“Sky isn’t falling” blogger says (7)
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Steven Hodson, over at the Inquistr blog, says “the sky isn’t falling” and “What do we get instead? We get people like Robert Scoble who have for the last few days done nothing more than highlight everything bad going on.” Ahh, yes, ye olde blame the messenger post. See, all week long I’ve been saying we’re in a death spiral. They argued with me last weekend and on Monday before the market had its worst ...
Brogan, Rowse, Lacy, Sanders: A Collaborative Effort, Version 2 (5)
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There has been quite a bit of collaboration lately on the idea of social media described in terms of Home Bases, Frontiers, Outposts, and Communities. If you have not gotten into the discussion and thrown in your two cents I would encourage you to read the following posts and discuss: 1.The Founding Father: Chris Brogan: Using Outposts in Your Media Strategy 2. Darren Rowse of Pro-Blogger: Home Bases and Outposts, How I Use Social Media ...
Focusing your blog content in a storm (4)
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No one can escape the economic bad news sweeping the world at the moment….or can they? Blogs will likely fare well no matter what the economic downturn delivers to the broader market: advertising may actually increase, and most blogs and bloggers are small scale enterprises with little or no debt, who can survive on lower incomes than heritage media companies. But there is one thing you need to be considering now, and that’s a question ...
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Robert Scoble said:
Oh, Duncan is now saying "there's worse to come." Fear monger! I get it, he's playing both sides. He gets his new author to attack me for being too negative, then he goes negative himself. That way he gets both audiences: the folks who want just positive news reported, and the folks who want the hard truth. Heheh, brilliant strategy. Me? I'm going to Zig to this Zag.
NetVibes Coming to Facebook (16)
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What’s the best way to gain a boatload of users for your Web-based application in a short amount of time? If you said “Build a Facebook version,” you win. Here’s your prize: full NetVibes integration with Facebook Connect. This is going to let you integrate all your NetVibes activity feeds into Facebook and utilize the Facebook features that allow commenting, interaction and sharing. The integration will allow NetVibes users on Facebook to also share widgets, ...
Lifestreaming Mashup Software Kakuteru Inspired by SweetCron and Powered by FriendFeed (1)
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Submitted By Louisgray: There’s an interesting new Lifestreaming software coming called Kakuteru. Dominiek ter Heide speaks of how he was inspired by a Yongfook presentation of SweetCron which prompted him to create this new open source Ruby on Rails development project that sounds like the Lifestreaming equivalent of Frankenstein but in a good way. From what I can te...Permalink
With Facebook Connect, Google Has Unique Integration Opportunity (4)
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By Jesse Stay of Stay N' Alive (Identi.ca/FriendFeed)In working with Google FriendConnect recently, I realized that Google has a unique opportunity that perhaps they did not have previously. In only the last few months, Facebook has opened up the opportunity for any 3rd party site to integrate with Facebook, all via a special login button and form Facebook provides. Such technology is enabled through a product Facebook calls Facebook Connect. In playing with Google's product, ...
Socialmedian Demonstrates Exemplary Product Development (5)
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I know that for many of my online friends socialmedian has already become THE place to share and discover news and various thought-provoking articles. I can’t say that I myself am particularly active on the service yet I like what I see every time I visit. But what I enjoy the most about socialmedian is how they handle product management and development and rolling out updates to the service basically every week (judging by my ...
Social Media and Shopping: A Growing Trend - ReadWriteWeb (26)
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Social media is evolving. What began as a way to "hang out" with friends online has morphed into an entirely new platform for communication, information sharing, and marketing. Businesses are quickly discovering that if they want to reach the youngest demographic, Generation Y (born after 1979), they had best get online. But maintaining a web presence alone isn't enough anymore. According to new research from August 2008, web retailers are now actually trying to engage ...
Hackr WatrCoolr: Tech News Aggregation With No Mouse Required (9)
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A couple weeks ago, in an article about Microspaces, I said that Web entrepreneurs are finding new ways for you to navigate their sites, and many are now incorporating keyboard input, to jump to new comments or pages. Though I mentioned it in a quick tweet on September 25th, I thought it was worth highlighting the Hacker WatrCoolr, a site that displays headlines from many popular tech news sites, and lets you quickly flick through ...
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Tac said:
I wish they'd have this as an AIR app.
Winning the CodingExperiments Worst Website of the Year Is… Every Website Coded Entirely in Adobe Flash! (2)
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Introduction Adobe Flash, while it appears to be buggier on Linux, is a neat thing. I can watch animations and play games right through my web browser. Now, I would prefer that Adobe Flash not be put to the use of making entire websites, or even major parts of websites, such as a navigation menu. Flash usability hasn’t had major improvements in eight years, as evident by Jakob Nielsen’s similar article on Flash and usability. ...
