The latest update to the TriOut iPhone app hit the App Store today. Version 2.0.2 brings some great performance enhancements and increased stability. I think we’ve fixed the Photo Upload bug once and for all.

Most importantly, we’ve integrated the new Facebook check in system within TriOut. In order to take advantage of this, you’ll need to re-authenticate Facebook in the app to approve check in access. Just tap on Settings >> Facebook to approve. Then the next time you check in, select Facebook from the menu of services and we’ll check you in on Facebook. It couldn’t be easier.

We’ve also added a new Help menu to get new users familiar with the app. The help menu shows the first time you launch the app and is always available in the settings menu. We hope this clears up any confusion users have had trying to check in.

Your feedback is extremely important to us. We beta tested TriOut v2 for 4 months prior to release but are still finding bugs and tweaks to make it better. If you find a crash, a bug, or something you just can’t figure out, please let us know either by email or through our feedback. We want to make TriOut your go-to app for connecting with your friends, tell us how to make it better.

1. 2d code
2. QR Anywhere
3. kaywa
4. biggu
5. interlinkone
6. mobile tagging
7. qr arts
8. QR Media
9. http://qrcode.es/?language=esQR Codes
10. Qre8
11. Qreate and track

Two Awesome blog post on QR Codes:
the list of massive brands using qr codes
101 Uses For Quick Response (QR) Codes: Creating Audience Engagement With The Next Killer US App

Looking for a fast QR Code Reader / Scanner? Try my new iPhone app: CLICK HERE

What websites do you read for information about QR Codes?

Friday Fix are short post on niche topics/plugins/tools/presentations or you could call them short simple tips.

As Google Wave continues to evolve one of the many complaints about Wave is there is no way to receive a notification when you have a new “blip” aka Google Wave message in general. Well after a few weeks and giving programmers some time, it seems there are a few Google Wave desktop notifiers and extensions for both Firefox and Google Chrome.

Chrome Extension – Google Wave Checker

Google Wave Checker

Unofficial Google Wave Notifier for mac

Google Wave Notifier Beta for Windows

Google Wave Add-on for Firefox 0.0.3

Prism or Fluid or Wave Desktop App

PS: If you’re asking what a “blip” is read: Google Wave: A Complete Guide via Mashable

One problem with the social web now is that we have too many inboxes. We have our work email, personal email, Facebook inbox mail, Facebook email from Facebook inbox, Twitter direct messages, Twitter new followers email, Flickr email, google alerts, real-time brand notifications and I think you get the picture. Depending on how “social” you are, managing your inbox can be very challenging and time consuming. This all while we wait to see how Google Wave will evolve, it could be a social web inbox platform or just another inbox to manage. Regardless here are three solutions to help solve your social web inbox problem.

1. Inbox2 – http://www.inbox2.com

2. Threadsy – https://www.threadsy.com

3. Gist – http://gist.com/

1. fbShare.me: A sharecount button for Facebook* http://www.fbshare.me/

2. FB Share Button WordPress Plugin for Facebook Share : http://staynalive.com/articles/2009/10/26/introducing-the-fb-share-button-wordpress-plugin-for-facebook-share/

3. Add To Facebook Plugin – http://nothing.golddave.com/?page_id=108

4. Facebook Share (New) Button – http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/facebook-share-new/ (looks just like #2)

The Pitch
Tweetiator.com alerts you in real time when people share links to your content on Twitter and lets you follow and message them

Link sharing analytics are easy to get if you are the sharer of a link (by using link shorteners like bit.ly, and a bunch of others) but until Tweetiator were not available to the site owner. This is a very useful marketing tool because when people share your content, they are much more likely to respond to offers, promotions, and surveys.

To use Tweetiator, you download a little JavaScript and you can watch and interact with the people sharing links to your content from the Tweetiator dashboard, get alerts via email, or download a .csv file.

Cost
After your thirty day free trial it’s just $4.95 a month.

Created by: NimbleSource @nimblesource

For more information see Tweetiator’s FAQ page:  http://www.tweetiator.com/help/faqs

In a nutshell if you have a Twitter landing page you should be using Tweetiator.

Tweetiator.com is now in private beta but I have a few invites for the readers of SocialWayne.  Just leave a comment along with your email address and if you’re one of the first few, you’re in luck.

If you would like for me to review your product or site email: pitches at socialwayne dot com . Disclaimer: I have no investment or relationship with the creators of this site. Thank you.

