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Social Media

BurnUrl: Another Steaming Pile

Thumbnail image for BurnUrl: Another Steaming Pile by Greg April 13, 2009 Google

Now that the heat has been turned up on Digg, scrutiny is also spilling over to all the “up-and-coming” services who have decided to jump on the “justifiable framing bandwagon.”
One of those services is BurnURL. The concept of BurnURL is pretty simple: You input a url and it spits out a shortened version that you [...]

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The Truth About Digg’s DiggBar

Thumbnail image for The Truth About Digg’s DiggBar by Greg April 9, 2009 Blogging

Over the last couple of months, I’ve been getting the urge to get back into blogging a bit. However, when it’s been awhile since you’ve attempted to construct a thought longer than a 140 character tweet, actually doing it is a bit harder than you regular bloggers might imagine. I keep finding myself sitting [...]

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StumbleUpon Adds Share

by barbara March 11, 2009 Social Media

I am not sure when this feature was added, but I just discovered it thanks to a stumbler friend of mine giving me the tip. (Thanks Roby!)
Basically all you need to do is go to your ‘favorites’ then hover over the image and then a ’share’ button appears.
From there, you can choose what friends [...]

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Changes at StumbleUpon

by barbara September 19, 2008 Social Media

I woke up this morning to a nice Stumble Upon surprise.  It looks like you can now friend over 200 people on Stumble.  The only thing is that after you add friends it seems to be taking a while for you friends list to update (if it ever does) and same with the toolbar.
Here’s some [...]

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Top 10 Reasons Why You Must Tweet

by barbara August 28, 2008 Internet Stuff

As I stated in my SESSJ post Twitter was a hot topic at the conference.  People were talking about it and people were using it.  When Greg and I go to conferences we always turn on our mobile tweets so we can keep up with where everyone is and what everyone’s doing.  God forbid we [...]

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