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Re: My Friendfeed Stats

Mike — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 18:13:53 -0000

Page is still in progress, i will be adding more to this shortly.

Re: Do you Toluu? I certainly do! « My Thoughts On Social Media

Mike — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 08:46:21 -0000

As with all services in beta, there are growing pains, bugs and issues. Toluu welcomes all feed back and has a very public profile. I left off my general criticisms on this post because they all have been addressed publicly on Toluu's blog and on there FriendFeed room.

http://www.toluu.com/blog/

http://friendfeed.com/rooms/toluu

Re: Feedburner problem. Please Re-subscribe to my feed. « My Thoughts On Social Media

Mike — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 14:14:40 -0000

It seems the feed burner issue is corrected.

Re: Cleaning up my Google reader with the help of Toluu. « My Thoughts On Social Media

Mike — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 14:24:46 -0000

Caleb from Toluu was nice enough to extend to me 25 more invites. If you posted a comment here for an invite, check your email. If you left no email address on your post, please re post a comment with an email address.

Re: Cleaning up my Google reader with the help of Toluu. « My Thoughts On Social Media

Mike — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 19:41:13 -0000

To everyone who posted an email address, invites have been sent. I will see you on Toluu!

Re: Cleaning up my Google reader with the help of Toluu. « My Thoughts On Social Media

Mike — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 20:21:52 -0000

Jerry, Invite sent!

Re: Does this happen to you in Toluu? « My Thoughts On Social Media

Mike — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 02:58:57 -0000

J. Phil, this happens to me at least once a day. I love the rss reset month you guys came up with. It inspired me to clean up my G reader and start fresh. Toluu!

Re: You want fries with that website? « My Thoughts On Social Media

Mike — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 14:50:34 -0000

Steve, thanks for the comment. I'm sorry you had to learn the hard way, at least now your educated. Very often people only learn this the hard way, on the web uptime is everything. When your down on the net, you virtually don't exist. Just starting out, shared hosting is great, but when your business online gets serious you need to get serious.

Re: Cleaning up my Google reader with the help of Toluu. « My Thoughts On Social Media

Mike — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 23:17:16 -0000

Nils, I spent a few months building a new OPML file through Toluu only. I did this with feeds that were suggested and new feeds I found along the way. After a few months and a new arsenal of feeds, I wiped my G Reader clean and uploaded the new OPML file from Toluu. I have been happy since!

Re: Follow the leader? « My Thoughts On Social Media

Mike — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 00:54:09 -0000

Benjamin thank you, Until your comment I was not aware it's not just G Reader shares. I did not want it to come off like I was gaming the system, glad it's not perceived that way in any shape or form. This is proving to be a very interesting experiment to say the least. Regarding the reset of stats, this will reveal some interesting data about the experiment. A total number of stories shared in the room for 30 days, now I am really curious :)

Re: Follow the leader? « My Thoughts On Social Media

Mike — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 19:19:24 -0000

Julian, agreed and thanks for you comment. These people must live on Digg 24/7 to get those numbers. It took the power of 50 combined feeds to get # 4 on the RSSmeme board. In terms of Google Reader, I find it hard that one person can alone can rank that high with out some manipulation of sorts, unless they live, breathe and eat Google Reader 24/7.

Re: Using FriendFeed to create a private online digital archive.

Mike — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 01:33:00 -0000

Andy, any contents of any entry that you post directly to the Site, including any text, images, photos, videos and audio, are stored and maintained on Friendfeed servers.

Re: Using FriendFeed to create a private online digital archive. « My Thoughts On Social Media

Mike — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 06:33:00 -0000

Andy, any contents of any entry that you post directly to the Site, including any text, images, photos, videos and audio, are stored and maintained on Friendfeed servers.

Re: Using FriendFeed to create a private online digital archive. « My Thoughts On Social Media

Mike — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 18:44:30 -0000

Andy, any contents of any entry that you post directly to the site, including any text, images, photos, videos and audio, are stored and maintained on Friendfeed servers.

Re: The underground world of internet fraud. « My Thoughts On Social Media

Mike — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 13:55:24 -0000

Amzolt, The bulk of the stolen credit card data floating around is usually from server breeches. Using your card online constantly would put you at higher risk for identity theft. Use caution and common sense on where you use you credit card. Always buy from trusted sources, if their is no encryption, start running fast. To answer your question , you do not need to have your credit card on person for it to be used by a cyber criminal.

Re: The last few days on FriendFeed « My Thoughts On Social Media

Mike — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 16:17:28 -0000

Excellent suggestion Corvida. Expanding this to thirty 30 days will definitely allow me to gain a broader view of more people to focus on.

