Just a quick note, we’ve added a retweet button to our news pages (this time, using the official Twitter Tweet button). Let us know if you see any problems, as we’ve been trying to trim our use of third party widgets to decrease load times and some browser loading issues.
One of the interesting trends I’ve been watching emerge out of the new, social web has been the push toward user-generated and user-directed contests — for user-created advertising, user-driven voting, and even user-directed charity donations. The social medium seems ideally tuned towards reaching out to people based on their interests, and where their friends and [...]
Can’t share your every thought with the world, because Twitter is down? You could always do what Justine Ezarik (iJustine) and Richard Rosenblatt (of Demand Media) –two of local Twitter users–did, and get quoted in the Wall Street Journal’s “middle column” this morning.
Just a quick note (since using Twitter is fairly difficult still today), our auto-tweeting of our news items to Twitter is still down (even though Twitter says the service is back up). So you’ll have to (gasp!) get your news via RSS, our web site, or email. Also — even before the distributed denial-of-service attack [...]
The software architect spends a ton of time thinking stuff through when designing their software systems, to avoid problems like Twitter rolling over on its “unique IDs” for twitter messages (aka the “Twitpocalypse”?!), and the programmer just pounds out whatever works at the time without thinking things through. My advice: hire a better software architect. [...]
You know Twitter (the micro messaging service) has now hit the marketing mainstream, when you are getting marketing emails from fast food chains about following them on Twitter. I just got a marketing email from Rubio’s trying to drum up followers using the lure of free food. It’s one thing when tech retailers (ie. Buy.com [...]
Last week, we mentioned a new Twitter “bot” — @earthquakesLA — which reports on the latest earthquakes in Los Angeles on the popular Twitter micro-messaging service. I contacted Bill Snitzer, the programmer behind the Twitter robot, just to get an idea of how easy it was for him to create the Twitter robot: Why’d you [...]
Given the number of social media marketers and experts in Los Angeles, looks like they’ve got a new customer to pitch: FTD, the floral delivery business of Woodland Hills-based United Online. United Online bought FTD last year, and just got reamed on TechCrunch for their Mother’s day performance and not using Twitter to address those [...]
Kurt Daradics, one of the the organizers behind the monthly MOTM meetups in Westlake Village, and organizer of the Digital Family Reunion, is on his latest project: RoadTwip, a social media-inspired road trip, which looks to use Twitter, Brightkite, Flickr, YouTube, Qik, and other social media sites to serve up every detail of their drive [...]
I read this article on Mashable today on Seven Ways To Get Your Mom On Twitter, and just had to write my own version of this: Seven Reasons Not To Get Your Mom On Twitter. Here are my seven reasons for NOT getting your mom on twitter: 1. Keep your mom from tracking your every [...]
Thoughts and commentary from Benjamin F. Kuo, publisher of socalTECH.com.
