Ergebnisse

Posts Tagged ‘Facebook’

Foursquare.com is getting gold: hype-searching geeks are moving on, and these days their favorite URL is formspring.me: it’s a really simple q-and-a platform – kind of like Twitter, but without the 140 character limit. The service lacks a lot features, it’s still in a pretty early stage, which didn’t keep me from registering though: formspring.me/datadirt.

The setup just takes a minute: like on Twitter, there’s the avatar pic, the homepage URL, a short description and that’s it. When it comes to eye candy, formspring.me offers a couple of templates, but the more brand-aware user can also upload their own background pic – now in 2 minutes, because I’ve compiled a Photoshop-template that speeds up the process of creating a custom formspring template a lot. Read the rest of this entry »

“Welcome to the world of tomorrow!” No, that’s not right. Let me try again: “Welcome to the world of the last seven days!” That sounds better! There’s a lot to show-and-tell, so without any further ado, let’s jump straight into last week’s social media news. Read the rest of this entry »

But if you actually want to secure your unique name, you gotta be quick, because:

Starting at 12:01 a.m. EDT on Saturday, June 13, you’ll be able to choose a username on a first-come, first-serve basis for your profile and the Facebook Pages that you administer by visiting www.facebook.com/username/. You’ll also see a notice on your home page with instructions for obtaining your username at that time.

That’s what the official blog says – and what’s even more important: once you chose your unique username, it’s here to stay – no change of mind later on. And it’s first come, first serve – so be quick! Read the rest of this entry »

This weekly round-up comes with a free day of delay, as I was pretty business last night taking pictures of the sunset from Braunsberg. Riding my bike home I had to be very careful since a nightly meeting of a rabbit and a motorcycle is usually a very unpleasant experience for both sides. I haven’t digi developped all pics yet, but this one turned out quite nicely:

So back to blogging business – what a week! We now finally know that there actually *are* differences when it comes to the two sexes using social media. Read the rest of this entry »

Nothing like listening to old-school dubstep mixes and surfing the net on a lazy Sunday afternoon – even though I have to admit that turning up the music is kind of my only option right now, since the new Samsung LCD screen I bought yesterday experiences some kind of identity crisis, confusing itself with some kind of alien sound-device by producing a constant annoying noise. But enough complaining, let’s turn our heads and look back on the 7 deadly sins of online-marketing compiled by Shoemoney. Read the rest of this entry »

It’s been a week full of surprises: Pownce closed pretty unexpectedly, while Twitter is still growing at an amazing rate. And a new trend finally has been turned into an API, or rather two APIs: Google as well as Facebook try to decentralize social networking and at the same time establish their own platforms as the central social hub. I am really looking forward to buddypress – in my opinion, “hosted” services are fine as additional traffic streams, but no online professional should put his main assets into third-party hands. Read the rest of this entry »

No more denial, it’s official by now: no more outdoor swimming 2k8, winter has kicked in Vienna. Yesterday, the little white thingie called snow was floating around in the air, which is nice, if you live near the Alps (skiing season!), but which sucks, if you live in Vienna: as soon as the first snow is falling, car-drivers get crazy: no matter if the streets are actually slippery or not. Read the rest of this entry »

Bite, lick, or tackle them back, or click here to theorize about what this all means. I’m very happy to publish the first guest posting here on datadirt. Kim De Vries, who I met via Facebook, wrote a very interesting paper about the symbolic kind of communication we all know so well from social networks like Facebook. “He who never superpoked shall throw the first rock” – enjoy the reading! Dr. Kim De Vries is working at the California State University Stanislaus, you can reach her at kdevries [at] csustan.edu Read the rest of this entry »

A couple of social networks offer nice, human readable profile URLs, but most still don’t. And since nobody is going to remember a link like http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=717807375, it’s a good idea to use a redirect: this way, Facebook and other URLs are much easier to remember in an offline talk for example. If you’re running your own site using your own domain, it’s very easy to set up a subdomain which points to your profile. facebook.datadirt.net opens my fb-profile page – here’s a quick checklist on how to do that. Read the rest of this entry »

Today I got invited for an interesting new facebook group: it’s all about a so called Jesus: he’s a guy invented by some antichrists with the sole intention to mis-credit our true one and only saviour, Lord Jeebus Chuck Norris. So repent, SINNERS – and never forget what Jack Donaghue said about Irish catholics on 30 rock: “There’s always the crusing guilt!” On the facebook group page it says: Read the rest of this entry »

Scotty, get those phazers ready – the battle for digital identity management is about to begin. The Google Klingons have yet not been able to successfully launch their not-so-secret weapon OpenSocial, while the Federation’s OpenId primarily seems to appeal to nerds. Read the rest of this entry »