Posts tagged with:facebook

Now that the megapixel race is sort of passé, DSLR and smartphone makers have found new grounds to battle: low light. The one with the best picture in low light wins! Nikon launched D3200 with 24 useless megapixels. Samsung and Sony have 13 megapixel cameras on their smartphone. The 50 megapixel DSLR is near. All […]

Never played any game on Facebook or Yahoo. Never liked a game page. And still, 90% of the ads Facebook shows me on my iPhone and iPad are of games. Because, if I never played anything I sure do want to. Flawless Logic.

Dustin Curtis looks back at two ideas he thought were stupid when he heard them and turned out to be great. Happens a lot. Right now a lot of people are thinking the same about Google Glass, but they are not saying it, because it might turn out to be a huge hit, despite being […]

I thought the media agencies are making the big money, keeping their clients’ presence up to date, creating facebook apps and more. But it seems not. Could the bloggers and the influencers be the ones that are making money with Social Media?

Some months ago, a US friend came to visit and we chatted a bit about social media . We were balls deep in Facebook and Twitter and felt like we discovered the world. They passed that some time ago. Sure, Facebook has a lot of visitors and interactions, but the smart people have found ways […]

Turning down product testing you know are not right for your audience is a step forward in blogging. I’ve turned down 3.000€ laptops and luxury cars, because i don’t know if my audience would benefit from me testing them. And a picture of the car on facebook is not the kind of exposure i have […]

I like to do things manually on my blogs and use as little plugins i can. If i can use a plugin for two things it’s great. A good example is Auto feature Image plugin i am using for display on the front page of my blog, rss thumbnail and Facebook thumbnail (details here). Here […]

I found myself asking the title question to a manager asking me for advice regarding a social media strategy he was paying a lot of money for. The strategy was simple and you’ve heard it before: build facebook apps, get more likes, get more shares, get more retweets. Nothing wrong with that, but where are […]

People click more often on "like" than on "share", it’s a known fact. It’s just one click. Share, on the other hand, it’s more complicated. You have to choose a thumbnail, write a short description… way too much work. On traffic terms, share beats like‘s ass. On various test conducted on my other blog, liking […]

Ok, early adopters and google fans got in. Now what? How long before this cheap imitation of Facebook will look for new ideas as it fades away, just like buzz and wave?