Plugin Picks 3: WP Google Buzz
By Dave Moyer, posted Mar 8 2010 at 2:00 pm | No Comments »
To kick off the second week of Plugin Picks, Kym and Dave take a look at the WP Google Buzz WordPress plugin which brings the newest social media craze, Google Buzz, to your site by adding a “Buzz This” button to your blog posts.
WordCast Recap: 3/1/10
By Dave Moyer, posted Mar 5 2010 at 3:42 pm | No Comments »
It’s Friday once again! The WordCast network has been bringing you the best WordPress, blogging and social media news, tips, tricks, reviews and how-tos all week long, and we’re bringing the best of the best to you. A new WordPress hack, the THEME TEAM! and more.
U.K. Politician’s Twitter Hijacked by Porn Bots
By Dave Moyer, posted Feb 26 2010 at 12:06 pm | No Comments »
The Twitter API makes it incredibly easy for web applications to take all sorts of actions on your account. Following users, unfollowing others, posting tweets and sending direct messages, these apps can be quite useful and innovative, but also quite malicious. Just ask Ed Miliband, the U.K. secretary of state for energy.
WordCast Conversations 6: David Bullock
By Dave Moyer, posted Feb 23 2010 at 10:05 am | No Comments »
Social media strategist and co-author of Barack 2.0 David Bullock joins Kym on WordCast Conversations this week to talk about the social media epidemic we’re seeing around the internet today, the burgeoning social media phenomenon, and how to harness its influential power for your own business success.
Twitter Goldrush Coming Soon: Unused Usernames Being Unlocked
By Dave Moyer, posted Jan 20 2010 at 12:00 pm | No Comments »
It appears that yet another vanity URL rush is upon us. Remember when Facebook opened up custom links for profiles and fan pages last year? It appears users will soon be flocking to Twitter, trying to claim that unique name they’ve been pining for. Inactive accounts will soon be up for grabs!
Bill Gates Passes 100,000 Twitter Followers In 8 Hours
By Dave Moyer, posted Jan 20 2010 at 10:00 am | No Comments »
In case you were in need of any more validation of the fact that Twitter is extremely active and abuzz and constantly growing, here you go: Bill Gates joined Twitter yesterday at about noon Pacific. Eight hours later, he had over 100,000 followers. That’s around three per second!
President Obama Confesses, “I Have Never Used Twitter”, Publishes First Tweet
By Kym Huynh, posted Jan 18 2010 at 5:00 pm | 1 Comment »
It is often wondered whether the person behind the Twitter account is the actual person sending the tweets. More recently it was revealed that President Obama never actually used his own Twitter account. President Obama makes his own Twitter account history by sending his first tweet. Want to know what it is?
“I’m With COCO” Takes Over Twitter and Facebook
By Robert Avery, posted Jan 18 2010 at 5:00 am | No Comments »
NBC has stirred up quite a bit of drama recently by mixing up their late night T.V. line up. A scheduling change pushing new “Tonight Show” host Conan O’Brien into a later spot has fans rallying together on social networking sites like Twitter and Facebook in a grassroots movement in support of O’Brien keeping his time slot.
TweetCraft Lets You Tweet While Playing World of Warcraft (WOW)
By Dave Moyer, posted Jan 11 2010 at 10:00 am | 3 Comments »
Avid World of Warcraft players can now easily tweet screenshots, achievements, random thoughts, and more, all within the MMORPG itself. Whether or not this will turn Twitter into something used even more exclusively by geeks is currently unknown.
WordCast 77: We Reject Our Listeners
By Dave Moyer, posted Dec 1 2009 at 2:00 am | No Comments »
Microblogging won’t kill blogging, pay per tweet in Japan, and more.