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New Raven User Manual

Thursday, September 3rd, 2009

We’re excited to announce that we just added a User Manual to Raven today. The manual is in beta and there will be several upcoming revisions as we continue to build out new features and and tweak existing ones. The User Manual is available on the top bar in the ...

What To Do During The Twitter Maintenance Hour

Wednesday, May 13th, 2009

I logged on to twitter this morning to discover that the site will be down today for one-hour for maintenance. “Tomorrow, Wednesday May 13 we will be continuing the database maintenance work we began last Friday. We will be taking all Twitter services offline for one hour beginining at noon ...

How Twitter Almost Sold Me A New Car

Thursday, April 9th, 2009

I’m in the market to buy a new car, so on a whim, I thought I’d try a little experiment. See, here’s the thing, if I’m going to spend $20k or more on one item, why should I be the one who does all of the work? Shouldn’t these dealers ...

Conversational Point/Counterpoint

Wednesday, April 1st, 2009

Yesterday I wrote “every brand should be participating in the conversation!” and today I read an article in Advertising Age about how it really doesn’t matter. Oh. Well ok then. But the article does raise some fair points. While we in the industry might be existing in a social media ...

Embrace the Conversation

Tuesday, March 31st, 2009

If there’s one thing I covet more than anything these days, it is AT&T’s UVerse installed in my home. Who wouldn’t want all of that fiber bandwidth pumping into their house for unlimited HD options and awesome internet speed? I know it is close too. Neighbors are having it installed ...

Apple Will Crush Amazon.com’s Kindle and Complete Their Electronic Ecosystem With New Device In 2009 2010

Sunday, January 4th, 2009

If you’ve been following Apple’s patents over the past few years, you would have noticed a trend in tablet-like devices and innovative ways to interact with electronic devices (like gestures on MacBooks and iPhone’s user interface.) I believe 2009 will be the year they finally release what they’ve been building ...

Defending TweetStalk: A word on the word “stalk”

Wednesday, December 10th, 2008

Ever since we introduced TweetStalk, there has been a modest rumbling of outrage over what people think it stands for, or what it will ultimately do to Twitter. Meanwhile, on the other side of the geek spectrum, we’ve read a spatter of comments about how the feature set is not ...

Review of Guy Kawasaki’s New Book “Reality Check”

Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008

It’s been a while since I’ve thought about Fake Steve Jobs. In fact, the last time he was on my radar was when we helped out him in late July, 2007. Well, he’s back, sort of, and he’s in perfect form. He was invited by Guy Kawasaki to write not ...

Physical = Digital?

Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008

Before I joined the team here at Sitening, I was tapped for a freelance project running the social network for the production company behind the new X Files movie, which proved to be a big hit amongst the fan community. Somewhere down along the way I was asked for ideas ...

Bounce rates affecting rankings? Or SEO for SEO’s sake?

Tuesday, November 25th, 2008

Over at SEO Black Hat, QuadsZilla demonstrates correlation between traffic, specifically Google traffic, and bounce rate, claiming that bounce rate is being used to determine quality and factoring into rankings. Except his or her graphs show direct, rather than inverse, relationships between traffic and bounce rate. In other words, in ...