How to Stop a Snowball – Using Social Media in the Enterprise
I presented this in Dallas in September to a room full of 100+ CIOs at the Dallas Chamber of Commerce CIO Symposium. We had CIOs from Mary Kaye, Boy Scouts of America, Bank of America, and the moderator was the Strategist for EDS that helped lead them to an Acquisition by HP. It was a […]
Read more...Chick Fil A Stores Miss Out on Very Important Opportunity
I’m a sucker for a deal. Let’s just say I’m a cheapskate. That’s why I was excited when I heard that Chick-Fil-A stores were offering free chicken sandwiches nationwide today. So I went out and voted, excited to celebrate my vote with a nice chicken sandwich from Chick-Fil-A. Never mind the $5 in gas it […]
Read more...Let’s Meet in Person!
The end of this year is turning out to be quite an eventful one for me. This Friday I’ll be doing a free O’Reilly Webinar, “Creating Facebook Applications — A Beginner’s Guide”. The webinar starts at 10:00am PST, and I’ll probably talk for about 30-40 minutes on how to get started in Facebook App development, […]
Read more...Announcing Follower Messaging and Follow Statistics for SocialToo.com
I’ve been throwing hints on Twitter over the last week or two that I’ve been working on this, and with a little extra time I finally got it together. Today I’d like to announce that, as of this moment, we have some really cool new features for Twitter users on SocialToo.com, all in one place! […]
Read more...Twitter API Lead Changes Priorities With New Book
UPDATE: Be sure to see Alex’s comment below for his view on this. I am a huge fan of Twitter, regardless of what I say or ever complain about. As a developer of Twitter apps, I want to see it succeed. However, I will sound the warning bell when I see things happen that could […]
Read more...WordPress and Intense-Debate Take First Steps Towards Integration
A few of the Automattic developers are announcing a new beta program for WordPress.com blogs in which blog owners can enable Intense-debate and Disqus-style e-mail replies to comments on a blog (this blog uses Disqus comments). Such an announcement comes on the heels of Automattic’s purchase of Intense-debate, and according to Joseph Scott (one of […]
Read more...Web 2.0 – A Strange New World
Luke Stay is my younger brother, and fellow geek like myself. I like his writing style so I asked him to start guest-blogging on Stay N’ Alive. You can follow Luke on his blog at http://lukestay.com, or on Twitter at http://twitter.com/afrowhitey, or FriendFeed at http://friendfeed.com/afrowhitey. –Jesse About 6 months or so ago, my brother, Jesse, […]
Read more...Facebook Reaches Landmark Milestone With 10 Billionth Photo
Facebook has long been known to be the largest photo repository in the world. Today on the Facebook Engineering blog it was reported that Facebook today hit the milestone of 10 billion photos across the entire site. The 10 billion photos each have multiple copies stored, totaling 40 billion files in whole. According to Jeremiah […]
Read more...Facebook is Not the Top Social Network in America, Yet
Just yesterday, MySpace announced the release of their myAds Beta self-serve Ads platform. As part of it, similar to Facebook’s self-serve Ads platform, they released an automatic statistics engine, now available to any user that goes through the motions of setting up an Ad. The new engine allows a glimpse into the MySpace userbase. What’s […]
Read more...Could Pandora be Leaking User E-mail Addresses to 3rd Parties?
UPDATE: See the comments below. Pandora’s CTO responded with the following explanation – while I haven’t shared much, I can see it being a spyware issue of someone I’ve shared having spyware on their computer – he has a good point. “Hi there, I’m the CTO over at Pandora. Saw a link to this post […]
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