links for 2009-08-31

A Look Behind The Curtain At Facebook’s Optimization Efforts
(tags: facebook design performance socialnetworking socialmedia)

Websites that don’t work without www

Don’t Let Social Media Comments Ruin Discussions On Your Blog

Is the Tyranny of the Mac Fan Boy Waning?
(tags: apple)

Improve your blogging – Learn from 300 years of blogging experience
(tags: blogging)

Social Networks Leaking Users Data To Tracking Sites
Many [...]

links for 2009-08-30

WITN?: Exit ignorance, pursued by a bear. The truth behind Obama’s plan to take over the Internet

First Capital Connect – Twitter
If you're using Twitter and travel with First Capital Connect regularly, you'll find our new Twitter service invaluable. By following us on Twitter, you'll be able to receive alerts sent directly to you when problems [...]

links for 2009-08-29

User Experience Myths

From the 2009 Generation Gap to the 2020 Great Divide
July’s Below the Topline ended with a description of a likely future U.S. in the year 2020 and beyond—a country split between the aging Baby Boom still with substantial political, economic, and social power, and a young, fast-growing multi-cultural population with far less political [...]

links for 2009-08-28

Shadow IT and ECM

Goodbye Virtual Reality, Hello Augmented Reality
If you haven’t yet heard about Augmented Reality or Web Squared, allow me to make a quick introduction.
This is the next iteration of the Web and also desktop and mobile applications and is indicative of the future hybrid Web and device experience. And no, it’s not called [...]

links for 2009-08-27

Enterprise 2.0 is Not an Application
Enterprise 2.0 should be a structure that allows great flexibility in the choice and use of applications throughout an organization, supporting the applications with APIs to allow data to be taken from and deposited into central data stores.
Enterprise 2.0 currently “fails” because we are attempting 1.0 deployments of 2.0 applications.
(tags: [...]

links for 2009-08-26

Real time comments will piss off pro bloggers (at first)

Web Squared: Web 2.0 Five Years On (PDF)
(tags: web2.0 socialmedia internet technology trends research pdf data future websquared)

Flex + Force.com: A Powerful Combination for Building Great, Data-Driven Web Applications
(tags: flex development flash ria tutorial web2.0)

A Glimpse at Web 3.0: 13 Semantic Web Applications Reviewed
Web 2.0 was [...]

links for 2009-08-25

Dell Twitters Its Way to More Revenue — Seeking Alpha
Earlier this summer, there were several reports that Dell (DELL) has made $3M thanks to its use of Twitter, mainly to notify people about outlet deals on dell.com. The microblogging service that garnered media attention with reports on things as trivial as celebrity feuds and as [...]

links for 2009-08-24

How To Become An Enterprise 2.0
(tags: communication management marketing web2.0)

The Evolution of the Social Media Evangelist
(tags: socialmedia strategy)

You Deleted Your Cookies? Think Again | Epicenter | Wired.com
More than half of the internet’s top websites use a little known capability of Adobe’s Flash plug-in to track users and store information about them, but only four of [...]

links for 2009-08-23

FriendFeed is over – Time for a Blog Revolution
(tags: blogging delicious facebook socialmedia socialnetworking twitter)

25+ Great HTML 5 Resources to Get You Started
(tags: webdesign html5)

81 Pixel perfect Social Media Icons
(tags: socialmedia social webdesign web2.0 free network facebook icons graphics stock photoshop)

links for 2009-08-22

How the Old, the Young and Everyone in Between Uses Social Networks
Social networkers utilize popular Websites such as MySpace, Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn in different ways depending on their age.
According to Anderson Analytics, Generation Z (13-to-14-year-old) social network users were more likely to use MySpace than Facebook. Only 9% of them used Twitter and none [...]