Google’s FeedBurner Social Isn’t Quite Ready. Back to TwitterFeed – for Now.
Why bother with an intermediary when we can now have FeedBurner send our blog post to Twitter directly? – I wrote in Startup Bloodbath in Social Media and I meant it. But for now, we’re switching back to TwitterFeed. The new Feedburner service that pushes blog posts to Twitter directly isn’t quite ready. Let’s just [...]
Startup Bloodbath in Social Media?
Google announced their own URL shortener. Great. But some startups may be panicking. The TechCrunch title says it all: Bit.ly Just Got Fu.kd: Facebook And Google Get Into The Short URL Game. Of course bit.ly is not the only possible casualty, but they are the dominant one in the URL shortening space – or at [...]
Fake HootSuite Error Turns into Forced Twitter Marketing
I had tried both CoTweet and HootSuite and decided they were overkill for my needs, so abandoned them … but when I saw Stowe Boyd mention CoTags / Sigs, I thought I’d give Hootsuite another try. I was shocked to see this error message. WTF? What do you mean I have not upgraded? The whole [...]
