Conclusion of the Four Square Experiment

So after just over a month of checking in, adding tips, and completing to do’s on Four Square, I’m not sure if I have a definitive answer whether its a valuable social network for me. Four Square definitely comes off more as a game then a social network. The competition of declaring mayorships and collecting [...]

Did Yelp Change their Review Filter?

Yelp, the local review website, may have recently changed their algorithm that blocks some reviews from being displayed publicly. This algorithm looks for fraudulent Yelp accounts and fraudulent Yelp reviews. I assume this has been very effective for them, keeping the local business reviews pure and uninfluenced. They protect their system from being gamed by [...]

The FourSquare Experiment

Four Square is a relatively new local social media application. I’ve been on FourSquare for a few months now and really haven’t found the purpose besides pissing off my girlfriend from constantly updating my location from my iPhone. So I haven’t really been a full fledged user of the social media application. To be fair [...]

Twitter Lists: Useful or Not Just Yet

Earlier this month (I know I’m behind), Twitter announced a new feature called lists. Immediately this reminded me something of Facebook Lists, but only on the top 10% of the surface. Once you dive in, there’s there are a lot more usable for the public (like twitter) but not the private (like facebook). My ‘A’ [...]

Fail Whale Strikes Again!

Monday Morning… Feeling surprisingly awake and alive and…FAIL WHALE. Damn you Twitter. How about taking some of that VC cash and upgrade you servers. Speaking of Twitter, if your not already following me or if you are, here are some of the Twitter users to follow: Twitter.com/ShaneHale7 Twitter.com/brdaga7 Twitter.com/CooperCapone Twitter.com/OnlineGuruInc Twitter.com/DMVORG Twitter.com/PureSalonSpa Twitter.com/EntertainMac Twitter.com/onebeeraday

Link Roll: ?? Skills, Tshirts, ?b tweets, and more

50 Skills Geek Check List I’m considered a geek by most of my friends and family that aren’t geeks themselves. I’m the one that fixes their computer or tells them how to use email, and most recently Facebook. When lists like this come out, I alway want to see how I stack up. 50 thinks [...]

Link Roll for the Week…

Fav Social Network of the Moment: Glued Glue is taking steps to become what web 3.0 is suppose to accomplish. Take all of this user submitted media and make it reavant. Glue is a Firefox plug-in, from Adaptive Blue, that adds a bar across the top of releant pages. Check out Amazon, IMDB, Last.FM, and [...]

Today's Social Media Links Round Up.

Twitter Grade of 52 According to Twitter.Grader, my relative power as a Twitter User is 52. Somehow this is derived from my update frequency, my profile, my followers, and if they have any super-human abilities. Apparently if I reach a grade of 60, I get the ability to take and understand animals. Oh and here’s [...]

Social Networking Checklist…

(Alt Title: Attention All Internet Stalkers)The social networking scene kind of crept up on me over the last 2 years. I witnessed some sites such as YouTube mature from infancy to a stable large-scale social video network; while others, such as Friendster, lost their touch with their audience and have fallen in to the black [...]

Top 10 Web fads – CNET.com

How could I pass up this one… Top 10 Web Fads… To be honest… I don’t know about a few of them. I mean there are so many other webfads more notable. Namely Tourist Guy or the Numa Numa dance song. I forgot all about the All Your Base Flash Animations out there, and i [...]

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