I’m not an early adopter of the latest tool. I’ll happily sit back and wait for the dust to settle before I consider using any new application.
It has been my experience that this is a good practice. Most of what hits the social web usually putters and falls into obscurity....
Continue ReadingI’m not a big fan of the majority of available widgets, apps, and games that bombard Facebook. Most are garbage in my opinion, and do nothing other than clutter your profile or page.
The problem is many of these widgets were built with the old school marketing mentality of “if we build it,...
Continue ReadingI’m not sure why Twitter makes it difficult to manage followers within their own site, but fortunately there are several 3rd party options available. I’ve been playing around with these applications, and a lot are a waste of time in my opinion.
However, the ones below, are the few that I found to be useful and that actually work....
Continue ReadingIf you have not read the background to this study, please read this post before going any further.
The first aspect that I wanted to analyze was the sheer amount of applications contained within profiles. To make the count simpler, I narrowed the selections down to five categories: 0,...
Continue Reading[This is cross-posted at our ImpactWatch site]
The overly popular Facebook social network has recently seen a surge of ‘applications' added to its roster. Users hoping to enhance the experience of the social platform create these applications. As of January 2008, there are over 14,000 applications in circulation among users. ...
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