TypePad Archives - Social Email Marketing

Facebook: “Like” is liked but do you like it? I bet Google doesn’t

I’ve been playing around with Facebook’s “I like this” or, if you prefer, “I recommend this” button and have manually implemented it on top of some posts like this one. I also checked out all the other new Social Graph related features that Facebook added.

Indeed, manually, because although the blog platform I use, TypePad, was the first in the “Like” button program, it hasn’t really done spectacular things with it yet but, then again, it's all so new.

You can add a “Like” or "Recommend" button for your blog in general via TypePad, but as far as I can tell, it’s impossible on a post basis, unless you have access to the source code of TypePad.

How European businesses are trying out Twitter

Earlier this week, the Wall Street Journal, posted an interesting article about the ways businesses are trying out Twitter.

Readers from the US might think “so what” since, as is often the case in new interactive marketing areas, the US has a leading position when it comes down to the corporate use of social media and Twitter.

However, in the article the Wall Street Journal looked at how European firms are trying out Twitter.