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Social media includes community-based video, photo, audio, and news websites as well as blogs. Although each of these types of websites has unique content and dynamics, they are also alike in many ways. This article explores various ways to get the read more »
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There's more user unrest in the community of popular social news site Digg, after the all-time number 3 ranked user Zaibatsu, a.k.a. Reg Saddler, was banned for multiple violations of the Digg Terms of Use. That decision is "final and irreversible", read more »
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As I think about the blogs I’ve returned to over the years — and the increasingly few new ones that really grab my attention — I want to start with, ironically enough, a list. Here’s what I think helps make for a good blog. read more »
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As both subject and writer it feels like I've learned a lot about how the PR and the press works--especially in the technology business. My philosophy of PR is summed up in six words: be amazing, be everywhere, be real. You don't need a PR firm, you read more »
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We’ve just launched our first Firefox 3 extension and wanted to provide a quick video showing how it works. read more »
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Jason Calacanis announced on Friday that he was retiring from blogging. There was a very mixed reaction to the news, with most believing it to be a publicity stunt. Jason said in his farewell post that instead of blogging, he would instead be postin read more »
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Different traffic sources imply different reasons for why visitors might immediately leave your site. Design to keep deep-link followers engaged through additional pageviews. read more »
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The most powerful additional thing about blogging is an aspect of human nature that doesn’t require a psychology degree to understand. Blogging allows people to like you, and people like to do business with people they like. read more »
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Following a lengthy incubation period, intended to get the product rock-solid with an army of features and a sharp interface, Feedly hits the Web today with their own take on the social start page - using your Google Reader subscriptions at its core read more »
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Twitter has received a truckload of criticism over the last month for its frequent service outages. While the stability debate is intense, I got back to basics with Twitter co-founder Biz Stone about what’s on the radar in terms of features, battlin read more »
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Recently, we released a family of related Reputation patterns to the Yahoo Design Pattern Library, the first of several collections of social-design related patterns that we’re working on. These patterns are somewhat different from the typical UI or read more »
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See, making outlandish claims with your headline in order to attract attention is a sucker’s game. Even if you manage to score the click, you’re history when the reader discovers you can’t deliver on your promise, or you’ve pulled some lame bait and read more »
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We should accept that the Web is too fast-paced for big-picture learning. No problem; we have other media, and each has its strengths. At the same time, the Web is perfect for narrow, just-in-time learning of information nuggets — so long as the lea read more »
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Just joined FriendFeed? Want to know some dirty secrets you can exploit to gain you popularity, followers and perhaps a bit of fame (or at least infamy)? If so, I have some tips for you! Keep reading and I’ll make you a master of the craft in no tim read more »
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Something interesting happened last Sunday. Plurk, a new social network, grew it's subscriber base from a handful of beta users to over 2,000 in one day. Since then they've continued to grow exponentially. As a marketer, and one of the 2,000+, I thi read more »
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But in a world where Google can claim it has basically said not to buy links since 2003 and can be iffy on just how juicy linkbait is allowed to be, seems to me the days of tricks are over .

So. Here’s what I propose we do. read more »
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For every 1000 people who read a tech blog post, there may be one that leaves a comment. Lurking in the crowd are often any number of people who work for companies related to the subject of the post. They almost never comment, and when they do they read more »
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When the broken links are internal, within your own site, those are easy to prevent and correct. But when broken links are external, from other sites or bookmarks, there is not a lot you can do to correct them, short of contacting each offender and read more »
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All tough questions to answer. With so much choice it is hard to pick one, and if you don’t get paralyzed then it can reveal a lot about you.

After having thought about it for a little while (ok for just a few minutes), regardless of the website read more »
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By building up a huge mass of users, Twitter benefits from our existing social connections and their inertia. But as the problems continue, it’s possible that someone else could grab the mindshare - and traffic - that currently belongs to Twitter. H read more »
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From 2003 to January 2008, Kevin Fox worked as a user experience designer at Google, designing such products as Gmail, Google Calendar, and the second version of Google Reader. He’s currently working at FriendFeed. I met Kevin for a three-session in read more »
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From a marketing perspective, any interaction with your brand raises awareness, and while interaction on the SERP is clearly more difficult (if not impossible) to measure than a search referral, that interaction is still valuable. In some cases, it read more »
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What kind of recording artist says stuff like “my goal is to make the Billboard Top 10″? Sure, recording labels may set goals like that, but did Lou Reed ever sit down and write songs just to win a Grammy? If making money is your only goal on the we read more »
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If you could detect which social bookmarking sites your reader uses, on a per-reader basis, you could display only the badges they care about. But you can’t know that because the browser secures the user’s history, right? Wrong. Today I’m releasing read more »
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As web designers, we’ve grown pretty good at understanding how to create a modern, semantic, accessible website using XHTML and CSS. We understand what makes a good website, and how to make it happen. When it comes time to design emails though, do a read more »
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