July 2009
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United Breaks Guitars: Striking bad at bad...
Listen! Direct download Running time: 4:32 So just how do you share your bad airline customer-service story with the world? Well, by making a YouTube video about it, of course! And Canadian musician Dave Caroll has done just that, making good on a goal to generate “one million hits [for the video]” in under a week (the video has more than 2.6 million views as of the afternoon of...
Jul 14th
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Advantages of FriendFeed
Listen! Direct download Running time: 4:32 The weekly hastag-based #CmtyChat that Sonny Gill (@SonnyGill) and I have been running on Twitter may be moving to FriendFeed (Here’s our new CmtyChat Room on FriendFeed). I explain why. Other sites mentioned in the show: * FIR FriendFeed Room * DailyBoo FriendFeed Room
Jul 11th
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Facebook is disrupting our traditional...
Listen! Direct download Running time: 4:02 Facebook and other social media/social networking sites are causing the walls between our traditional conversation groups to crumble … some thoughts ahead of my upcoming presentation at Social Media Breakfast San Antonio.
Jul 9th
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Creating ID3 tags for iPhone users
Listen! Direct download Running time: 4:01 Why you want ID3 tags for your podcast, and specifically for iPhone users. In the short screencast below (created using the LifeCasting app on the iPhone), I demonstrate how podcasts appear on the iPhone 1) with and without album art 2) with and without show notes. iTunes Lyrics tab essential for ID3 tags for iPhone As I note in today’s...
Jul 8th
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Making the case for Bing
Listen! Direct download Running time: 3:55 Kyle Flaherty | @KyleFlaherty, director of marketing at Austin-based BreakingPoint Systems, guest hosts The Daily Boo and explains why he’s bullish on Bing. Here are four features of Bing that impress Kyle: * Rollover previews * Positioning of related searches * Filtering for images and video, including on-page streaming * Range of...
Jul 6th
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Independence Day moments on Flickr
Listen! Direct download Running time: 2:41 One great way to get a pulse of a day’s events? Searching through photos on Flickr. The image below carries a popular tag on Flickr today: Independence Day. Other Flickr sections mentioned on today’s podcast: * Popular Tags * Advanced Search Flickr photo: foxxyz Your comments, as always, are welcome. Also, check out our Daily Boo...
Jul 5th
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How do we fight Twitter hashtag spam?
Listen! Direct download Running time: 3:25 Once any marketing channel grows in popularity, spammers do their best to pollute it. Twitter is no exception. The biggest problem I see? Hashtag spam. Mentioned in this podcast: ReadWriteWeb: Twitter needs a spam filter? No, we need a market filter Your comments, as always, are welcome. Also, check out our Daily Boo FriendFeed room.
Jul 4th
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Content aggregation from brands: Is it useful?
Listen! Direct download Running time: 4:34 Jeremiah Owyang expects more brands to aggregate conversations from the social web on their corporate websites. But is aggregation in and of itself even helpful? In this podcast, I argue that brands will need a community manager to curate the aggregated content and provide context for website visitors. Your comments, as always, are welcome! ...
Jul 3rd