A new feature available on Facebook profiles now lets profile owners tag non-friends in the comments threads of their public posts. This...

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Ebby Amirebrahimi, an engineer on the Google+ sharing team, announced yesterday a new update for Google+ users. One of the most popular features on Google+ is the ability to disable comments and lock posts to make sure no one re-shares it, but this could only happen after you posted. Thanks to this new update and ...

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Haven’t logged into your Quora account lately? You should; there’s been some exciting new updates including the addition of threaded comments and a new Quora iPhone app.


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Does your blog put out a welcome mat for comments? Would you like more interaction on your blog? There are lots of blogs today, which means that people have many places where they can go to learn new things. If you don't make people feel welcome, they may read and dash without leaving a comment. [...]

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How many sensible and well-reasoned comment threads have you seen on YouTube?

Go ahead and think about it. I'll wait.

Have your answer? Me too. The number you're looking for is ZERO. All too often the threads devolve into inane commentary, not to mention hateful or offensive language. There's a definite lack of civility going on there.

I wonder how many individuals, brands or companies are spending efforts on keeping up with YouTube comments, and if t [...]

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Today's Coup de Blog is written by Michael Schechter . Every day, Gini Dietrich leads you to believe that she is kind enough to provide others an opportunity to give their voice on this blog; to share in her audience. This is a flat out lie. Having been a long time reader of Spin Sucks, [...]

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Facebook made many changes last week to its privacy policy and tagging options. The changes included features such as inline profile controls and approving or rejecting any photos you've been tagged in. Facebook has been working on these new options for most of 2011 and now they want your feedback. The Facebook Site Governance page ...

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This guest post is by Bnonn of Attentionthievery.info. You may not realize it, but the font settings on your blog can have a huge effect on how many people read your content. And how many people read your content has a huge effect on whether a post goes viral. How huge? Well, by some accounts [...]

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This guest post was written by Neil Matthews of WPDude. Have you noticed a decrease in the number of blog comments you get and an increase in Facebook likes and Twitter tweets about your posts? Are you worried that you are loosing social proof about the validity of your posts to the social media conversation, [...]

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