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- Finally, a way for us schmucks to make money in social media!July 9
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Verbs 2.0 — tweeting, digging, blogging, emailing (ok, that one is 1.0) — can now make you some extra change for doing what you do already. All you need to get is a Google AdSense account and add it to your MessageDance profile. Send YouTube videos, Songza songs, Digg articles, Amazon product recs, and emails to Twitter (and any of your other social networks) and when people click through to your message detail on MessageDance.com, your AdSense ads will show on the right side bar. The impressions and clicks are all yours!
Imagine, when you tweet about how you just ate a bowl of Wheaties for breakfast, you might make someone realize it would be cool to order a box of Wheaties with their face on the cover. And you”ll make some money off that weirdness (maybe $0.02, but hey it adds up).
But seriously, why not? Set it up once and see what happens. We at MessageDance are constantly surprised by the traffic we get on our users content. It”s your content, so someone should make money off of it. Why not you?
Here”s how you set it up.
- I don’t need a special UI for my iPhone, thanksMay 23
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With the Safari browser and the iPhone’s sweet touch screen functionality, I can look at any web page and do what I would do on a laptop. Granted, browsing on the AT&T Edge network can try your patience, but when connected to wi-fi (and soon 3G), the browsing speed is perfectly reasonable.
So, it bothers me somewhat when I land on a site and they serve up an “optimized” UI for mobile devices (try MSNBC from your phone). Typically, there is less functionality available to you and in the MSNBC’s case, it won’t let you switch to the standard UI from a mobile device. I have the same issue with Twitter where the mobile UI doesn’t have the functions and details seen on the standard UI such as Reply, Delete, and how it was sent (Twirl, MessageDance, etc.).
If I choose the “Standard” UI option for Twitter on my iPhone, it works perfectly fine. Sure, maybe it’s small but two quick taps on the screen and it zooms in.
There was a lot of buzz yesterday about the availability of FF to Go which is an optimized FriendFeed UI for mobile devices. It lacks several of the features found in the standard UI, most notably search. Stan
- It’s the blog, stupid!May 23
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The title is apropos for the election season, but I'm going to propose an idea here and I hope to get some feedback. Lots of people are talking about the disconnect with comments and conversations happening on Twitter, FriendFeed, and their blog. For example, you make a blog post and (with MessageDance automatically) it goes to Twitter (and thus to FriendFeed), people can comment about it on your blog, Twitter, and FriendFeed (and on MessageDance.com). Big-time fracturing of comments. Since you started with your blog, shouldn't you be able to stay on your blog and see all of the comments come back to your blog? There should be no reason why you have to monitor everything to see what people think about what you said — just have it fed back into your blog.
Your blog is the center of your universeWhen you post your blog entry, wouldn't it be right to have it say on Twitter that it came "from {your blog name}"
- Sharing tip for FriendFeed entryMay 23
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On a FF item, I clicked on “More” and then “Link to this entry”. Using iPhone’s “Email Link” feature, I emailed it to “blog @ messagedance.com”. Voilà. The URL is nicely expanded with blog post. Sent from my iPhone
Website Snapshot
Take FriendFeed Mobile With FF To Go - FriendFeed
Blogged with MessageDance using iPhone | Reply On Twitter - Twit-Outers need to get a life!May 21
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I might get some irritated commentors (actually, probably not — I get a Geoff-Out everyday) with some really good arguments as to why a Twit-Out is a decent idea, but come on, get a life. It's not like the Twitter folks want to have these problems. It's not like your Twit-Out is a strike against a cruel hunta, racial injustice, or an unjust war. Twitter is a free service that has become a lot of fun and somewhat addictive to many, many people. The people you are "outing" against know it sucks right now — but they are not withholding some right from you — and they want it fixed too.
Oh, btw, the effusive love for FriendFeed by some "early adopters" (we all know who I'm talking about) and their sudden glee in the Twit-Out is making me ill and the noise they are creating on my FriendFeed feed (redundant redundant) makes me like Twitter even more. They need to get a life (and some sleep) too.
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