Posts Tagged ‘technology’
Five on Friday - five fabulous web 2.0 tools and sites of the week (17-10-08)
October 17th, 2008
My top Five web 2.0 tools, sites and applications of the week:
1, First off is Do You Feed which turns your own rss feeds into a iPhone friendly site. - Neat!
2, Like Umm is a ratings directory. So for example if your looking for top rated technology sites, click on the technology tab and you will be given a list of rated technology sites.
3, Here is this weeks Twitter offering: Friend or Follow. Submit your Twitter screen name to find out who you’re following that’s not following you back, and who’s following you that you’re not following back. - Watch out for the rabbit being stroked!
4, Top of the Blogs is the next up, does what it says on the tin, rates your blog! - Blogs are ranked on various criteria allowing visitors to search the best blogs by category, tag, country, or language.
5, Bandcamp is the final web 2.0 application for this week.
Bandcamp isn’t Yet Another Place to Put Your Music. We power a site that’s yours. So instead of our logo plastered between banner ads for Sexy Singles Chat, your fans see your design, your music, your name, your URL. You retain all ownership rights, and we just hang out in the background handling the tech stuff.
One great feature of Bandcamp is the analytics’s which show you where your fans are coming from, what they’re listening to and when, even which tracks they’re obsessed with versus which ones they’re skipping over.
Bandcamp Screencast from Ethan Diamond on Vimeo.
Five on Friday - five fabulous web 2.0 tools of the week (19-09-08)
September 19th, 2008
Here is my usual Friday web 2.0 tools/technology good stuff round up of the week.
1, I have been doing a little research for my forthcoming iPhone and have come across this little application called If Found. You set up your iPhone with this application and if you loose it the finder can click on the If Found icon on the menu, this brings up your contact details so the finder can get in touch with owner. The incentive is the owner sets up a finders fee payable to the finder on return of the hand set. - neat!
2, Still on the iPhone theme is apttism. The aim of the site is to aggregate the latest iPhone app news, reviews, ratings, media and more to help you find the best apps and games.
3, Last week on the web 2.0 tools list was a site called Yammer, following on from this a similar business Twitter style offering called Present.ly . It allows you to give your employees the ability to instantly communicate their current status, ask questions, post media, share images, documents, video, and audioclips with your colleagues.
4, With all the news around the financial markets, Streetread tracks various financial news services, stocks and companies from the latest headlines from over 20 of the leading finance sites.
5, This next one is not so much of a web 2.0 tool but a trip down memory lane. It’s the retro equivalent to Gizmodo and Endgadget and is called Retro Thing.
More of the same web 2.0 tools/technology good stuff next week.
Don’t be a social media optimisation (smo) H.E.R.M.I.T
June 30th, 2008
Social Media Optimisation (SMO), not to be confused with Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) has been around since 2006. A gent called Rohit Bhargava was credited with inventing the term SMO according to Wikipedia. View his orginal blog post here.
If you want to learn more about Social Media Optimisation, I can recommend The Beginner’s Guide to Social Media Optimization.
Here are some other relevant posts I have read on the subject:
Ultimate Social Media Optimisation List
SMO (Social Media Optimisation) and Social Media Marketing - Case Studies in Viral Marketing
New Rules for Social Media Optimization
Just to recap the smo is an optimised site that can be more easily linked to and bookmarked, is highly visabile in social media searches, and has added and extra user generated content like embeddable videos, photos and podcasts ect.
Most of the blogs we follow in the technology field have got their Social Media Optimistation down to a fine art, resulting in small blogs being catapulted into massive, mainstream, must-have RSS feed subscription and go-to sites. Getting your SMO strategy right can launch you into mainstream media and beyond!
So remember if you don’t want to be a social media optimisation H.E.R.M.I.T you should:
H: Help your content travel
E: Encourage the mash-up
R: Reward inbound links
M: Make tagging and bookmarking easy
I: Increase your linkability
T: Think about great content
This diagram below sums up smo very well:
