Earlier this week, in the teeth of a wicked storm, I trekked to a studio loft in San Francisco for the first taping of 5 Across, a new video program undertaken by Mark Glaser of PBS’s MediaShift blog. The gathering was interesting on several levels. First, because it was instructive to see how Mark would […]
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The social side of Skittles
The average site for a popular consumer product is: A. Slick with a high level of “production values.” B. Made in Flash. C. About as socially engaging as a log. Skittles changes all that in one go by essentially giving up on having a site of its own. If you go to skittles.comyou see a realtime Twitter […]
Streamlining your social Web presence in 6 steps
Following the advice of social media and Web 2.0 experts, you have established your own blog and joined a number of social sites, including Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn, Twitter, YouTube, Flickr, LibraryThing, and Upcoming.org, among others. Now, the experts say you must add content to each of these accounts regularly to keep them dynamic. So, how’s […]
’49 amazing social media, Web 2.0 and Internet stats’
Adam Singer at The Future Buzz: 49 Amazing Social Media, Web 2.0 And Internet Stats. Excerpt: 1 trillion: approximate number of unique URLs in Google’s index. Wikipedia 2,695,205 – the number of articles in English on Wikipedia 684,000,000 – the number of visitors to Wikipedia in the last year 75,000 – the number of active […]
At OnHollywood 2007
I’m at OnHollywood, the second annual Silicon Valley-meets-the-entertainment-industry conference held at the Hotel Roosevelt in L.A. I was a moderator and “industry expert slash judge” last year. (Disclosure: My registration was comped as a blogger and citizen journalist.) I posted some initial photos on Flickr, though the dark room makes shooting very difficult. That’s Arianna […]