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December 2, 2009

What’s wrong with User Ranking so far? Relevancy !

As the web enters a more user-centric era where conversations can be gold mines,  you will soon need the ability to filter content and news based on the influence level of the messenger to cut through the noise. If you are looking for good blogs or discussions about Django (my current framework of development), you - Read More -

November 25, 2009

Finding early posters of good content on Delicious

Image via Wikipedia When trying to identify early influencers and pool of knowledge around a certain topic or industry, finding early poster/commenter is one simple trick often used. Not very complex, but it often leads to other links and users and help shape how the information started to spread. Backtweets is great to see who - Read More -

November 24, 2009

There’s Never Been A Better Time To Comment On Your Favorite Blogs

Image via CrunchBase Don’t get me wrong, I like Twitter and I use it all the time. But since it became the fastest growing channel, the number of real blog comments have dropped enormously. You often find yourself looking through rows of re-tweets that were collected by a Backtype or Disqus plugin at the bottom - Read More -

June 12, 2009

GoogleReader + SocialMention + PostRank = ORM for free ;-)

I had been postponing to write this for a couple weeks, but a link shared on PostRank Twitter account left me no choice but to hurry up. Social Media Monitoring is now an essential part of any brand, corp or product marketing plan. Between tools like Radian6, BuzzMetrics, TechRigy, one can also use free tools - Read More -