Podcasting: the whole 9 yards is actually much longer
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Sebastian
You can write and read as many “25 tips on improving your podcast”-guides as you want, even act upon the tips – the learning curve just never ends. This week alone, fueled by input from Gary Vaynerchuk, C.C. Chapman and the guys from Marketing over Coffee, I felt like a pre-schooler yet again. And believe […]
Open letter to revver.com
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Sebastian
Dear people at revver (yes, that includes “the guy who can’t read a calender), for more than two years I have given you my content from www.speakingenglishpodcast.com for free and used your player, promoting your brand. Even more so, I allowed you to monetize my content in your name. In return I received some money, […]
Podcasters: enhance your ID_3 tag for iPhone and iPod Touch users
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Sebastian
I saw it first on Jaffe Juice, then on The Hollywood Podcast: One touch on the podcast’s cover and not only the time listened/remaining appeared, but also some text. I wondered how they had done that and tried it myself. The trick is in the ID_3 tag in the lyrics section, a region I had […]
Tracking, Discoverability and the Future
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Sebastian
Since what seems like forever Steve Gillmor has been lobbying to get the TRACK function back into Twitter. And apart from the Newsgang-crowd he seems to be alone doing that. At least here in Germany nobody seems to bother all that much. When IM and TRACK did work I had Twitter in a GTalk sidebar […]
Twitter-spam getting out of hand
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Sebastian
Mandy711, Brandy454, Lucy196, the line goes on and on. And since I maintain about 7 twitter accounts it is mulitplied. Forget about Twitter being down and the Friendfeed vs. Twitter discussion – if I continue to get more spam subscribers than real “friend” requests, Twitter gets kind of, well not useless, but a pain in […]
Friendfeed: Say Good-bye to my Tweets
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Sebastian
So I untied my tweets from my Friendfeed account today. Because I use Friendfeed differently, not really for interaction. If you want to interact with my tweets, you’ll have to do it on Twitter. My reason? I use the Friendfeed RSS feed to display my “other” stuff in my blogs sidebar. If I let my […]