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Archive for June, 2008

Facebook Social Media Importer

Wednesday, June 11th, 2008 by Griffin Hammond

I'm not proud to say that Facebook, which I usually keep up with, announced this a while back, and I only today noticed it. In your profile's mini-feed, you can click the "Import" link and connect your Facebook profile with your profiles from: Flickr Del.icio.us YouTube StumbleUpon Last.fm Your blog feed (RSS) Digg Picasa Yelp Google Reader Pandora Hulu I just added my ...

Update: Facebook Friend Suggester

Tuesday, June 10th, 2008 by Griffin Hammond

Earlier this week I blogged about the new Facebook Friend Suggester. I had some issues with it: You could only see 9 friends per page. Even friends your friend shares in common show up in the list. It didn't work. Now that some time has passed, I've figured some things out: Maybe it's only Internet ...

3G iPhone a reality

Monday, June 9th, 2008 by Nick Bodmer

Everyone's favorite mobile blogging tool just got an upgrade. Steve Jobs annouced today a new verion of the Apple iPhone, that includes 3G (read, super fast internet), real GPS with tracking, and improved battery life. The big suprise? The new price: $199. Less than one year ago, it was $599 ...

Flickr Tag Galaxy

Monday, June 9th, 2008 by Kyle Welter

As with about half of the world, I'm kind of obsessed with nice pictures, so anybody that appreciates decent photography will love this site. I've been doing a lot of social networking research and came across Flickr's new Tag Galaxy. Its a German based application that has seriously won me ...

Top 30 Social Bookmarkers

Monday, June 9th, 2008 by Griffin Hammond

A statistical analysis by eBizMBA ranks 30 social bookmarkers, or smarkers (as I like to call them), in order of popularity. Perhaps this gives me a nice gague for which ones to try out, and in what order. Here are the top 6: Digg (I've tried) Technorati (I use as a social media ...

A blog to read when you’re bored at work

Monday, June 9th, 2008 by Amy Stringwell

Stuff White People Like A fun, witty blog a friend of mine turned me on to. By reviewing various topics, this blog takes an irreverent look at the social and materialistic culture of middle-class white America. The main point of the blog is to explain how the things people like, and think ...

Social Network: Sexy Insurance

Monday, June 9th, 2008 by Griffin Hammond

  I've known about Sexy Insurance for a while, a flamboyant social network devoted to the insurance industry. I visited today with the intention to join, to continue my quest to consume all the social media I can, but I don't think I can will myself to sign up. Mostly because I think ...

Man twitters his layoff from yahoo.

Monday, June 9th, 2008 by Nick Bodmer

An interesting CNN video about a Yahoo employee who was laid off, and twittered his account of the whole day. Click here to watch the video.

My first Photobucket image

Saturday, June 7th, 2008 by Griffin Hammond

I was about to start a Flickr account, and then I realized it's owned by Yahoo. Lame. I went to Photobucket instead. (Don't worry; I'll try Flickr eventually.) I shot this photo today and uploaded it from my phone via e-mail: By the way, I just received a confirmation text message ...

Embedding Social Media in this blog…

Friday, June 6th, 2008 by Griffin Hammond

...is being more difficult than it should. Last night I added my Twitter "tweet" (feed) to the right side of this page. Integrates well, but the problem is the javascript code can only handle one user. (Ideally I'd add other people's tweets underneath, but currently that seems impossible.) It also seems like ...