social-media Archive

  • 4 Ways to Backup Your Twitter, Facebook, and other Social Media Accounts Data0August 27, 2010

    4 Ways to Backup Your Twitter, Facebook, and other Social Media Accounts Data

    A common thread I’ve heard by people who use social media services are the concerns of how to access their archived data or what could happen if the service ceased to exist. In the case of photos and videos I personally always have local versions that are usually much higher resolution than the versions I [...]

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  • Why the Checkin Has Gotten a Bad Rap and Its Importance to Lifestreaming10April 7, 2010

    Why the Checkin Has Gotten a Bad Rap and Its Importance to Lifestreaming

    I have been seeing quite a bit of negative feedback or confusion lately regarding the usage of checkin services. Two blog posts I read recently from Louis Gray and John Battelle offer great details describing their usage and experience with Foursquare. Louis stated: For me, as I’ve watched this phenomenon, expecting to be dragged into it kicking [...]

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  • Small Worlds Brings Innovative Lifestreaming to the Virtual World6April 23, 2009

    Small Worlds Brings Innovative Lifestreaming to the Virtual World

    A while ago I watched a video interview Robert Scoble did with the folks at Small Worlds. This is a new virtual world service that is being compared to Second Life. The difference here though is that it doesn’t require you to download a client and runs right within your browser.  They’ve also managed to [...]

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  • Social Web Services and Social Maps5October 13, 2008

    Social Web Services and Social Maps

    I came across this very cool graphic of Social Web Services created several months ago by Brian Solis and JESS3. I’m not sure how I missed it, but glad I finally stumbled onto it. It’s a great representation of a subset of services broken down by category that can be used to create your Lifestream. This [...]

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  • SocialMention is a Search Engine for Lifestreamers0October 13, 2008

    SocialMention is a Search Engine for Lifestreamers

    SocialMention.com is a newly released project built using Yahoo’s BOSS search platform . It was created by Jon Cianciullo who also created cluztr.com which I’ve written about previously. It’s basically a search engine that allows you to search for people, or mentions of them, as well as any other keyword and get results from top social media sites including [...]

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