If someone told me I’d listen in to the Facebook f8 developer conference, I would have laughed at them. I’m glad I did as it was very enlightening. I could easily see the developers that would thrive and the ones that would fail.
Unfortunately there was a lot of hype and unrealistic false hopes spread at the conference. One of the necessary skills for running a business is being able to realistically access a situation and come up with an solid plan of action. You can’t fall for the hype.
Social networking tools are being used more and more every day. Unfortunately, what people do not realize is that by using these tools, they are creating a personal brand. A personal brand is simply what people think of you when your name is mentioned.
For those that do not realize they are creating a personal brand or worse, think that it does not matter, they are similar to the people who got themselves in debt when credit ratings first came out.
The penalties of not listening I suppose. Anyway, let’s talk about it what is really going on with social media.
It’s an interesting term, “noob”. Sometimes it is used to mean lacking intelligence or common sense. Other times it is used to mean “new at something”. However, the term can’t be accurately used to describe someone screwing up at something they’ve been doing for a long time. For example, someone using the internet for over a year can’t say they are new, as an excuse for doing something inappropriate.
Let’s look at an example of how thinking before doing something or using common sense can go a long way in stopping embarrassing interactions.
Site speed is important. Google will be using site speed to calculate Page Rank. If you have cheap hosting, load your site down with slow responding scripts…your site might be penalized (Page Rank wise) for it.
Twitter announced it is time for them to make money. They are going to do it by implementing Promoted Tweets on their search pages. In other phases, if this goes well, they will expand the Promoted Tweets to appear in applications and Twitter based sites in the timeline of your tweets.
Twitter is very excited about this. Twitter thinks their users will love the new advertising model and will think it’s awesome!
Homer and I pick continue to discuss the iPad, HTML5 and Flash from our previous discussion. Some of the topics discussed were myths concerning Flash and HTML5, the strengths and weaknesses using them, what the iPad is, what it can be used for and who should purchase the iPad.
It’s been a while since I’ve done an podcast interview. Since I had loads of questions about web design, I asked Homer Gaines if he would mind answering some questions. One the main topics we discussed was whether it was okay to use templates instead of having a custom design made. We also talked about the iPad’s upcoming release and the technologies missing from it.