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Category Archives: Social Networking
Taco Bell: Free Beef Tacos to Facebook Likers
Taco Bell has turned a class action lawsuit about the beef in its food into a Facebook marketing campaign. The restaurant chain is giving away 10 million free beef tacos to Facebook "likers" who download and print a coupon. The … Continue reading
Posted in human, humor, Social Media, Social Networking Tagged facebook, facebook_like, lawsuit, like, pr, public relations, taco, taco_bell Leave a comment
Google Ousted by Facebook as Mayor of the Net in 2010
News agencies are reporting that Google was less liked online this year than Facebook, which points to “the rapid ascendance of social networking over search engines and Internet portals.” This news comes weeks after Glassdoor.com reports that Facebook is the … Continue reading
Posted in Facebook, Google, life, Social Media, Social Networking Leave a comment
CauseWorld: Check-in for Charity #appmon
Funny, I blogged about an appday monday item, but on the wrong blog. I wrote about CauseWorld on my blog about Freedom Academy’s Fundraising Committee, which I chair. I’ll crosspost it here for your appdaymonday goodness: Mashable recently wrote a … Continue reading
Posted in Android, Giving, iPhone, mobile, Social Media, Social Networking Tagged #appmon, charitable, charity, donations, giving Leave a comment
Google Calendar Goes Down; Mass Confusion Ensues
Aside from Joe not remembering that it was his Donut Day, Google Calendar going down causes the obvious: Mass panic. General blasé attitude among digerati as they have no idea what to do right now. Twitter goes freaking nuts (what … Continue reading
Posted in Google, Productivity, Social Networking, Twitter Tagged down, FAIL, google_calendar, twitter Leave a comment
Geolocation of Blog Posts, WordPress Android
I’m testing WordPress mobile’s Geolocation function in its Android app.
Import Contact Profile Photos into Android from Gravatar
Wouldn’t it be great to automagically have user-icons for new contacts in your android device? I thought so, and gladly found an app (in Alpha for now) that scans your address book and adds Gravatars (Globally Recognizable Avatars) to your … Continue reading
Share Better With Google Buzz
Sharing just got better in Google Buzz as they have introduced “reshare” as a feature.
Navigating Facebook’s Privacy Settings; New Privacy Policy Longer than Constitution
No wonder you have a Supreme-Court-sized headache trying to get your Facebook privacy settings squared away. It’s apparently harder to stay private on Facebook than to create a country. More than 50 settings with options totaling greater than 170 await … Continue reading
Posted in Apps, life, Networking, Social Networking, Tools Tagged facebook, policy, pr, privacy, public relations, rant, Social Networking, web2.0 Leave a comment
Using Live Writer
I’m trying out Windows Live Writer because I am looking for a bit of a smarter client. It seems to be doing an excellent job so far, including allowing me to take a quick screenshot, paste it into writer, crop … Continue reading
Disqus Mobile Apps for Moderators
Disqus (pronounced: "Discuss") launched their mobile apps for comment moderators, allowing for comments to be read/deleted/approved or "spammed" on the fly by site owners. From their blog: Features: Approving, marking spam, and deleting content Filtering by status Background notifications Search Reply … Continue reading →