SoMe infographics, Google’s Facebook killer, SlideShowPro goes HTML5, North reminds us that social media is not a channel

Posted on September 14, 2010 by admin

These are my links for June 29th through July 1st:

10 Beautiful Social Media Infographics – I get pretty excited about pretty data. Good to see you, pretty data. Next stop for you guys? Keynote.
PayPal Launches Mobile Express Checkout To Enable One-Click Buying On Smartphones – Uh oh. Amazon is going to have something to say about this.
Cashmore: Google building a Facebook rival? Let’s hope so – CNN.com – I’m looking forward to this for a couple reasons. First: competition is good for this industry. Second: I want to see how the “do no evil” Google mantra holds up in a social networking environment that is starting to push back on privacy. Watch for them to connect their search ad model. I smell new ad options in Google Adwords.
Introducing SlideShowPro Mobile – Video: The popular, robust slide show solution for Flash just released HTML5 support for non-Flash devices, eg iPad & iPhone.
The Social Media Problem for Companies – @daveatnorth from Portland agency North reminds us that social media shouldn’t be thought of as a fix for marketing your brand in this year’s web. Rather, it is a medium that makes it easier to act on our social nature. Let’s not forget that social media connects people and extends our ability to cultivate relationships. That’s the core purpose of participation in social media. Brands are guests at the party.

Link dump: WordPress security, embedding tweets, Twitter auth API countdown, discount ads still win, HTML5 video in WordPress, rewarding customer engagement, spying on your competition’s PPC, free usability tools, crash cam

Posted on May 27, 2010 by admin

These are my links for May 19th through May 25th:

GoPro : Wearable Digital Cameras – 1080p, timelapse, slow mo, waterproof to 180 feet: $200. @storiestold recommends this little crash cam. After losing one to a semi, he’s on his second. That’s all the endorsement I need.
Ten free usability testing tools | Econsultancy -
SpyFu – Let’s you spy on your competitors’ search marketing efforts. See their keywords. Hackalicious.
25 ways of encouraging and rewarding customer engagement | Econsultancy – Building a community or social app? If you build it, they will come, but might come back. This article offers some functionality that can help to make your community or app stickier. Participation is essential to the health of any community. It’s really the currency of social wealth.

These are my links for May 7th through May 18th:

5 Tools For Integrating HTML5 Video in Your Website – Audio & video player options, no Flash required. I’ll be checking out that Degradable audio and video plugin for WordPress.
HOW TO: Reclaim Privacy on Facebook – ReclaimPrivacy.org bookmark lets you check on your vulnerability by checking your Facebook privacy settings. Possibly the most useful part of this tool are the quick links to your Facebook settings pages for controlling specific exposure areas.
eMarketer – Is the click still king? Despite the recogition of the need to measure hard ROI, moat of us are still counting click throughs.
eMarketer – Consumers still prefer ads that offer discounts or deals.
@twitterapi’s countdown to Basic Auth removal – Countdown to mandatory oAuth integration for Twitter apps.

These are my links for April 28th through May 4th:

HOW TO: Embed a Tweet – Here’s the official instructions for embedding a tweet. No more screenshots!
eMarketer Mobile - – Reviews are still most valuable to customers, but Facebook Page catching up.
Twitter to Launch Embeddable Tweets? – I wonder how each embedded tweet will be identified? Probably by ID? Ohh, I wonder if that means tweet carousels or slideshows will follow.
Can’t wait to see the traffic spike from @twuffer’s mention on @Mashable! -
HOW TO: Secure Your WordPress Blog -

Posted on March 8, 2010 by admin

These are my links for March 4th through March 8th:

Digital Lift Off – Digital media spending officially passes print.
The New News – Where are we really getting our news? Stats from Pew Internet -
Advertising on Facebook Strikes Some as Off-Key – NYTimes.com – Ad quality on Facebook is getting noticably spammy. I often “delete” ads for “irrelevance” so that Facebook will take the hint, but I’m realizing that what I really want is a way to mark an ad as “low quality” or “spam”. Facebook might investigate these ads differently than the ones I mark irrelevant. I’d be flagging them as detrimental to the whole FB ad platform, not just irrelevant to my interests.
How to Add / Embed YouTube Videos & Flash in Facebook Static FBML pages – A very clear tutorial on how to show a YouTube video on a Facebook Fan Page. Make sure you install the Static FBML app, then use the FBML markup here.
8 Essential Apps for Your Brand’s Facebook Page – Thanks to Allison Driscoll’s for this Mashable article recommending possibly the 8 best apps for Facebook Fan Pages. The second half of this article goes into Facebook Fan pages that are utilizing these Facebook Apps well. The article is 9 months old, but she’s provided a nice little Facebook Fan Page best practices guide here.