Facebook – one of the most popular social networking sites – held an event in San Fransisco today to officially launch the Facebook Platform and announced over 65 developer-partners including Microsoft, Amazon, Washington Post and many more; that have already built applications on the new platform that allows companies to develop and directly integrate applications with the Facebook website and reach an audience of millions of users. The developers and press alike were given unprecedented access.
Archive for May, 2007
Rush Hour Episode 14
This week on Rush Hour [Cshel](http://www.cshel.com), [Cameron](http://www.cameronolthuis.com) and I discuss the [acquisition of Feedburner](http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/05/23/100-million-payday-for-feedburner-this-deal-is-confirmed/), [Technorati redesign](http://www.pronetadvertising.com/articles/technorati-redesigned-get-realigned-here21138.html), Digg tips and making money online through MySpace.
Technorati Redesigned – Get Realigned Here
Technorati has pushed a redesigned to their site today and I thought this would be a great time to introduce all our readers to Technorati and walk you through the new and definitely improved site.
Tim Ferriss – Social Media and The Social Proof – Part 2
Here’s the second part to yesterday’s interview with Tim Ferriss.
Tim Ferriss – Social Media and The Social Proof – Part 1
As a follow up to Darren Rowse’s three-part interview with Tim Ferriss, I sat down with the author (through the magic of instant messaging) of The 4-Hour Workweek, to discuss efficiency when blogging, media training for bloggers, different content promotion methods, social media, and much much more. Here is the first part of a two-part interview. Tim has a lot of interesting insight to share so please read and enjoy.
Wallop – More Than Your Average ‘Sneak Peek’
Guy Kawasaki Responds to Truemors Criticism
Guy Kawasaki opened Truemors up to the public about a week ago, and the feedback wasn’t very good. I even wrote a review and guide to the site and even offered some advice. Now, Guy fires back at the detractors and justifies his decisions.
Learn Viral Marketing From Warner Bros.
Making a truly successful online viral marketing campaign is not an easy feat to accomplish. So when a golden opportunity to see a brilliant execution of a successful viral marketing campaign – and learn from it – presents itself, we’re definitely taking it! Here’s how Warner Bros. pulled it off.
Spotting and Reporting a Digg ‘Gamer’
In theory, the way socially driven news and content sites like Digg, Netscape, Reddit and so on work is that the community decides what content is good and what content is bad, and then the content is either buried or promoted to the home-page of the site for mass consumption. But there are always those that try to manipulate these sites to their advantage.
A Marketer is No One without a Programmer
Lately, many companies who have requested my marketing services for their new product or web application feel that I can work my magic and make it so their sub-par product does really well. In reality, this is impossible. Marketing can only be successful when you have a genuinely compelling product. Sites like [YouTube](http://www.youtube.com), [Skype](http://www.skype.com), and [Flickr](http://www.flickr.com) all did well because of all the programming and product development that went into building great services which enabled great marketing to do its trick.
