04:25:00 in his book the wisdom of crowds, james surowiecki discusses some examples that show the power of google and how well its index performs. to explain how google works, he uses sergey brin and larry page’s paper called the anatomy of a large-scale hypertextual web search engine, and google’s definition of pagerank, their method of ... More About: News , Social , Democracy , Republic
guest post at read/writeweb: alternate reality games: what makes or breaks
2007-12-27 04:18:00 i?ve written a guest post at read/writeweb on alternate reality games (args) and how to properly use them as a viral marketing tool. even though i enjoyed participating in them, until recently i hadn’t really thought about what makes them compelling - beyond their premise (i.e. the product they are based ... More About: Reality , Games , Post , Read , Guest
guest post at read/writeweb: how 2 nerdfighters took over youtube
2007-12-20 22:36:00 i?ve wrote a guest post at read/writeweb a couple days ago on how a couple of nerds with the help of some friends, were able to take over youtube. to help shed some light on the project and how the nerdfighters took over the 4th most popular destination on the web and the number one site ... More About: Youtube , Post , Read , Guest
guest post at read/writeweb: what?s coming next at digg?
2007-12-18 23:28:00 i?ve wrote a guest post at read/writeweb yesterday, taking a look at the new features we may soon see on digg. with all the things that we can expect in the next few months, I can really say I haven’t been this excited to see the next phase of digg in a long-time. especially considering that ... More About: Post , Digg , Read , Guest
guest post at last100: openhulu - setting hulu?s videos free?
2007-12-10 22:59:00 i?ve written a guest post at last100 on a way to get around hulu’s closed private beta. so there you have it. if you?ve been unsuccessfully hunting for a hulu invite for a while, look no further than to openhulu. please check out the interview with the creator of openhulu. Technorati Tags: hulu, openhulu, last100 ... More About: Videos , Post , Free , Guest , Hulu
how would you improve digg alerter?
2007-12-10 10:27:00 i have to admit, in the past 2 years i’ve tried almost every greasemonkey script, firefox extention, and api-based digg tool, and there are only three tools that i continue to use regularly, one of which is digg alerter. digg alerter has been at version 1.2 for a while now (and with good reason, the ... More About: Digg , Improve , Prove
the drill down gets its own wikipedia page!
2007-12-07 20:27:00 update: that was short-lived. andy, reg, and i had requested that a fan make a wikipedia page for our weekly tech podcast, the drill down, and a fan and a good friend has done so. be the first to check out the just-created wikipedia page for the drill down, special thanks to mike. mike is also known ... More About: Page , Wikipedia , Drill
mixx may be pretty, but it?s going down a slippery slope
2007-12-05 22:27:00 this is a response to marshall kirkpatrick’s recent look at mixx. when i first read that mixx had been busy making deals with mainstream news outlets such as usa today, reuters, la times, and the weather channel, i naturally assumed that the deals were similar to the one digg recently made with the wall street journal. ... More About: Pretty , Mixx , Goin
guest post at read/writeweb: interview with the founder of digg filter
2007-12-03 02:21:00 i?ve written a guest post at read/writeweb on an unofficial digg recommendation engine called digg filter. while we wait for the digg recommendation engine, which is perpetually ‘coming soon’, one enterprising digg user has taken the initiative and built one himself. sfter putting in 200 hours of his own time, dmytro mulyava has come up with ... More About: Founder , Post , Interview , Digg , Read
propeller?s new site design: mind-blowingly awesome
2007-11-29 22:18:00 wow. it took me a while to calm down before i could start writing anything. i got a chance to look at the new site design (not live, only internal) for propeller, and i have to say, it [expletive] rocks! the design will not only be much much better than the current site design, ... More About: Design , Awesome , Site , Mind , New Site
good and green pre-conference networking event tonight at the hard rock hot
2007-11-28 23:53:00 if you’re going to be at the good and green pre-conference networking event (and of course the conference) don’t forget to stop by and say hi! when: wednesday november 28th, 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm where: hard rock hotel, hamer room, michigan ave. Technorati Tags: conference, good, green, networking More About: Event , Networking , Rock , Green , Hard
guest post at pickthebrain: how to write fascinating content that readers w
More articles from this author:2007-11-27 20:52:00 i?ve written a guest post at pickthebrain with 6 steps to writing content that readers will retain. an opinionated piece with a human element should give any active reader more than enough to participate in a discussion while simplicity and brevity will appease the most reflective of readers. furthermore, while visual cues and formatting will attract ... More About: Readers , Post , Write , Content , Guest 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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