Ah, the great browser wars. For but a moment, we’re magically whisked away to the innocent Internet of days past. When you could buy Netscape Navigator in a box at a store! For those of you that missed that whole era, you might consider reading The New New Thing: A Silicon Valley Story, a great […]
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Of all the great news and views from this past week Enjoy your weekend!! Brian’s picks Brazilian hackers stalk Twitter, try to wax the unwary – Arstechnica – yikes! Upcoming Friends & Fans Changes – elaboration on lifting the 200 friend limit, straight from the StumbleUpon horse’s mouth Thought for the week; there is a
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Earlier this year Alexa shook things up a little, applying some kind of penalty or reduced modifier to websites with a traditionally higher percentage of Alexa toolbar users than average, predominately technology and webmaster focused sites who found the Alexa data useful, or who actively evangelised Alexa toolbar use as it is often a major
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Of all the great news and views from this past week, by far our favorite is the announcement of Brendan Picha (from Squareoak) joining the Collective Thoughts team (welcome aboard Brendan)… Beyond that we have funnies, tri-dimensional conversations and hyper-connectivity to keep the head spinning and the belly aching. Also new this week is Tim’s
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If you’re selling crap, if your website sucks or your customer service is non-existent, then you are likely making your marketing efforts much harder than need be. This is never more true than when talking about social media marketing. If you’d be so kind, allow me to elaborate. Recently the masochists here at Collective Thoughts
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Our 3rd week of Collective Wanderings draws to a close. This time around, we’ve added a thought to compliment the regular roundup… Enjoy your weekend!! Brian’s picks Essential Skills of a community manager – Chris Brogan Web networking photos come back to bite defendants – Yahoo News If your blog’s ranking is falling, is that
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(Image credit:allspice1) IBM was well known for having golf course privileges for its employees. Quite a perk, right? Well it paid off for IBM, as it kept employees going on talking shop on the golf course. Enter social media. Corporations and draconian IT departments out there often block many or all social media sites from
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It was an interesting week with plenty of drama, humor and even an engagement. We even managed to get nepotistic; who knew we actually read each other’s stuff? There are a few post for the Diggers, SEO types and even some analytics mixxed in for good measure. All in all plenty of good reading for
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We decided to start a weekly feature here on Collective Thoughts with a link round up of some of the favorite posts the gang here came across. For those of you that simply can’t get enough; here’s what we thought you might like; Shana’s picks What (bad) Cigarettes Can Teach You About (good) Branding –
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An intimate guide for the socially inclined Unless the rock you’re hiding under has been blocking that Wi-fi signal you were pinching, you’ve likely heard of the latest Social Network in the fray – Plurk. And those of you not in the quarry would know its like Twitter’s friendlier sister who’s got a full featured
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