Friday, August 20th, 2010
I continue to count the days until Diaspora becomes a reality. While it’s still somewhat vaporware, I love the idea of having a privacy aware, personally controlled, open source social network. For now, though, we have Facebook to contend with. Facebook has been taking a beating lately in the privacy ...
Wednesday, January 27th, 2010
Raven HQ is located in Nashville, Tennessee, right on what residents refer to as “Music Row.” On my drive into the office each morning, I pass a banner hanging outside a music company touting how many views one of their music videos has on YouTube. The banner also includes icons for ...
Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009
Social media is something we live and breathe here at Sitening, and I like to fancy myself as a conversational marketing nerd. The medium is still fairly new however, and most companies wonder as they evaluate the possibility of implementing a conversational marketing plan into their traditional one if they ...
Wednesday, June 10th, 2009
At the stroke of midnight on Friday, June 12 (technically Saturday at 12:01 AM EST), geeks all around the world will frantically login to Facebook with the attempt to land as many great vanity URLs as they can. Unsuspecting businesses around the world will think they have nothing to fear. ...
Thursday, March 5th, 2009
A trend happening in the social space a lot these days is the use of your latest post to Twitter to be used as your Facebook status, and nothing could be driving me crazier. Why is this happening? Are people really that lazy? Not understanding the difference between the mediums? ...
Thursday, September 25th, 2008
So I kept seeing Rex Hammock’s picture associated with an ad in the right column of Facebook. I couldn’t make sense out of it until I finally stumbled upon Social Ads in my Facebook privacy settings. Going to Settings > Privacy Settings > News Feed and Wall > Social Ads ...
Friday, September 5th, 2008
You feel safe here right? Like this is a nice, happy place where you can come and not have to worry about being judged for who you are. I want to make sure that you do feel safe here before we really get down to the heart of the matter. ...
Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008
If you’re like me, you’ve been experiencing an influx of new friend requests on Facebook. Some of them are old friends from school or from places you used to live, while others are from people you barely know. If you’re experienced with social networks, then you know that sometimes it’s ...