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OpenID and OAuth: Why Should We Care?

~C4Chaos — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 20:15:08 GMT

Recently, MySpace announced that they were joining OpenID as a provider. At first glance, most people might read this and say “that’s nice,” and move on to the next story. However, for mainstream Internet users this is fairly important. The multiple usernames and passwords that people have can sometimes be replaced by a single ID using OpenID.

Tags: Mashable, OpenID

13 Apps to Turn Your iPhone into a Blogging Machine

~C4Chaos — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 17:03:34 GMT

13 Apps to Turn Your iPhone into a Blogging Machine

Seeing as how Web services today are becoming more and more multi-faceted and multi-functional, particularly in the social networking and social media space, it really is open to debate what is and what is not part of a specific segment of the market. Where blogging starts and where networking ends, for instance, is a gray area that has grown ever larger with time. Mobile utilities in particular have evolved to contain powerful assets that accomplish several tasks at once.

Tags: Mashable, iPhone, blogging, technology

iPhone 2.0 Apps: The Social Networking App Comparison

~C4Chaos — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 18:04:59 GMT

iPhone 2.0 Apps: The Social Networking App Comparison

I’ve spent the past five days testing the iPhone 3G and many of the wonderful applications that have been made available at the App store. Much of this time I focused on the “Social Networking” apps, or the ones that had social networking features. However, I came across a huge problem: without any friends, these applications are rather useless. This is a direct results of the Twitter vs. Plurk vs. Pownce issue: You have to go where your friends are.

Tags: Mashable, apps, iPhone, social networks, social networking, mobile

Twitter Acquires Summize; Launches Official Twitter Search

~C4Chaos — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 17:55:57 GMT

Twitter Acquires Summize; Launches Official Twitter Search

Twitter has announced that it has acquired Summize, and simultaneously launched its own search engine at search.twitter.com. The new search tool has the exact same look, feel, and functionality of Summize, but with Twitter branding.

Tags: Mashable, Twitter, Summize, acquisitions

How to Track 500 Business Blogs in 10 Minutes a Day

~C4Chaos — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 18:01:51 GMT

How to Track 500 Business Blogs in 10 Minutes a Day

In my previous post, we discussed how to build a social media strategy for your business in five steps. The first step every company needs to do is start listening.

Tags: Mashable, social media, blogs, social media marketing

How to Develop a Social Media Plan for Your Business in 5 Steps

~C4Chaos — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 03:44:22 GMT

How to Develop a Social Media Plan for Your Business in 5 Steps

Social media can be an incredible tool for your business, providing you with more customer insight, direct communication channels and the ability to measure the effectiveness of these conversations very closely.

Tags: Mashable, social media, social media marketing

The Native iPhone 3G Apps We'll See This Week (and Some We Won't)

~C4Chaos — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 23:50:40 GMT

The Native iPhone 3G Apps We'll See This Week (and Some We Won't)

The iPhone 3G will be descending on populations all across the globe this Friday, with a staggered rollout set according to time zones.

Tags: Mashable, iPone 3G, iPhone, apps, technology

Nielsen: Digg Traffic Sucks. Mashable: That’s What She Said

~C4Chaos — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 15:30:20 GMT

Nielsen: Digg Traffic Sucks. Mashable: That’s What She Said

The latest analysis from Jakob Nielsen’s UseIt focuses on “bounce rates” and getting that elusive “second click”. It’s pretty much in line with everything experts have been saying on this topic for the last couple of years: unique visitors are a bad way to measure traffic, traffic from loyal users and search engine traffic are the kind of traffic you’re aiming for, etc.

Tags: Mashable, traffic, internet, social media, Digg

Could Social Media See the End of Google’s PageRank?

~C4Chaos — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 20:29:11 GMT

Could Social Media See the End of Google’s PageRank?

For a moment let’s step back though and look at this whole Social Media movement that is basically taking over the Web. No matter from where you look information is flowing faster than it ever has before, but unlike before, Social Media is being driven by both consumer and content producers. Unlike when Google came out with their secret sauce algorithm called PageRank where the power of popularity is no longer in the hands of content producers. PageRank, in its simplest explanation, ranks a Web site by the number of links that were pointed at it.

Tags: Mashable, Google, social media, search

10 Video Tutorials for Learning Basic Web Design Skills

~C4Chaos — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 19:19:05 GMT

10 Video Tutorials for Learning Basic Web Design Skills

Some people can read instructions on how to do things and can immediately go out and do them without any problems. But others need to see things done before they fully grasp how to do them. This is fine if you know someone who can show you how to do things, but if you don’t, it’s a little harder.

Tags: Mashable, tutorials, web, design, videos

Is a Facebook Page a Complete Social Media Strategy?

~C4Chaos — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 23:37:44 GMT

Is a Facebook Page a Complete Social Media Strategy?

