The Private and the Public Profile
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Facebook, FriendFeed, Linkedin are great ways of getting to know people. The problem comes in when people start doing odd things or sending odd notes to your mailbox or DM on these systems. There has been a rash of people deleting accounts lately on Facebook, Twitter, and FriendFeed lately either through the distraction [...]
Cloud Camp Seattle 03 Feb 2010
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Sometimes it is just best to go to camp, and Seattle is having Cloud Camp, or an “Unmeeting” of people to discuss the problems and issues in cloud computing. We will be posting gallery pictures, but you can also follow us on FriendFeed/techwag tonight if you want near real time information on the [...]
Digg needs Transparency not a new Candy Coating
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That is great that Digg wants to redesign their web site and do cool stuff like making it more social. The problem with Digg is not that it is a bad system technologically; it is that it is impossible to get traction on the web site for some users because the way that [...]
Should you deactivate your Facebook Account when looking for a job
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Many people spend a lot of time on Facebook, and in many ways, spending time on Facebook is a great social interchange between friends, family, and people you know. What is well known is that employers, potential or actual also troll your Facebook account.
This morning there was a message on Facebook that [...]
Apple Special Event overloads social networking systems
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The apple special event went down today and brought down FriendFeed to a large extent – dropped Leo Laport’s Ustream Channel with horrific feedback on the audio channel from the site, twitter for a change was not the fail whale – it was slow but serviceable throughout the event.
Only Apple or a [...]
Welcome to the Facebook Market Place
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If you have not checked out the Facebook Market Place lately – now is probably a good time to do it. Originally opened in 2007, with a few odds and sods like the acquisition of Ooodle– the Facebook Market Place of today is a cross between Craig’s List, Amazon, and Career Builder. You [...]
So what is next for my startup
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Over the last six months we have been working on a process that will allow us to grow our company and take advantage of many of the new technologies that are coming out. My company sells comic books, but we have noticed that on eBook readers – certain kinds of comics look absolutely [...]
We should love the people who respond to our blog entries
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Yesterday I wrote an article about how to use LinkedIn to find a job using your contacts in the process. I also believe that it is important to understand your own needs, wants and desires when you go looking for a job thinking that a job is as big a [...]
The right to Forget Law being pondered in France
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Of course this is going to upset law enforcement, but in light of the hot topic of the weekend, how companies like Facebook and Google manage users privacy, maybe France might be on the right side of consumers for a change.
France is not known for being particularly aggressive or progressive [...]
Get my Book Free if you write an Amazon Review
It is the New Year, and part of my new year’s resolution is to plug my book “Boom and Bust in the Blogosphere.” The goal is to give away seven copies of the book in return for an Amazon review of the book. Here is what you have to do.
I believe in people being [...]
Shocking yet another way to ruin privacy via Twitter
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With ReadWriteWeb Marshall Kirkpatrick on a roll today about Mark Zukerburg and the end of the age of privacy, with follow up from Steven Hodson (fixed) it is time to look not just at Facebook, but at other tools that are out there than can also alter your personal privacy landscape.
While I [...]
Use Social Networking to find you next job and love it
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Your job security no longer lies in having a job; it lies in knowing how to work the job market. @susanireland
The attached file is Using social networking to find you next job and love it is meant to help people find their next job. This PDF is all about using Linkedin and [...]
Better CPC than Google Adsense at MyLikes dot com
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Bindu Reddy has updated Likeaholix – and the new updates provide a way for someone to make a little extra money via targeted Twitter and web site campaigns on things that truly interest you. My average CPC on Google Adwords is about 4 cents per click, and people just don’t click [...]
Pantagraph News to Readers you need a time out
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For many people who own web sites that have articles that allow comments, the free for all that sometimes erupts around “discourse” can often degenerate into an abusive diatribe pitting Republican against Democrat in the best right wing/left wing nut job symbolism out there. Take your pick – we have all dealt with [...]
Twitter Marketing Hell New Site by Steven Hodson
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Steven Hodson has to be one of my favorite people to read online, and over the holidays he put together a “Wall of Shame” for bad twitter marketers. I hope he lets me write for him on this one, as I have plenty of good examples, not just from my Techwag Twitter, but [...]
