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Google Buzz has a lot going for it. Really. No need to laugh me out of the room.   For starters, it was initially force-fed to a huge chunk of Gmail's installed base estimated at around 150 million users. It is also better positioned for conversations and site sharing as opposed to Twitter (who's main value nowadays revolves around ... Read More

GM routinely scours twitter and facebook looking for UNHAPPY customers. Good to see huge Old School corporations using Social Networking to get a realtime pulse of customer reactions to their products. Kinda makes you think of ROI though. There probably has to be some sort of profiling and urgency ranking involved for it to work for GM. Source: LA Times GM has ... Read More

It appears Google's Friend Connect/Blog follower feature allows users to fly topless pictures.  Add this to a mix of high volume "social"-enabled blogs and hilarity (and traffic) ensues. Here's an example from a fairly popular blog: The racy profile pic will appear first under the Google Friend Connect/Follower area.  Click Here. When you click the profile, you get link outs outside of the ... Read More

We've been noticing that many heavy traffic news and other mass media sites have been posting tweets to them via @.  I guess the rationale for this is to get a "pulse" of what readers feel about late breaking news, current trends, and genuine feedback.  Interestingly, more and more of these types of setup are being hit hard by irrelevant, ... Read More

Webmasterlabor.Com is testing out a new service to add to its portfolio of traffic generation services.  As a subsidiary, we were tasked with testing out this service.  Here are the results: Facebook Traffic Service Analysis Methodology:  Create a facebook friend with thousands of friends.  Send a link to friends to get traffic.  This particular facebook page has a wide range of fans.  ... Read More

Twitter has updated its @ setting so that people who follow an account will no longer see that account's @ replies.  However, people can still see account names mentioned with @ as long as it's not a direct reply.  Here's an example: Replies @account won't show:  If an account you're following replies to @account, the message to @account won't show in ... Read More

Many webmasters consider NO FOLLOW a curse.  They think that it unnecessarily restricts their linkbuilding efforts.  Indeed, many webmasters think that Wordpress' default NOFOLLOW tag on comments will not yield the intended result--cut down on comment spam.  Regardless, the reality is that the vast majority of Wordpress-based blogs are NO FOLLOW despite the laudable efforts of some webmasters to enable ... Read More

Twitter is growing currently at the phenomenal rate of almost 1000%.   However, there is a disturbing twin figure to that 1000% growth rate:  a dismal retention of only 30%.  By contrast, Facebook retains around 70% of its users, a similar figure to some other social networking sites.  This disconnect between rapid adoption rates and bad retention rates invites the question: ... Read More