Tag Archives: snowball

Find us IRL this week

Posted on April 13, 2010 by Jonathan

It’s a busy week of conferencing for us here at Snowball HQ. The new guy (more on that soon), Jeremiah (@jeremiahlee) and I (@jhstrauss) will be at Chirp all week, starting with the Prechirp party we’re co-sponsoring that’s happening *right … Continue reading →

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BarCampLA 7 Presentation: ‘URLs are the new cookies’

Posted on May 2, 2009 by Jonathan

I just finished my presentation at BarCampLA 7 called ‘URLs are the new cookies’ (name credit: Alistair Croll). I talked a little bit about awe.sm, but the point was more to discuss the problem statement awe.sm is trying to solve. … Continue reading →

Posted in Company | Tagged awe.sm, barcamp, barcampla, bcla, cookies, facebook, snowball, snowballfactory, social media, social media marketing, twitter | 5 Comments

Suggest to Techmeme Button

Posted on February 2, 2009 by Jonathan

If you have a self-hosted WordPress blog, the code below will not work for you. Instead, go here to get the plugin. Techmeme is an essential news discovery tool for me. It replaced my RSS reader and the totally unmanageable … Continue reading →

Posted in Product | Tagged best practices, blog, Blogging, digg, embed, marketing, share, snowball, social media, social media marketing, social web, techmeme, thesnowballfactory, tools, twitter | 7 Comments

Twitter Quick Wins

Posted on January 29, 2009 by Jonathan

Earlier this week, Kevin Rose of Digg and Revision3 (and the #2 most followed Twitter user) wrote a guest post on TechCrunch called 10 Ways To Increase Your Twitter Followers. It’s worth the quick read if you’re interested in understanding … Continue reading →

Posted in Product | Tagged best practices, bit.ly, brightkit, dan martell, deb schultz, jeremiah owyang, kevin rose, marketing, optimization, quick wins, robert scoble, snowball, social media, social media marketing, social web, socialtoo, stats, switchabit, techcrunch, thesnowballfactory, tools, twitter, twittercounter, twitterfeed | 6 Comments

Happyjoel on the CBS Evening News

Posted on January 15, 2009 by Jonathan

Last week, our friend (and first client) Joel Moss Levinson, aka Happyjoel, appeared in a CBS Evening News with Katie Couric segment called Cashing In on YouTube (watch it below). For Joel, this follows an appearance on the Tonight Show … Continue reading →

Posted in Product | Tagged cbs evening news, happyjoel, jay leno, joel moss levinson, katie couric, media 2.0, media2.0, michael buckley, new york times, ny times, snowball, social media, thesnowballfactory, tonight show, what the buck | Leave a comment