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What the hell is social media? [Video]

Peter Horsten — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 11:55:09 +0000

When following us for a longer time you won’t be surprised we at Goyello love coffee, good code, geek tools and social media. Especially in Europe we are still facing an intensive debate about the (non-)sense of social media. Honestly, it feels similar to discussions we had just some years ago about the Internet and [...]

Social Media is like teen sex

Agnieszka Gibowska — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 13:22:56 +0000

More and more companies understand the need to be present at social media but not many of them do social media properly and effectively. Why? Because in order to succeed in social media we can no longer treat it as yet another communication channel. It can’t be a random activity. It should be aligned with the overall [...]

NEW: HootSuite5 with HTML5, geo-search, themes, Google Analytics and native re-tweets

Peter Horsten — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 16:10:47 +0000

Today my HootSuite client was offline for a while, which was a big surprise. In general Hootsuite is a very reliable service. Fortunately, I was informed this was due to a remarkable update. Some time late I noticed significant changes to the social media dashboard beginning with a completely refreshed HTML5 user interface, plus geo-located [...]

HOW-TO: Create Java Web Application with Eclipse WTP and m2eclipse

Rafał Borowiec — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 08:49:34 +0000

On daily basis we use Eclipse as a primary IDE for developing Java applications. We also are tightly coupled with Apache Maven as our main project management tool. A well known plugin that integrates Apache Maven into Eclipse is m2eclipse. One of its main features is the integration with Web Tools Project (WTP). In this short [...]

Is Facebook Open Graph worth this hype?

Agnieszka Gibowska — Thu, 06 May 2010 16:04:27 +0000

Two weeks ago Facebook launched a new social plugin (”like” button) that works with the Open Graph protocol as part of the strategy to make the Web more social and personalized. The button spreads across the internet and it’s clear that websites’ owners quickly embraced the new social plugin. There is already a lot of controversy around [...]

New link and news sharing makes LinkedIn more social

Peter Horsten — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 19:59:48 +0000

When you open your LinkedIn page to update your status, you will notice a new feature. From today LinkedIn enabled easy sharing of news and links. A nice new feature which enables you to share what’s hot in your domain. It’s easy to share the news with your network. LinkedIn is step by step [...]

Is Townhall going to be the new way to connect with your voters?

Peter Horsten — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 19:33:46 +0000

Social networks are an important place to meet for marketers and increasingly for politicians as well. The 2008 Obama campaign on Twitter showed the value of social networks. Voters are online 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. High time to meet your voters online! Today at the Politics Online Conference TownHall is [...]

It is impossible to work between 9-5

Agnieszka Gibowska — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 15:35:17 +0000

Have you ever wondered how many hours do you actually work at the office? Excluding lunch breaks and other breaks obviously. Have you ever calculated your productivity level during the day? How many hours are you able to work uninterrupted? If at all possible. Let’s be realistic Experts on time management claim that we can actually work up [...]

Why automatic deployment of PHP applications is important?

Jakub Zalas — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 09:33:15 +0000

There are many ways PHP applications are deployed on production servers. Some people use SCMs like Subversion to fetch latest revision of code. Others simply transfer the files via FTP, SSH or rsync. There is one problem with all of these approaches. They are error prone. File transfer is only part of the deployment process. If something needs [...]

A legend of the notorious Black Team

Agnieszka Gibowska — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 09:03:59 +0000

In my last post about teams I claimed there is no universal recipe for breeding a jelled team. A few days ago I came across a great book Peopleware, first published 20 years ago and then updated a few times. The authors explain what it takes for the team to jell. In order to illustrate [...]