Posted on June 11th, 2008 by Nathan Burke
Full Disclosure: I work at matchmine. Just saying. Today matchmine announced that blogged.com has gone live on the matchmine Media Discovery Platform. It’s weird to say it as “matchmine announced”, since, well, I’m part of matchmine. Almost like when people do their “about” page in the third person, but I digress. Here’s what that means: [...]
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Posted on June 9th, 2008 by Nathan Burke
My blog post on the idea of the Guilty Pleasure is now up on the matchmine blog.
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Posted on June 6th, 2008 by Nathan Burke
Posted on June 5th, 2008 by Nathan Burke
Plurk- A New Microblogging Service So, the new service everyone’s talking about is Plurk. It’s kind of like twitter, as it’s a microblogging service. But, unlike twitter, you can only use plurk on the plurk website. You can’t use it via sms. There are no plurk clients available yet. Oh yeah, and when I try [...]
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Posted on June 4th, 2008 by Nathan
I admit it, complaining is one of my top three non-work-related skills (the other two are karaoke and Wii Tennis–is it sad to admit this?). Social media seems to blend quite nicely with complaining, doesn’t it? Look at all the people popping up to point out that complaining about Comcast on Twitter appears to have [...]
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Posted on June 3rd, 2008 by Nathan Burke
This morning I installed the Zemanta plugin, which suggests photos, links, articles and tags while you’re composing a blog post. After you write 300 characters, the Zemanta plugin gives contextual suggestions from Flickr, and article suggestions from 300 media sources and the blogs of Zemanta users. Here’s what it looks like: Since this post is [...]
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