I had a chance to dig into the nearly week-old Google Sidewiki today, and there’s plenty to like–and not like–about the product. Here’s my take:
Instant social
* Sidewiki enables any page on the web to become social–from Chris Brogan’s tweet stream to the Walmart homepage or a Seth Godin blog post. Once users download and install [...]

Most of my Twitter pals who talk or write about TweetDeck have nothing but good things to say about the application. I’m afraid you can’t put me in that same camp — at least not yet.
While TweetDeck has plenty going for it — multiple columns, easy retweeting, ability to create groups, features for monitoring multiple [...]

Jason Falls offers a helpful post today on how to do intelligent tagging on the social-bookmarking site, Delicious, and I thought that augmenting his list with two tricks of my own might be helpful:

Create a special tag for all blog posts you leave comments to. I use Commented (simple enough, right?). This enables me to [...]

Still haven’t drunk the Twitter kool-aid yet, and wondering just what the heck you should tweet about (It’s a question I hear often )?
Here are some tips that I shared by e-mail with a colleague today. The bulleted items beneath each subhead are theoretical tweets (some exceptions noted), and not necessarily posts I’ve read or [...]

This tweet from Chip Griffin caught my eye over the weekend:
trying new approach to blog reading. I can subscribe to more blogs, but I only read posts over 3k in size for more meat/thought, less noise

Through subsequent Twitter exchanges, Chip, who is the co-founder/chairman of CustomScoop (disclosure I: CS is a former sponsor of my [...]

The built-in 2 megapixel camera in my new iPhone 3G will probably never produce any award-winning photos, but here’s the key: It makes publishing a “good enough” photo to the web an absolute breeze.
Here’s the basic two-step process I’m using to publish photos to my Flickr and Brightkite photo streams:

Take the photo
Select the “Email Photo” [...]

I’ve been kicking around — lightly — on FriendFeed for a couple of months (here’s my FriendFeed page), but it took until this weekend to incorporate the site into my regular online routine.
FriendFeed, if you haven’t heard of it, is what is known as a a “social aggregator” (Wikipedia’s definition), a site where you bring [...]

The value of tag clouds is that they give us an excellent visual representation of the words, phrases, or tags that we’re using most often. You’ll often see them on blog sidebars, or on folksonomy-built sites such as Flickr and Delicious.
My new favorite blogger and Twitter pal, Sam Lawrence, blogged yesterday about a new site [...]

I’ve got nothing against blogrolls. In fact, I often tell social media newbies who are looking to find and follow influential bloggers in a particular field to start with one blogger and then follow the links from his/her blogrolls.
But blogrolls can also lead you to plenty of dead ends, too. As Neville Hobson rightly points [...]

As much as I’m generally quick to sing the praises of WordPress, it isn’t exactly the simplest blog platform for the beginning blogger. The user interface — even with the apparent major upgrades in the shiny new version 2.5 — can be far too overwhelming for the person who only needs a blog platform for [...]