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Social Media

Jyri Engestrom on Social Objects

July 2, 2009 Current Events

I ran across some notes from the Web 2.0 Expo back in April that are still relevant and worth sharing. Today I’ll post on the talk that Jyri gave on Building Sites with Social Objects, tomorrow I’ll post notes from a talk given on iPhone Development Anti-Patterns.
Jyri Engestrom founded Jaiku which was later acquired by [...]

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Twitter Card

June 12, 2009 Current Events

I’m not so sure how the whole Facebook namespace landrush is going to work out for me (cheeky of them to have us all sit around camped out facebook.com on a Friday night!) but for now I’m going with this twitter card as a way to get my social media dialtone for now. To make [...]

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Spokeo Repositioned as a Snitch

March 17, 2009 Search

While it may be technically true, I’m not a big fan of Spokeo’s new positioning.

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Facebook Business Model – Public Profiles

March 16, 2009 Advertising

With over 175M users, Facebook has famously opened up for distribution of marketing messages from businesses, brands, and celebrities. My wife Tivo’d an appearence by Mark Zuckerberg on Oprah introducing it to its mainstream audience and most surely to any brand marketer interested in reaching Oprah’s audience. If Jason Calcanis puts the value of a [...]

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Do Social Gestures a Business Model Make?

February 17, 2009 Advertising

Is twitter a directory or a utility? This is the question that Charles Hudson raises in his post The Database of Intentions is More Valuable than the Database of Musings. While investigating prospective business models, he raises good questions about the ability of a collection of “accumulated musings” to determine intent which is what is [...]

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Open ID Design Summit – Links to coverage

February 12, 2009 Design

For various reasons I was unable to attend the Open ID Design Summit. Thankfully, the talks were very well covered so it’s possible for anyone see what happened and the current state of discussions around what’s being called the “open stack”
Live-blogging the openid design summit – John McCrea from Plaxo did a great job of [...]

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It’s not Information Overload. It’s Filter Failure

September 22, 2008 Social Media

Thank you Daniela for pointing me to Clay Shirky’s keynote at Web 2.0 Expo last week in New York. In it, Clay gives a talk on Social Networks, Lifestreaming, and Privacy. It’s a timely talk as lifestreams go mainstream. I’m really happy to see someone like Clay talking about the social impacts of lifestreaming and [...]

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Radar, cool hyper-local service from outside.in

September 10, 2008 Blogs

Image via CrunchBase
outside.in, the local news site co-founded by geographer-historian Steven Johnson, launched a service called Radar which claims to feed you news from within 1,000 feet of your stated location. Similar to the other hyper-local services like EveryBlock and Topix, their service parses blogs and other social media for stories tied to a [...]

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Custom Book Jackets Drive Awareness

June 19, 2008 Books

From the folks that brought you the Day in the Life and America 24/7 photo books, comes their latest project which takes a peek inside homes across America. As they have done in the past, they are offering custom book jackets and they have a cool little app where you can upload a photo and [...]

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Social Media Behavioral Vectors

May 13, 2008 Social Media

I’ve run into a few articles by Sarah from sarahintampa.com on ReadWriteWeb.com and have seen her referenced a few times so I went to check out her site and grabbed this graphic from a post about Create Debate.
Don’t have time to check out the service she’s talking about but I love the infographic which is [...]

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