Geek Shout

If you haven’t seen HotPotato.com, it’s a new service that launched about 9 months ago. It allows people to inform their friends or the general public of what they are doing at this moment – what are they watching, reading, attending, etc. How is it different from Twitter? It’s not, except that it restricts the [...]

Deskarma is a new website that targets the same users that you’d find on LinkedIn – professionals wishing to exchange business knowledge with other peers.
The website uses a karma-based points system; points can be earned by sharing valuable knowledge with other professionals. Thus Deskarma combines the social networking aspect of LinkedIn with content-rich pages, pages [...]

Social Networks are the focus of many businesses this year for various reasons: communicating to customers, pushing a brand, driving in traffic and of course, search engine optimization. However not all social networks deliver well on all these benefits. This PDF entitled The CMO’s Guide To: The Social Landscape clearly outlines what the social media [...]