- Facebook Open Graph Search, A Semantic Web Tool That Actually Makes Sense – A real competitor to spider based search indexing? It’s just crazy enough to work.
- In Online Retail, Usability Is Rated No. 1 – eMarketer – At the very end of this article is an important point. If visitors to your e-commerce site are there for research, you can think of your site like any other non-e-commerce site where the goal is efficient access to valuable information. Good to remember.
- Music – AudioJungle – I haven’t bought anything from this music collection yet, but if you’re familiar with the other online options for sound effects or background music for video, you’ll recognize the potential here. Plus, it’s part of Envato, so you can expect quality.
- Bounce – A fun and easy way to share ideas on a website – Simple to make notes on website design layouts and share them. Enter a URL, it loads. You overlay notes and share with others. Perfect and easy. via @vinthomas
- Blog Navigation WordPress Plugins: Related, Recent, Most Popular Posts … – Old post from Feb 2007, but great links in here for customizing #wordpress nav. I’m sure some of these plugins must not work anymore…
- Data Monday: Mobile Apps vs. Mobile Web – Clients are often quick to request we build an app when often a mobile website makes more sense. Then again, Jobs says the future is apps. Here are the user tendency numbers to help you decide.
- Article: Twitter Moms Care for Content over Coupons – Congrats to moms everywhere for bucking the Twitter-Direct Marketing love fest. Promos and coupons, your days are numbered. Let’s all follow our mothers and demand more for our follows.
- ALERT: Facebook Phonebook Is Not A Security Threat – Also tells how to hide your phone number on Facebook.
- Twitter Launches Promoted/Sponsored Tweets Before USA World Cup Game – Save some of that Adsense money for promoted Tweets. Can’t wait to see the auction action for this new medium. Also, has anyone else noticed the number of ESPN3 pre-roll spots has increased as we near the finals? Love the #worldcup.
- Launchlist – Your one stop website checklist! – A nice pre-launch checklist for web development. Some of the list items are pretty vague, but this is a great start for creating your own list with more detail.
- When Social Media Becomes The Message: The Gulf Oil Spill And @BPGlobalPR – I hear BP got in the social media game after the gulf disaster. That spells inauthenticity. If all other tactics to sell the importance of social media participation don’t work, here’s your scare tactic angle.
