by Jonathan Towell
July 13, 2011
Have you noticed how sharing a link on Facebook will display a thumbnail and description?
Or, have you taken the time to look at your friend’s interests?
And have you wondered “How can I customize the thumbnails and descriptions for my links?” The answer is Facebook’s Open ...
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by Jonathan Towell
July 13, 2011
Traditional Search Engine Optimization (SEO) isn’t good enough anymore. Today’s digital marketer must think beyond SEO. There are new techniques which now allow developers to link data on a page such that it can be understood, formatted, and reused. As a marketer trying to share informat...
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by Jonathan Towell
April 5, 2011
Historically, tracking users’ behavior on Facebook tabs has been tough if not impossible. Google Analytics and other stat tracking platforms did not work with Facebook’s tab publishing platform, Facebook Markup Language (FBML). Recently, Facebook changed tabs from FBML to iFrames, allowi...
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by Jonathan Towell
February 16, 2010
Google recently introduced the WebFinger protocol and enabled it for all Gmail account.
What is WebFinger?
WebFinger is a protocol that can be used to attach public profile information to an email address. Engineers have been fumbling around with ways to standardize the way profile information is sh...
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by Jonathan Towell
December 7, 2009
By now, you've probably heard of invite only, Google Wave.To appreciate all the new stuff packed into Google Wave, you should watch this very long video or this very short video below:
The best part about Wave is that it isn't just a Google only toy. Wave is a protocol designed such that eventually...
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by Jonathan Towell
November 23, 2009
Twitter recently baked in retweet functionality into their core service. Here are the notable changes:
Retweets now display with the original twit's profile, not the retweeter's profile.
Twits can just click a button to retweet instead of typing "RT @username"
Retweets show retweet stats including ...
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by Jonathan Towell
November 16, 2009
Razorfish surveyed
1,000 U.S. consumers to cull information about the way people interact with digital branding efforts. Read the full survey here and Razorfish’s analysis here.
I found a few of these findings of particular interest to
marketers. The bottom line is that digital branding, specif...
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