I have missed the Twitter train for long enough. One of my January objectives is to make Twitter an effective part of my suite of business tools. Until now, the extent of my tweets have been random oddities through my Facebook profile, like "Teaching my kid to appreciate the Ramones." I want to use Twitter as a Read More
Yet Another Social Media Profile… But It’s Google
Yesterday I created a new profile that may eventually help to plug me in to the social network of the future. I created Bob's Google Profile - not to be confused with my Orkut profile. Google has recently deployed and stealthily launched several new features that hint at their long-term social network strategy and that Read More
I Built My Own Social Network in 1 Hour
If you are into first person shooter video games like Halo, Doom, or Quake, you have to join Shoot First. Shoot First is social networking for FPS game fans that I built using Ning. As part of Ning's free service, I easily created a full-featured social network and customized it to look the way I desired. I like to think of Read More
MySpace Opens the Door to Developers
MySpace is set to formally announce their open application interface, MySpace Platform, sometime next week. This programming platform enables developers to create applications using a set of APIs that tie directly into MySpace’s social networking infrastructure. For more info, check out Techcrunch’s comments. One key Read More
Digg-style Voting for Video Game Downloads
I love to download and play a demo of the latest video games so that I can see what is worth buying. Besides demos, there are important post-release patches that I need and some amazing mods that extend the life of classic games like Doom and Half Life. The problem is that the demo files are usually around 1GB in size. Read More
Community love with MyBlogLog and BUMPzee
I have been incredibly slow to build out my community connections and social bookmarking here on my blog. If you are going to have a successful blog, you must actively participate in a relevant, engaged community. So I've been joining everyone of the many social networking sites and social bookmarking services. Soon I will Read More