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For All The Right Reasons

muhammad saleem — Sun, 22 Jul 2012 20:21:16 +0000

Here are some of the reasons why Hoff thinks Google’s Nexus 7 is hotter than Apple’s iPad –

The fact is, Apple’s products have a look and feel that few can match, and even the Nexus 7 doesn’t quite get there … the screen is no Retina like the latest iPad … [and] it may not have all the apps, or some of the latest and greatest, that Apple has …

And if that’s not enough, keep in mind this thing is just $199, or “close to an impulse item”. But for all this amazingness, there are some downsides.

The default screens are a mess of apps … the app organization is also haphazard, making it hard to find some basic ones.

As many have noted, there’s not much content in its Google Play store … it doesn’t have a rear-facing camera … it’s WiFi only … with only 8 or 16 GB of storage, you better be comfortable storing most of your stuff in the cloud

And there’s apparently a problem with the touchscreen … that’s especially a problem for playing games. My own complaint … is that it’s just a tad too small, or at least the border around the screen is. It’s hard to pick up along the side, because too often I end up touching an icon and launching an app or stopping a video when I don’t want to. The recessed side buttons are a little hard to reach sometimes, too.

And that’s why Robert thinks “Google has a bona fide hit on its hands. And for all the right reasons, not just manufactured scarcity.”

guest post at venturebeat – digg turns back the clock to move forward

muhammad saleem — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 14:27:33 +0000

digg has been making a lot of moves lately so i wrote a recap detailing what the moves are and wether it’s progress or merely catch up.

All of the feature additions from Digg are actually a good thing. But let’s be honest, all of them previously existed, were removed (regardless of the reason) and are now being reinstated. These features aren’t new to long time users of Digg and they certainly aren’t revolutionary or radical.

They are, however, features that never should’ve been removed in the first place.

read the full post at venturebeat.

Technorati Tags: venturebeat, social media, digg, social news

guest post at mashable – eminem joins the 1 billion club

muhammad saleem — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 18:37:05 +0000

there have only been three artists ever to be a part of youtube’s 1 billion club. eminem is the third and latest.

eminem is quickly becoming a digital force to be reckoned with. on presidents day, the rapper became only the third artist to reach 1 billion views on youtube.

check out the full article along with eminem’s most popular music videos.

Technorati Tags: mashable, eminem, youtube, social media

Guest Post at Mashable – The Current State of Twitter

muhammad saleem — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 16:05:23 +0000

We all know Twitter is huge, but how big is it really? And what do those numbers mean?

While the site’s growth has certainly been impressive and it has reached the point of non-displacement, there are some interesting hidden truths about Twitter and its users. The following graphic takes a look at Twitter’s path to 10 billion tweets, what we have learned about its users and what they’ve been talking about along the way.

Check out the infographic and don’t forget to digg it!

Technorati Tags: mashable, twitter, social media

Guest Post at Mashable – Visualizing 6 Years of Facebook

muhammad saleem — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 19:39:17 +0000

Facebook turned 6 earlier this month, but what does that mean in numbers?

Facebook was launched on February 4, 2004 and has come a long way from a Harvard-only networking site in the intervening years. In fact, Facebook has undoubtedly become the world’s largest social network, with over 400 million users worldwide and more than 900 employees. Let’s take a closer look at what kinds of numbers and user activity this growth translates to.

Check out the infographic and don’t forget to digg it!

Technorati Tags: mashable, facebook, social media

Top 100 Online Marketers of 2009

muhammad saleem — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 06:28:18 +0000

Thanks to everyone that voted for me in Invesp’s annual top 100 marketers poll. I was at #94 on their list last year and moved up to #43 this year.

Technorati Tags: online marketing, blogging, social media, social media marketing

Vote for the Top 100 Online Marketers of 2009

muhammad saleem — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 16:00:33 +0000

After the success of last year’s list, Invesp is at it again with their user-voted list of the top 100 online marketers of the year. I was at #94 on their list last year and have been nominated again this year. Voting will end at midnight on December 13th.

To submit your vote, please select the radio button next to the name of the nominee and then click on the vote button. To learn more about each candidate, check out their Twitter page.

