April Events, Podcasts and Classes

Apr 08, 2009 No Comments by

Uptown Uncorked has a lot going on in the way of lunch and learn sessions, networking events, podcasts and more in April. We want to achieve our goals of connecting people, improving how you use the tools you have and teaching you what you need to know to drive your self or your business to [...]

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TweetDeck Essential in Controlling the Twitter River When Cross Posting to FriendFeed and FaceBook

Apr 07, 2009 No Comments

Twitter is noisy. This is one of the things I adore about the service, the constant chatter. For others, that never-ending stream of information is a bit hard to take. These people tend to gravitate toward other services, like FriendFeed and FaceBook, for a more controlled experience. Recent changes to both FaceBook and FriendFeed have [...]

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The Importance of Social Media Landing Pages

Apr 05, 2009 No Comments

As someone who manually reviews each new follower profile to see what they are all about, I can attest to the importance of having a link in your bio. I know I am not the only one who is less likely to follow you back if I can’t see more information about you than a [...]

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Does Today's Facebook Really Help Build Relationships?

Mar 10, 2009 4 Comments

Facebook has certainly come a long way since its baby days, hasn’t it?  As one of the first college students to adopt the social networking platform, I’m all smiles when Facebook rolls out new changes.  At the moment Facebook is promoting its upcoming home page changes which will allow users to post content directly from [...]

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So Your Parents Found You Online, Now What?

Feb 27, 2009 2 Comments

The moment has arrived that you’ve been dreading. Your dad left a comment on that photo of you in the lamp shade on your FaceBook wall. Your mom made fun of the outfit you wore to that party – the one where you took that picture in the bathroom mirror on your MySpace profile. Or [...]

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Mobile Social Spreading, but Still Stunted

Feb 22, 2009 No Comments

I just got my first iPod Touch, and suffice it to say that I’m officially hooked.  In fact, I’m more than hooked.  In less than 24 hours, I’ve effectively decided that lugging around a Blackberry Curve with the wonderful Touch is too much, and that I need an iPhone.  Leslie called the iPod Touch a [...]

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Facebook Ties up Loose Contractual Ends and Everyone Cries Foul…Why?

Feb 16, 2009 12 Comments

Today the blogosphere is all a’tizzy about Facebook’s move to claim all rights, past and present, to user-uploaded content.  And perhaps the reaction is justified; didn’t we already deal with Facebook on the privacy front just a short while ago with the whole invasive advertising debacle?   If you haven’t heard, Facebook updated its terms-of-service [...]

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Making sense of the space between Twitter and Friendfeed

Dec 08, 2008 2 Comments

Twitter and Friendfeed: two social micro-blogging platforms which people continue to compare and contrast, like both locked in a duel to death with one another. Recently, Dave Winer wrote a piece on the two platforms, likening them to the early computing platforms of Macs versus PCs. Dave suggests that Twitter is like the Mac platform: [...]

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