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by Scott Frangos

Have you checked the available add-ons for Firefox lately? They’ve reorganized the add-ons site and the new structure itself reflects the trends in social media and internet browsing. There are categories for “Download Management,” “Feeds, News & Blogging,” “Language Support,” and “Social and Communication,” among others. And on the section home page for “Feeds, News, & Blogging,” is a plugin called the “Cluepedia Toolbar.”… Continue reading

by Scott Frangos, Managing Editor

Have you taken a look at what Yahoo Pipes can do recently? People are playing the pipes for just about everything these days, including SEO and Social Marketing. If you’ve never dealt with them before, the roughtly one-year-old Yahoo Pipes are:

…a composition tool to aggregate, manipulate, and mashup content from around the web.

Sounds interesting. Basically Pipes are combining and sorting RSS feeds… Continue reading

By Joshua Watson

Viral marketing is a creative marketing technique that relies in large part on social networks to reach its audience. It is worth mentioning that viral marketing shouldn’t be confused with other traditional publicity techniques because whilst the second relies mainly on paid promotional services the other uses the free online community has a means of spreading the word. If done correctly more knowledgeable marketers will even… Continue reading

By Sharon Housley

Take this Social Bookmarking Quiz and determine how much you know about the collective voice!

• What Is Social Bookmarking?
• What Are The Major Social Networks?
• What Are Social Bookmarking Chicklets?
• What Are The Benefits Of Social Bookmarking?
• What Is Social Bookmark Tagging?
• How Is Social Bookmarking “User-Generated Content”?
• What Are Some Of The Popular Uses For Social Bookmarking?
• Is Social Bookmarking A Good Search Engine Optimization

By Sharon Housley

More and more companies are using RSS as a means to communicate, so having an RSS feed that is professional and well polished will help differentiate your company from your competition. What makes an RSS feed professional? Follow these simple steps to polish your RSS feed and take it to the next level…

“… nothing… Continue reading

by Scott Frangos, Managing Editor - WebHelperMagazine.com

There is much energy, start-up capital, and media attention being paid to Social Networking and the companies that facilitate it, these days. Why? In a nutshell, I think it is about empowering people to communicate — on new levels. In a recent post, I wrote about the “5 C’s of Social Marketing” (beyond simply… Continue reading

This tutorial explains the features and benefits of a Web format called RSS, and gives a brief technical overview of it. It also includes information on a similar format called Atom. The reader is assumed to have some familiarity with XML and other Web technologies. It is not meant to be exhaustive; for more information, see the More Information about RSS section.… Continue reading