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pittfall — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 01:26:54 +0000

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WordPress Turbo – Powered by Thesis

pittfall — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 21:30:42 +0000

WordPress, along with other personal publishing platforms like MovableType and Blogger, have given everyone the ability to publish their thoughts and experiences online for the world to see. Each of these different content management systems offer different solutions including hosted and self-hosted answers. I started blogging through a hosted Blogger site for two and a [...]

Social Optimization for Real People

pittfall — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 02:11:23 +0000

Peopleized is a new web 2.0 portal devoted to the social aspect of the Internet. With a simple design and concept, Peopleized.com has the the opportunity to become a hot property on the social web. Here is the idea: 1. Join a community devoted to people. 2. Interview others by building interviews and answering interview requests from [...]

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Social Optimization for Real People

New Features from MyBlogLog

pittfall — Mon, 28 May 2007 14:26:16 +0000

MyBlogLog is a portal for social networking around blogs. Since Yahoo purchased them earlier this year, not many visible changes have happened, but recently Yahoo announced that they will be focusing more attention on building MyBlogLog to be a better portal and possibly re-branding them. The first major addition to what MyBlogLog is offering has happened: Tagging Eric [...]

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New Features from MyBlogLog

Personalized Search – The Death of SEO?

pittfall — Sun, 29 Apr 2007 04:16:52 +0000

Search Engine Optimization has been a topic of debate since the concept was developed in the mid 1990’s. Some think of it as techniques to artificially inflate organic rankings, in essence, to “trick” search engines to send them traffic that they do not deserve. I am not saying that people have used techniques to accomplish this [...]

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Personalized Search – The Death of SEO?

Code of Conduct or Common Sense

pittfall — Sat, 21 Apr 2007 20:30:00 +0000

Just a few weeks ago, Tim O’Reilly called for a blogger’s code of conduct and subsequently, and even with all of the April fool’s jokes that hit the web and blogosphere the following day it was not lost. NPR’s Morning Edition jumped into the discussion earlier this week (Wednesday, April 18, 2007), you can hear [...]

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Code of Conduct or Common Sense

MyBlogLog Addresses Changes

pittfall — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 23:39:01 +0000

In a recent post on the MyBlogLog Blog, Eric has announced changes to their management team, namely the exit of Scott Rafer, former CEO (before the Yahoo acquisition). When we were acquired, Scott was asked to stay on board and guide us through the transition. Now that we’re on Yahoo! hardware and deep into [...]

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MyBlogLog Addresses Changes

MyBlogLog Announces Community Manager

pittfall — Sat, 07 Apr 2007 03:00:35 +0000

MyBlogLog has found their community manager in Robyn Tippins of Sleepy Blogger, and they have announced her responsibilities up front: Comprehensive FAQ Integration guides Community bulletin boards Yahoo! Customer Care integration Spearhead changes to the site that cut down on confusion. I look, with great anticipation, for Robyn’s role and keeping the momentum since before the Yahoo acquisition to keep rolling! I [...]

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MyBlogLog Announces Community Manager

Focus on What is Important

pittfall — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 03:26:58 +0000

Recently I was asked to be interviewed for a new blog that is being created. So what, right? I am not tooting my own horn, but many of the questions were very thought out. I would like to share one of them: Q. Why do you blog? friends, networking, verification of information, recognition? A. I have a [...]

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Focus on What is Important

The Machine is Us/ing Us

pittfall — Sat, 10 Mar 2007 01:10:42 +0000

Digital Ethnography has completed their project and has released the final edit of The Machine is Us/ing Us. Here are a few thoughts from the author: On January 31st I released the 2nd draft of The Machine is Us/ing Us hoping to receive feedback from my colleagues. (The first draft was only seen by my Digital Ethnography [...]

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The Machine is Us/ing Us

Why DMOZ Sucks and Wikipedia is Nothing More Than a Blog

pittfall — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 01:53:42 +0000

As I have researched over the years on search engines and the value of directories and “valuable resources” on the web, I have found two things that are self-evident. DMOZ is a wonderful idea, however, it is inherently flawed. Wikipedia is a collection of information that is biased and should carry considerably less value than is given. DMOZ [...]

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Why DMOZ Sucks and Wikipedia is Nothing More Than a Blog

USA Today Catches Up and Goes Social

pittfall — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 00:57:30 +0000

TechCrunch announced that USA Today has added new features to stay relevant online. Quick guide to new USATODAY.com features The new USATODAY.com makes it easier for you to get the latest news and contribute your voice to our coverage. Take a look at how you can browse and engage our website in whole new ways: Now it’s easier [...]

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USA Today Catches Up and Goes Social

Interview with Scott Rafer, CEO of MyBlogLog

pittfall — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 02:04:47 +0000

Thank you for taking your time to answer questions and for providing a unique and useful tool like MyBlogLog to all of us in the blogosphere. I have been a member since mid-November of last year and have found it very useful for finding relevant bloggers with the same interests and even found others outside [...]

Social Search and Building a Connection to the World’s Knowledge

pittfall — Sat, 10 Feb 2007 18:34:13 +0000

Are we facing a revolution of the Internet and how we, as users, access and publish information through the world wide web? Community Next is a discussion of the present and future of online communities. Today, is the conference at Stanford University with 30 experts set to speak on the topic. Unfortunately, I am not writing [...]

Social Networking

pittfall — Sat, 03 Feb 2007 17:51:32 +0000

Social networking websites have been a major part of online communities for some time. MySpace and Facebook get a lot of media attention in print and television media, however, there are many other online communities that are out there. A couple of new platforms that I have become involved in: Spicy Page and My Blog [...]

MyBlogLog and Social Networking for Blogs

pittfall — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 01:20:03 +0000

MyBlogLog was acquired by Yahoo! to add to their other recent acquisitions in social communities (flickr and del.icio.us). Loren Baker at Search Engine Journal recently wrote a very good piece on it an I would like to share part of her description with you: What is MyBlogLog? MyBlogLog is a hybrid between a blog analytics solution and a [...]

Wikiasari Community Search

pittfall — Wed, 03 Jan 2007 02:02:00 +0000

Wikiasari Community Search “Search is part of the fundamental infrastructure of the Internet. And, it is currently broken. Why is it broken? It is broken for the same reason that proprietary software is always broken: lack of freedom, lack of community, lack of accountability, lack of transparency. Here, we will change all that. There have been [...]

MyBlogLog Building

pittfall — Tue, 26 Dec 2006 23:43:00 +0000

MyBlogLog was acquired in November by Yahoo! Take a look at the Alexa data since the acquisition: Quite interesting. What is MyBlogLog: “MyBlogLog enables you to take advantage of your existing presence on the Web and ties it into communities of like-minded readers and authors to add context to the conversations in which you take part.” MyBlogLog.com Feel free to [...]