WorldMate is huge in the mobile world — it first started as a Palm OS app back in 2000. Then, as today, they realized that “travel = mobile” and so it made sense to build a mobile application for travelers. WorldMate had an innovative approach and built what was the industry’s first on-device portal with […]
Don’t be fooled by next-gen comment spam
A month ago, my friend Effie from SI started asking me about some comments she has been getting on her blogs. She wondered if they were, in fact, spam comments or just ESL comments by folks who wanted to say howdy and thanks but didn’t have much to say. They look almost human but here […]
Twitter’s hype is different than Second Life’s
Image via CrunchBase One of my favorite clients, Fabrice Grinda, believes that Twitter is all hype. Call it Twitter Skepticism — the kind of unwarranted hype associated with Second Life. I consider this a fine challenge, so I left a comment — well, I left an entire rant, and didn’t even get into talking about […]
Tim Ferriss: Tips on what works in a blog
Yesterday was my first WordCamp, held all day at the Mission Bay Conference Center in San Francisco. I’ve been caught up by WordPress fever since early this year when I switched from TypePad. Some 730 people turned out at WordCamp, about double last year’s number. Here’s a Flickr set of WordCamp photos I took. The […]
Just out: The book on social media
Hello, Socialmedia.biz readers! I apologize for my silence, but I have been finalizing my book on social media and Web 2.0 optimization, which is now in print. I am excited to have it complete so I can actually engage in social media again! Over the next few months, I will post excerpts from the book, […]