Blog Title: The Mu Life

Tip’d - A community for financial news, ideas, and tips

Hey everyone, wanted to announce the launch of Tip’d, a socially driven community for financial news, ideas, and tips. Please drop by, sign up, and give the site a try. I have taken the responsibilities of ‘community director’ at Tip’d, so if you have something to say, please get in touch! Also, read more coverage: Tip’d, ZDNet, read more..

It’s the Quality, Stupid!

Erick Schonfeld’s discussion of Technorati’s State of the Blogosphere said something quite alarming, Blogging is a volume game. The more you post, the more chances there are that someone else will link to one of your posts. (Technorati rank is based on the number of recent links to your blog). The majority of the Top 100 read more..

The BETA Tag: Crowdsourced Product Testing

Royal Pingdom asks a very pertinent question today, why is half of google in beta? Google is known for keeping their products in beta (much) longer than most other companies. But exactly how many of their products are in beta? When we here at Pingdom investigated this, it turned out that out of the 49 Google read more..

Understanding ‘Real People’ - Are You Creating Value?

‘…people can and will carve out the time for social media IF they see a reason to.’ There is a prevailing thought among pundits that ‘real people’ don’t have time for social media, which, if true, has major implications for anyone behind a social web startup wanting to build a monetizable audience To understand ‘real people’ read more..

attending blogworldexpo 2008? attend my panel, let’s meet up

i will be at blogworldexpo 2008, speaking on a panel along with dan gray, michelle naranjo, and scott monty (confirmed so far). We will be covering topics related to establishing blogger credibility and how to be taken seriously on the web. in order to properly review a product, you have to experience it first hand. how read more..

guest post at mashable: are ping.fm & co. solving the problem or exacerbating it?

i’ve written a guest post at mashable debating whether ping.fm and similar sites are helping fix our fragmented networks or worsening the fragmentation. ping.fm finally announced its open beta today and not everyone is rejoicing. when i first started monitoring these services that allow you to send messages across multiple platforms i was happy. i thought, read more..

guest post at read/writeweb: the case for an apple inetwork

i’ve written a guest post at read/writeweb making the case for the next version of itunes to go truly social. itunes social networking and collaborative filtering (recommendations) system, coupled with the iphone’s versatile wireless communication and media sharing capabilities, topped off with media and information management (and sharing) in the cloud, the combo is no doubt read more..

guest post at read/writeweb: has yahoo! buzz lived up to the buzz?

i’ve written a guest post at read/writeweb looking at the state of yahoo! buzz in the wake of the most recent changes. since they opened the submission process to everyone, the buzz surrounding the site has really been at a high. desperate publishers and marketers who were previously locked out of the supposed ‘traffic mecca’ have read more..

guest post at search engine land: social media marketing roi - metrics and analysis

i’ve written a post on search engine land covering some basics of social media content marketing, roi metrics, and analysis. when you take the advice above, keep in mind that businesses cannot succeed in social media without obeying the principles of authenticity, integrity, transparency, and participation. self-serving networking and a singular and goal of promoting your read more..

guest post at mashable: ma.gnolia goes open source, but bookmarking is dying

i’ve written a guest post at mashable exploring the state of social bookmarking, social news, and personal bookmarking. would love to read your feedback on the topic. while ma.gnolia’s efforts are commendable they don’t predict a very bright future for the site and the ongoing decline in use and impending obsolescence of social ‘bookmarking’ is partly read more..

is a virtual slave trade… okay?

among the speculation on what facebook is application making $1 million a month, one application that was named as possible candidate was ‘friends for sale‘. not to be a kill joy but if you look at what the application is actually about, you will probably have just as hard a time as myself, believing that read more..

digg wants to democratize public dialogue

when some of the most dedicated community members on the social news and networking site, digg, staged temporary boycott in january, they hardly knew the impact their actions would have. in the short-term they had to bear with an exceptional amount of irrational bad press, unnecessary and misdirected community backlash, and even active burying of read more..

conversations about social media - august 15-17, 2008

here’s a recap of the most active conversations from the social media room. etiquette in the age of social media twitter hurting entire industry? twitter adds threaded replies the web’s dirty little secret what happened to pownce? 9 ways to enlarge the social media audience corporate social media in action can you be a social media introvert? as always, everyone is welcome to join the read more..

conversations about social media - august 13-14, 2008

here’s a recap of the most active conversations from the social media room. where blogging is headed value of social media and social networking do startups work better as subsidiaries? social network popularity around the world turn friendfeed into your social headquarter the google black hole as always, everyone is welcome to join the room and start or join conversations as long read more..

conversations about social media - august 11-12, 2008

here’s a recap of the most active conversations from the social media room. no time for blogging is it spammy or savvy marketing? your medium is dying social networks: definition, history, and scholarship twitter going fremium? advice on personal branding as always, everyone is welcome to join the room and start or join conversations as long as they are relevant to social media. Technorati read more..

conversations about social media - august 8-10, 2008

here’s a recap of the most active conversations from the social media room. how profound is it? the anonymous side of the net connections between web 2.0 companies and investors immunity or community? guest-tweeting: why so serious? cross-pollinating etiquette as always, everyone is welcome to join the room and start or join conversations as long as they are relevant to social read more..

conversations about social media - august 6-7, 2008

here’s a recap of the most active conversations from the social media room. half of u.s. adults use social media the olympics and social media marketing new firefox digg extension released introducing the conversation prism say no to ‘no comments’ as always, everyone is welcome to join the room and start or join conversations as long as they are relevant to social read more..

conversations about social media - august 4-5, 2008

here’s a recap of the most active conversations from the social media room. study revives six degrees theory real people don’t have time for social media the future of blogging revealed an anthropological introduction to youtube what is ’social media optimization’? rocketboom inks seven-figure deal hi-tech criminals target twitter social media - bubble or reality? paris hilton responds to mccain ad as always, everyone is welcome read more..

conversations about social media - august 1-3, 2008

here’s a recap of the most active conversations from the social media room. what’s new at delicious? what’s better? diigo or delicious? is google reader the new friendfeed? social media and the death of marketing defriending in the time of facebook are tag clouds dead? location-based networking to generate $3.3 billion? taking social networking abroad as always, everyone is welcome to join the read more..

conversations about social media - july 30-31, 2008

here’s a recap of the most active conversations from the social media room. social network failure what is the best micro-blog? services that attract most comments on friendfeed the journalism that bloggers actually do delicious 2.0 is here! meh. social median as always, everyone is welcome to join the room and start or join conversations as long as they are relevant to social read more..