Readying for next month’s Blog World Expo presentation on traditional media members saving their audiences by using social media, I’ve been able to find out about some interesting things in the works. I’ve agreed to respect the media outlet’s readiness and am holding off spilling the beans, as it were, but one such media member [...]

I click on “Share” in Google Reader. Some magical web 2.0 wand waves and the post is automatically bookmarked on del.icio.us. I thought this should be a simple process. But when I started diving into it, I realized the Yahoo-Google competitiveness probably wouldn’t allow it. (Yahoo owns del.icio.us.) Of course, this is just big company [...]

My friend Brendan Picha from Squareoak has developed a new social bookmarking/social news tool to help submit your favorite stuff to multiple sites. It’s in beta and worth giving a try at PostToaster.com.
This isn’t a new concept. I’ve been using SocialMarker.com for quite some time now but it hasn’t been quick enough in adding [...]

Faves.com launches today. The artist formerly known as BlueDot offers a social news site with a little different spin: Your activity is based on topics, not friends.
I’m trying to resist calling it the anti-social news site.
Social Media Explorer got its first sneak peek of a new site when Faves.com honchos Mike Koss and Rob Dickerson [...]