Monthly Archives: May 2008

guest post at read/writeweb - knewsroom: a look at the latest social news site

i’ve written a guest post at read/writeweb on what could’ve been the future of the social news space.

the way we create, interact with, and share information on the web is continuously changing, and at a very rapid pace. the end goal, most would argue, is the create a medium that completely democratizes the entire process. this evolution has taken us through editorially driven community sites (slashdot), socially driven bookmarking sites (del.icio.us), and socially driven news sites (digg), but none of them have really managed to figure out how to make the newspaper of the future. just launched knewsroom, one of the first apps from kluster (readwriteweb’s coverage), believes that it has gotten it right, but has it really?

find out in this complete look at knewsroom.

Technorati Tags: social news, digg, +readwriteweb, kluster, knewsroom

marketinghackz interview - interview with muhammad saleem - social media maven

on a daily basis there is a new social media site created. there is basically a site for every person from every background. we spoke with muhammad saleem, social media maven, about his opinion about a variety of sites, social media marketing and the most important elements to keep in mind when engaging in the space.

please check out the rest of my interview with marketinghackz.

Technorati Tags: muhammad saleem, interview, social media, marketinghackz

guest post at search engine land: the elevator pitch is dead. introducing the twitpitch

i’ve written a post on search engine land on the future of your company’s pitch.

the landscape of corporate public relations is changing fast. first the press release died and we told you how to write a press release for the social media audience. now the elevator pitch is dead and here’s how to adapt.

visit search engine land to find out how to adapt.

Technorati Tags: search engine land, social media, twitter, elevator pitch, twitpitch

guest post at read/writeweb: the decline and fall of quality on digg

i’ve written a guest post at read/writeweb on how the content promotion algorithm is making the quality on the front page of digg suffer.

note: this isn’t meant as an attack on any user and his or her submissions. all the users mentioned and displayed on the graphs are my friends and i respect their submissions. this post is just meant to point out the flaws of digg’s content promotion algorithm.

read the full article.

Technorati Tags: digg, social news, social media, quality, algorithm, content promotion, readwriteweb