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• Crowdsourcing a New System for Measuring Influence (Beta)

  Published: July 17, 2007, 10:39 pm

  Tags: Community, Journalism, Marketing, Social Networking, Web 2 0, Edelman, Influence, Measurement

  Facebook. Arguably, some 6,000 people (Robert's 4,400+ followers and my 1,500) witnessed it. That's small compared to the reach of our blogs. However, one of those folks was Dwight Silverman, a veteran tech reporter from the Houston Chronicle  He took it all in. (Dwight had to put up with my PR pitches from 1996-2004. Pity him.) Had

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• Why We're Like a Million Monkeys on Treadmills

  Published: July 16, 2007, 9:41 pm

  Tags: Marketing, Web 2 0, Channels, Sociology, Pdf

  it seems there's a hot new Web 2.0 site that captures our attention. In 2003 it was Friendster and Linked In. Then in 2004, thanks in part to the election, blogging began to get really big. The year 2005 brought us photocasting (Flickr) podcasting (iTunes) and vodcasting via YouTube.  By the way note the headlines "Internet

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• Long Live The User

  Published: July 27, 2007, 12:57 pm

  Tags: Web 2 0 News Amp 038 Ideas

  this post there is a 100% chance that you’re a user as well. People is a plural expression that treats us all as sheep. User is a term that in referring to the individual can be owned by one and owned by many at the same time. In being users we are all individuals as it refers to us. Web 2.0 is the pinnacle of being a user. Not only

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• Bloggers Calling for Republican Debate on YouTube

  Published: July 27, 2007, 6:15 pm

  Tags: Youtube, Web 2 0

  There was a pretty big deal made about the Democrat’s recent CNN/YouTube debate held in South Carolina. It’s been likened to presidential candidate debates first being brought to television. See our highlights here. Considering the younger demographic that is generally drawn to YouTube, it’s no surprise that the Democrats were

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• Online Swaps: 8 Sites to Swap Your Stuff

  Published: July 27, 2007, 3:01 am

  Tags: Mashable, Social Networking, Social Software, Web 2 0

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• BarBook Facebook App Lets You Find Venues & Friends

  Published: July 27, 2007, 1:26 am

  Tags: Facebook, Social Networking, Web 2 0

  The BarBook facebook application lets you find local venues and meet others that go to the same places as you. Based on your location (which can be changed), BarBook will show places in your area and those that have added the particular venue to their list. You can add venues to your list too, and you’ll become a regular. Places that

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• 5 Money Making Opportunities on Facebook

  Published: July 26, 2007, 10:49 pm

  Tags: Facebook, Mashable, Social Networking, Social Software, Apis, Web 2 0

  It is reported that of the 29 million active users, about half log in each day. This is a rarity among Web 2.0 companies (comparatively, Google Videos has about 3% active users). If Facebook can convince its users to shell out $1 to send those silly virtual “gift” images to each other, then surely a clever developer or startup can

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• Viewbook is Web-based, Professional Slide Show Creator

  Published: July 26, 2007, 9:55 pm

  Tags: Myspace Music, Ajax, Web 2 0

  Viewbook is a web-based service that lets you create image slide shows. The site has recently launched in beta. With this service, you can easily create albums for presentations for portfolios, presentations, or recreation. Uploading images is very easy and very fast and the drag’n'drop options for rearranging the order of your images

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• Social Media tools in action

  Published: July 20, 2007, 4:16 am

  Tags: Customer Engagement Edelman Facebook Myspace Social Media Web 2 0 Marketing Improvement Europe

  Web 2 is out to get you! Nice title. How about - Web 2 is a great tool to help ensure you (the company) maximises customer service and gets repeat businesses. Uum...not as sexy I know....A company can use social media/web 2 tools to get immediate 356/24 customer satisfaction reports from

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• Audio podcasting - 'real time' conference presentation

  Published: July 11, 2007, 8:23 am

  Tags: Podcast Unicom Social Media Conference 2007 Web 2 0

  At the Unicom Social Tools for Business Use conference in London today and tomorrow. A great range of speakers this morning. To listen to what they had to say check here (www.focus.co.uk/unicom) Lee Bryant shared his experience of how industries and businesses are using social media tools. Sue Charman

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• CRM and loyalty in the Social Media Age

  Published: July 9, 2007, 11:18 am

  Tags: Social Media Web 2 0

  of view. In the 1980s and 1990s companies I worked for (Lotus and Tektronix) spent small fortunes on market research, service and product development to 'gain and retain' customers. We did everything to engage in a dialogue with 'end users' as both companies used distributors and resellers as the sales channel. The issue was by

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• Social media - teenagers heavy users

  Published: July 9, 2007, 8:56 am

  Tags: Facebook Social Media Web 2 0

  A recent report in AdAge (sorry - here is the link to the article) highlighted that almost 3/4's of teenagers use a social media site once a week. This certainly matches our research. In our focus groups what was striking was just how much social media has replaced mobile phone texting and e-mail as a way of

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• Waitrose goes Web 2.0

  Published: July 9, 2007, 7:33 am

  Tags: Social Media Web 2 0

  just upgraded its site to Web 2.0 capability and now provides an interactive platform for their customers to engage in Forum discussions. People can Scrapbook' to save articles and recipes as well as make recipe suggestions and post photographs.   What is interesting is to see the feedback from

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• Social Media Conference - July 11th and 12th

  Published: June 22, 2007, 7:06 am

  Tags: Podcast Social Media Unicom Social Media Conference 2007 Web 2 0

  (London, July 11th and 12th) and will be sharing our experience of podcasting for clients as a way of getting messages out to internal and external audiences. I have interviewed a number of the other speakers to find out what they will be talking about at the event. Listen here. This is a good example of how

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• Be My Friend (on social network sites)

  Published: July 10, 2007, 2:43 pm

  Tags: Web 2 0 And Social Media, Technology

  seeing more and more web service startups over the past few years. Last year I flamed the Bubble 2.0 soundly in “Web Too.Many.” Earlier this year I tried to get an idea of what websites people actually use by starting the What’s Your Web 2.0? meme.I think I’m past breaking when it comes to my attention span and the

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