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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Phase two of the social media plan goes live
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Phase two of my social media plan for the school went live this week; you can find the department web site at http://cs.cityu.edu. This is the next major step on the technology side for building out the social media capability of the program, and much like other colleges, introduces the [...]
Building 43 what Wordpress plugins do they use
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Taking a quick look at Robert Scobles new project over at Building 43 to see how Rackspace and Robert are working together to talk about what they do and what the goals of Building 43 are going to be, didn’t find much about goals, but found a pot of gold in the web [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Ownership of a social network is not easy
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There are many people out there who are going to tell you that owning and running a social network is easy, the real truth is that not only it is not easy, but it can seriously cut into time to do much of anything else that you might have had planned to [...]
Status Update on my social networking project
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In the final stages of a social networking plan for my college, and gave the executive presentation on why we want to do this. Some interesting things happened during the briefing, but here is the briefing, story after the jump.
Social Media Plan for CityU of Seattle
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Eight reasons I love FriendFeed
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Many people have heard about FriendFeed as the latest hottest place to hang out online, but there are some very real reasons to <3 FriendFeed. From the conversations, to the users, to the meme’s of the day, FriendFeed is a great place to find conversation, people, and new stuff. But here is the [...]
