Google Profiles: A Powerful Connect #WIWG #1

This is the first article in the ‘While I was Gone‘ series and one of many about the cool Google products and changes.
I’m starting the series with a great product from Google that was launched recently, Google Profiles.
A Google profile is simply how you present yourself on Google products to other Google users. It allows [...]

Inauguration 2009 live online! History Web 2.0 style

History is being made as I am writing this.
As the first African American president, Barack Obama The United Sates Elect-President (At the time of writing this) with high expectations for the nation and the world for that matter.
CNN has partnered with Facebook to stream live the entire event, not only that, but also sharing your [...]

Own a mini Facebook using Google’s Friend Connect

It is as simple as it sounds, with Google friend connect you will be able to insert little gadgets that will turn your blog or site into a mini Facebook or a Myspace!Still in beta, but has a lot of social gadgets, Google’s Friend Connect is the result of a greater project that Google started [...]

Ping.fm is now open beta to the public

The fun and extremely useful service is now open to public beta.As some of you may know, I am a member of 67 social networking services, that means 67 online profiles that I have to maintain regularly, Do you you how hard it is do do so? You probably do.That was until I discovered the [...]

Bebo sold for $850 million… To AOL!!

 

Just when you think that life is better and people finally realizing that AOL is NOT the “Internet” at it’s best. AOL turn around and make a very strange decision by buying Bebo.com (a leading social networking site in Europe and mostly in Ireland).
I remember when AOL and AOL affiliates worldwide were trying to [...]

Social Marketing: FaceBook, lesson 1

So the new marketing trend now is social marketing…
We’ll talk in details about social marketing in general, and how to use all of it’s powerful tools for free, but, at this lesson I will answer to the most asked questions I have been getting when speaking about FaceBook:
Q: Is it free?
A: Yes it is, 100%
Q: [...]