LOTD: 12/1/08
Monday, December 1st, 2008A hearty dose of links to start off the last month of 2008 with.
- Wondering if 2008 changed anything, online, for the college set? Nope. Facebook still rules the coop.
- Now that Pownce has gone to that great doghouse in the sky, you’ve got one less social network/application to update. Still overwhelmed? Check out tarpipe. Lets you spread the wealth, easily, via single e-mails. Similar to switchabit.
- Interesting look at the state of the internet in Canada.
- Give me something to read. Exactly what it says. Quality stuff from around the web.
- Samir has a great wrap-up of some of the best social media videos around the web this past year (via dave surgan).
- Full-text indexing of over 50,000 popular magazines & newspapers from around the world (via steve).
- SmartBrief’s new social media newsletter.
- Bloggers are people too. Just develop strong relationships, use common sense and the rest will follow.
- We’ll close with a terrific explanation of “viral” from Faris:
What we mean when something goes ‘viral’ is that LOTS OF PEOPLE CHOOSE TO PROPAGATE IT. It requires people to do something. Voluntarily. For their own reasons. It is not simply a new way to broadcast our messages through populations. It suggests we push, when in fact they pull.
P.S: Check OTD out on Alltop! We also made some small site enhancements over the break. Most notably, upgrading comments to use DISQUS. Leave us some video comments!
