Archive for the ‘blogs’ Category
Thursday, June 25th, 2009
Twitter abuse is now a pandemic - at least in my mind. People are recklessly using of this micro-blogging application, often without a purpose or goal in mind. This is one of the main reason I don’t use the service as much as I used to. The concept of value has become lost among a sea of thoughtless, frenzied tweets. (more…)
Tags: abuse, application, content, facebook, flickr, micro-blogging, social media, tweets, twitter, youtube
Posted in blogs, content, networks, social media, trends, web issues | 51 Comments »
Monday, March 2nd, 2009
With so many blogs already online and more appearing every day, it’s hard differentiate your content and build credibility. In my opinion, perception around the quality of blog content has decreased significantly as the utter mass continues to grow at an astonishing rate. In other words, quantity is overtaking quality.
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Tags: blogosphere, blogs, content, credibility, differentiation, magazines, news, niche, publishers
Posted in blogs, content, networks, trends | 39 Comments »
Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008
The way I see it, micro-apps are the future of the web application. These tiny apps only do one thing in particular - but they do it well. As opposed to more robust applications, micro-apps focus on a single task and target that problem with a specialized solution.
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Tags: adoption, APIs, competition, features, micro apps, open source, rss, trends, twitter, web apps
Posted in blogs, content, design, launch, networks, social media, trends, usability | 33 Comments »
Monday, June 16th, 2008
Everyone likes hearing their own voice. But not everyone has something important to say. In fact, it is highly unlikely that everything anyone says is overly compelling. For this reason, I believe that excessive Twittering is a form of ego-blogging.
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Tags: blogging, content, ego, engagement, followers, tweets, twitter
Posted in blogs, chat, content, marketing, networks, off topic, social media, web issues | 8 Comments »
Tuesday, June 10th, 2008
Most people recognize WordPress as a world class blogging platform. What most people don’t realize is that WordPress can be used to quickly and easily set up a website. In other words, the blogging platform doubles as a simple website CMS.
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Tags: blogging, cms, content, design, flexibility, functionality, installation, platform, SEO, websites, wordpress
Posted in blogs, content, design, launch, marketing, networks, SEO, strategy, usability | 407 Comments »