Category Archives: microblogging

Twitter, The New Micro-Spammer and the Need to Fix CAN-SPAM

Posted on February 2, 2010 by jessestay

Marketers seem to never learn.  Time and time again they have tried to sacrifice loyal relationships with customers in order to take the easy road in hopes to get the small percentage out of millions that might convert into one-time … Continue reading →

Posted in can spam, Facebook, http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, hummingbird, micro-spam, microblogging, social, spam, spammers, Technology, Twitter | 9 Comments

Cinch Enables On-Site Recording of Audio for the Stream

Posted on December 22, 2009 by jessestay

Early this morning Rob Blackin posted a Cinch, debuting finally the ability to record audio straight from CinchCast.com’s own website.  Until today users could post photos and status updates on the micro-podcasting network, but its core service, audio, could not … Continue reading →

Posted in blogtalkradio, cinch, http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, microblogging, podcasting, social, stream, Technology, Twitter | 6 Comments

What Are You Saying? BlogTalk Radio Introduces MicroPodcast iPhone App Cinch

Posted on October 15, 2009 by jessestay

Some times text just doesn’t cut it.  Some times video is too much. Today the popular Podcasting site BlogTalk Radio resolved this issue with its new micropodcasting platform, Cinch, and the release of their new Cinch iPhone app. Cinch aims to … Continue reading →

Posted in blogtalk radio, blogtalkradio, bwe09, cinch, cinchcast, http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, microblogging, micropodcasting, social, Technology, twitter audio | 3 Comments

"Fish Where the Fish Are" No Longer Applies

Posted on September 19, 2009 by jessestay

My good friend, Jeremiah Owyang had a great quote he liked to share in his presentations, stating that the days of old-style marketing, forcing your customers to your site, no longer applied. He stated that we must “Fish Where the … Continue reading →

Posted in distributed microblogging, Facebook, facebook connect, fish where the fish are, fishing, http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, lake, microblogging, new marketing, open microblogging, sea, Technology | 18 Comments

TodaysMama Launches a Laconi.ca Instance That Works

Posted on March 28, 2009 by jessestay

As long-time readers of my blog know, I am a very strong proponent of self-hosted, branded micro-blogging communities. Imagine, for instance, if ESPN were to create a Twitter-like site, just for sports enthusiasts (call me!). People are known for talking … Continue reading →

Posted in gno, http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, laconi.ca, microblogging, moms, openmicroblogging, social, Technology, todaysmama, Twitter | 9 Comments

Announcing Follower Messaging and Follow Statistics for SocialToo.com

Posted on October 30, 2008 by jessestay

I’ve been throwing hints on Twitter over the last week or two that I’ve been working on this, and with a little extra time I finally got it together. Today I’d like to announce that, as of this moment, we … Continue reading →

Posted in Facebook, following, http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, microblogging, OSS, social companion, Social Media, Social Network Optimization, social networks, socialtoo, SocialToo.com, Technology, tools, Twitter | 2 Comments

Web 2.0 – A Strange New World

Posted on October 17, 2008 by jessestay

Luke Stay is my younger brother, and fellow geek like myself. I like his writing style so I asked him to start guest-blogging on Stay N’ Alive. You can follow Luke on his blog at http://lukestay.com, or on Twitter at … Continue reading →

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Why Do I See So Many Open Source Advocates Using Twitter?

Posted on August 28, 2008 by jessestay

As I am speaking, Utah is having their yearly Open Source conference. If you’re in Utah or outside Utah (most of my audience is outside Utah), it is well worth the trip with some great topics from ssh tips and … Continue reading →

Posted in http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, identi.ca, microblogging, open microblogging, open source, OSS, Social Media, Twitter | 16 Comments

With Threaded Replies, Do We Really Need the ‘@’?

Posted on August 16, 2008 by jessestay

I broke news last night on LouisGray.com about Twitter enabling a new API feature, “in_reply_to_status_id”, to allow developers to tie replies to their original reply source. Immediately afterwards Evan Prodromou of Identi.ca added the same functionality to the Laconi.ca source … Continue reading →

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Laconica’s Not the Only Cool Kid In Town – Introducing OpenMicroblogger

Posted on August 15, 2008 by jessestay

There’s a new kid in town in the microblogging space, and no it’s not just “another microblogging site”. I talked to Brian Hendrickson, the lead developer behind OpenMicroblogger.org and its accompanying service OpenMicroblogger.com today and he may just have something … Continue reading →

Posted in Blogging, http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, identi.ca, laconi.ca, microblogger, microblogging, openmicroblogging protocol, OSS, Social Coding, Social Media, Twitter | 1,047 Comments