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 ·
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 12, 2010 ·
Google Buzz
I’ve been using Google Buzz for a couple of days. It would appear the UK didn’t get access until a couple of days after the American’s did. This isn’t surprising as Google is an American company and their headquarters is located in the United States.
To date, a couple of my friends and family have followed my on Buzz and I’ve followed them back. [...]