Archive for category: Social Media

Yodle Twitter Account Gets Phished

26 February, 2010 (19:40) | Google / SEO, Social Media | By: admin

Roughly 15 hours ago I received a direct message from Yodle who was an obvious victim of Twitter Account Phishing. The DM from Yodle on Twitter read this…
hey, i’ve been having better [removed] and longer with this here http://someURL
Obviously this wasn’t Yodle so it’s important that all you kids and businesses protect your brand by [...]

Social Media Expert. Best post i’ve seen thus far

4 January, 2010 (23:25) | Social Media | By: admin

Original Source: http://openpresswire.com/twitter/youre-not-a-social-media-expert-you-idiot/
This is a post I found written at OpenPressWire.com – the words, I couldn’t have said better myself. Here are a few paragraphs and I highly encourage you to read the rest of the article by clicking the link above.
Are you tired of hearing it yet? I sure am. It seems Twitter has [...]

Social Media: The End of Days for SEO

4 January, 2010 (02:50) | Social Media | By: admin

Tweet! Tweet! Tweet! That’s the sound of your dreams of being a Celebrity SEO Blogger like Aaron Wall or Michael Gray going straight out the window – and you can’t do anything about it!
Fellow SEOs it’s time to brush up those resumes – you all (including me) are going to be out of jobs very [...]

Twitter Bans 370 Passwords

28 December, 2009 (23:03) | Social Media | By: admin

Twitter has learned a valuable lesson in security and is apparently taking a stronger stance on security by banning 370 simple to use and simple to guess passwords – all due to a security breach earlier this year.
Here’s the full list of banned Twitter passwords, via TechCrunch:
1. 111111
2. 11111111
3. 112233
4. 121212
5. 123123
6. 123456
7. 1234567
8. 12345678
9. [...]

Chris Brogan: What I Want a Social Media Expert to Know

28 December, 2009 (19:49) | Social Media | By: admin

Chris Brogan is the President of New Marketing Labs and another of my my favorite bloggers. He wrote an interesting post that I couldn’t resist to re-post with some snippets.
The subject relates to the social media industry along with the factors that every one who uses Twitter claims to be a social media expert… Chris [...]

Twitter in Plain English

19 December, 2009 (16:48) | Social Media | By: admin

This is a good video for those still struggling to understand the reasoning behind Twitter.

Twitter Hacked, Defaced By “Iranian Cyber Army”

19 December, 2009 (16:23) | Social Media | By: admin

Source: http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/12/17/twitter-reportedly-hacked-by-iranian-cyber-army/
Yesterday was quite a wild ride for me… I started the day out by joining a clients Christmas Party’s  and later rolled over to the Arvada DNote to see one of my favorite local bands; Wendy Woo so I missed all the action with the latest and greatest from Twitter. Here are a few [...]

Twitter is down again

7 December, 2009 (22:22) | Social Media | By: admin

Update: it’s live  again…
It’s official Twitter is down again, here is the latest update…
Brief Downtime:
We briefly experienced a very high rate of errors due to the same underlying problem as yesterday. We are working to permanently resolve this problem.

SEO: Top 10 people you should follow on Twitter

7 November, 2009 (16:08) | Google / SEO, Social Media | By: admin

If you are big into SEO here is my top 10 list of people you should follow!
[P.S Follow me too - @ Scottsdale SEO]

Matt Cutts @MattCutts
Aaron Wall @AaronWall
Jeremy Schoemaker @Shoemoney
Jill Whalen @JillWhalen
Adam Lasnick @thatadamguy
Michael Gray @GrayWolf
Search Engine Land @sengineland
Rand Fishkin @randfish
Danny Sullivan @dannysullivan
BruceClay @BruceClayInc

There you have it – now get following! 

Chinese Downhill – Social Network

26 October, 2009 (14:37) | Social Media | By: admin

Seriously – another ‘niche’ social networking website?
I recently heard through the grape vine about Chinese Downhill (Interesting name…) which is supposedly a social networking website that caters to skiers and snowboarders.
Anyone else getting burnt out on the literally THOUSANDS of niche social networking websites?
Where did the name “Chinese Downhill” come from?
In the 1980s ski comedy [...]