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<!--Generated by Squarespace Site Server v5.11.81 (http://www.squarespace.com/) on Fri, 24 Feb 2012 05:44:45 GMT--><feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"><title>Social Media</title><subtitle>Social Media</subtitle><id>http://webcandy.org/socialmedia/</id><link rel="alternate" type="application/xhtml+xml" href="http://webcandy.org/socialmedia/"/><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://webcandy.org/socialmedia/atom.xml"/><updated>2011-12-07T17:41:42Z</updated><generator uri="http://www.squarespace.com/" version="Squarespace Site Server v5.11.81 (http://www.squarespace.com/)">Squarespace</generator><entry><title>The Importance of Custom Short URL’s For Curating Content</title><category term="shorturl"/><category term="tweet"/><category term="twitter"/><id>http://webcandy.org/socialmedia/the-importance-of-custom-short-urls-for-curating-content.html</id><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://webcandy.org/socialmedia/the-importance-of-custom-short-urls-for-curating-content.html"/><author><name>Dave Sumter</name></author><published>2011-12-07T12:30:54Z</published><updated>2011-12-07T12:30:54Z</updated><summary type="html" xml:lang="en-US"><![CDATA[<span class="full-image-float-left ssNonEditable"><span><img src="http://webcandy.org/storage/heatmap.PNG?__SQUARESPACE_CACHEVERSION=1323263594825" alt="" /></span></span>
I was scanning through tweets the other day and found that I kept getting drawn to <a href="http://twitter.com/#!/hnshah">@hnshah</a>&rsquo;s kiss.ly links. This is the custom link he uses to share stuff on twitter. It got me thinking as to why this was happening... I mean, was I craving a kiss? Was I associating it with keep-it-simple-stupid? What was going on? Why wasn’t I been drawn to other short links too..? Why was I noticing the short link before the profile picture and the text...]]></summary></entry><entry><title>Facebook Timelines on Their Way</title><category term="facebook"/><category term="linkedin"/><category term="timelines"/><id>http://webcandy.org/socialmedia/facebook-timelines-on-their-way.html</id><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://webcandy.org/socialmedia/facebook-timelines-on-their-way.html"/><author><name>Dave Sumter</name></author><published>2011-12-07T11:58:23Z</published><updated>2011-12-07T11:58:23Z</updated><summary type="html" xml:lang="en-US"><![CDATA[<span class="full-image-float-left ssNonEditable"><span><img src="http://webcandy.org/storage/timeline.PNG?__SQUARESPACE_CACHEVERSION=1323260897794" alt="" /></span></span> Facebook has announced that it’s starting the rollout of its timeline feature. Check it out if you haven’t done so already. I think this will be a major improvement to its service, and will start to give it a set of tools that will help it to compete with companies like LinkedIn.]]></summary></entry><entry><title>Social Commenting</title><category term="comments"/><id>http://webcandy.org/socialmedia/social-commenting.html</id><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://webcandy.org/socialmedia/social-commenting.html"/><author><name>Dave Sumter</name></author><published>2011-12-06T10:57:41Z</published><updated>2011-12-06T10:57:41Z</updated><summary type="html" xml:lang="en-US"><![CDATA[I was researching blog platforms today and was really surprised at how many of them still lack social commenting features. I've used many of them over the years, but I wanted to see how far some of them had come in terms of social integration. I think all blog platforms should have Facebook and Twitter commenting built in by now. Yet many still lack this, and some require complex add-on's and plug-in's to get it all working.]]></summary></entry><entry><title>Klout Under Siege</title><category term="influence"/><category term="klout"/><id>http://webcandy.org/socialmedia/klout-under-siege.html</id><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://webcandy.org/socialmedia/klout-under-siege.html"/><author><name>Dave Sumter</name></author><published>2011-12-04T14:40:00Z</published><updated>2011-12-04T14:40:00Z</updated><summary type="html" xml:lang="en-US"><![CDATA[<span class="full-image-float-left ssNonEditable"><span><img src="http://webcandy.org/storage/klout2.PNG?__SQUARESPACE_CACHEVERSION=1323098164222" alt="" /></span></span> It’s been interesting watching the Klout debate unfold. The last few weeks has seen a backlash from some users after Klout made changes to their scoring model. It’s understandable that those who have been taking Klout seriously are now upset that their scores were negatively affected. Of course, the scoring change was really just the spark for the privacy and transparency debate that has now erupted.]]></summary></entry></feed>
