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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
maps.amung.us: map your visitors in real-time
2007-09-12 07:19:00 whos.amung.us, the site that let’s you track how many concurrent visitors you have on your site at any time, has launched a new visitor mapping service called maps.amung.us. in just 4 easy steps, you can choose the kind of map you want (size and map style) and the kind of pins you want to use to ... More About: Time , Maps , Real , Visitors , Real Time
as promised, netscape?s social news site propelling forward
2007-09-12 02:30:00 a few days ago i expressed my frustration with the blogopshere for intentionally misinterpreting netscape’s re-branding as social suicide and today i want to tell all the detractors to chew on their hats. tom drapeau, director of netscape, clearly pointed out that the netscape social news site wasn’t being killed, rather that it was just ... More About: News , Social , Netscape , Site , Scape
iminlikewithyou gets a design update and i?ve got front-row tickets
2007-09-11 18:15:00 iilwy (im in like with you), also known as hot or not for the web savvy (read this for a primer on the service), and the facebook of online dating sites, recently released a preview of their new interface for their beta users. here’s a look at what you can expect, and unlimited invites for ... More About: Design , Tickets , Update , Front , Front Row
make art not ads - getting your readers? attention
2007-09-10 08:28:00 about two weeks ago, jordan mccollum reported on an interested study conducted by nielsen that found that online ad-blindness is worsening. if you look at the following heatmap from studies tracking the areas where most users focused on a webpage, you see that ads get little-to-no attention. the reason for this is not that users hate ... More About: Readers , Make , Attention , Tent
me and the digg 800 club
2007-09-09 20:06:00 i?m happy to announce that i was just inducted into the digg.com 800 club. the group has a total of 4 members (including me). i want to thank all the content producers whose stories i have submitted (for creating the great content) and all the digg users (who have been reading and digging my ... More About: Digg , Club , The D
take your fingers off the trigger. think before you type
2007-09-09 04:15:00 compiler and epicenter, two of the blogs in the wired blog network, accused jason calacanis earlier, of stealing one of their images, erasing their logo from it, and using it without proper attribution. image: jason calacanis while they were mocking him by writing that his how-to series (for which the image was used) should be called ‘how ... More About: Type , Fore , Fingers
blog in a bad neighborhood? don?t forget to lockdown
2007-09-08 18:43:00 do you blog in a bad neighborhood? do you think there are people who might have a grudge against your blog? or are simply worried that the competition doesn’t like to play fair? well if you’re concerned about people breaking and entering your blog, you don’t have to be anymore. i got an email from michael ... More About: Blog , Neighborhood , Forge
netscape?s re-branding shamefully misrepresented as social suicide
2007-09-08 00:08:00 this morning, tom drapeau, director of netscape, announced the upcoming changes at netscape on the netscape blog. most importantly, we’ll be providing you the new location for the social news site. we, as a company, remain committed to delivering a compelling social news experience for our users. this move is an effort to make both the former ... More About: Social , Branding , Netscape , Suicide , Scape
4 ways to get your money back and 200 reasons to love american express
2007-09-07 17:58:00 did you hear that sound a couple days ago? well that was a few hundred thousand iphone early-adopters groaning in frustration and anger in response to steve jobs’ decision to reduce the price of the phone by $200. not only were the customers angry, but so were the investors, sending the stock price down around ... More About: Love , Money , American Express , American , Back
interview with peteris krumins - creator of reddit media and digpicz
2007-09-06 22:22:00 peter is 22 years old. he is studying physics and loves mathematics but his real passion is computer science. he has recently become famous for developing reddit media and digpicz. hi peter. thanks for taking out the time to answer some questions. let’s start with some background. Sure. I got into programming around 1996. It was ... More About: Media , Interview , Creator , Reddit
google reader finds ?search?
2007-09-06 17:58:00 i have personally never been fond of online rss readers and prefer the desktop-based netnewswire, but with a slew of updates and the recent addition of search, google reader may finally be mature. along for the ride in the search release are a few other reader tweaks. you can now hide the side navigation by clicking ... More About: Google , Reader , Search , Google Reader , Googl
hulu stays true to name, sued by lulu
2007-09-06 17:25:00 lulu, an online distributer and publisher of digital content, is suing hulu, the nbc universal/news corp. joint online video venture. lulu is accusing them of copyright infringement, unfair and deceptive trade practices, and federal cyberpiracy. according to the the press release, lulu believes that the name hulu was intentionally chosen to create confusion in the marketplace. “We ... More About: True , Stays , Lulu , Hulu , Sued
grandcentral - private beta invite giveaway
2007-09-06 02:52:00 if you would like an invite to grandcentral and get your very own ‘one number…for life‘, please let me know. i was recently invited to the private beta by a generous friend and in the spirit of generosity i’m sharing all 10 invites i have. all you have to do is drop me a comment ... More About: Beta , Private , Invite , Riva , GrandCentral
facebook to open up more, but at whose expense?
2007-09-05 15:13:00 we all know that one of the main reasons why facebook became so popular is the great privacy settings the site offers. the ability to show and hide certain aspects of your profile to people or networks in a way that you just cannot on other social networking sites really is where facebook shines. but ... More About: Open , Facebook
i invented facebook too. how about you?
2007-09-05 01:47:00 popular culture attributes the creation of facebook, the popular social networking site and current media darling, to mark zuckerberg. but is that the real story or was it founded by someone else? in this e! true hollywood story we will let’s take a look at some of the other people who have thus far claimed ... More About: Facebook
pownce has new features and i have invites!
2007-09-03 12:16:00 pownce, kevin rose’s twitter competitor, has received an update with some new features. let’s take a look at what’s new and what’s useful. also, if you would like an invite, please let me know. on-site image previews and video playback if someone shares a link with you that contains a photograph or a video, you no longer ... More About: Features , Feat
nowsourcing interview: muhammad saleem interview - social media expert
2007-09-03 10:13:00 for those of you not familiar with him already, muhammad saleem (mu) is renowned by many as a social media expert, as he is currently the #6 on the digg top users list, and employed by netscape as a paid scout. He also serves as a regular on pronet advertising, and also finds the ... More About: Social , Media , Muhammad , Interview , Expert
do your research before you write and don?t be greedy
2007-09-02 15:54:00 or: what i learned from 55 nasty digg comments i recently submitted a story from maxim online to digg about who they claimed were the 12 greatest video game heroes of all time. the comments made on that submission taught me important lessons that i think are well worth sharing and that i hope maxim will learn ... More About: Research , Write , Fore
add one more to the list of facebook founders
2007-09-01 16:33:00 as if the list of people claiming to be the original founders of facebook wasn’t long enough already, we have one more name to add to the list. aaron j. greenspan too claims that he came up with the idea of facebook during his stay at harvard university. he says he was actually the one who ... More About: List , Facebook , The List , Founders
twitter launches explore: an overview of twitter blocks
2007-09-01 13:39:00 after adding people search and the ability to import friends directly from your gmail address book, twitter has launched a new section on their site called explore. this section will be dedicated to tools created by the twitter team as well as fan creations, that help you interact with the site and explore what’s going ... More About: Explore , Twitter , Blocks , Overview
social media icons to make you stand out
2007-09-01 00:26:00 yichi, from vikiworks, has released a duo of incredibly well-done social media icon packs. the first icon pack covers flickr, wordpress, digg, technorati, twitter, del.icio.us, stumbleupon, and more. the second icon pack includes newsvine, furl, blinklist, blogger, and others. all icons are available in 64 by 64 png format. Technorati Tags: social media, social bookmarking, ... More About: Social , Media , Icons , Make , Stand Out
jaiku integrates instant messaging capabilities
2007-08-31 19:43:00 jaiku, the micro-blogging platform that competes with twitter (click here for comparison) and countless others, now supports jabber-based instant messaging. Here?s what you get in a nutshell: Notifications of new Jaiku s from your contacts Web feeds items from the feeds you follow Commenting using @screenname Post your own Jaikus (even to channels!) right from your desktop what this means is that ... More About: Instant Messaging , Rate , Capa , Mess
looking for a web 2.0 job? here are over 1900 of them
2007-08-31 19:19:00 israeli blogger yehuda berlinger is on a mission to go through a list of about 5,000 web 2.0 companies and bring to you a list of all open positions. so far he has gone through 586 companies out of the 5,000 and has come up with over 1900 jobs. Of course, I’m recording a lot ... More About: Web 2.0
yahoo! kickstart: business networking with a social twist
2007-08-31 17:06:00 unlike other professional networking sites (like linkedin), yahoo has prepared a concept of a business networking site that will be truly social. the business networking space has plenty of options for you to choose from but where yahoo’s network will be different is that it doesn’t necessarily help you directly get in touch with the upper ... More About: Business , Social , Yahoo , Networking , Kick
why apple also doesn?t want the iphone unlocked
2007-08-30 22:25:00 when the news first broke that the iphone had been unlocked, everyone’s first reaction was that at&t is screwed. while it’s definitely true that at&t is screwed (since the iphone was clearly the best thing they had going for them), here’s a reason why this unlocking screws over apple just the same. according to gene ... More About: Apple , Iphone , Unlocked
google?s blogger platform under attack
2007-08-30 20:12:00 after facing a complete, hour-long outage last week, bbc news is reporting that google’s blogger platform and the over 34.5 million sites hosted on it are now under attack,. the attackers are posting malicious entries on the blogs containing links that take the unwitting reader to a booby-trapped download that affects your pc and allows the ... More About: Google , Blogger , Platform , Googl , Attack
online networking and the professions that use it
2007-08-30 15:41:00 online networking is moving beyond just socializing and into the professional arena. from doctors to educators, here’s a look at some of the best professional networking sites and the professions that are utilizing them. networks for the medical profession though there are countless networking sites for physicians, doctors, and medical students, sermo is by far the most ... More About: Networking , Online , Professions , Workin , Fess
clown co. gets a name and it?s ?cease? and ?desist?
2007-08-30 02:21:00 we first learned about the nbc universal and news corp. partnership with aol, msn, myspace, and yahoo! to try and check the google-youtube threat back in march, but it wasn’t until today that they picked out a name for the venture. you would assume that since it took them 5 months to do so, they ...
facebook moves beyond numbers, towards attention metrics
2007-08-29 23:16:00 when i was reading today’s release from facebook, i was instantly reminded of a similar announcement that compete made and that i reported on four months ago. compete had announced that they were moving to a new metric (called attention) for calculating popularity on the web. attention is a time-based measure, so logically the more time ... More About: Metrics , Numbers , Facebook , Attention , Moves
how to get things done as a blogger
More articles from this author:2007-08-29 22:44:00 as bloggers become the quintessential workers on the web, there is a need for a blogger-specific ‘getting things done’ mantra and Leo Babauta has delivered. it tailors the system to fit the needs of bloggers ? and incidentally, can be used in the same way by almost any web worker. gtd for bloggers: the art of stress-free ... More About: Blogger , Things , Done 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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