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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Rebranding my Startup
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Noticed on the Seattle 2.0 list they have a book store in their startup listing, taking a look through the competitor’s web site, I decided that if I wanted to get on the Seattle 2.0 startup list, then it might be a good idea to refocus what the startup should be about, and [...]
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 [...]
Innovation Economics
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One of the new research arms not just in academia, but in business as well is a model that can predict the outcome of innovation, who has it, how do they use it, how can we harness it for personal or corporate advantage/gain. The problem is that innovation economics requires humans, and [...]
Microsoft Immigration Family Network
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If you are involved with a Microsoft employee, the Microsoft Immigration Family Network is a support site for people involved in Microsoft employees. So when your significant other is spending long nights and days at work, there is a place you can go to meet new people, and talk about issues you might [...]
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 [...]
Time spent on social networking doubles in the last year
How much of this is driven by the 9.2% unemployment rate is unknown, but Nielsen released a report this week called “Global Faces and Networked Places” which has some amazing statistics on how much time people are spending on social networking sites.
The winners are the new folks, sites like Twitter with a 3712 percent [...]
NY State embraces Social Networking
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In good news for today, NY State IT Department has issued a series of guidelines for State Agencies to use Web 2.0, new media and social collaborative tools. The downside is that there is going to have to be training, the upside to the Empire 2.0 strategy is that it could end up [...]
RIAA three strikes policy still failing to engage ISPs
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The RIAA still has problems getting ISP’s to agree to sign up for a “Three strikes you are out” policy when it comes to their users using P2P applications on their networks. While this does not mean that it is not happening, what it means is that no one has publicly admitted that [...]
Customer Service done right thanks Apple Store
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I was at the Apple store yesterday picking up a new copy of Iwork and Ilife for my Apple notebook, and since I teach at CityU of Seattle, I wanted to use my educators 10% discount. Unfortunately, I do not have a school identity card, in lieu of not having a [...]
