Facebook and video...

It seems that Facebook is a great forum for people to share personal video. I recently read a nice piece that poses what some of the implications of this are to social media sites like YouTube and MySpace. Read about it at...

Ping.fm is a simple, yet powerful postin...

Ping.fm is a nice tool to aggregate how you post to all your social media sites. I recently saw that a friend of mine on Facebook was using it to keep his updates fresh. I checked it out and it allows you to post from your own ping.fm page and have it sent out to dozens of sites like LinkedIn, Twitter,...

Google redefines coach potato...

Google is often called “the lazy man’s bookmark,” catering to indolent Web surfers (myself included) who would rather frequent the giant’s pervasive search box than – gasp – type a URL in its entirety. Google’s new(ish) Universal Search interface continues to empower the slothful by allowing users to watch online videos right on the Google page. Just think of all the...

Social media: traditional agencies just ...

According to a recent survey, traditional agencies don’t understand social media and are ill equipped to help their clients navigate the changing landscape. There’s a lack of competence of the needed skills in social network and video sharing – as well as a traditional compensation model – that prevent them from adjusting. According to analyst Jim Nail,...