Tweetcount Plugin from BackType:
http://www.backtype.com/plugins/tweetcount

The TweetMeme retweet button; http://tweetmeme.com/about/retweet_button

ReTweet.com’s Official Retweet Button – http://retweet.com/button

Easy ReTweet WordPress Plugin – http://sudarmuthu.com/wordpress/easy-retweet

So today, famed tech blogger, Michael Arrington @arrington of TechCrunch wrote a blog post called, “I quit the iPhone“. Arrington has a large audience that reads his network of blogs and is very successful and popular in terms of his events that he plans in the technology space. In other words Arrington has power and influencer depending on how you look at it. Either way Arrington and I both bloggers and entitled to our own opinions. I would like to think we have a lot in common but he’s a lot more successful than I am at the moment but lets hope that changes in the near future. Nevertheless this isn’t about Wayne vs Arrington but just my thoughts on why I’m not quitting the iPhone for another mobile device.

Here are my reasons.

1. The iPhone OS is the best mobile operating system in terms of usability, period.
2. I don’t want to carry around two devices. Arrington said he will use a Palm Pre and an iPod Touch.
3. I don’t live in a heavily metropolitan area and AT&T 3G service works great for me. I hardly have a drop call but I do notice a difference when I travel to larger cities such as Atlanta and Austin and the service is not as good with more users on AT&T’s network.
4. Apple’s iPhone app store is better than the upcoming Windows Mobile app store, Blackberry, Nokia and Google’s

Photo via http://www.insidefacebook.com
5. The iPhone has the best applications to access social networks such as LinkedIn, MySpace, Facebook etc. Not to mention the new Facebook iPhone 3.0 app is going to be awesome.

6. The iPhone has best Twitter Apps as a matter fact, the App store has to many Twitter apps.
7. I have access to apps that get kicked out of the app store via the Cyida App store. because my I choose to jailbreak my iPhone.

8. I don’t have to wait for AT&T to allow tethering on my iPhone because I already have it via PdaNet without any additional charges.

9. I like to use my iPhone 3Gs for jogging with NikePlus even though the NikePlus site has way to much flash on it’s site but that’s another blog post rant.
10. I own a MacBook and use MobileMe to sync my bookmarks and files that I can access via my iPhone. Plus Apple just released the iDisk iPhone app
11. I enjoy over-the-air calendar and contact syncing with my iPhone using Google Calendar, iCal, Google Contacts and Address book along with my email.

12. The iPhone has the best apps for mobile blogging.
13. I can use the iPhone with iTunes and the Amazon music store.
14. I can run iPhone apps in the background via the backgrounder app and make Skype phone calls over 3G.

15. I have two choices for an app store, Apple’s app store and the Cyida App store.

16. I can theme my iPhone if I choose to do so via the Winterboard app in Cydia.

Those are just a few of my reasons why I’m not quitting the iPhone. I know some are very tedious and Mr. Arrington did say he would be using an iPod Touch therefore he’s not completely leaving Apple or the App store just the iPhone. Also Arrington did acknowledged that he believes the iPhone is the best mobile phone in the market, quote from the TechCrunch article “I’d move to the Palm Pre because I believe it is the best phone out there other than the iPhone 3GS.

But don’t get me wrong, I’m not completely in love with the iPhone or Apple or AT&T and not happy about the recent decisions to remove existing apps or prevent some apps from seeing the light of day in the app store such as GV Mobile, and Google Latitude native app. Also I’ll be very surprise if GPush or a few other apps will ever see the light of day in app store. I’ve been waiting for Qik and Ustream.TV live video streaming apps to be released and only time will tell if Apple will approve them. If not I hope others follow GV Mobile leads and join the Cydia app store, something both Qik and Ustream have already done.

What are your reasons for sticking with the iPhone or did Arrington post convince you to leave AT&T and switch to another device?

In the latest edition of The Social Geeks, Chris Miller, Louis Gray, Jeff(isageek) and I talk about new introductions on Lazyfeed, Google Reader, and how to interact with multiple communities on differing social networks. We also talked about various tools we use to filter the noise. Reference the How I Filter The Noise, guest blog post on Jason Keath’s site. You can also find the original copy on Mevio.com.

FriendFeed Still Reigns As Conversation King

Bring FriendFeed To Your Site with Sharing

Eight reasons I love FriendFeed

FriendFeed Filters Are The Star Of The Beta

Popular iPhone apps for FriendFeed

AmpliFeeder: FriendFeed’s Much Hotter Sister

How These Six Words Could Energize Friendfeed on the Mainstream Media

How To Find Your Audience On FriendFeed

Instant Updates On Any Topic From Around The Web

7 WAYS FRIENDFEED COULD BETTER ENGAGE THE FLICKR COMMUNITY

About FriendFeed from http://friendfeed.com/about/
FriendFeed is a service that makes it easy to share with friends online. It offers a fun and interactive way to discover and discuss information among friends

Do you use FriendFeed? If so how?

If you have been following my Brightkite updates and tweets over the past 48 hrs then you know that I was in Wilmington, NC on Thursday for a talk on Social Media. I was asked to do the talk by Ty Downing of SayitSocial, someone who I’ve only known virtually via twitter and now someone who I call a friend. I was excited about doing the talk for a few reasons, one being that Wilmington is kind of like a second home for me as I’m originally from Teachey, NC which is only 30 to 40 minutes away from Wilmington. As a youth I would make the drive down to Wilmington to hang out and as I told Ty that my prom was in Wilmington. Therefore I was humbled and nervous about the presentation as my audince would be a room of savvy SEO experts, bloggers, web designers, marketers and individuals who wanted to learn more about social media.

