Klout Adds Blogger, Tumblr, Instagram, Flickr And Last.fm To Measure Social Influence
Klout, a startup that measures influence on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube, and most recently Foursquare, is adding more services today, totaling 10 different ways to measure your social influence on the web. Klout is adding five new networks—Blogger, Tumblr, Flickr, Instagram and Last.fm, allowing Klout users to add their influence on these networks to their [...]
Read MoreTech Week in Review 7-8-2011
The Google Plus 50 Chris Brogan, author and speaker on social media applications for business, has had a lot to say about Google+ since its launch. One of this more thought-provoking posts on the subject, The Google Plus 50, caught the minds of many techies this week. It’s not a list of 50 people to [...]
Read MoreKeeping Up With Kid Fury
It is no secret that black gossip blogging is becoming an increasingly saturated market. An area that only had a scarce number of bloggers only five years ago now has literally thousands of hopefuls clamoring for attention. And the biggest question from new bloggers is a tough one: what can we do to stand out from the [...]
Read MoreTumblr vs. Blogger vs. WordPress: What You Should Know
In the past few years, social networking has started to overshadow traditional blogging. However, some of the most influential websites on the Internet including TechCrunch and Mashable, got their start as a small blogs. Maintaining a blog in addition to your personal Twitter and LinkedIn account can be a low cost way to add a [...]
Read MoreFive Apps That Changed the Face of Disaster Relief
It is hard to believe that it has been five years since Hurricane Katrina swept ashore and destroyed the city of New Orleans. The city is still in recovery five years later and not even a Super Bowl victory this past year for the New Orleans Saints has eased all of the pain. It is also hard to believe that five years ago, we did not have the widespread applications for our mobile phones as we have today. iPhones were launched a little over three years ago and people weren’t even discussing Android until a few years ago. Facebook had only 5 million active users (compared to over 400 million as of last month) and the first tweet was sent seven months AFTER Katrina. Youtube was launched in February of 2005 and was just gaining traction when Katrina hit. These facts should help us gain some perspective as we review five apps that could have helped to prevent Katrina. Since the hurricane was a force of nature, there is no way anyone could have prevented the actual hurricane from coming ashore. However, in this article are five apps that could have saved numerous lives, assisted the rescue effort and helped the President and other officials understand the sense of urgency needed for the Katrina relief effort.
Read MoreGoogle Rolls Out Real-Time Stats for Blogger Users
Friday night, Google released a new feature that allows Blogger bloggers to access near real-time statistics on their Blogger blogs. The new Stats feature is similar to the more advanced Google Analytics service, which many Blogger bloggers have already been using. The difference here is that Blogger Stats is integrated into the Blogger service, is [...]
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