Passion and the business case [blogging 101] (11)
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Steve Hodson has an excellent post up this weekend titled “So You Want To Be A Rich And Famous Blogger Eh.” Some of the advice covers some of the things we’ve covered in Blogging 101, with some trademarked Hodson bite. There’s not much I disagree with in the post, which is why I’m suggesting that if you’re interested in blogging, particularly starting a new blog, or looking at doing it full time, it’s a worthy ...
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Robert Scoble said:
Duncan is right. I'd far rather read someone who is passionate than doing it just for the money. That attitude will sneak out into the writing. Plus, that kind of person won't be doing it at 3 a.m. when the money isn't there (and the money might not be in YOUR blog for years!!!)
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Clint Ecker said:
People should read what Ken Fisher, EIC of Ars Technica, wrote about this in his post where he announced our acquisition by CondeNast: http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080519-ars-technica-acquired-by-conde-nast-the-low-down.html / Also it's interesting to watch what he said in his April interview with Kara Swisher: http://kara.allthingsd.com/20080519/boomtowns-well-timed-april-interview-with-ars-technicas-ken-fisher/
Micro Persuasion: Page Rank is the Ultimate Measure of Online Influence (31)
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Friends, Romans, countrymen, followers, page views, in-bound links, share of voice, unique visitors and subscribers. These are just some of the more common ways serious content creators (and those who hope to reach them) measure online influence. However there are big flaws in all of these metrics. Followers and/or RSS subscribers are nice to count. But given the Attention Crash, it's a good bet that many of these people aren't as engaged with your content ...
I Am Blogger. Not Really Rich. Not Quite Famous. (8)
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Steven Hodson wrote a good post about the various types of bloggers out there and some of the motivating factors behind it. In it he names me as a prime example of a blogger working for a larger network (in this case VentureBeat) biding my time and putting food on the table while I wait for future opportunities. I thought it might be a good time to clarify my position on what I do, since ...
MySpace Music Streamed Its Billionth Song “A Few Days” After Launch (14)
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It took iTunes nearly three years to get to 1 billion song downloads. MySpace Music streamed a billion songs in just a few days after it launched on September 25. And while this isn’t a fair comparison (songs on MySpace are free to stream; on iTunes users were paying $0.99 each), it’s an incredible milestone. What MySpace won’t say for some reason is what the billionth song was, or when exactly it was streamed (which ...
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Devlin D said:
Holy freaking crap that is a lot of ads displayed!
The Power of Profiles (11)
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I visited the New York Times today and saw this at the top of the front page: For those of you with good eyes, that's my avatar on the upper left and that top banner is something that is called TimesPeople. It's a profile based service for sharing stories with friends and colleagues on the New York Times website. TimesPeople also has a facebook app which I installed today. This is an important step for ...
Three Twitter mash-ups that challenge Digg (11)
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Think about it, doesn’t it make more sense to share interesting links on Twitter instead of Digg? They don’t get lost in the clutter and all your friends and acquaintances get to see them right a way. When browsing around on a few Twitter streams, you can immediately tell that most people realize this. It’s one big treasure chamber full of interesting links. Unfortunately, the whole Twitter chatter is too scattered around to find out ...
Report: Semantic Web Companies Are, or Will Soon Begin, Making Money (18)
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Semantic Web entrepreneur David Provost has published a report about the state of business in the Semantic Web and it's a good read for anyone interested in the sector. It's titled On the Cusp: A Global Review of the Semantic Web Industry. We also mentioned it in our post Where Are All The RDF-based Semantic Web Apps?. The Semantic Web is a collection of technologies that makes the meaning of content online understandable by machines. ...
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Free video chat by Ustream Chris Pirillo is on the cutting edge of live stream media. The 35-year-old web whiz knows how to generate online community by hosting videos on UStream and other websites such as CNN.com. In this interview, he discusses how he drew an audience of five million people in 2007, what you need to create a successful brand, and why he'd stream his own natural death. Question: What is your equipment setup? ...Shared by charlesnadeau (82) Chris (37) Drew Olanoff (127) gort581 (29) kenmat (24) Kneale Mann | RedFish Group (37) louisgray (171) PJorge (15) Robert (38) smackaysmith (17) Stu Andrews (26) Thomas Smith (37)Contribute commentBroadcasting Brain (42) permalink
Steven Hodson of Winextra.com has a semi-deserved reputation as a cranky older guy, which is evident in the tone of many of his blog posts. His love for technology, particularly PC applications and Web applications, is quite obvious and he’s knows what he’s writing about. He’s passionate about the things he writes about. What Steven probably doesn’t get enough credit for, however, is his insight and common sense. He looks to the future, but his ...Contribute comment
