Posted by Ian Smith on July 22, 2011 ·
Twitter – The Adolescent
Twitter is like an adolescent child. Talking none stop to anyone and everyone who will listen. Mostly, the content is garbled and non-descriptive. All the content is repeated over and over again until a point the original message is lost in translation. What’s popular or trending isn’t popular or trendy. It’s quick, simple and no attention span required.
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Posted by Ian Smith on August 12, 2010 ·
This is relatively simple process to follow; however, it does only apply to certain individuals. If you are a celebrity, you can verify your account. At this time Twitter isn’t verifying businesses, organisations or charities. Please visit Twitter’s help page for more information by clicking here. From this point you can request verification.
Posted by Ian Smith on August 11, 2010 ·
Twitter is a very useful tool to driving traffic to your web site, and in this article I discuss ways to get your Tweets Retweeted. I suspect that the top search engines are spidering peoples tweets, not necessarly to index or rank them, but using them to find content on the web very quickly. A popular post or article can be tweeted some several hours prior to it getting linked too. Search engines [...]
Posted by Ian Smith on August 7, 2010 ·
Below is a collection of social media products that I have gathered from around the web, which you may find in any geeks house.
I appreciate this is list isn’t exclusive, and I am sure there are many more products available. If you do come across an item that is worth sharing, please do not to contact me and I’ll include it in this list.
1. Twitter Earrings:
Twitter lovers can show [...]
Posted by Ian Smith on August 7, 2010 ·
How can you be lonely when you have so many friends on Facebook?
Are you cursed by the social network generation of only having relationships with people you hardly know, or work colleagues that you would rather not know in person, let alone online?
Has time move on from days when groups of friends got together in person for a night out or weekend activity?
Do you feel pressured into having [...]
Posted by Ian Smith on August 5, 2010 ·
How will Social Networking websites look like in the future? Or more importantly, what functionality will sites such as Twitter and Facebook provide and how will we interact with friends, family and work colleagues 3 years from now.
In the coming years, Social Networking websites will more likely become the hub or portal to all our online activity:
1. email:
Most Social Networking already have [...]
Posted by Ian Smith on February 17, 2010 ·
Geolocation is the identification of real world graphical location of computers, mobile devices and web site visitors connected to the Internet. Geolocation information can include Country, Region, City/Town, Postcode/Zipcode and latitude and longitute.
In the past couple of month two major players in the social networking arena have incorporating geolocation features and made this technology [...]