Re: You want fries with that website? « My Thoughts On Social Media

Mike — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 02:24:36 -0000

Rahsheen, I made the same mistakes, but we both have learned from our mistakes :) When your in need of new host, please drop me a line. I will shoot you some pointers and recommendations ( affiliate free of course).

Re: Shiny Badges « My Thoughts On Social Media

Mike — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 14:19:24 -0000

Matt, thanks for the comment. That wont be your first shiny new badge and surely it will not be your last :-)

Re: Shiny Badges « My Thoughts On Social Media

Mike — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 02:39:39 -0000

Rebkin,

Thanks for the comment. In regards to bookmarking, I use a few bookmarking services each for different

reasons. Stumbleupon for promotion mainly. Diigo is the core service I use for my link repository. Delicious does just as well.I prefer Diigo because of the "Save Elsewhere" feature. That lets me simultaneously add my bookmarks to Diigo, Ma.gnolia & Delicious in one shot.

Re: Toluu+Tags = A match made in heaven « My Thoughts On Social Media

Mike — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 14:02:46 -0000

Rebkin, thanks for the comment. I slightly modified my diigo tagroll. Feel free to use mine if you like. Remove my account name and insert yours. If it don't work, let me know.

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.diigo.com/tools/tagrolls_script/mfruchter?sort=freq;icon;size=12-17;color=666666-0000ff;title=My%20Diigo%20Tags;name;showadd"></script>

Re: My A,B,C’s of FriendFeed « My Thoughts On Social Media

Mike — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 21:11:08 -0000

Mark,with lists now I can check up on those people with a little more frequency. I check the lower tier lists about 3-5 times a day. My interaction is a lot lower, compared to page A. It basically equates to controlled fake following as you mentioned. List creation is forcing me/us to almost look at every members feed with a magnifying glass for proper categorization. This gives fake following a whole new dimension.

Re: My A,B,C’s of FriendFeed « My Thoughts On Social Media

Mike — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 22:41:31 -0000

Rebkin, thank you. Lists will defiantly give you a whole new view of FriendFeed. Spend a few mins of your day sorting through your subscriptions and organizing them. It's definitely worth the reward.

Re: My A,B,C’s of FriendFeed « My Thoughts On Social Media

Mike — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 01:56:37 -0000

Justin, Thank you. I'm still wrangling with what I will use the home feed for. If I do use the home feed, I want a clean slate. This is another reason why I'm doing away with it for the time being. It's a time consuming process building these blocks, but so far proving to be effective.

Re: 10 tools for listening in social media. « My Thoughts On Social Media

Mike — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 18:35:28 -0000

Thanks for the comment Louis. You now know my secrets for keeping up with you, other then using FriendFeed:)

Re: 10 tools for listening in social media. « My Thoughts On Social Media

Mike — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 05:08:59 -0000

Rob, thanks. I was borderline with includingTechnorati. It should not be any ones first point of discovery, but rather an up the chain supplement I do agree though, it's quickly starting to go down hill and becoming less relevant.

Re: 10 tools for listening in social media. « My Thoughts On Social Media

Mike — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 05:33:03 -0000

rah33ls, Diigo is a great resource. I could see chatter created from social bookmarking. More so from Diigo then other social bookmarking services. I still would classify it more of a promotional tool. The social aspect of bookmarking, I feel has never really caught on. Platforms such as FriendFeed, is now allowing this happen.

Re: State of the blog - By a Z lister « My Thoughts On Social Media

Mike — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 16:53:36 -0000

Kim,

Thanks for the great comment. If you ever need some pointers on FriendFeed please let me know. I would be glad to show you the "in and outs" of FF. Keep up the great work on your blog. I do agree, it's a lot of work, but the community, interaction and engagement makes it all worth while :-) Stay in touch!

Re: State of the blog - By a Z lister « My Thoughts On Social Media

Mike — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 17:05:39 -0000

Justin,

Thank you. You know if I ever get to Cali, I will be taking you, Mona and Louis Gray out for dinner. Keep up the great work with your photography. You have a great gift my friend. I'm waiting to see your photography on the cover a major magazine soon. It will happen!

Re: 35 Tips for getting started with social media « My Thoughts On Social Media

Mike — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 03:35:34 -0000

Mark, thank you!

You have a very valid point regarding the permalink structure. It's a tough call, but a majority of the blogs, including you an I, all use the date/time in the permalink. I think it's almost become a standard at this point. It does firmly affix your post to a certain point in time as you mentioned, but from a search engine perspective I wonder how much it weighs or is factored in the serps, and or algorithms. If the date does not throw them off in serps, it will once the they hit blog from the time stamp or comments :)

I think adding the word blog is more beneficial for search engines. If the site is just a blog, a majority of the searches for it will contain blog in the keywords, i.e Broadcasting Brain Blog, Mark Dykeman+ Blog. Definitely having the keyword blog in the url helps, but how much is a good question. As we both know people will find our sites/blogs regardless of the fact. I think it cant hurt, and to some extent might spark anticipation to explore other areas on the site.

