Making Lunch a Social Networking Game
By NICK BILTON Thursday night I had dinner in the future, and the hamburgers were shaped like doughnuts. Before I get to these strange hamburger shapes, let me explain why they were from the future: my burger was created on the Internet and broadcast to Twitter, Foursquare and Facebook, part of a multiplayer online game, [...]
Putting manners on online tools
A newspaper-like format may be the best way to manage the sheer volume of daily updates, connections and fresh stories, writes KARLIN LILLINGTON DO YOU tweet? Link-in? Update your Facebook status? Subscribe to one or more internet news or blog feeds? If you use the internet or a mobile phone, chances are you do. A [...]
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Local is Where I am
by Ross Johnston – Online Social Networks – Being connected to the world, it never seemed a priority to connect with a local audience. Why bother with the people down the street when you can target the whole globe? So it was a slow learning curve for me to realize the importance of local. Local [...]
Smartest sharing tool ever
AddThis automatically optimizes itself for each person who visits your site. Every person shares differently, so AddThis custom fits each menu with the services they’ll normally use. For example, if a user shares to Facebook and Amazon Wishlist, they will be presented with those first. This logic ensures that your content is always one click [...]
Agency linking in firms to social-networking
“All organisations need to form direct relationships with their audiences, and social networking — when used properly — is one of the most powerful and effective ways of forming those relationships in the online era.”