Working Viral » Social Networks

Integrate Buzz in FriendFeed – Buzz2FriendFeed

Nicola Greco — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 11:05:52 +0000

The same day when Google Buzz was released, i wrote a script for a better integration of Buzz in FriendFeed, given that Buzz serves a rss that has a title like “Buzz by”.

Here is my script and a quick how-to about using the Buzz2FriendFeed‘ script. The code is under GPL, feel free to reuse it.

One month with Nesli and Facebook

Nicola Greco — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 17:07:19 +0000

Assuming my readers are not italians, you might not know the singer Nesli, a good italian rapper. One month ago I started to be consultant about web strategies, internet pr and personal branding on internet (a mix of all) for him, someone called me “Internet VIP Assistant/Strategist”.

No, I’m not a social media expert, I’ve just tried to use the web in unconventional ways to promote Nesli. This is the first time I work in this area. Everything is going very well. Here are the stats about his Facebook page. We started from 0 fans. Ok, don’t be scared, I’ll explain how we did ;)

Revolutionary use of Slashtags, new microsyntax for Twitter

Nicola Greco — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 16:43:09 +0000

Hashtags, invented by Chris Messina in 2007, are the most amazing stuff in twitter I think. Using an hashtag we can tag our tweets. Tagging posts sometimes means keeping track of an event or of a topic. Right now, I could say that Hashtags are the 1.0 of TwitterTags. Another kind of TwitterTag (or Microsyntax for twitter), we can consider, is the “RT”.

Today I read this amazing post from Chris Messina writing about slashtags, that I called the TwitterTags 2.0 so the new Twitter microsyntax.

What are the SlashTags?

Sure you might have never listened this word, but you can understand I’m speaking about using slash “/” in tweets. Who comes from IRC world, already knows that slashes are commands ( Slash + a word like /join ). Here examples of using SlashTags. There is a project about this new kind of microsyntax, you can collaborate or just read all about Slashtags in this wiki

/via – to say from who you get a content

The via pointer is like “RT”. Already used with “(” and “)” like “(via @nicolagreco)”

Is it time to start switching to HTML5? http://bit.ly/7Tn282 #html5 /via @woork

With the /via pointer you can save one character.

/cc – to indicate someone you want to direct a tweet at

This is like in emails. You use this pointer as carbon copy.

I miss my deadline! /cc @wolly

That’s useful for people that follow lot of users and can’t read everyone’s tweets. So you can get their attention using cc.

/by – to cite or quote someone

Ok this, which might appear same as /via or RT, as Chris says in his post, it’s used to quote or cite someone, so it’s not like retweetting.

make yours spirits bright. wish. /by @stefigno

/thx – to thanks someone for a tweet

This is a funny pointer, we might use to thank someone for a link, for a tweet or everything else.

Bugs fixed! /thx @dottorblaster

Given I use a lot FriendFeed, I would like to add to the Chris list /like. To put a “like” on a tweet. Anyway, we just can use slashtags as we want, like commands giving to pointers a kind of sense, and not just using them as hashtags.

Do blog comments powered by FriendFeed work?

Nicola Greco — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 17:06:53 +0000

Blog comments generate a community around a blog. Everyone who visits the blog is able to read its comments. Most of your visitors come to your website from search engines (think Google) and generally they are not interested in reading the comments.

If a user comments on a post FriendFeed, the content appears on the stream of people who follow him. That content might potentially interest his friends, particularly because he liked the article enough to post a comment.

If friends of your friends also comment on the post, then even more people will see your content.
To see new comments, the user generally has to visit the blog, and sometimes they forget your blog address. If your comments are powered by FriendFeed, staying updated with the discussion means visiting the social network and not having to remember the blog address each time.