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 [...]
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 [...]
Iran elections the news and failure
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I don’t think that anyone really wanted traditional media to fail over the Iranian elections, but while all of us social networking types were living in a 24X7 constant twitter/FriendFeed stream over the weekend while we watched the elections, and monitored a potential revolution in Iran via social networking, we could not help [...]
Social Media Influence in the Iranian Elections
The newspapers have been generally useless in covering the Iranian elections over the weekend. While the major media outlets have let the story drop on the cutting room floor a robust and notable process of information flow is happening via Twitter, Facebook, and FriendFeed over the weekend. What the media will not cover, the social [...]
How many of you will actually pay for content
While the newspapers are talking about people paying for content, the question I have is how many people will actually pay for that content?
With all the surveys out there that state that most people, something on the order of 60 to 80% depending on who you listen to will stop at the login page [...]
Facebook and the Holocaust
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For worst or worst, Facebook has entered into another controversy that has ignited many well placed, and vocal people. Facebook allowed two groups to deny the holocaust on their site, and for good or bad, this has caused a firestorm of controversy for the company. The problem is that this is a symptom, [...]
So why did Microsoft do a Bond Sale
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Microsoft recently completed a bond sale for 3.8 billion dollars, which is a first for the software company. Once debt free, Microsoft will now be servicing the bonds for the duration that they exist. Of course this has generated all sorts of speculation, but also shows that for the right kind of risk, [...]
FriendFeed down legions panic
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While it is not yet time to call FriendFeed a “Fail Whale” it looks like a power outage at Powerset is causing a small alteration in the social networking scene this evening. While it might not be power set’s data center power outage, it could be servers, or just about anything along the [...]
Seattle 2 0 awards a wild fun night
Last night the inaugural Seattle 2.0 awards last night and it ended up being a great night for everyone who attended. The event sold out, and there were easily 300 people there (all the tickets that they had), meaning it was a huge success for Marcello and Danielle, with a big round of thanks for [...]
Wanted Apple Media Pad
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Rumors are flying around the internet on what could end up being a great deal for Verizon and Apple, while leaving AT&T wondering if the romance has died between Apple and itself. The rumored Media Pad, larger IPhone/Touch/Ipod, book reader, and general all around device hit the blogosphere yesterday like a tornado. The [...]
Help Spend my Bosses Money
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This is the reason why I work here; this week my boss wants us to help spend his money to give direct grants to needy students so that they can finish their degree. In a world where corporate boards and CEO’s are being tagged for not paying attention to [...]
MySpace Changes the end of an era or a change to transform
MySpace, what more quintessential system is there out there, one of the sites that brought a lot of attention, both good and bad to social networking. Love it or loath it, MySpace for all its good, bad and in many cases downright ugly, brought many people into social networking. MySpace also highlighted the fun and [...]
Catching up on this weeks events
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You would not know that there is a recession on by the amount of work that folks are doing right now. While many of us have tapered off and robert scoble has stripped the CSS out from under his web site, there has been so much happening that it at times can seem [...]
While everyone is wrapped up with FriendFeed
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There are a lot of great things going on this week that have nothing to do with FriendFeed, so for everyone who is just about fed up with tracking the hoopla over the changes with FriendFeed, here is some news to work with.
Steve Hodson, the cranky old fart is working on rebranding [...]
Social Media does not have a rule book
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There are some rules of thumb, there are few if any best practices, there are few if any tried and true marketing processes that work across all audiences in social networking, but reading an article from Douglass Karr over at marketingtechblog.com you really do need to question your guru, and [...]
