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Ars Technica takes a look at Delicious 2

Friday, August 1st, 2008 by Nick Bodmer

Technology news site Ars Technica go hands on with the redesign of del.icio.us (now just Delicious) Popular social bookmarking service del.icio.us has finally unveiled one of its most significant and anticipated redesigns since launching in 2003. Ars Technica went hands on to see what Yahoo has in store for the next ...

Why is blue the most popular color in social media?

Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008 by Griffin Hammond

Someone tell me. I'm guessing Facebook started it. Web design often differs between global cultures, but blue appears to represent social media on websites prominent in the U.S., Europe, South America, and Asia. Interestingly, when blue is not used prominently, a black/red motif seems popular. (YouTube, MetroFLOG, Netlog, Bebo, Tagged, Media ...

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 ...

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 ...