Google+ first impressions

As usual Google first ignored my begging for an invite on the official page, but Florian Rohrweck (http://www.stilbruch.at) somehow had pity with me and sacrificed one of his invites for me. Thanks a lot, Florian! After one minute on google+ I knew this would be a long night and way too little sleep. The startpage reminded me a little bit Read More …

Various links

Web 2.0 Badge Creator Collection of web 2.0 badges text and video tutorials, plus a neat Web 2.0 graphic generator Huge list of sites offering Photoshop Rescources and Tutorials Univers revolved: a 3-D font “The revolved letters create a new alphabet that recaptures the element of experimentation the Latin alphabet held in its early days. Encountering it for the first Read More …

Social marketing ebooks (free download)

Looking for informations, advices, strategies or hints guiding you on your paths through the social media djungle? Here you’ll find a composition of free ebooks that might be helpful on your efforts to successfully use social marketing mechanisms for building a brand, attract traffic or gain significance on a certain topic. So these Links will keep you busy for a Read More …

Social media sites

News aggregators: friendfeed.com Friendfeed works as a feed of your social community activities, one adds services like flickr, picasa, twitter, google reader, digg, stumbleupon, del.icio.us, youtube, fast.fm and of course own blogs sharing the own post/messages/links with other people and commenting the interesting stuff from others. Seriously good source of hot news right from the streets! toluu.com A service to Read More …

Twitter vs Friendfeed

The discussion whether the one is killing the other is getting hotter and the opinions are raging high.
First of all these two “opponents” are hard to compare as friendfeed being a information aggregation tool and twitter a hybrid between instant messenger and micro blogging device.

Both serve certainly completely different needs, twitter mainly focuses on spreading rather personal opinons/feelings/emotional states/gossip, only randomly establishing a real conversation.
Friendfeed resembles a honey pot of information gathered by its user acting as honey bees collected from various flowers, like Digg, GoogleReader, del.icio.us, stumbleupon and many more. Read More …