This week we had not one but TWO special guests. The Mighty Thor stopped by to join us for celebrating five years of YouTube as well as remember some of their better days. We then talked about how Tom finally got the boot at myspace and how for some reason people can’t be troubled to type a URL into the address bar and have to search for it instead. After a few more stories we finally got to the legendary Reg Saddler better known to the Social Media world as Zaibatsu. Reg answered some hard questions and gave us a little insight into his world.
Watch the entire show here or watch each segment further down the blog post.
Stories Covered:
The Site That Changed the Way We View Videos Turns 5! Happy Birthday YouTube
On Valentine’s Day 2005 a new way to love video’s was born. YouTube enabled us to share video’s with the world and now it has turned 5 years old. Happy Birthday
With Special Guest: The Mighty Thor
[Watch On YouTube, YouTube, and Follow On Twitter]
Tom is No Longer You’re First Friend
Tom is not as active on MySpace as he once was, his last update was Christmas time and to our surprise he is no longer the default friend welcoming you to MySpace.
Score 1 for RWW (& Twitter). Massive fail for facebook users
How could this be? Over 600 people thought that the site Read Write Web was in fact Facebook. What?
Half of Online Retails Have NOT Jumped Aboard the Facebook Train
The day before its 6th birthday, Facebook announced that they had reached 400 million active users. Out of those users, more than half who purchase online items are indeed on Facebook. 81 percent who shop online and utilize social media have also jumped on the Facebook train, so why aren’t retailers?
72% of 28 to 40-year-olds use social media
Not only 72% of twenty-eight to forty year olds are using Social Media, but looks like they can’t live without it either.
[via networkworld]
The New Facebook Home Page Guide That You Must Read
Confused? Facebook has done it again, they have changed it’s homepage look and to be expected people are not happy about it, not only because many people don’t like change but more due to the fact that it can be confusing.
Social Blade Digger of the Year
Sponsored by Social Blade but brought to you by Social Media Users
Description: We need you to vote for your favorite Digg User of the Year!
All you have to do to vote for your nomination is to e-mail our co-host Patrick Parise at Jenocide312@gmail.com You have three weeks to vote and your top five choices will be announced on the Social Blade Show on March the 4th.
We have the pleasure of having some extraordinary guests on Social Blade, but it isn’t often that we have someone who has mastered 3 top social media sites over the last 2 years. Why? Because you can count on 1 hand the number of people who can stake that claim.
After hitting the 100,000 follower mark (for the second time), Reg “Zaibatsu” Saddler joins the Social Blade crew to tell us the tail of his long and storied journey through social media.
Despite being banned on Digg over a year ago, Saddler is still the #4 ranked user of all time. He skyrocketed to master Mixx shortly thereafter, then found his niche in Twitter. Regardless of what social media site he tries, one thing always follows: Domination.
Join us Thursday night at 7pm PST, 10pm EDT as we discuss the social media stories of the week as well as hear the “Legend of Zaibatsu”.
On todays show we were two hosts down but had a lot of important topics to cover none the less. We spent a great deal of time covering the issue that people are stealing images from blogs/etc and posting to sites like imgur and how we hope the community will refrain from doing this to give credit to the original creator. We also talked about how there seems to be a move from digg to twitter in terms of putting buttons on websites, and then lastly about the buzz coming from google. Then, we were graced by the presence of none other then Steve Elliott aka alapoet who talked to us about how social media is helping get the word out about medicinal marijuana.
Todays Topics:
Imgur: Stolen Content and Social Media’s Double Standard
The majority of the images uploaded to Imgur are stolen from elsewhere. There is zero policing and all uploads are anonymous, which means that great pictures from across the web are scraped and uploaded as ‘genuine’ content all the time. This is of course wrong & also goes for videos as well, but who is at fault? The site itself? Digg, reddit, their respective communities? We discuss how to make this wrong right.
[via brentcsutoras]
How Twitter Stole Digg’s Thunder
There was a time where every blog under the Sun had the ubiquitous “Digg” button so that you could vote their stories up on the popular news aggregation site, but seemingly over night those buttons got replaced with the Twitter ReTweet buttons from TweetMeme. What happened? What caused this sudden shift in the social landscape?
[via technobuffalo]
Google Buzz
Google’s freshly launched service mimics Twitter with the simple utility of gmail. Though many are thinking “oh no, yet another service”, Google Buzz may be the missing piece of the puzzle in a world where people might be majoritarian users of Google’s products, including Talk, Voice, Mail, and Wave.
