My fellow Social Media Practitioners will find the new social API connectiveness tool If This Then That (ifttt.com) an amazing way to streamline your content and your social media accounts. They tout themselves as a tool that alleviates the need to code, just think about things...

12 September, 2011

At the end of 2010, I wrote about the global trends of Facebook and promised future posts on the options besides Facebook in different countries. A lot of things have changed since the end of 2010, especially with the recent launch of Google+. And while...

10 August, 2011

The new social network Path launched this past Monday. It's designed to be exclusive, allowing only your closest friends to be involved. The Ignite team had a few days to use it. Here is our initial review....

22 November, 2010

Digg.com is so 2008. Also, here's a picture of two kittens. Stay tuned for another. This post was originally going to be about why our favorite (or maybe not-so-favorite) social bookmarking sites seem to be falling to Facebook and Twitter shares, but when I did my research,...

23 June, 2010

It is not uncommon for websites to go through revamps on an ongoing basis. Some of your favorite social networks such as Facebook, MySpace, and Digg to name a few are much different looking nowadays then they once were. Below I have compiled screenshots of...

08 June, 2009

Digg recently released DiggBar to a wave of criticism normally reserved for Facebook whenever it rolls out a new piece of functionality. What has gotten folks, in particular SEOers and content producers, all riled up?...

13 April, 2009

Let me give you a little history of my adventures in Social Media: first, there were AOL chat rooms, then came forums, and eventually, Friendster. This led to MySpace and Blogger, then came Facebook and Twitter. All of these social networks, these ways to connect...

09 March, 2009

When most people hear "social network" they think of the Generation Y phenomenons MySpace and Facebook. However, with so many social networks available today, we are afforded the opportunity to meet and connect with people online in ways chat rooms could never make possible....

21 July, 2008