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ShareI had almost missed this, good news for those in love with Instagram: the world’s largest mobile phone social network tops 25 million users. Foursquare is trailing, but not by much: they have 22 million users. The gap between the two could become larger – quickly: Meanwhile, Instagram’s growth is set to skyrocket soon as [...]

ShareI’ve got an exciting announcement to make! From now onwards, I’ll write a weekly column for Media Tapper called “Blog Domination.” As you might expect, I’ll use the column to share my experience – how I went from an amateur blogger, read by hundreds of people, to a successful problogger writing for the biggest American [...]

Share Are you sometimes wondering about your privacy when you’re using a social network such as, say, Facebook, Google+ or LinkedIn? I know I am. MGD Advertising made a very insightful infographic about this subject. To cut a long story short: it seems that I’m not the only one who’s concerned about what these websites [...]

ShareIf you are a blogger, I’m sure you quite often (or at least every now and then) not knowing what to write about. You sit there, at you desk, knowing that your readers count on you. But there’s nothing coming out. You just sit and wait, nay, pray, for inspiration. Recognize yourself in that description? [...]

ShareAs I wrote earlier here at Michael Blogs, I am in love with my new iPad. Well, that’s a bit of an exaggeration (I don’t fall in love with material things), but I am most certainly enjoying my newest toy tremendously. If you read my blogs regularly, you know that I’m now sometimes writing blogposts [...]

ShareOh my. Apple, Apple, Apple. What are you thinking? Don’t you realize that you’ll alienate swaths of existing and potential customers? Apple has filed a motion for preliminary injunction against the Samsung Galaxy Nexus in the U.S., for infringing on four patents held by the company, reports Florian Mueller of FOSS Patents. This move is [...]

ShareI had a rather strange experience yesterday. Normally I write with a host of other people for a Dutch website, called Dagelijkse Standaard. That was not the case on Friday, however. The fellow editor could not work that day, so I had to take care of the site by myself. I ended up writing four [...]

ShareOne of the weirdest things that has happened to me recently is that I have found myself being more than able to write entire blogposts on my new iPad. I realize that there are a lot of people who argue that using an iPad for this purpose “simply is not very handy.” Apparently these folks [...]

ShareHere are ten of the most interesting tweets and articles about social media, published in the last 24 hours. I have collected them for you with the help of Storify. Storify is a great way to curate content published on social networking websites (and elsewhere). You can search for a keyword, and select tweets, Facebook [...]

ShareEvery tech and social media blog in existence has spent a lot of time and attention to today’s Apple iPhone talk. And rightfully so, of course. The iPhone truly is a revolutionary product, and there’s no doubt in my mind that Apple will take their revolution further and further, until smartphones are an integral part [...]

ShareHere are ten of the most interesting tweets and articles about social media, published in the last 24 hours. I have collected them for you with the help of Storify. Storify is a great way to curate content published on social networking websites (and elsewhere). You can search for a keyword, and select tweets, Facebook [...]

ShareHere are ten of the most interesting tweets and articles about social media, published in the last 24 hours. I have collected them for you with the help of Storify. Storify is a great way to curate content published on social networking websites (and elsewhere). You can search for a keyword, and select tweets, Facebook [...]

ShareAs I wrote a couple of days ago, I’ve been working on a Google Plus-related project for the last few weeks. Obviously I couldn’t say much about it aside from, well, that. Good news, however: our project was launched earlier today! It’s a new web magazine, called Media Tapper. Media Tapper aims to be the [...]

ShareHere are ten of the most interesting tweets and articles about social media, published in the last 24 hours. I have collected them for you with the help of Storify. Storify is a great way to curate content published on social networking websites (and elsewhere). You can search for a keyword, and select tweets, Facebook [...]

ShareThis post is… not an announcement. The reason? I can’t announce it yet – I’ll do so tomorrow. It is a teaser, however: something to grab your attention and to prepare you for what’s coming. And what might that be, you undoubtedly wonder? Well, something great - something that could make your understanding of  Google Plus even [...]