Metcalfe’s Law, which is mainly applied to telecoms networks, but can seemingly equally be applied to social networks, states:
the value of a (telecommunications) network is proportional to the square of the number of connected users
Therefore, if you know 2 people, the value of your network is 4. If you need 10 people, the value of [...]

In light of the fact there didn’t appear to be any public waves on SEO and internet marketing, Clickthrough decided to set one up!
SEO and Internet marketing Google Wave
We haven’t really publicised it yet, but feel free to tell others to come and join us in our new community.
The point of the SEO Wave is [...]

Yesterday, various people pointed out that a bug had been found in Twitter that could  hold the potential for malicious exploitation. Last night, Twitter attempted to fix the issue and today, David Naylor, who initially discovered the exploit, has pointed out that Twitter have not fixed the issue.
If you are using Tweetdeck or a similar [...]

Habitat managed a major faux pas this week when they misused the hashtags on Twitter in an attempt to jump on the trending bandwagon.
Topics that trend on Twitter are those where hashtags are used to create a ‘channel’ to allow users to easily follow all tweets on that particular topic.  For example #MJ has been [...]

Every Friday is Follow Friday on Twitter. Each Friday, people suggest other people worth following using either #ff or #followfriday in your post.
Some people get their knickers in a bit of a twist about it when not mentioned by their latest best friend, but you can be logical about it, rather than emotional.
For instance, if [...]