Category Archives: Social
People Louis Gray Is Going to Hire
See comment here- I laughed my ass off when I saw that comment while at work today. I am not quite sure if I laughed so much because it was truly funny, or because I was just that bored with my life, who knows. Nonetheless, that is the reason why I changed the title of [...]
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Too Many Work Requests? Why Don’t You Endor.se?
There are freelancers that are struggling for work, and then there are freelancers with too much work. Based on the little experience I have in this up and down industry, you’re either getting a lot of work requests on a very regular basis or very little work requests on a sporadic basis. One of my [...]
My Thoughts On Zuck? What Alex Said
Fuck You, Leave Mark Alone – AlexWilhelm.com We all need to calm the fuck down. Really, it’s getting to be a daily occurrence that some person in tech, be it a blogger, an idiot, a CEO of a company in an unrelated space, lays into Zuck for one reason or the other. Mark is too immature! Mark [...]
Farmville Isn’t More Powerful Than Facebook, But the Long-Tail Is
Is Farmville more powerful than Facebook? | TechYell. Mark Nielsen asks if Farmville is more powerful than Facebook. In short, no. Farmville is an important part of the Facebook environment, but it is only some of the glue that holds Facebook and the ever increasing engagement rates together. If Farmville were to outright leave today, [...]
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I Am Getting Paid To Do This Writing Thing (How Does It Impact You)
I know I have a handful of dedicated readers out there *waves* and I spose’ now is as good time as many to do the thing that for some reason most bloggers dread. Disclosures. You see, after nearly three years of blogging at random places (LostTheTech, TechGeist, TheNextWeb, Technorati… whatever), having an assortment of grammar [...]
Why Is It So Hard To Move From Gmail to Google Apps?
I have decided that I have invested enough of myself into this domain/blog that I am going to take a leap of faith and transfer my main means of communication from holdenpage@gmail.com to holdenpage@pagesaresocial.com. I thought this would be a quick and painless process. After all, I am still going to use Google Apps for [...]
Why “Google Editions” Is No Threat to Apple or Amazon
Note: Ignore this post, I am wrong and did not think this through. I tried to write counter-arguments but simply couldn’t due to the fact the premise of my post is severely flawed. I will follow up on this post in the future when Google Editions actually releases in order to make a more informed [...]
Why I Am Not Worried About Facebook Controlling My Web Life
A lot of people are really upset with Facebook. Steven Hodson of Shooting At Bubbles has written numerous posts on the matter, and so have many others. Quite a few people have asked for my opinion on Facebook’s latest social moves, and I haven’t really given a straight answer to any of them. At first [...]
Are We Moving Towards The Triumvirate Web?
This is why I love commenter’s. Ed Borasky, left a really insightful comment (not to mention used an awesome Latin word I plan to use whenever I can) that could be a post on its own. Here is his comment: There are quite a few important things that neither Facebook nor Google do really well. Twitter [...]
Why Foursquare Still Has A Chance