When People feel the need to share too much
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Oversharers is a brand new web site started in January 2009 that has been silently collecting a large collection of people who share way too much on line. Given that the real time web is like watching a really bad episode of the Jerry Springer show, Oversharers is a laugh a minute comedy [...]
Following in Robert Scobles Footsteps
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Honestly, no one could be more surprised than I am about following in Robert Scobles footsteps. Back in August of last year I wrote a quick write up on how Robert got started in Social Media, blogging, and how he parlayed that into a viable career for himself. When Robert got started, blogs [...]
Yahoo 360 shutting its doors
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Yahoo 360, one of the odder attempts at social networking is closing its doors on the 13 July 2009. In an email message to people who use the service they state:
Dear Yahoo! 360° customer,
On July 13, 2009, Yahoo! 360° will be closing and your new profile on Yahoo! will become the place [...]
You have to have a life to life stream
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The new rage, stop blogging start life streaming is great if you have a life. If you don’t have a life, or you do not want to live on a public stage, then life streaming might not be right for you.
Life streaming is quickly becoming the euphemism for people who [...]
FriendFeed as a business enabler to strengthen product branding
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The hardest thing to do is associate a brand name with product, one way of approaching this is to use FriendFeed as a way to help you associate the brand name you are building with the products you are delivering. You can see examples of this littered throughout FriendFeed, and here are some [...]
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-06-28
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-06-21 http://ff.im/-4gKDu #
Liked “Funemployed Collection” http://ff.im/-4hD6r #
Liked “portraitsaslivingdeads” http://ff.im/-4glIk #
Liked “Amazing Spider-Man .Info” http://ff.im/-4fKLD #
Liked “Comic Book Resources > CBR News: HeroesCon: Runton and Staros on “Owly’s” Kindle Debut” http://ff.im/-4efVS #
Older adventure comics cover - sorry I have been out for a few days - ok I have been gone a [...]
FriendFeed starts file sharing which could be problematic
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FriendFeed started file sharing yesterday which could be problematic for one of the coolest social networking services on the planet. Risking the ire of RIAA, MPAA, BRIEN, GEMM, and every other copy right protection agency in the world, has FriendFeed taken on too much risk by allowing file sharing?
Imagine the surprise when [...]
Two weeks into my social networking project
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The first two weeks of a social networking project are critical to make sure you are being found in all the places that you needed to be found. The other interesting part is how quickly spammers and scrapers will seek out your site and start pulling content. With the first [...]
Feedburner stats now completely useless
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If you think your feedburner stats were a little odd to begin with, the addition of FriendFeed stats has completely made them irrelevant to anything you might want to do with them. Case in point, is a new blog launched June 11th 2009, that was quickly tied in everywhere, that has 439 RSS [...]
Bootstrapped Company managing rejection
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When you are bootstrapping your company, sometimes you get a lot of rejection from the bank, and for my startup bookstore, rejection from the bank comes two weeks before the consummation of a deal that would throw us into a higher orbit in terms of business. There is much angst on this one, [...]
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-06-21
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Liked “There are many good reasons to have “favorites” on FriendFeed….” http://ff.im/-3YoQs #
Liked “Stealth Dodge Challenger Built By Air Force - Geekologie” http://ff.im/-3ZxIz #
Liked “The Beautiful Fountains of Kansas City” http://ff.im/-3ZIby #
Liked “”Over the past few months, TechCrunch has experienced the power of this micro-media firsthand as the…” http://ff.im/-3Z1hT [...]
FTC to monitor blogs for conflicts of interest
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After the major blowout on the Gillmor Gang about reporting a conflict of interest, and the issues that have arisen over Social Spark, Payperpost and Izea, the FTP according to the AP is planning on going after bloggers if they do not say that they are taking compensation for a blog entry or [...]
Interesting Debate does color and race matter online
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There is an interesting debate going on over at FriendFeed tonight about color, race, colonialism and the book White male seeking sexy Asian women that was featured on Salon.com.
The debate has moved into the why does color, race, nationality matter, and like all subjects, this one is touchy. It depends on where [...]
Amazon adds charge when ship
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Something to get Amazon third party sellers all in a tizzy this morning is a new “feature” or mandatory process called charge when ship. If you are selling on Amazon this morning you are going to see a number of new changes to your screen, its mandatory, and no all the whining the [...]
FriendFeed takes an unexpected hard stop
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For those of you who are wondering, FriendFeed has taken an unexpected hard stop to their service. Hopefully this will be short, but then you never know. In the mean time legions of FriendFeed users will continue to panic as they have to go to Twitter or Facebook to get their real time [...]
