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The New Digg

Wardell — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 21:02:59 +0000

The new Digg adds features and layout which emphasize the users network instead of site wide content. I think this is a good move by Digg to stay competitive in the social media sphere considering the rate at which some networks are stealing incorporating primary features from other sites. The site [...]

My Take on MySpace

Wardell — Sun, 30 May 2010 20:49:44 +0000

There is no doubt that MySpace is no longer the golden child of the internet that it once was and maybe it will never see those glory days again, but with a Google PageRank of 9 and an Alexa Rank of 21 it’s obvious the social networking site is far from dead. The [...]

Testing Twitter @Anywhere

Wardell — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 11:59:56 +0000

@wardelldesign is currently testing out Twitter’s @Anywhere view this post at blog.wardelldesign.com to see some of the functionality. Visit dev.twitter.com to find out how to add it to your own site. Some of my favorite people to follow on twitter: @adonisLL, @JessicaLaShawn, @mrelevance, @littletechgirl, @KellyOlexa, @mjcarter, @koa, and obviously many more. If I’ve forgotten any one [...]

How to Win Followers and Influence Tweeters

Wardell — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 23:12:40 +0000

Fill out your bio! First and foremost even if you don’t follow any of the suggestions mentioned here after. You should fill out your 160 character bio. Don’t try to be too creative or witty, any normally functioning adult knows you can’t completely surmise any individual in 160 characters so here [...]

Tweb Sites

Wardell — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 13:27:47 +0000

The following is a list of Twitter oriented websites which provide services to enhance the Twitter experience. Twellow is a Twitter directory, and in my opinion it’s one of the best, if not the best Twitter directory on the web. Users can add them selves to up to three different categories, and [...]

Social Media Toolbox

Wardell — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 01:23:53 +0000

Social Media Toolbox Wikipedia defines social media as media designed to be disseminated through social interaction, created using highly accessible and scalable publishing techniques. The following are some tools I highly recommend for for managing and disseminating information across your online social channels. Shareaholic plug-in for Firefox and IE8 lets you easily share information across a multitude [...]

MySpace Mail Allows One Time Name Change

Wardell — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 12:12:03 +0000

Myspace Mail Interested in snagging a new @myspace.com email address? Ever wished you could change the user name of your current user profile to something different? Well now you can kill two birds with one stone. Adding a new @myspace.com email to your myspace account allows you to choose your email address (if its not [...]

Social Search: The Future of Search

Wardell — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 06:27:16 +0000

The future of web surfing will not be powered by bots but by human indexed data sources. Why is social search the future of search you may ask, the answer is simple, collective human intelligence is better at determining how relevant information is than formulated algorithms alone. When can I use social search? Chances are [...]

Your Network is What You Make It

Wardell — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 20:42:27 +0000

If you’re like me then you’ve seen lots of comments on blogs about why one one social networking site is better than another, but most of the time the arguments given aren’t about the sites them selves but about other users of the site, I’ve even seen arguments against sites which are a direct result [...]