From the category archives:
I’ve been thinking a lot about FeedBurner’s new changes where it includes FriendFeed subscribers in its total subscriber count. Unless FeedBurner removes this new feature, subscriber stats may be flawed forever. I don’t want to bore you with all the reasons why this is a bad idea, so instead I’m just going to say I [...]
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One of the first things most people do with their new blogs is install some sort of plugin to help facilitate the sharing of their posts. Thoughts of Twitter obsessively retweeting your content begin to float through your mind and let’s not forget the ridiculous amount of traffic you’re gonna be getting from Digg.
The truth [...]
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TweetSuite
TweetSuite is an excellent plugin developed by ’social & viral marketing scientist’ Dan Zarrella. It started off as a plugin that returned all ReTweets of a post and has turned into a complete Twitter/Wordpress solution.
Features include:
Server-side (no-JS or remote calls) TweetBacks
ReTweet-This buttons for each TweetBack
A digg-like Tweet-This Button
Automatic Tweeting of new posts
A Most-Tweeted Widget
A Recently-Tweeted [...]
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Are “Social Mentions” And “Twitter Trackbacks” Just Taking Up Space?
by Jon Bishop on June 29, 2009
You may have seen some of the following solutions installed on some of your favorite blogs:
Ubervu
BackType
TweetBacks
Disqus
ChatCatcher
IntenseDebate
The idea is to bring all comments about your posts into the posts themselves in an effort to centralize the conversation. This seems like a great idea until you put it into practice.
The main problem with most, if not all, [...]
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