BlogPulse has no pulse So I was playing around with dashboards and the like yesterday – as one does – and noticed that BlogPulse has disappeared. BlogPulse was not the greatest blog search engine around, but it was the only one offering anything like useable charts. So, given that Technorati charts disappeared years ago (although […]
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Whither Social Mention?
Social Mention is a pretty good social media aggregator. Think Google, but for social media. When I say ‘pretty good’, I mean it’s not without its faults. It doesn’t do real phrasal searches – that is, a search for “Brendan Cooper” in quotes will give results with just “Brendan” and “Cooper” in them, which is […]
Flanged bananas. Or: how to write a press release that works online too.
Do you write press releases? Do they work online? As in, can people find them? How do you know? Here are some ways to make your releases work as hard for you online as they do offline. Takeaways: Use keywords Make the title and first sentence look good online Write the release first, then the […]
What are people saying about… the iPad, iPhone and iPod?
Unless you’ve been living in a cave for the past week, you’ll know all about the iPad, Apple’s new wunderkit – what it has, what it has not, what it’s for, what it’s not for, and so on. Fortunately, the term ‘iPad’ is very quick and easy to search for. So, it’s a doddle to […]
Social spume
- NBA Player Sells Bulldog on TwitterSay you're a successful NBA player. Your massive Twitter following comes with many advantages: increased marketing appeal, the ability to interact with fans and a platform to break your own news on your own terms, just to name a few Kendrick Perkins, however, just found a new and innovative way to leverage Twitter: as a secondary marketplace to shed som […]Sam Laird
- Apple Scores $30M iPad Deal With L.A. SchoolsApple announced Wednesday that it has landed a major deal to sell iPad tablets to the second-largest public school district in the United States. The Los Angeles School Board of Education has approved a $30 million deal to roll out iPads to students in its district beginning this fall. Each iPad tablet will include the "Pearson Common Core System of Cou […]Vignesh Ramachandran
- Paula Deen’s (Alleged) Racism Goes ViralPaula Deen sure knows how to stir up trouble, doesn’t she? A recent lawsuit filed against Mrs. Ham-in-the-Face by the manager of her Savannah restaurant contains more than a few barely believable allegations, among them that she and her husband often used the n-word and that: …white employees were free to use the customer bathroom at the front of the restaur […]Patrick Coffee
- Verizon: We’re Not Slowing Down Your NetflixIt’s a rainy day; you’re busy power loading Dr. Who on Netflix when it happensNetflix lapses into endlessly “Loading” your next episode, without actually ever playing it. This is not a new problem, and even as broadband speeds improve, the issue persists. Now a recent report in Gigaom suggests that the cause of your troubles, at least on one major broadband […]Lance Ulanoff
- The Dumbest Things Redditors Have Done for LoveLove can make you do crazy things, like hoisting a boombox over your head to serenade your dream girl, sprinting to the love of your life while staring into her eyes on FaceTime, and maybe even purchasing a $4.9 million home to be closer to your boyfriend's family. SEE ALSO: Hilarious Video Asks, 'What if Dating Was Like Reddit?' When a Reddit […]Hannah Orenstein
- You’re Not Going to Love the Way You Get Fired. The Board Guarantees It.Men’s Wearhouse has fired its venerable founder, executive chairman and beloved pitchman, George Zimmer. Mr. Zimmer launched the men’s clothing enterprise in 1973 with one store in Texas. Today there are 1,143 locations across North America. The public came to know and love Mr. Zimmer from the popular commercials featuring his famous slogan “You’re going to […]James F. Thompson
- A 1.3 Billion-Pixel View of MarsNASA released a 360-degree interactive panorama of Mars from Curiosity rover's point of view The image is actually a compilation of 900 photos — all of which Curiosity took while she was parked in an area called Rocknest in October and November of last year. Stitched together, the mosaic makes you feel like you're standing on the Red Planet with th […]Amanda Wills
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