Cast your vote here.

Technorati Tags: online marketing, blogging, social media, social media marketing

Heading to BlogWorld 2009: What I’m Excited About

muhammad saleem — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 15:22:12 +0000

It’s that time of the year again and I’m very excited to be heading off to BlogWorldExpo 2009! If you’re also going to the conference, please get in touch with me because I would love to party with you while I’m in Vegas. All of my contact information is on my contact page.

Here are the panels that I will be on, followed by the sessions I’m looking forward to attending. If you think I missed a good one, please let me know.

My sessions (Friday October 16)

12:45pm – 1:45pm (Room 230) ROI Smackdown: New Media versus Traditional Media

3:00pm – 3.30pm (Room 231) Building a Sustainable Online Community

4:00pm – 5:00pm (Live Podcasting Area) Live with The Drill Down Crew

The sessions I will be attending (please click to enlarge)

Technorati Tags: blogworld, blogworldexpo, social media

A South by Southwest Mission

muhammad saleem — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 02:33:07 +0000

I was invited to speak on a couple of panels and will hopefully be representing on a third at South by Southwest 2010. To make this happen, however, I need your support. SXSW is asking you (the potential attendee) to vote on which panels you would like to see at the conference next year. Please take a look at the following three and vote for them if they interest you (which I hope they do!)

Thanks for taking a look. If all goes well, I hope to see you all at SXSW 2010!

Technorati Tags: sxsw, south by southwest, social media, blogging

director of social media strategy at chicagonow

muhammad saleem — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 03:51:29 +0000

It took a little over a month to get everything in place but I’m very excited to finally announce that I have just accepted the amazing opportunity to head social media strategy at ChicagoNow! In case you’re wondering what we’re all about, our editorial director Tracy describes it succinctly as “Huffington Post meets Facebook for Chicago”.

We’re blessed with fantastic leadership and a well-rounded team of community managers and bloggers who are passionate about Chicago and everything it has to offer. So please stop by, register on the site, and don’t forget to tell us how we’re doing and how we can improve.

ChicagoNow is a new place for Chicagoans to connect and share their interests with each other.

We think of it as an online town square for the Chicago of right now–the city that gave the world a president and may host the world for an Olympics.

We’ve quickly grown from a handful of blogs to almost 70 blogs and are looking forward to welcoming many more into the ChicagoNow family (if you think you could be one of our future superstars, or would like to partner/collaborate with us, don’t hesitate to get in touch). Finally, we’re less than a week away from taking the beta sticker off the site so please drop by and take a look, we’re confident that you’ll fall in love.

Tip’d Turns 2.0 – A community for financial news, ideas, and tips

muhammad saleem — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 14:37:22 +0000

Hey everyone, wanted to announce that Tip’d, our socially driven community for financial news, ideas, and tips has turned 2.0. Please drop by the blog to check out all the changes.

Also, read more coverage: Mashable, Read/WriteWeb, The Huffington Post, Soshable, The Lost Jacket and Tropical SEO.

Guest Post at Mashable – Is DiggBar Twitter’s New Power Tool?

muhammad saleem — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 02:15:26 +0000

I’ve written a guest post at Mashable taking a look at Digg’s latest and arguably best update offering to date.

All in all, while the DiggBar is certainly an improvement for the end-user, with one release, Digg is positioning themselves in the center of some of the hottest growth markets at the moment and at the same time protecting their core function of content sharing by taking a little focus off the destination site. As usage of the DiggBar increases, they’ll piggyback on content sharing via social networks and microblogging sites as well as corner a very nice chunk of the url-shortner market while increasing the engagement on Digg, without even having people visit the destination site.

read the article.

