As if by magic, Delicious has relaunched. I had that sinking feeling when I powered up my laptop this morning and noticed that the Delicious add-on that I use to navigate the web wasn’t loading properly. It didn’t take long to figure out that there are some fairly radical changes going on. Superficially it looks [...]
New Delicious – sweet eye candy but a bitter aftertaste
by Brendan on September 27, 2011 in socialbookmarking, socialmusic
2011 social media predictions
by Brendan on December 17, 2010 in brands, cloudcomputing, copywriting, disciplines, freelance, marketing, monitoring, personal, PR, research, socialmedia, strategy, trends
So while I have my blogging head on – hot off the news that Delicious is disappearing and Facebook has undergone yet another redesign – I thought I’d jot down my thoughts on the state of the social media nation for the coming year. It’s not all good. Here we go… Confidence will go down [...]
Goodbye Delicious, hello… what?
by Brendan on December 17, 2010 in cloudcomputing, measurement, monitoring, RSS, search, socialbookmarking, technology
So the news is out. Yahoo have screwed up. They’re closing Delicious. I don’t even need to include a link here – just go out and look for mentions of it right now and you’ll see the news. This is A Big Thing. It throws up all sorts of substantial issues, not least among which [...]
Bookmark, tweet and blog at the same time with only two hands and one head
by Brendan on March 19, 2009 in microblogging, RSS, socialbookmarking, socialmedia, socialnetworks, technology
One issue I keep coming across lately is how to save money using social media. This is a big topic, one that relates to so many others from measuring social media through to monetising it. But every little helps, as they say, and through the miracle of RSS you can make your content work harder [...]
So, you want to get into social media?
by Brendan on August 14, 2008 in blogging, blogs, microblogging, podcasts, PR, RSS, socialbookmarking, socialnetworks, socialvideo
I’ve been asked more than once recently “How did you get into social media – because I want to.” If you’re a wannabe (see right), my topline answer would just be “Do it”. I mean, it’s all out there, most of it’s free, accessible and ubiquitous by definition. But that would be rude. So, off [...]
PR Fail – a collection of bad things :(
by Brendan on July 28, 2008 in microblogging, PR, RSS, socialbookmarking
How did we live before PR Fail? A Tumblr blog, it takes Twitter postings or del.icio.us bookmarks tagged with “prfail” or “uselesspr” in an attempt it says here, “to help PR people be better and give journalists and bloggers a way of sharing their bad experiences. As well as just collecting examples of bad PR [...]
No more deli.cio.us linkblogging from me
by Brendan on July 17, 2008 in socialbookmarking
I recently noticed, with horror, that most of my posting of late – in fact, the vast majority – has been simply stuff I’ve bookmarked on del.icio.us, pumped across into my blog. I’ve decided this is not what my blog is for. So, I now just have a nice, unobtrusive feed to the right of [...]
Google’s new search will be the best of both worlds
by Brendan on July 17, 2008 in socialbookmarking, socialnews, technology
Google has released a video showing a Digg-like interface to its search. I think it’s going to change everything. A casual glance at Friendfeed picked up a link from Chris Brogan: entitled ‘Is this the future of search?’ Given that I’m currently scratching my head a lot and figuring out how best to pull together [...]
How to create a news tracker with Netvibes
by Brendan on May 19, 2008 in PR
The following is cross-posted on a new blog called PNeo. Watch out for more cross-posts as well as insights, observations and analysis from the digital team at Porter Novelli, my employer. source » News. There’s a lot of it around, especially online. You can monitor some of this perhaps, but how do you even begin [...]
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