July 30, 2008

Paying it forward on FriendFeed

Posted by : Mike Fruchter

This idea was inspired from this post by J. Phil of scribkin.com. The idea is simple, and I think will be very rewarding.
When I first joined FreindFeed in February, it was easy to maintain a normal balance of my friends and their activities. This was easy because my number of subscriptions was low. Five months [...]


July 29, 2008

The underground world of internet fraud.

Posted by : Mike Fruchter
Filed under : Web

One of my core responsibilities as a system admin is preventing credit card fraud on our network. I’m basically the primary gatekeeper who determines the validity and legitimacy of all new online orders. With the large amount of business we do on a daily basis, it’s impossible to completely eliminate credit card fraud. Even with [...]


July 26, 2008

New Media Douchebags

Posted by : Mike Fruchter
Filed under : Video, Web, social media


July 24, 2008

Compensation for content creators

Posted by : Mike Fruchter

Allen Stern recently posted on his blog, “Do You Compensate Content Creators?”
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Stern is referring to actively clicking advertisements to show support for the author. He has a noble argument. I occasionally will click a banner ad, but not as often I should be doing. Being a webmaster for so many years, has lead me to [...]


July 22, 2008

The followability factor

Posted by : Mike Fruchter

Michael Harris recently posted on his blog, “Should I unsubscribe from people who don’t follow me back?”
Felix, a member on FriendFeed, recently released a handy little FriendFeed script called FriendVenn.
The script tells you 3 important things:

People who you subscribe to, and people who do not reciprocate.
People who subscribe to you and who reciprocate.
People who [...]


July 19, 2008

Toluu just got better

Posted by : Mike Fruchter

Toluu is a one stop social supermarket for discovery of new rss feeds. How Toluu works is quite simple. Once registered, you will import your current OPML file into the system. The service will then search for other users with interests similar to yours. This is almost like a dating service, and will display [...]


July 18, 2008

Staying active in social media.

Posted by : Mike Fruchter

The criteria for staying active in social media can be defined and interpreted in many different ways. This leads me to the foundation first, contribution. The frequency at which we contribute, dictates the level of our activity and inactivity in social media.Measuring an individuals level of activeness can be based on the mechanisms we use [...]


July 15, 2008

Spam invades Friendfeed

Posted by : Mike Fruchter
Filed under : friendfeed, social media, spam

I wrote a post a little over a week ago titled “The ticking time bomb awaiting Friendfeed.”  I talked about how Friendfeed will become a spammer’s new tool, more specifically on how they could monetize on their efforts using rooms on Friendfeed. Spam on social networking sites and applications is nothing new, it just comes [...]


July 11, 2008

30 Friendfeed non tech related rooms

Posted by : Mike Fruchter
Filed under : Unfiled, friendfeed

Friendfeed has a lot of great rooms pertaining to social media. This post highlights 30 non tech related rooms that are worth checking out.
Ask a Question
1) Answer Feed
Topics: Question the trustworthy FriendFeed community with your questions/problems and get some answers in this room.
Room: http://friendfeed.com/rooms/answerfeed
Member count: 207

Books
1) Book Groups
Topics: Discussions of great books and [...]


July 9, 2008

Friendfeed link love

Posted by : Mike Fruchter

Last night I blogged about 10 people you should follow on Friendfeed. This morning when I awoke and checked my email, I was pleasantly surprised. My inbox was flooded with 70+ new subscribers. 70+ new editors, who for the most part, (I) think share a majority of the same interests as I do.  As you [...]


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