Re: 35 Tips for getting started with social media « My Thoughts On Social Media

Mike — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 03:52:50 -0000

I have never experimented with a custom permalink structure. I'm curious to see how better these blogs do in the serps, compared to day and name/time permalinks. I know centernetworks.com uses this structure. I don't want change my blog permalink structure, to find out. It probably would cause all sorts of 404 havoc. It would be a good experiment though.

Re: 35 Tips for getting started with social media « My Thoughts On Social Media

Mike — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 04:08:32 -0000

Sandeep, thank you. I really like the flash presentations. I would like to share it on my blog. Is there a flash embed you can provide me?

Re: 35 Tips for getting started with social media « My Thoughts On Social Media

Mike — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 04:28:36 -0000

Kim,

Thank you. I'm glad to see more people using Diigo. It's really such an under valued tool. It has so many social aspects and features, that people tend to get intimidated and never use it to it's full potential. I think you should absolutely share you own content, when it's your best quality stuff. I do mention often, not to share and promote your own content. This is because others will do it for you. Often when people are starting out they lack a big enough network for exposure. Under those circumstances share your best stuff, until you build up a network and platform for exposure. On a side note, I need to get you more active on FriendFeed :-)

Re: 35 Tips for getting started with social media « My Thoughts On Social Media

Mike — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 04:31:10 -0000

Kol, thanks for the comment and stopping by.

Re: 35 Tips for getting started with social media « My Thoughts On Social Media

Mike — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 04:38:51 -0000

Kim, I honestly did not give much of look at posterous. I think perhaps I will do a follow up post, and include some newer services. I was trying to keep the list focused on more Twitter like applications. Tumblr was the odd man out :)

Re: http://michaelfruchter.com/blog/2008/12/thoughts-to-consider-for-better-online-marketing/

Mike — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 20:38:07 -0000

Mike,

I would create a separate entity for each. It all depends on the situation though. Loic is well known, so it's more beneficial for him to promote seesmic on his Twitter account rather then a separate one. I would let an employee run the official one, field questions, comments, make announcements etc. A little star power never hurts, that's for sure. Thanks.

Re: 10 tools for listening in social media. « My Thoughts On Social Media

Mike — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 01:33:26 -0000

At the time of writing this I think backtype com was new to the scene. It's definitely a worthy mention. I will include that on the next brand monitoring post. Thanks

Re: 10 tools for listening in social media. « My Thoughts On Social Media

Mike — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 01:38:14 -0000

Guillaume,

I use them both, Yahoo Pipes with a little more frequency. Perhaps on the next brand monitoring post I will touch a bit on both of them, more so on Yahoo Pipes. I did not include Yahoo Pipes because it's not beginner friendly as some of the other ones I profiled. Thanks.

Re: 10 people you should follow on Friendfeed « My Thoughts On Social Media

Mike — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 05:50:58 -0000

Thanks,

I'm glad you enjoyed it. Stay tuned for January's list of FriendFeeders to follow. It should be hitting the presses later this week.

Re: The New Justin Korn [dot] com

Mike — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 11:47:09 -0000

The redesign looks great. Simple and very clean.

Re: From Nothing to Something - 2008 In Review

Mike — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 15:37:28 -0000

Justin,

You rock my friend. I'm glad we got to know each other, thanks to FriendFeed. You have a bright photography future ahead of you. Your passion and drive is remarkable. keep doing what you are doing. You have set some great milestones over here and it's been to fun watch. You know whenever I get to California again, I'm looking you up for dinner and drinks.

Have a healthy and happy New Years!

Mike Fruchter

Re: One Year Later

Mike — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 09:29:43 -0000

Mary,

Congrats. This is a great milestone. One year down and another 10 to go :)

I'm looking forward to seeing much more of this blog in 2009.

Re: The Scoble Top Tech Blogger/FriendFeed/Social Media List

Mike — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 07:30:51 -0000

Robert, thank you for including me. It's an honor to be listed among such heavyweights:)

Re: Social Media Best Practice

Mike — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 11:59:17 -0000

David,

I will echo Kim's comment. Thank you for taking the time to put together this list. It's great to see my fellow peers promoting and highlighting the positives of social media.

Thanks again,

Mike Fruchter

Re: TopRank Digital Marketing Talent Pool Grows with Adam Singer

Mike — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 12:00:19 -0000

Congrats and well deserved. Adam will be a very valuable asset to TopRank.