At its core, Pinterest is a social bookmarking site similar to Delicious or SpringPad, but where Pinterest differs (and where they really shine) is how their bookmarks are organized. Rather than saving a list of text links, Pinterest is 100% image-based. The visual nature of Pinterest creates a clean and easily browsable interface that can [...]
Posts from the ‘Apps’ Category
Apps like Yelp and Foursquare let you take pictures and leave reviews at restaurants, but unlike those and other apps, Foodspotting is completely devoted to food and pictures of food. Like many other apps, you can hook Foodspotting up with your Facebook and Twitter accounts and start following friends through there, but where Foodspotting really [...]
Bit.ly, Goo.gl, budurl.com, tinyurl.com. You’ve seen URL shorteners and in recent years, their popularity has exploded with the advent of Twitter and having to get a message across (with a link!) in less than 140 characters. TinyURL.com is one of the original URL shorteners and I used it years ago when trying to send Google [...]
I wrote a post about Google Alerts a couple years ago and how important it is to keep up with what’s being said about your organization online. Well, things were a bit simpler back in early ’08, before Twitter’s growth exploded and back when Facebook had around 75 million members (there are now more than [...]
Jul 16 10
Four On Friday: Social Media Recap
Here are some great posts from the past week about social media: 1: How the Old Spice Videos are Being Made | ReadWriteWeb Tourism Tech Corner thinks: You’ve probably see the commercials on TV, but the agency responsible for this campaign went into overdrive this week and cranked out more than 80 180 customized videos [...]
