Social Media Top 5: Disclosure, Polls, Platforms, Alarm Clocks & Pandas
Doug Haslam Disclosure Geeks Rejoice: New FTC Rules on Advertorials Over the last few years, many folks have noticed a rise in the use of advertor.. oh wait, we’re supposed to call…
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Social Media Top 5: Lessons Learned From “Lessons Learned from Star Wars” Posts (NO SPOILERS)
Here we go again: the long-awaited new Star Wars movie is out (side note: I’m ok with spoilers; either the movie is good or it’s not), and the predictable “Lessons…
Social Media Top 5: Podcasters Ask the Wrong Question, Don’t Period Your Text & The War on Tree-Blobs
I actually had more material than I could use this week, how about that? I had to trim and five and was able to avoid any mentions of Donald Trump…
Social Media Top 5: #ShmivingTuesday, Twitter Share Count Hysteria, & the SpareMe Economy
#GivingTuesday, #ShmivingTuesday I have spent a lot of snark-energy lately on the various “Days” that invade our calendar. One might consider that unsurprising, knowing that I’m not a big holidays…
Social Media Top 5: New Google Plus, Oxford Strikes Again & Noms-d’Imbécile
Meet the New Google Plus, Same as the- Hey, Wait a Minute… Google has made changes to Google Plus. This might be great, it might be a “so what;” I’m…
Social Media Top 5: Safety vs Moments, Tsu(me), Trolling for Dullards
Facebook Safety Check Gets it Right: Twitter Moments Might Have Gotten it Right But Who Would Know? As the story of the horrific terror attacks in Paris unfolded over the…
Social Media Top 5: Twitter Has Heart; Spotify Not So Evil? LinkedIn Mod Changes
Twitter? Hearts? Have you no…um, Heart? People like to accuse Twitter of having “Facebook Envy,” adding features to its idiotically simple core service (some better than others). Now that Twitter…
Social Media Top 5: Yelp Abuse, Grantland’s Tomb, Snapchat Owns You, and More…
Fighting Fraud with Fraud. And Threats. and Stupidity. It looks like a restaurateur got fed up with some entitled vegans (no, not all vegans act that way , don’t assume…
Social Media Top 5: Twitter Loves Developers Again, YouTube Red, & Blame it on Content Shock
Twitter Developments Once upon a time, Twitter closed its legs on third-party developers. I thought that made sense in terms of controlling how people accessed Twitter – and could see…
Social Media Top 5: Dude Says Twitter’s Dead Because of Online Abuse – Let’s Get Him!
Is Abuse Killing Twitter or Should People Who Say So Shut Their Filthy Pieholes? Of all the reasons one could give for an eventual downfall of Twitter as a business,…