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Social Discovery, Social Filtering, and other Web-Squared Shapes

October 24, 2009 Events

It’s hard to wrap up a major conference, especially when you didn’t attend, but viewing things from a distance sometimes helps because only the loudest messages make it all the way over.
Before the conference even started, Fred Wilson threw out a one-liner that got people thinking. He called it the Golden Triangle.
The three current big [...]

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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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Traffic Sources and Attention

April 21, 2009 Advertising

There’s been good debate around how the source of traffic to sites is changing, shifting from the search engines to social sites such as Facebook and Twitter. I confirmed that I too am seeing a greater percentage of traffic come in via links shared on social sites and shared a colleague’s theory about what this [...]

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Calacanis on Value of twitter

March 21, 2009 Advertising

Jason Calacanis expands upon his offer to pay twitter to get his Mahalo account onto twitter’s suggested user page. It’s the distribution channel and potential click-thru traffic he’s looking for, and click-thrus to his site equals registered users and a lifetime relationship with Mahalo that can be monetized over time.
The top 20 slots on Twitter [...]

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Facebook, Twitter send more traffic than Google

March 6, 2009 Advertising

Liz Gannes posted that Perez Hilton is now seeing more traffic coming in via Facebook than Google.

My colleague Udo Szabo at Nokia HQ in Finland has a theory that I call the Unified Theory of Interweb Economics. The theory goes something like this:

Advertising is a function of your traffic volume, the more traffic that comes [...]

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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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Keywords and Meaning

February 15, 2009 Media

TechCrunch asks if twitter search gets us closer to being able to mine the world’s collective thoughts. We may be getting there as millions text their latest thoughts into their cellphones. With a simple text message, the hive mind has the potential for 4 billion nodes out in the real world (for comparison, the human [...]

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Community 2.0 with Twitter

April 18, 2008 Community

MyBlogLog just launched an experiment and a shared account at twitter.com/mybloglog. All of us on the team have twitter accounts and have been tripping over each other using our accounts to respond to people and get the word out to our various, over-lapping pools of followers.
The twittersphere is so noisy anyway that when we sat [...]

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Nate Ritter’s one man band media service

January 14, 2008 Social Media

I went to a meetup sponsored by Netsquared and saw Nate Ritter talk about how he was able to fill in during the power outages during the San Diego fires and keep us all informed on what was going on. Part of his amazing story is how on the first day he worked for [...]

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