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Easy Stuff

A New Delicious, a New Problem.

In the past days, Delicious, the widely popular bookmarking site, changed their ehmm, how should I call it: their “website”, their user interface? If it were only the user-interface, I’d be happy, but some of the functionality changed too… Yet another example of “If you seriously engage in social media, you can’t keep it as [...]

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Google moving towards a monopoly?

A few weeks ago, I reported on the new Blogger user interface, a definitive step forward. But now, Google takes a couple of steps back in my esteem. I just downloaded the newest version of Opera, one of the browsers I use for web development. And guess what? When using Blogger with Opera, an error [...]

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Blogger: New user interface and mobile themes

Well, Blogger catches on! They just announced a brand new user interface. The last significant upgrade of Blogger was way back in 2007. Even though they added a new template designer and added a new preview function just one year ago, the basic user interface remained unchanged and archaic. Not so with the latest changes. [...]

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The Social Media Revolution

 From time to time, those of us working in social media, still have to convince people on the reach and use of it all. So, here is another infographics/infomercial video. Always good at the beginning of a presentation. Video is based on the book “Socialnomics” by Erik Qualman (Discovered via @gaurisalokhe and @rsamii)

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The difference between social media “Reach” and “Impact”

At home, I step onto my balcony, overlooking the street. I start shouting into a megaphone about the importance of farmers in the developing world, the effects of climate change on them, and the role of their produce in the food chain. And how we have to stop the marsh of the Monsanto and Cargill [...]

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The World of Social Media in 2011

If you ever need to give a presentation on the reach of the most prominent social media tools… Video courtesy Omobono

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Beware of social media experts

Now that social media is reaching its popularity peak, the market is flooded with so-called “experts” and “guru’s”. I always wondered why people would call themself “expert” or “guru”.. I played with social media since 2006. For the past two years, much of my work involved social media. For the past year, I have done [...]

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Google Pagerank update: June 27

While Google continuously updates the pageranks for webpages for internal use, the only external sign we have is the update of the Google Pagerank toolbar. As I have quite a number of blogs, I can notice any pagerank changes quite rapidly, but I always check this site for a confirmation of the last update. And [...]

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How to win the religious war on CMS’es?

“I need a website for my organisation”, people tell me, “which software should I use?”. I answer with an other question: “I want to buy a car. Which car should I choose?” The choice of a car depends on what you want to do with it: You need to go off-road? Transport goods? Race? Drive [...]

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How to compress pictures with Picasa

I am often asked to review blogs and websites. One of the most common problems I find, is simply that blogs are “slow”… A slow blog is no good. Believe it or not, most of the speed problems are caused by oversized and uncompressed pictures and graphics.

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Skype fails. Now what?

Since Microsoft bought Skype for 8 billion USD (“Don’t they know they could download it for free?”), it seems Skype had more downtime than ever before. Some of the problems are at the level of the server, but the most annoying problems have been the automatic (Read: “Forced”) upgrade to Skype version 5.3 on the [...]

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