Posts Tagged ‘Yahoo’
This week’s most clicked
How customer engagement really works; how religion is spreading on social media; and how Facebook is threatening Yahoo!’s business. It’s all in this week’s top five most-clicked links in SmartBrief on Social Media: 3 myths that could derail your social media efforts Security loophole means Facebook fans can be a precarious commodity Can anyone catch [...]
Dissecting the Twitter-Yahoo deal
Two weeks ago, I was all excited about Google integrating social media with e-mail. Today, Yahoo! makes a giant stride toward integrating content with social networking and I’m, at best, mildly curious. Web portals such as Yahoo! exist to solve an information-filtering problem. In the early days of the Web, visiting a portal site such [...]
Today’s bonus tracks: Yahoo! goes micro
Yahoo! finally launched its own micro-blogging service, Yahoo Meme, in English. The service’s big addition for its English debut is the ability to comment on other posts directly — as opposed to just replying on Twitter. For all its “lofty ambitions,” the service “seems lacking in its features and its potential to surpass its competitors,” [...]
Message boards – a primer
A message board or online forum is the digital version of an old fashioned bulletin board. You know those cork bulletin boards, the ones you still see in coffee shops, covered with flyers about yoga classes, apartments for rent and community events? On the Internet, community information sharing happens much more quickly and easily via [...]
Un-hijacking the conversation
Read between the lines in news stories about Yahoo, and you get the sense that co-founder Jerry Yang is a decent guy — maybe even a bit sentimental and goofy. After all, the very name of his company is a self-deprecating acronym (Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle) and Yang’s original job title was Chief Yahoo. [...]
