Monster-owned Social Network Tickle Shutting Down (MNST) It's officially (by our count) a trend: Another company that isn't Facebook or MySpace has stopped trying to run a social network. We've already seen Conde Nast and Verizon [..]
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Come Join us in the ProBlogger Room on FriendFeed Most regular readers of ProBlogger will know that I’ve been playing quite heavily with Twitter over the last few months. I’ve found it to be a very fruitful exercise.
Over the last month or two FriendFeed has been another tool that many bloggers are also playing with. I’ve dabbled with it (my FriendFeed Account is here) [...] [..]
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NYT's TimesPeople Social Network Tops 100,000 Users (NYT) How's TimesPeople -- the social networking service the New York Times launched in September -- doing?
Not bad. NYT digital CTO Marc Frons tells us it's attracted "well [..]
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ProBlogger Book Launch - Highlights and Updates From the Pre-Launch It’s time for a little ProBlogger Book Launch Update.
A number of readers have been asking how the launch is going and are watching some of what we’re doing for their own launches - so let me share a few things we’re learning and seeing (plus I’ll give you a chance to win a copy below).
Sample [...] [..]
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Spite Bowl and Taco Bell: Ruminations on a More Social Madden [Madden 09] It?s odd to talk about EA Sports? Madden franchise, with the features it's touting in the 09 release, now making itself more of a social gaming experience. For the better part of two decades it?s been one of the top titles to play [..]
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Vigster - A Social Games Shelf [Vigster] Typical — you wait years for a social network for gamers, then two roll up at once. Yesterday we had Dennis Fong's Raptr but this fine evening/afternoon/morning (delete as appropriate) we shall be looking at Vigster. [..]
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ProBlogger Book Competition Winners I’m so confused!
The 193 entries into my ProBlogger Book competition were all so great that I’ve spent the last hour agonizing over who to choose.
I didn’t know whether to choose winners based upon quality of the comment, the blog of the commenter and how much help it needed (and how useful the book would be [...] [..]
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ProBlogger Reader Blog Review: Win a Tomtom GPS Unit This week I’d like to run a ‘reader review’ competition here on ProBlogger. Chitika kindly emailed me last week to ask if I’d be interested in doing a giveaway with them and so instead of just running a ‘comment to enter’ competition we thought we’d do something that gave everyone a chance to win a [...] [..]
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Is Syndicating Other People?s Content on Your Blog OK? This weekend I’d like to throw open a couple of discussion starters for the ProBlogger community. The questions come from some of my Twitter followers.
flabuless asks the following question to you the ProBlogger community:
“Is syndicating content is kosher or not…ie running someone elses content through rss into ones own blog?”
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Build Your Network Before You Need It Last week I was speaking to a business owner who was in the process of doing some ‘preliminary research’ (his words) into blogging and social media.
The reason that he was thinking about getting into blogging and social networking was that later in the year he was going to be launching a new product with his [...] [..]
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Rockstar Social Club is down for some Filed under: Sony PlayStation 3, Microsoft Xbox 360, Action
We've gotten reports from several of you that the Rockstar Social Club, the company's online hub for leaderboards and stat tracking, is down for the count. T [..]
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Killer Titles Group Writing Project Reader Submissions - Day 1 This week I’m running a project here on ProBlogger called ‘Killer Titles‘ where readers are invited to write posts with great titles and showcase them here on Problogger.
Day 1 has come to an end and I’ve just posted the first 71 submissions here. You still have a few days to submit your own posts tot [...] [..]
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Feeling Overwhelmed by Social Media and Web 2.0? - Here Are 5 Tips For You Last week I spoke with a blogger who had thrown the towel in on his blog. One day he simply stopped posting with no explanation.
I emailed to ask him why he stopped and his response was:
“I can’t keep up with the advances in technology. Every day there is a new tool, widget or social networking [...] [..]
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It's officially (by our count) a trend: Another company that isn't Facebook or MySpace has stopped trying to run a social network. We've already seen Conde Nast and Verizon [..]
This week I’d like to run a ‘reader review’ competition here on ProBlogger. Chitika kindly emailed me last week to ask if I’d be interested in doing a giveaway with them and so instead of just running a ‘comment to enter’ competition we thought we’d do something that gave everyone a chance to win a [...] [..]
This weekend I’d like to throw open a couple of discussion starters for the ProBlogger community. The questions come from some of my Twitter followers.
flabuless asks the following question to you the ProBlogger community:
“Is syndicating content is kosher or not…ie running someone elses content through rss into ones own blog?”
This is a particularly important question [... [..]
Last week I spoke with a blogger who had thrown the towel in on his blog. One day he simply stopped posting with no explanation.
I emailed to ask him why he stopped and his response was:
“I can’t keep up with the advances in technology. Every day there is a new tool, widget or social networking [...] [..]
