Social Media from an Unexpected Place: Microsoft!

Monday, June 2nd, 2008

A few days ago (May 30th) I got my usual twice-monthly  Microsoft Technet Flash newsletter.  Usually I just skim and toss, not finding that much of interest.  But in this one I found not one, but three interesting links!  It sort of jolted me, in a way.. I really didn't ...

YAAOF - Yet Another Article on FriendFeed

Wednesday, May 28th, 2008

I know what you are thinking... This is the 35th FriendFeed post I have read in the past week! And you are absolutely correct. I Need A Fix FriendFeed has been a big news item for a while and especially recently ...

Bookmarklets Galore

Saturday, May 24th, 2008

I was just reading an article from Louis Gray about how to use the very cool and capable FriendFeed bookmarklet. That got me thinking about just how many [[bookmarklets]] I have gathered in the past couple of months, and what they all do. You can see them ...

Return of the Bookmark Badge

Thursday, May 15th, 2008

Recently, I received an email from Pat (also known as MicroPat on Twitter), the creator of Add to Any.  He wrote my webmaster account to let me know that he had found my article on ShareThis and Add to Any's interaction with the Snap! service, and was looking ...

Tell Me About StumbleUpon

Tuesday, April 8th, 2008

StumbleUpon isn't very much like any social bookmarking site out there. And, in a way, that is good. If you are relatively new to web surfing, or even if you feel like you are going to the same 5 web sites every day, StumbleUpon is the perfect remedy.

Tell Me About Flock

Saturday, April 5th, 2008

Every modern operating system comes with a web browser. On Windows, it is Internet Explorer. On a Mac, it's Safari. Linux usually comes with more than one, but usually has at least Firefox. All of these (arguably) are decent web browsers and do the job ...

Followup: Social Bookmarking in Plain English

Tuesday, April 1st, 2008

I found this video on YouTube when doing a Google search for (ok, I admit it) my own social bookmarking article.  Enjoy! In fact, I just discovered that the group that did the video above has a whole bunch of useful videos, which you can find at their site, The ...

What Is Social Bookmarking?

Friday, March 28th, 2008

When you are clicking around looking at different web sites, you are bound to visit one that you want to return to later.  What do you do in that case?  Simple, your web browser has a handy bookmark feature that allows you to save a link to the current ...

Bookmarking Tag: Why ShareThis?

Monday, March 24th, 2008

I switched from using AddToAny to ShareThis today. But let's back up. Why am I using a service like this anyway? Well, personally I don't like the "social bookmark" banner at the bottom of a lot of blogs - I think it looks cluttered. However, I ...