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Facebook Makes it Easier to Delete Your Account, Sort Of
via ReadWriteWeb by Josh Catone on February 12, 2008
It was just Monday that the New York Times reported on the difficulty some users were having when trying to permanently delete their accounts from Facebook. The social networking site offers a "deactivate" feature, but still archives all of a user's personal information in case that user decides they miss Facebook and want back in. Frustrated members turned to groups on the site to complain...
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Should Bloggers Open Up Their Statistics?
via louisgray.com by louisgray on April 29, 2008
The Web makes it incredibly easy to be measured, and to be measured publicly. There are many metrics out there, be they Technorati Authority, based on unique external hyperlinks, total RSS subscribers (via FeedBurner), total Twitter followers, and friends of all types, from FriendFeed to Facebook and back. But while most of us are more than eager to share that data, when it comes to actually...
Shared by: atul, charlie anzman, louisgray, Andy C, Robert Scoble, Franklin P, Drew Olanoff,
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Which button would you click? A lesson on website optimization
via Google Analytics Blog by lm on April 29, 2008
Start Now, Begin, or Get Started? Orange or blue button? What color text? Does it matter?Website optimization seemed to be the hot topic at SES New York this year. Everywhere we turned, speakers were discussing how small changes in website content can result in big differences in traffic patterns.Before we suggest a strategy for optimizing your website, let's make sure we're all on the...
Shared by: Andy C, Robert Scoble, Eric, Ben, Slicer, Rich, TaopaiC,
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The Tumblr-fication of Google Reader
via rexblog.com: Rex Hammock's weblog by (author unknown) on May 05, 2008
Shared by Rex Pechler An interesting perspective on the new Google Reader features.A new feature that will be recognized as a tumblelog by the tiny fraction of the world’s inhabitants who might know what a tumblelog is, has been added to Google Reader. Wisely recognizing that tumblelog is a far-edge concept, Google chose not use such a term in announcing the feature on the Google Reader...
Shared by: Rex Pechler, happy_harry, Haripako, Linda, Tomo, Franklin P, Andy C,
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Is Friendfeed the Next Big Thing or are We Just Bored?
via Micro Persuasion by (author unknown) on May 22, 2008
Shared by Dominik We're just bored - friendfeed is in fact the next jaiku.Over the last several weeks I have become utterly addicted to Friendfeed. If you're not tracking me there already, you might want to. You can pick up the feed here or just hit this page.Friendfeed aggregates all of my content, including my Twitter updates and Google Reader shared items. I am also using it to share...
Shared by: Dominik, Nico, Drew Olanoff, Andy C, Franklin P, Sean McBride, gort581,
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The Truth Why Twitter is Over Capacity
via Web Strategy by Jeremiah by jeremiah_owyang on May 27, 2008
... on Rails deployment, mainstream adoption due to many press and media reports, or even just Scoble.After careful analysis, I’ve found the reason for the downtime of Twitter, it’s none of the infrastructure, users, or external factors, it really comes down to poor deployment of internal resources.Whales can only go one way, gotta get those birds going the same way.Did you like this? Digg it.
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SezWho: How it Compares to Disqus & Intense Debate
via ReadWriteWeb by Corvida on May 27, 2008
Today SezWho a universal profile, content discovery, and a sophisticated reputation engine provider, has announced its acquisition of Tejit, a provider of semantic intelligence solutions. The acquisition enables SezWho to provide more precise contextual reputation scores for contributors based on topics of conversation. ReadWriteWeb gives you an in-depth look into SezWho's latest acquisition...
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Disqus' Downtime Reminds Us of Woes for Data In the Cloud
via louisgray.com by louisgray on June 06, 2008
I am a happy Disqus customer. Implementing Disqus comments on this blog, enabling people to track their conversations around the Web, show personal custom avatars and thread conversations, has been among the better things I've done with the blog. Since installing Disqus, total comments have increased, I can get a better sense of my most frequent participants and they can connect one to one....
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Twitter Has Jumped The Shark
via The Inquisitr by Duncan Riley on June 07, 2008
Notice something about Twitter lately besides the constant downtime? It’s gotten quiet. Not deadly quiet, but when it is up every day there seems to be less and less being said. In my case gone are the days where I could use Twitter to track the latest breaking story or the days I had dozens of conversations. It’s not just me, Dave Winer and Rafe Needleman have both noticed as well, and...
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Tracking Clicks in Emails and Web Pages Using Google Analytics
via Digital Inspiration Technology Blog by Amit on March 02, 2008
... Clicks in Email Messages and RSS FeedsSay you have written a wonderful article that fellow bloggers may like to blog about. You are likely to send them an email with a link to the story but how do you track if people actually clicked on that email link ?Enter URL Builder - a free tool from Google Analytics. Just type the URL of your blog article and put the following values (Campaign So...
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