Category Archives: Social Media

Facebook’s Top 100 Pages

I was playing around on the Facebook Pages directory yesterday, and took the liberty of logging all the pages in the Top 100 of the “Products” directory. I couldn’t easily get to a “Top 100” list, so I made one here, for you.
You’re welcome.
I’ve also highlighted below (not sure if it will come through in your reader) […]

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On Digital Nation-States

It strikes me that, more and more, our digital lives are mirroring our real lives in ever more peculiar ways. From reflecting our everyday behaviors to forming new ones, the circles between “digital” and “real” are less a thoroughly overlapping Venn diagram and more a shared area. Which I hope for all of you is […]

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Annoyance ~ Frequency

It’s a directly proportional relationship. Let’s all not talk about the same things at once, shall we?

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Ego iPhone App

I downloaded the “Ego” iPhone Application yesterday. It’s quite nice. A single interface for all your social things. It works quickly, even grabs your daily visits/pageviews from Google (before they’re reported in the Analytics interface) and…get this: it can pull your Mint “Net Worth” into the dashboard. Which I’ve not done, as I don’t want […]

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Ask Focus on Energy

I wanted to take a moment this morning to go back through the last project I worked on at my last place, which happened to go live on my last day in Chicago. Not only did it go up on time (Jim Vogel is the world’s best project guy), but it’s probably the piece of […]

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Half Acre Beer Suprise. #goodbeer. Also, UXUP.

If you’ve been following the UXUP thing, I’ve been talking about a beer-related surprise.
Here’s the idea:

Problem: Existing tools to find recommendations on beers are kinda lame. You might like Beer Advocate’s rating tool, and you might find what you need on RateBeer, but they’re not exactly shining star examples of interactivity.
Solution: Consolidated Twitter beer reviews. Let’s talk about […]

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The Social Web and B2B Marketing

So… the following is a draft for a little page-or-so thing I’m writing in re: a position on the social web and its implications for B2B marketing. Warning! There are a few buzzwordy things in the below, and the voice is a lot more professional than I usually prefer. But from what I understand, you’re […]

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Twitter Mosaic

This is pretty cool. Twitter Mosaic, via Ian Sohn.

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Aren’t you ashamed to pontificate like that?

Expert versus academic.

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