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Posts on my experiences with social media

Google FriendConnect API

Mar 12, 2009 Joost de Valk 74 comments

I've been following the #pubcon conversation with interest, and here is the official announcement :). All I can say... look here. Thanks to Matt and Anindo of Google for their help on this!

Tags: friendconnect, Google, Social Media
Categories: Social Media

The analytics issue with Twitter

Jan 19, 2009 Joost de Valk 172 comments

Twitter is great for traffic, but just how great it is, well, you'll never really know. Why not? You'll ask. Well, the only traffic you'll see coming from Twitter is traffic that comes through Twitters web interface. And most people I know don't use the web interface, they use desktop and / or phone clients.

Tags: Google Analytics, Twitter
Categories: Analytics, Social Media

TwitterCounter Dashboard Widget

Jan 03, 2009 Joost de Valk 19 comments

I've recently had some fun with developing the TwitterCounter API (to which we've added Twitter Rank yesterday) and my first Mint Pepper for it, and I decided it was time to add another milestone to my development career.
I'd never developed Widgets for Apple's Dashboard yet, but I had seen Dashcode, and that it seemed pretty

Tags: Twitter
Categories: Social Media

The power of Twitter (clients) exposed

Jan 03, 2009 Joost de Valk 14 comments

This story shows the power of Twitter and how you should always be prepared for major traffic spikes.
Last night, in the beginning of the evening, @michielb twittered that he made a list of most used Twitter clients. I thought it looked pretty cool and asked him if that was measured by unique users or total

Tags: Twitter
Categories: Social Media

TwitterCounter: the API and the Mint Pepper

Nov 25, 2008 Joost de Valk 12 comments

As you know I'm a big fan of TwitterCounter, and Boris, its creator and founder is one of the few Dutch entrepreneurs I'm actually a fan of, as he really seems to get the "new" web.
I emailed him last week, asking why TwitterCounter didn't have an API, and we started talking about what an

Tags: Twitter
Categories: Social Media

Twitter iPhone apps side by side

Nov 17, 2008 Joost de Valk 24 comments

Twitter is now officially a part of my life. I find myself checking Twitter more often then my email, and that, I guess, forces me to be smart about how I use it.
I've been using Twitterific and Twinkle side by side for a while, but both annoyed me at times. They look like this:

I was

Tags: iPhone, Social Media, Twitter
Categories: Social Media

Easily display your last Tweet

Oct 24, 2008 Joost de Valk 52 comments

I wanted to show my latest tweet on the front page of this site, and although I know there are several plugins which probably could've helped me do this, I decided to see how easy the API was to use.
It turned out to be incredibly easy, as long as you have PHP 5.2 or higher,

Tags: PHP, Twitter
Categories: Social Media, WordPress

Leaving Onetomarket

Sep 23, 2008 Joost de Valk 17 comments

Typing this blog post gives me a weird feeling. I won't beat around the bush: I'm leaving Onetomarket. It's time for a new challenge, and it's time to broaden my horizon. Because of that, I will be joining a new company as of October 1st, and will be diving into another corner of online marketing.
This

Tags: Onetomarket, Personal
Categories: SEO, Social Media

Digg submit buttons: a good idea?

Aug 18, 2008 Joost de Valk 19 comments

Lately I've noticed a lot of people using the Digg button in Sociable to submit my posts to Digg. While I appreciate the gesture, the chance of any of my "normal" posts making it to the front page of Digg is minimal.
To make it to the front page, you currently need 200+ diggs. Getting there

Tags: Social Media
Categories: Social Media
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