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The past year in social media has brought some landmark changes in the technology landscape. Facebook going public, was the biggest. It was the most talked about IPO in history, according to HighBeam Research. Then there was the rise, and eventual sale, of the photography app Instagram to Facebook for a reported 1 billion dollars. [...]

That’s not really fair. It’s not just bloggers who are stepping up their game. The readers of blogs are stepping up their game as well. Few weeks ago, Triberr deployed a brand new way for Bloggers and readers to engage with each other. Atomic Tribes. Bloggers can invite super-fans to join their Tribe on Triberr, [...]

I’ve discovered Paper.li 2-3 years ago. I remember being fascinated by it….for about 3 minutes. And then never returning to it ever again. Why? What is Paper.li? If you already know, you can skip this section. From their About page, they say that Paper.li is a content curation service. It enables people to publish newspapers based [...]

In my last blog, “Clout vs. Klout – Or the Real Meaning of Social Influence,” I pulled together information which concluded that the most visible people are not necessarily correlated with influence, and word-of-mouth recognition can only be harnessed by targeting large numbers of ordinary influencers. That naturally raises the question, “Who are these influencers [...]

That’s right. It’s dead. Like road kill. Put out to pasture. Extinct. Turned into nothingness. But why? One of the things we do at Triberr is look at successful blogs to figure out what is it that makes them successful? What is it that they have that small(er) blogs do not? What leverage are they [...]

Pin It In this video interview, I sit down with Rick Perreault, the CEO of UnBounce to discuss the life of a startup, blogging, platform development, and removing obstacle so your people can do their job. UnBounce is a great example of a content-driven business. They have an amazing blog where Oli Gardner (and frequent [...]

It’s probably just me. I probably expect too much when I see someone as highly regarded as Mr. Pete Cashmore -of Mashable fame- to enlighten us with his insight into the future of technology. Do you mean to tell me that things will get thinner in 2012? And I will be able to “touch” my [...]

I grew up in a family of smokers. When I was a kid, my dad, mom and brother used to collect Marlboro Miles and hoped that some day they would smoke enough cigarettes to get the new Jeep Wrangler. Alas, they never got the Jeep but they did smoke enough Marlboros to get a sleeping [...]