Technorati Tags: digg, twitter, diggbar, social media, social news, microblogging

Guest Post at Mashable – Why Do We Love YouTube But Hate Eric Bauman?

muhammad saleem — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 02:23:58 +0000

I’ve written a guest post at Mashable taking a look at the blogosphere’s reaction to Eric Bauman and his team being ousted from eBaum’s and comparing the site’s position to to larger video sites

Ultimately do we hate one because a smaller group of people is infringing on the copyright of small, independent content creators while the other is a platform that enables hundreds of thousands of users to infringe on the copyrights of large corporations?

read the article. (and don’t forget to digg and stumble the original link)

Technorati Tags: ebaum’s world, youtube, mashable, social media, social news, online video

Senior ‘Social Media’ Editor for SEMJ

muhammad saleem — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 21:57:05 +0000

I have accepted a position of Senior Editor for Social Media with Search Engine Marketing Journal and am thrilled to be working alongside Brent Csutoras.

The goal of the journal is to help professionals in the industry share and demonstrate their expertise. We are different from a magazine in that we encourage the submission of articles and research papers by experts in the industry. Similar to a scientific journal, we review articles submitted by industry professionals and our editors decide if the article will be published in our journal.

If you would like to have your paper considered by the journal please review the requirements and submit it for review.

Technorati Tags: social media, social news, semj

Guest Post at Mashable – HOW TO: Survive a Social Media Revolt

muhammad saleem — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 18:40:59 +0000

I’ve written a guest post at Mashable disecting the anatomy of a revolt and analyzing Hulu CEO’s response to the community and the lessons learned from the response.

However, the lessons to be learned here are immensely important and it would be a severe injustice to yourself as an entrepreneur, your community, and your investors, if you don’t learn from Hulu’s mistake and Kilar’s response memo.

read the article. (and don’t forget to digg and stumble the original link)

Technorati Tags: mashable, social media, revolt, social news, social networking, microblogging, digg, facebook, twitter, hulu

Guest Post at Kissmetrics: The 8 Most Important Conversion Metrics You Should Be Tracking

muhammad saleem — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 21:17:26 +0000

I’ve written a guest post at the Kissmetrics blog discussing some of the most important conversion metrics you should be monitoring.

There are hundreds of different ways you can increase retention and conversions, but before you do that, you have to figure out what metrics you should be trying to improve.

To that end, here’s a cheat sheet that will help you determine the most important metrics to track.

Head over to the Kissmetrics blog to check it out.

Technorati Tags: blogging, make money online, e-commerce, conversion, optimization

Seobook Interview – Interview of Muhammad Saleem, Social Media Expert

muhammad saleem — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 00:05:14 +0000

After seeing the rapid rise of Tip’d, I figured it would be a good idea to interview Muhammad Saleem, a social media addict who knows social media both from site manager and site participant perspectives. You can follow him on Twitter.

Please check out the rest of my interview with Aaron Wall (and don’t forget to stumble the original post!).

Technorati Tags: muhammad saleem, interview, aaron wall, seobook, social media, financial news, tip’d

Guest Post at Mashable: Where Digg Fails, A Success for StumbleUpon

muhammad saleem — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 21:05:02 +0000

I’ve written a guest post at Mashable discussing how StumbleUpon has managed to succeed where Digg is currently failing.

StumbleUpon bans users that are seen to artificially inflate votes on content because of the terms of use violation, but then offers a viable alternative to those who want to legitimately use the service to cash in.

read the article. (and don’t forget to digg and stumble the original link)

Technorati Tags: mashable, social media, social news, digg, stumbleupon

Check out My Checkout Icon

muhammad saleem — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 23:44:15 +0000

Google Blogoscoped found some interesting advice from Google’s Checkout blog today. According the blog,

…users click on ads 10% more when the ad displays the Checkout badge.

This is great advice for anyone using Google Checkout and wanting to increase conversions. For more advice checkout Brian’s article: Does Telling Someone to“Click Here” Work?

Technorati Tags: marketing, conversions, roi, google checkout, copyblogger

Guest Post at Kissmetrics: Increasing Value in a Declining Ad Market

muhammad saleem — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 23:29:01 +0000

I’ve written a guest post at the Kissmetrics blog explaining how you can increase blog value even as your blog’s total revenue decreases.

To help you keep your sanity around the economic downturn and the spending cuts in the ad market, this guide will help you understand and increase value even as your revenues decrease.

Head over to the Kissmetrics blog to check it out.

Technorati Tags: blogging, make money online, revenue, optimization