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| The Solution to Social Network Site Fatigue |
| Published: August 3, 2007, 1:18 pm |
| Tags: Online Privacy Reputation Management, Web 2 0 Social Media, Technology |
| The biggest problem with the web 2.0 revolution of “social network apps” is that there is no universal identifier. In real life, governments use social insurance numbers to tell the different between two people with the same name. If you look at the web as a big database, we’re missing a universal key that lets us know that |
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| Visual Conversations with Jing |
| Published: August 3, 2007, 10:39 am |
| Tags: Web 2 0, Social Media |
| The Jing Project is a cross-platform image and video sharing program that can capture anything that appears on your screen and send it to a free, file-sharing site on the web. Here’s a capture of the THINKing blog, with added comments: http://www.screencast.com/t/XAJ8wpLQ |
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| RSS Strategy |
| Published: August 1, 2007, 8:12 am |
| Tags: Advertising, Marketing, Web 2 0, Social Media, Blogs, Feedburnerfeed101, Rss, Email Marketing, Technorati |
| I’m still a big fan of email marketing despite the problems - like deliverability - that surround email. It is a great way to communicate with interested customers and prospects. Email, however, is a push strategy. Marketers and PR professionals need some pull, and that is where RSS - really simple syndication - comes into play. This article |
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| Web 2.0 - Who Owns What? |
| Published: August 13, 2007, 9:17 am |
| Tags: Advertising, Marketing, Public Relations, Web 2 0, Social Media, Blogs, Media |
| A handful of companies still own most media, even so-called Web 2.0 platforms. Check out the image below from Poynter Online as a review. Get the rest of the story here. Poynter Online - E-Media Tidbits |
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| Universal identity and single sign on using openID? No thanks |
| Published: August 15, 2007, 9:05 am |
| Tags: Web 2 0 Social Media, Technology |
| One of the holy grails of web technology is single sign-on: the ability to use different web applications from one user account. Instead of having to remember 20 (or more like 30-50 in this web2.0 social app environment) login credentials, you’ll only have to remember one. Every few years it seems like there’s another attempt at |
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| 8 Of 10 Americans Know About Blogs |
| Published: August 29, 2007, 7:05 am |
| Tags: Advertising, Marketing, Public Relations, Web 2 0, Social Media, Blogs, Journalism, Media, Promotion, Media Relations, Online |
| blogs are incremental to old media and that more than half of all connected Americans visit blogs daily. This opens up the question about blogs as a viable advertising platform. Newspapers are in the most danger from this emerging media, I think. The print media as a whole has - like the dinosaur - not seen the meteor strike coming. |
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| Social Media Is Transforming Business |
| Published: September 4, 2007, 8:31 am |
| Tags: Advertising, Web 2 0, Social Media, Blogs, Rss, Online, Technorati |
| According to a recent report in Inc. Magazine, social media is transforming business. More than 51 percent of the companies on the Inc. 500 list are tracking social media. And in a new online study by IBM, more than 26 percent of US online consumers have contributed to a social media site. |
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| Let Your Blog Speak For Itself |
| Published: September 6, 2007, 3:12 pm |
| Tags: Marketing, Web 2 0, Social Media, Blogs, Feedburnerfeed101, Promotion, Rss, Online |
| is a free Web 2.0 service that lets your blog speak for itself. If your blog has a machine readable feed - thats typically one in RSS or Atom format - Talkr will pull your feed into its system where it is processed and output using speech simulation technology. Then, your audience can subscribe to the audio, download it onto their mp3 |
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| Does Your Agency Really Understand Web 2.0? |
| Published: September 13, 2007, 9:37 pm |
| Tags: Advertising, Web 2 0, Social Media, Blogs, Pay Per Click, Rss, Email Marketing, Technorati |
| The Logic + Emotion blog throws down the gauntlet for agencies claiming to understand the new digital world in a recent post: Emerging technologies are nearly always part of the equation and the equation shifts like the desert sands. And digital isn’t even an option it’s mandatory. No longer will agencies be able to tack on the |
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| Politics Heat Up The Web |
| Published: September 18, 2007, 7:44 am |
| Tags: Marketing, Web 2 0, Social Media, Blogs, Journalism, Media, Online, Internet |
| Social networking is changing the face of politics in America. Last time around, highly politicized blogs like the leftwing Daily Kos and conservative Michelle Malkin, led the charge. This time, it’s Web 2.0 and social networks in the forefront. Here are the latest Hitwise stats on presidential contender web traffic. |
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| The Problem With Social Web Applications |
| Published: September 18, 2007, 5:45 pm |
| Tags: Startups Business, Technology, Web 2 0 Social Media |
| than captcha for leaving web comments, but I wouldn’t trust it with my credit card information. The second problem with social web apps is social network fatigue. The average person has the time to actively use 2 to 5 social web sites and become part of a community on them. No one has the time to be part of more sites than that, and we |
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| Google Gadget Ads Take Advertising To A New Level |
| Published: September 19, 2007, 7:47 am |
| Tags: Advertising, Creativity, Web 2 0, Social Media, Branding, Widgets, Rss, Creative, Tools |
| have arrived, according to MediaPost. Above, you’ll see one from Intel. These are widgets combined with ads that allow Google advertisers to embed RSS feeds and other rich media. Then, consumers can place the Gadget ads onto their desktops or use them in their blogs. You could think of them as mini versions of your website. Says Adweek, |
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| 9 Techniques to Promoting Your Social Web Application |
| Published: September 21, 2007, 2:34 pm |
| Tags: Software, Startups Business, Technology, Web 2 0 Social Media, Avatars, Commoncraft, Joost, Marketing, Mash, Medium, Promotion, Socialnetworking, Socialsoftware, Web2 0, Yahoo Mash |
| for creating approximately 2 hours of ‘I want a beta invite!’ buzz +2 points for convincing me that Mash invites had some value and I could earn some social capital by sending invites to everyone on my address book -10 points for refusing to send my handcrafted invitation that explained what Mash is and why I was sending out |
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| Distraction Free GTD: 32 Todo List Web Applications |
| Published: October 5, 2007, 2:08 pm |
| Tags: Firefox Greasemonkey, Getting To Done, Increasing Productivity Simplifying Your Life, Technology, Web 2 0 Social Media, 30 Boxes, Gtd, Hiverminder, Joe S Goals, Lifehacks, Mozilla, Productivity, Remember The Milk, Simplegtd, Stikkit, Tedium, To Do, Todoist, Todolist, Toodle |
| Here’s a quick link to Web Runner for Windows 0.7 (latest as of 2007/10/05) Run the installer Step #2: Download My “Distraction Free GTD” Web Bundle Download this zip file Unzip the contents to a folder Click on a .webapp file to launch the web application you want Every web app has hotkey history navigation (ALT+LEFT, |
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| Social Retailing. Going to the mall with all my social networking friends. |
| Published: November 12, 2007, 10:32 am |
| Tags: Facebook, Social Networking, Web 2 0, Social Media, Social Retailing |
| you really thought that this social networking thing might not catch on in the mainstream? Well guess what? Why don’t we mash the mall with Facebook or Myspace and see what we get? Social Retailing. A New York-based designer has come up with a mirror equipped with infrared technology that sends a live video feed to any cell phone, e-mail |
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