[via mashable & techcrunch]
Thursday night fun is about to begin! Tune in and interact with your hosts Erin Ryan, Patrick Parise, Jason Urgo, Victor Barrera and JD Rucker. We’ll be discussing stolen content in social media, getting buzzed on Google, Parental Safety for YouTube and more. Joining us is editor of Toke of the Town, Steve Elliot, who uses social media to educate people on their rights, tune in to find out more.
For the past several weeks we’ve been making offhanded comments about which network is better, Twitter or Facebook. We have been promising a longer, fully realized debate at a later date, today’s show was that debate.
To tackle this, we broke off into two teams, JD & Urgo formed Team (Bird) Twitter, and Erin and Pat formed Team (Face) Facebook. Victor, as he didn’t have a strong opinion either way, sat in as our impartial judge. There were many reasons each of the networks were better than the other, which had our points system fluctuate throughout the show. We hope you were as excited as we were to find out who the winner ended up being
“Twitter is the drive-thru. Facebook is the sit down restaurant” — Erin Ryan
Stories Covered
Los Twitteros: Mexico Looking to Regulate Twitter
In order to control crime within the Country of Mexico, the Government is looking to regulate Twitter along-side other Social Networks. Just like in the States, criminals are utilizing Social Media to evade police.
[via mashable]
Mashing Up Mashables 4 Traits to Success Using Social Media
Erin liked this article so much that she wanted to add her own thoughts and suggestions based on the examples used in this great read.
[via mashable]
Social Media & The Super Bowl
Various companies are utilizing Social Media to grab the attention of those they want to purchase their products and the Super Bowl this year is doing the same.
[via firebellydigital]
Make New Digg Friends -Digg Don’t Share Tool
Everybody knows that to hit the Front page you need to have a strong authority on Digg. This tool helps you develop a strong authority and gain 100’s of new friends on Digg. We suggest NOT using this tool, since it could lead you to getting banned on Digg and then you will have no friends.
[via diggexpress]
UStream is Looking to Expand
UStream, a place you can live stream video for free has just raised $75 million dollars in funding to move outside the borders of the U.S. and into Asia as well.
[via mashable]
Fwittermail? Facebook and Twitter slowly phasing out E-mail
Last year might as well have been coined “The Year of Social Media” and it’s only continuing to grow. With enterprises choosing to use social networks instead of e-mail.
[via socialtimes]
Are you pro Twitter and anti Facebook? Or vice versa? We want to know which side your on and why. Interact with your hosts Patrick Parise, JD Rucker, Erin Ryan, Jason Urgo and Victor Barrera as we break up taking sides and going head-to-head against each other. We will also be discussing traits for utilizing Social Media to optimize your career, Mexico looking to regulate Twitter, Social Media Superbowl and more.
We will be taking your calls via Skype (SocialBlade) and reading your thoughts, opinions and comments in the chat room, so remember to sign-in to UStream.
This week’s Social Blade Show we talked about the various changes on Facebook, Twitter, Digg and Seesmic. We were joined by the LA Times Tech Blogger, Mark Milian in which we discussed ipad, LA Times Social Networks and more.
Facebook says Bye Bye to Microsoft and hello to being more social
Facebook wants to look more social too by riding some of Microsofts ads and replacing them with ads that are more engaging.
The biggest change to Digg.com is yet to come, we have been fore warned by Kevin Rose himself. Apparently the change will be so shocking that once launched, Diggers will be saying “wow, this is not the same site.”
It’s Social Blade Thursday and we have a jam packed show for you. Join in on the social media discussions with your hosts JD Rucker, Jason Urgo, Erin Ryan, Patrick Parise and Victor Barrera. Tonight we’ll be chatting about the New changes coming to Digg, Seesmics new look, Twitters new feature and a lot more. This week we will be joined by Mark Milian, LA Times Tech Blogger.
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To tackle this, we broke off into two teams, JD & Urgo formed Team (Bird) Twitter, and Erin and Pat formed Team (Face) Facebook. Victor, as he didn’t have a strong opinion either way, sat in as our impartial judge. There were many reasons each of the networks were better than the other, which had our points system fluctuate throughout the show. We hope you were as excited as we were to find out who the winner ended up being 
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