Recently I’ve been running across several concepts and ideas that I’ve tried to learn or figure out ways to accomplish the crazy.
Facebook Pages are interesting because I’m not sure even Facebook knows how they should work. I’ve been playing with the Orangejack Facebook Page and have watched Facebook change and improve aspects of it. Some of the items I’ve noticed or figured out within the last month or so since I opened my page are:
- Pages are now public and searchable by Google
- Pages now allow owners to invite people to become a fan
- Page walls now allow links, photos, and videos to be added – similar to an individuals wall
- Pages allow auto-import of a RSS feed into the Notes section
- Fans get Page updates added to their home news feed along with friend updates
- Currently one can not make a Facebook Page private – I learned this trying to find a way to import an external private RSS feed into Facebook for others to subscribe to
- Admins for Pages can email fans
- And Facebook is now over 200 Million in user profiles
Twitter is jumping the shark. Or at least people on Twitter are.
- Ashton Kutcher beat CNN to the 1 Million followers mark
- Oprah joined the Twitterverse on her show @oprah
- Twitter’s auto direct message service is over-abused
- Twitter is a Press Release channel – just ask CBS and Phil Keoghan
- People are offering “Intense Twitter Training” when all you need to know is you need to listen and share. That’s pretty much it.
- Meanwhile the Twitter elite don’t like others calling themselves “experts” (which is why I refer to myself as a “Strategist”)
- However, the combo of TweetBeep and Topify rock the Twitter interaction via email
Wordpress is commonly believed to be the most popular self-hosted blog software. But I can’t find stats to prove it.
- Most of the top 100 blogs use Wordpress, but I want to see this chart for “everyone else”
- Yes, there are other self-hosted blog software systems
- I know Wordpress has been downloaded more than 4.5 million times (thanks @robgt2)
A few Miscellaneous itmes too:
- The new Digg Bar is convenient, annoying, and not good for web owners, but Digg is fixing it.
- I’ve developed some theories about LOST where I think I feel like I know what Island LOST is about and what’s coming
- I’m enjoying publishing random to my Tumblr blog and keeping my LOST soup aggregating site running on auto-pilot
- Saturday I’ll be at BarCamp Orlando 3
