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• Instant Messenger Love Song Video

  Published: August 10, 2007, 1:08 am

  Tags: Aim, Aol, Fun, Instant Messenger, Internet, Media 2 0, Social Media, Somewhat Frank, Somewhatfrank, Somewhatfrank Com, Technologies, Technology, Video, Vlog, Web 2 0, Web Tech, Weekly Video

  Add Somewhat Frank Weekly Video to your page I recall getting online for the first time and how exciting it was to be on the World Wide Web. I am sure many people have similar stories of your first encounters the WWW. This video of Nick Thune performing his acoustic rendition of his love story "Instant Messenger" live on The Tonight Show which

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• Global Grind: Startpage For Hip Hop Gen?

  Published: August 10, 2007, 12:15 am

  Tags: Ajax, Beta, Feeds, Global Grind, Media 2 0, Personal Homepage, Personalization, Personalized, Rss, Recommendations, Social Media, Somewhat Frank, Somewhatfrank, Somewhatfrank Com, Startup, Technologies, Technology, Web 2 0, Web Tech, Homepage

  is a New York-based web 2.0 personalized home page startup that is said to be focused on the "hip hop" generation. Being a "hip hop" listener I was curious to see what this intriguing value proposition was all about. Driven by curiosity, which was said to have killed the cat, I was expecting Global Grind personalized home page to bounce with

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• spigit Simulates To Help Innovation

  Published: August 8, 2007, 12:49 am

  Tags: Beta, Blogging, Blogosphere, Blogs, Business, Community, Content, Data, Entrepreneur, Entrepreneurship, Games, Innovation, Media 2 0, Small Business, Social Media, Social Networking, Somewhat Frank, Somewhatfrank, Somewhatfrank Com, Startup, Technologies, Technology, Web 2 0

  users. Spigit already has 30+ startups leveraging the consumer facing platform and plans to offer an enterprise edition for companies looking to uncover employees with good ideas. My only hesitation with the consumer edition of spigit is that fact that idea contributors may be giving away their ideas without any protection since spigit

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• Amazon Buys Into Amie Street Approach

  Published: August 6, 2007, 11:06 pm

  Tags: Amazon, Amie Street, Business, Community, Entrepreneur, Entrepreneurship, Funding, Media 2 0, Music, Social Media, Somewhat Frank, Somewhatfrank, Somewhatfrank Com, Startup, Technologies, Technology, Web 2 0, Web Tech

  Amie Street, Rhode Island-based music startup with an interesting online  music business model by allowing prices to be based on artist interest and demand, has taken a Series A round of funding led by Amazon.com. Though many were skeptical of Amie Street's model, I thought Amie Street could disrupt the music industry and it turns out

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• KnockaTV Is Coming But What Is It?

  Published: August 6, 2007, 8:38 am

  Tags: Beta, Community, Entertainment, Knockatv, Media 2 0, Recommendations, Social Media, Somewhat Frank, Somewhatfrank, Somewhatfrank Com, Startup, Technologies, Technology, Television, Video, Web 2 0, Web Tech

  KnockaTV is coming, according to the vintage "I want my MTV" style video that is playing on the site (go to the site to see what I am taking about). I just signed up for a beta tester account for KnockaTV last night and this morning I noticed TechCrunch also is looking at the video service but we both have about the same amount of information.

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• iPhone Secret Features, Flickr Video & Tools, Google Mashup Editor, Facebook on Netvibes, Best Conferences & Twiistup

  Published: August 5, 2007, 5:48 pm

  Tags: Baseball, Beta, Blogging, Blogging Tip, Blogosphere, Blogs, Business, Collaborative Filtering, Conferences, Event, Facebook, Google, How To, Mashup, Media 2 0, Netvibes, Personal Homepage, Personalization, Recommendations, Somewhat Frank, Somewhatfrank, Somewhatfrank Com, Stow

  Frank Weekly Tidbits: 08.05.07 Twiistup 2: 08.08.07 - Sign Up Today!Time to for Twiistup 2, you may recall I attended Twiistup 1 on my birthday in Santa Monica, California and had a blast. If you are going to be in Venice, California this coming Wednesday (August 8, 2007) you should stop by Air Conditioned Supper Club and Twiistup too!

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• Vlogging Wine Expert's Conan TV Debut

  Published: August 4, 2007, 10:36 am

  Tags: Blogging, Blogosphere, Business, Entertainment, Entrepreneur, Entrepreneurship, Fun, Gary Vaynerchuk, Media 2 0, Social Media, Somewhat Frank, Somewhatfrank, Somewhatfrank Com, Television, Web 2 0, Weblogs, Weekly Video, Wine, Wine Library Tv

  Add Somewhat Frank Weekly Video to your page As I highlighted earlier this week, Gary Vaynerchuk of the popular wine video podcast Wine Library TV made an appearance on the NBC's Late Night with Conan O'Brien television program this week. In case you missed watching it on Wednesday evening you can watch it now thanks to YouTube. Check out the

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• Personalize Your Photos With Graphita

  Published: August 2, 2007, 3:37 pm

  Tags: Fun, Graphita, Media 2 0, Orli Yakuel, Personalization, Personalized, Photography, Somewhat Frank, Somewhatfrank, Somewhatfrank Com, Startup, Technologies, Technology, Tool, Web 2 0, Web Tech, Photos, Web2 0expo, Web2expo

  article I wrote while at Web 2.0 Expo last April. Graphita has officially launched Live Studio to make it easy to express yourself through annotating your photos in high resolution. Personalize your photos and make them fun with Graphita's easy to use tool-set. Graphita CEO David Shantz had this to say about photo personalization: "A

