In the past two years, TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco has become the single most important technology conference on the planet. And so it was this week, as entrepreneurs and startup founders and marketers came out in droves at the SF Design Concourse for three days of preening, schmoozing and, yes, showcasing of cutting-edge technologies, many of them social tools.
Is TweetMeme missing half of your tweets?
We’d been using TweetMeme for years on Socialmedia.biz and our sister site, Socialbrite, until we conducted a comparative test late last week. And TweetMeme lost, big time, to a smaller plug-in called the TweetButton.
Is Google turning from a search engine into a publisher?
Google’s search results are becoming more personalized, but users want to know: is Google moving away from its search engine roots and moving into the role of content publisher? Google’s Matt Cutts discusses how the company is trying to satisfy users’ needs without undercutting websites.
Welcome to the new Socialmedia.biz
Redesigned site has a renewed focus on business objectives For the past several months we’ve been working behind the scenes on several changes to our site that I’d like to share with you today. First, some quick background: I’ve been blogging since May 2001, when there were about 50,000 blogs worldwide; today there are a […]
‘Intention Economy’ charts the rise of empowered customers
Doc still looks the same as when I photographed him at the Innovation Summit at Stanford seven years ago this week. More insights from the co-author of ‘Cluetrain’ Target audience: Businesses, marketers, entrepreneurs, technologists, academics, journalists, general public. In “The Intention Economy” (Harvard Business Review Press), Doc Searls picks up where he left off […]