The meetup was called Social Media Talk With Wayne Sutton and as I kept trying to brainstorm how to cover social media in one hour… you can’t! So what I decided to do was try to facilitate a discussion on social media with the attendees along with a little history lesson of who is Wayne Sutton. You can see the presentation below via slideshare.

The attendees had questions on social media such as: What tools to use monitor their brand, how to get started with social media, what tools they should use to track urls and more. Ty along with Lori Lorusso live streamed the entire talk on Ustream.tv and uploaded a clip of the talk to youtube, both you can see below.

Ustream of my Talk on Social Media in Wilmington, NC
Webcam chat at Ustream

A Youtube video clip from Ty’s iPhone 3GS of my Talk on Social Media

I really want to thank Ty and the attendees for having me and from the comments on the meetup.com site it looks like the attendees enjoyed it.
Kimberly – “ Excellent and very informative. Thank you so much! ”

Holly Powell – “ Wayne was very informative. I enjoyed the meeting and look forward to the next event. ”

Chip Hunnicutt – “ Didn’t hear anything groundbreaking (for me anyway) but questions showed different levels of expertise in the audience and potential for future specialized gatherings. Was particularly intrigued by the “startup” weekend concept. ”

Doug Erickson – “ Wayne was a great speaker and knows his “Social Media”

It looks like to have to work on something “groundbreaking” for my next talk but honest feedback is always welcome. Also a big thanks to the great people at the C. W. Worth House who sponsored my stay on Thursday night. The C. W. Worth House is elegant and a must visit if you’re looking for a bed and breakfast in Wilmington.

PS. This has been a #shamelessplug blog post by Wayne Sutton

1. Rock the Job - http://rockthejob.com
About: Rock the Job helps students understand the impact of social media on their careers.

2. Bwana.TV – http://www.bwana.tv
About: Reviews and discussions on gadgets, social media, blogging and technology.

3. This week in Startups - http://thisweekinstartups.com
About: Jason McCabe Calacanis is the founder and CEO of Mahalo.com, a human-powered search engine focused on the top English-language search terms, including verticals such as travel, products, news, entertainment, sports, food, and health.

4. North Carolina Wine TV – http://northcarolinawine.tv
About: North Carolina Wine TV is an online video show hosted by Jeff Cohen and Kipp Bodnar that is published twice weekly on Tuesday and Thursdays that is focused on reviewing wines produced in North Carolina.

5. From the Couch – http://www.from-the-couch.com
About: ‘From the Couch’ is an Online Video show, hosted by us brothers Marc and David Perel, which covers everything web orientated. We show you CSS tips, how to create websites from nothing and also chat about news in the web world.

Shameless Plug WayneSutton.TV is still in beta and I hope to have it launched by the end of June.

What are you favorite .TV shows?

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I just returned from a trip to Atlanta, GA for the Mashable/Regator Mixer along with my one of my business partners Jeff Cohen (@dgtlpapercuts http://digitalpapercuts.com).  It was one of those “Social Media Hustle Road trips and we used Brightkite to track our journey. While on the way back we stopped in Charlotte, NC to catch the end of REbarcamp (Real Estate Barcamp ) and had a mini conversation about how realtors could use location based social networks like Brightkite. Part of my response was an example of how realtors could take pictures of houses for sale and let their contacts on other social networks see what properties are available now that Brightkite integrates with Facebook, flickr, fireeagle and twitter all with one simple update (check-in).

Also here’s 3 reasons to use Brightkite from a guest post that Kipp Bodnar (@kbodnar32 and I wrote for Louis Gray @louisgray about Brightkite.

1. Building Your Digital Footprint
2. Integration with Your Existing Social Media Workflow
3. Facilitate Face-to-Face Communications

You can read the full post here: BrightKite: If You Think Your Life Is Boring, You’re Missing The Point

If you’re a Brightkite user how do you use it?

101 Ways to Use Social Media

Social Media Relations

Social Media Stories

Five Steps for Social Media Success from http://multichannelmerchant.com

1. Have a purpose and be consistent
2. Spark conversation and engagement
3. Choose wisely
4. Integrate
5. Monitor and respond

Getting Started: Social Media Policies For Your Company from http://davefleet.com

1. Internal Policies
2. Blogging policy
3. Public Policies

Why Your Business Should Not Engage In Social Media – Yet! from http://restaurantcoachingsolutions.com
Two Major Social Media Execution Gaps

1. Social Media Is More About The Social But Your Business Culture Isn’t.
2. The Pieces Just Don’t Seem To Fit