Archive for the ‘Social Media’ Category
Entrecard’s bait-and-switch
Entrecard began as a community-drive way for blog owners to trade ads. Now, it’s becoming a paid ad network.
If you use the service, you probably know that Entrecards, which used to show approved ads from community members, and paid you in credits, and allowed you to advertise on other Entrecards, now show paid ads 50% of the time. You can reject paid ads, and check an option (it’s not checked by default!) to only allow approved ads on your widget, but that doesn’t change this core change in the purpose of Entrecard. OK, so that’s not what Entrecard was to begin with, and not what we signed up for. But maybe we’ll all make some money, so let’s hear them out.
Call of Duty devs using Twitter to get feedback
Political Twitter
Last night was the English debate for the Canadian party leaders, as well as the VP candidates debate in the United States. I don’t know who decided to schedule them both at the exact same time, but it certainly kept Twitter busy. Throughout the debate viewers on both sides of the border were all posting about the election to Twitter — as were some of the candidates.
Blog Action Day is back
Last October, bloggers around the world were called to join together and raise awareness of a single topic on one day. Blog Action Day saw thousands of blogs writing about a single socially relevant topic: the Environment. I wrote on a few of my blogs, including Xbox Living, where I offered some tips on saving energy with the Xbox 360.
Web Bubble Burst 2.0?
Note: This is my second and last post imported from my old blog at colintemple.com. After this, it’ll be all-new content. (Wow, I’d better start writing!)
Everyone’s really excited about Web 2.0. Still. That in itself isn’t a problem: there’s lots to be excited about. All this Web 2.0 stuff — social media, network building, picture posting, wiki writing, Twitter tweeting and all the other things bloggers do while high on AJAX — is making the Web into a much more collaborative, open and accessible medium. That was pretty much the point of the Web from the get-go, so kudos to them for the job well done.
