LinkedIn Crosses 100,000,000 Users
LinkedIn has crossed a huge milestone in their growth - they just announced they currently have over 100 Million Users. Wow!

LinkedIn has crossed a huge milestone in their growth - they just announced they currently have over 100 Million Users. Wow!

One of the projects we launched at the beginning of the year was a new Twitter list called "One A Day" where every day we add a new Twitter account to follow each day.

While we wouldn't normally talk about issues like Charlie Sheen in the news, as of yesterday the actor signed up for Twitter. You can find his account here: Charlie Sheen on Twitter. A day later his account is 'verified' and he has over a million people following him. Wow.

I've recently installed the Livefyre commenting system on the Gadarian Digital site, and I thought a review was in order. Before diving in, I should also mention that this commenting platform is still in private beta although I'm told that they should be launching the public version any minute now. They bill themselves as a real time commenting platform.
Not sure how many of you use Chrome as your browser of choice (coincendtally we featured Chrome on our Twitter One A Day List yesterday) but I as of tonight when I opened up a new tab instead of the usual "most popular pages" being there instead I was met with an ad of sorts for Google. Specifically for Google Apps on the new Chome App Store.

About 10 days ago Facebook announced a major release regarding Pages. As you can imagine, that has been big news for me. Overall I'm very happy with what they've done and perhaps I'll make a separate post about it down the road. But one of the big changes is that much like in your personal profile, with your Facebook Page there is now a strip of photos above your wall.

I am honored to have been invited to speak before the Sudbury Chamber of Commerce. I will be talking about how to put together a digital roadmap with a focus on small business. Web strategy as well as social media (Twitter, Facebook, YouTube...) will be heavily featured. I'll also be touching on some specific 'local' touchstones that every business should be considering.

FourSquare, the mobile checkin service has released some numbers for 2011 along with an impressive looking infographic.

We all use Google, but how many of you are using search commands to get the most from our searches? The Google search commands of a huge plus if you're looking for a little extra. In my space whenever I'm researching a project for myself or a client these commands have proven to be invaluable.
It's been exactly one week since I've launched the Gadarian Digital OneADay List on Twitter - fun stuff, and I hope you've had a chance to stop by the feed and see it for yourself. So far it's mostly big guns in there and likely will be for a while but I'll start to drill down soon enough.
So here is a quick recap...