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• Things You Want or Have Get BoxedUp

  Published: August 1, 2007, 4:27 pm

  Tags: Aggregator, Amazon, Beta, Boxedup, Media 2 0, Recommendations, Search, Shopping, Social Bookmarking, Social Networking, Somewhat Frank, Somewhatfrank, Somewhatfrank Com, Startup, Tags, Technologies, Technology, Tool, Web 2 0, Web Tech, E Commerce

  Looking to make it easier to for people to keep track of the items that they want BoxedUp.com offers a place to help users shop and share for items that they may want. Founded in London by Chris Osborne and Jeremy Baines, the three employee team has recently morphed and rebranded its product from Gifttagging.com, a site focused on just

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• Gary The Vlogging Wine King On Conan

  Published: July 31, 2007, 3:33 pm

  Tags: Blogging, Blogosphere, Blogs, Business, Celebrity, Community, Cork D, Entertainment, Entrepreneur, Entrepreneurship, Event, Food Drink, Fun, Gary Vaynerchuk, Media 2 0, Social Media, Somewhat Frank, Somewhatfrank, Somewhatfrank Com, Startup, Tech Cocktail, Television, Video

  Wednesday night (August 1, 2007). Aside from the Wine Library TV video blog, Gary also commands a family owned wine empire which recently acquired the Corkd wine lovers online community. Check out Gary in action tonight on Late Night with Conan O'Brien and also watch his latest video blog post (below) where he breaks the news about getting

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• StreetAdvisor A Street Level Local Guide

  Published: July 31, 2007, 8:31 am

  Tags: Ajax, Beta, Community, Data, Mapping, Media 2 0, Real Estate, Resource, Social Media, Somewhat Frank, Somewhatfrank, Somewhatfrank Com, Startup, Streetadvisor, Technologies, Technology, Tool, Web 2 0, Web Tech, Wiki

  city/local bloggers and media looking to generate leads in a specific city, StreetAdvisor Billboards could prove to be a great way to reach a local audience. Bottom-line: StreetAdvisor leverages a wiki-like contributor interface to intake street level community information that could prove to be an valuable resource to real estate companies

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• Social Bookmarking Explained

  Published: August 11, 2007, 12:53 pm

  Tags: Aggregator, Community, How To, Internet, Media 2 0, Social Bookmarking, Social Media, Somewhat Frank, Somewhatfrank, Somewhatfrank Com, Technologies, Technology, Video, Video Blog, Vlog, Web 2 0, Web Tech, Weekly Video

  Bookmarking is a common Web 2.0 term as there are lots of sites offering great products available. However, not everyone is riding the Web 2.0 express train and staying up on all the lingo and ideas. Therefore, many people may not know what "social bookmarking" means. Common Craft has create a video (above) the explains Social Bookmarking in

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• Facebook Source Code Leak, Porn 2.0, Spock Launches, Personalize Jib Jab, Change of myAOL Heart & Startup Tips

  Published: August 12, 2007, 5:20 pm

  Tags: Aol, Beta, Blogosphere, Blogs, Business, Digg, Eric Olson, Feed Reader, Feeds, Gary Vaynerchuk, Jib Jab, Media 2 0, Orli Yakuel, Personal Homepage, Personalization, Personalized, Porn, Profilelinker, Rss, Social Bookmarking, Social Media, Somewhat Frank, Somewhatfrank, Somewhat

  Frank Weekly Tidbits: 08.12.2007 Change of opinion regarding myAOLMatt Harwood came out very against myAOL when the myAOL Sneak Preview video splashed onto pages of TechCrunch in June. He has since changed his mind and he had the guts and heart to admit it. That says a lot about Matt's character and I really appreciate it. It is

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• My iTunes Data Widgets Now Sharable

  Published: August 13, 2007, 5:56 pm

  Tags: Apple, Feeds, Jiwamusic, Last Fm, Media 2 0, Music, Music Search, Mystrands, One Llama, Pandora, Personalization, Personalized, Rss, Recommendation Engine, Recommendations, Riffs, Social Media, Somewhat Frank, Somewhatfrank, Somewhatfrank Com, Syndication, Technologies, Techno

  iTunes has been offering personalized recommendations within the iTunes application for quite sometime and I have found them to be very accurate and helpful. I have often discovered new songs that I like within the recommendations and downloading them quickly for instant gratification. iTunes has started to role out syndication of personalized

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• PMOGs Turn The Web Into A Game

  Published: August 14, 2007, 12:09 am

  Tags: Amazon, Attention, Community, Games, Internet, Live Web, Media 2 0, Pmog, Q Amp, Social Media, Somewhat Frank, Somewhatfrank, Somewhatfrank Com, Technologies, Technology, Tool, Trends, Virtual Gaming, Virtual World, Web 2 0, Web Metrics, Web Tech, Attention Data, Attention Prof

  Are you looking for a little more out of the time and energy you spend on the Web?  If so, you might want to check out a Passively Multiplayer Online Game or PMOG. A proposal created by Justin Hall, Passively Multiplayer Online Games look to create a game around your Web attention data. Justin Hall,  referred to by the NYTimes as the

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