Who is looking at your profile on LinkedIn? If you are in the job market, or are an entrepreneur building a new company, or if you create value through business development partnerships, there is a feature on LinkedIn that you should probably know about. It’s pretty powerful and could lead you to explore opportunitiesContinue reading “Who Is Looking At Your profile On LinkedIn?”
Category Archives: Social Networking Watch
To Blog or Not To Blog (Because of Google+)
Kevin Rose, founder of Digg.com, announced last night that he is forwarding his blog domain KevinRose.com directly to his Google+ page, where he will be posting instead of blogging. This is how he announced it on Twitter: “Decided to forward http://t.co/hsxKjXW to Google+. G+ gives me more (real-time) feedback and engagement than my blog ever did.”Continue reading “To Blog or Not To Blog (Because of Google+)”
Advice to Facebook: Time to Launch Operation Baby Come Back
Google started field testing Google+ last Tuesday. This has been very widely anticipated. Rumors have swirled for months about Google’s social strategy — what would it be, and when would it happen? Conventional wisdom has held for some time that Google is too geeky to get social right and that it is game over. ManyContinue reading “Advice to Facebook: Time to Launch Operation Baby Come Back”
Who Will Actually Quit Facebook Over Privacy Issues?
There is a lot of media coverage about the high-profile people who are quitting Facebook and some surveys claim that up to 60% of Facebook users may quit Facebook over the recent privacy issues. I am very skeptical of surveys like this and so I decided to run my own survey on FamilyLink.com. We have beenContinue reading “Who Will Actually Quit Facebook Over Privacy Issues?”
This Week: Ancestry IPO, FamilyLink Goes Viral, Navigating Facebook Platform Changes
This week is going to be amazing. Possibly, the most interesting week of my career. I’ll explain. Ancestry.com is slated to go public on Wednesday. I always dreamed of being part of that IPO, but I’ve been out of the company (7 years) longer than I was in the company (6 years). But my excitementContinue reading “This Week: Ancestry IPO, FamilyLink Goes Viral, Navigating Facebook Platform Changes”
OnDC 09: Panel on Politics and Social Media
Moderator: Peter Corbett, CEO iStrategy Labs Kevin Merritt, CEO Socrata, Inc. (A venture backed startup in Seattle that helps government agencies get data online and it social) Vijay Ravindran, was at Amazon 7 years, @catalyst, now at Washington Post Tom McInerney, Lt. General U.S. Air Force (ret.), Fox News Analyst Mike Allen, chief political correspondentContinue reading “OnDC 09: Panel on Politics and Social Media”
FamilyLink Climbs Facebook Developer Leaderboard
Sorted by Monthly Active Users Name DAU MAU Daily Growth 1. Zynga 47,142,368 161,442,415 1.11 2. Playfish 12,136,211 57,661,305 -0.04 3. RockYou! 2,493,761 41,616,918 -1.41 4. Facebook 11,868,141 32,375,076 -0.26 5. Causes 2,135,480 31,881,017 0.72 6. Slide, Inc. 1,234,691 24,757,153 -0.05 7. Familylink.com 1,266,743 22,096,540 0.72 8. SlashKey 5,830,463 18,709,422 -0.08 9. 3happybytes 549,065Continue reading “FamilyLink Climbs Facebook Developer Leaderboard”
Social Media and Elections: The Revolution Will Not Be Televised, Revisited
A few years ago Howard Dean’s campaign manager Joe Trippi published a book called “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised.” I attended the AlwaysOn Summit at Stanford in 2005 when he came and spoke about his experience managing the Dean campaign. (And I bought three signed copies of his book, for me and my twoContinue reading “Social Media and Elections: The Revolution Will Not Be Televised, Revisited”
Oh My Gosh, Facebook Is For Families
On Feb. 2nd, InsideFacebook reported that the fastest growing demographic on Facebook is women over 55. In just the past 120 days, usage of Facebook by women over 55 has grown by an astonishing 175.3%. Our team at FamilyLink.com is particularly excited as social networks attract older users because our mission is to connect familiesContinue reading “Oh My Gosh, Facebook Is For Families”
Twitter’s Cosmic Powers
I originally wrote this article for Connect Magazine’s December 2008 issue. It’s been said that brevity is the soul of wit; it is also the soul of Twitter. Twitter is the world’s most popular tool for “micro-blogging.” Every day, millions of people use Twitter to answer the question, “What are you doing right now?” AsContinue reading “Twitter’s Cosmic Powers”