So why might Verizon give up on owning its social networking and instead use a Facebook page? Here are what I see as the major advantages:

Tags: Mashable, social networks, social networking, social media, social media marketing, Facebook, Verizon

Dungeons And Dragons Goes Interactive

~C4Chaos — Wed, 21 May 2008 06:48:54 GMT

Dungeons And Dragons Goes Interactive

Dungeons and Dragons, the role-playing game system introduced in the 1970’s that launched a generation of lunch room gaming, is coming firmly into the 21st century with its next update.

Tags: Mashable, games, gaming, Dungeons and Dragons

MySpace Wins $234M in Anti-Spammer Case

~C4Chaos — Wed, 14 May 2008 01:47:19 GMT

MySpace Wins $234M in Anti-Spammer Case

MySpace has won a legal battle, against spammers Sanford Wallace and Walter Rines, according to an AP report. The battle ended in a $234 million judgment by a Las Angles court, ruling against some of the most notable spammers, thanks to their antics on popular social networking site MySpace, and even some massive spamming campaigns throughout the 1990s.

Tags: Mashable, Myspace, lawsuits, spam, spammers

Facebook Counters MySpace; Will Let Users Port Profile Data

~C4Chaos — Fri, 09 May 2008 21:55:55 GMT

Facebook Counters MySpace; Will Let Users Port Profile Data

On the heels of yesterday’s “Data Availability” announcement from MySpace, Facebook has just announced the launch their own initiative to allow users to port their profile data to other web sites. Here’s what will be included in Facebook’s version according to a post on the company’s developer blog:

Tags: Mashable, Facebook, Myspace, social networks, social networking, data portability

If You Guys Are Right, Facebook Is Screwed

~C4Chaos — Fri, 09 May 2008 15:32:05 GMT

If You Guys Are Right, Facebook Is Screwed

Yesterday, following a study that showed declining interest in Facebook from the social network’s developer community, we posted a poll asking if you were fed up with Facebook. The results were a fairly resounding “yes.” In our most active poll ever, only 13% of you said that you are “Not At All” fed up with the social network and are still enjoying it just as much as when you signed up.

Tags: Mashable, Facebook, social networks, social networking

Today is RSS Awareness Day. What Are You Doing to Spread the Gospel?

Ryan — Thu, 01 May 2008 23:43:28 GMT

Today is RSS Awareness Day. What Are You Doing to Spread the Gospel?

I’ve been hearing that May 1st was RSS Awareness Day for a few weeks, although I hadn’t really been able to pin down many details. However, since Dave Winer - the godfather of RSS himself - has posted about it, I figured it would be okay to spread the word here too.

Tags: Mashable, RSS, RSS Awareness Day

Rails Isnâ€™t An Inherently Unscalable Environment [podcast]

~C4Chaos — Thu, 01 May 2008 19:03:49 GMT

Rails Isnâ€™t An Inherently Unscalable Environment [podcast]

For most of us here at Mashable, the biggest, most well known application running on the Rails platform we can think of is Twitter - a tool hardly known for its stability. While this contributes to the mythology of the platformâ€™s instability, what really propagates it is a number of things.

Tags: Mashable, rails, RoR, Ruby on Rails, programming, development

YouTube Video Awards: The Triumph of Chocolate Rain

~C4Chaos — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 18:00:41 GMT

YouTube Video Awards: The Triumph of Chocolate Rain

First of all, let me point out that this is late. I mean, best YouTube videos of 2007? Maybe it’s because I follow technology, but 2007 seems like a looong time ago. Furthermore, the actual winners seem a bit tired; since all those viral videos have been played all over the web over and over and over throughout 2007, seeing them again is a bit anticlimactic. Except, of course, the legendary Chocolate Rain.

Tags: Mashable, Youtube, videos, awards, Youtube Video Awards, lists

The Best Way To Display News Online: Linear Vs. Contextual

~C4Chaos — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 10:00:43 GMT

The Best Way To Display News Online: Linear Vs. Contextual

The reason why I address this topic today is that Dave Winer, of RSS fame (among other things) said recently that the traditional front page is out and the columnized post roll is in, and that the new format should be adopted by news companies big and small. He exemplifies the New Orleans Times-Picayune in the time of the Hurricane Katrina catastrophe as a model of efficiency and post-dead-tree thinking. Andâ€¦wellâ€¦I donâ€™t quite agree with that assessment.

Tags: Mashable, news, RSS, Dave Winer

I’ve Acquired ReadBurner: Attention Data is the Future of Social News

~C4Chaos — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 16:07:36 GMT

I’ve Acquired ReadBurner: Attention Data is the Future of Social News

I’m happy to announce that along with Drew Olanoff (former technology evangelist at Pluggd) and Eric Kerr (creator of TinyLoad), I have acquired ReadBurner, a very cool project launched earlier this year by Alex Marktl. As you might recall, ReadBurner displays the most popular shared items on Google Reader and received a tremendous amount of buzz after originally being discovered by Louis Gray back in January. But then life got in the way and Alex had to shut down the project to focus on the paid jobs that keep a roof over his head. When Drew alerted me to the situation, we immediately got in touch with Alex to see what we could do to keep this important project alive.

Tags: Mashable, ReadBurner, feeds, acquisitions, technology