Archive for the ‘social media’ Category

Game Podcasting 101

Sunday, December 25th, 2011

I attended NeonCon in November 2009. This is a part of the talk Ryan Macklin and I gave as part of CreativeU. (more…)

Get Inspiration from GetGlue

Monday, December 5th, 2011

GetGlue is a new social network for entertainment. (more…)

The wrong question: Which is better?

Tuesday, November 8th, 2011

Someone asked me which is better, Google+ or Facebook? (more…)

Vanity URLs for Facebook Pages

Monday, April 18th, 2011

Over the past few months, I’ve walked dozens of publishers through the process of setting up vanity URLs for their Facebook pages. If you don’t have one yet, here’s how to make one. (more…)

Loot: Lessons Learned Week 2

Monday, March 28th, 2011

Loot is two weeks old, and though it finally reached profitability this week, it’s too early to draw any lessons from the sales figures. I can say, however, that I had an object lesson in website analytics. (more…)

Loot: Lessons Learned Week 1

Monday, March 21st, 2011

I launched a new project this week. Called Loot, it’s a deal-a-day site focused on games and game-related products. In addition to helping with customer acquisition / social proliferation, Loot is also a way for me to test marketing theories. Week 1 is done. This is what I’ve learned. (more…)

“Ear Cam” from Looxcie

Sunday, September 26th, 2010

Steve Garfield wrote a short post today about The Future of Video. One of the products he linked to is a wearable camcorder from Looxcie. You can check out some early reviews on Amazon.com (aff). (more…)

Gmail & CRM

Friday, March 19th, 2010

Is Gmail your primary email environment? It is for me. I use a number of Google’s services, and having a Gmail account makes using them easier. The general lack of SPAM is also a nice bonus. (more…)

Dynamic URL Suffixes

Saturday, March 6th, 2010

I have a problem I can’t solve, and I’m hoping someone reading this can help. I’d like to dynamically tack a set suffix on to blog URLs before feeding them out into various channels. (more…)

Maximizing Facebook’s Live Feed

Saturday, October 24th, 2009

For some reason, Facebook has decided to limit the number of people who can see your updates to 250. For those of us with more than 250 Facebook friends, this is not good. If Facebook allows 5,000 friends, wouldn’t it be nice if 5,000 people could view your updates? (more…)