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Month July 2007

8apps.com – A Social Network for Productivity Geeks

Thanks to Pownce, I was introduced to 8apps.com today. It’s a social network for productivity geeks! I was so excited – still am (if anyone wants to pass alomng an invite…) – only to find that the development team behind it seems to have gone their separate ways in the last couple of weeks.
Would love [...]

A Backlash Against Facebook Applications Will Come — This is How.

A Backlash Against Facebook Applications Will Come — This is How.
This came to me from my Twitter link to Scoble’s Link Blog. I’ve been following the Jason Calacanis posts (and he actually “friended” me on Facebook today – after I first “friended” him. It gets confusing.). I can understand how the “A-List” bloggers MUST get [...]

Social Network Ad Spending to Reach $2.5 Billion in 2011

This is a recent (May 2007) report from eMarketer that estimates that ad spending on social networks will continue to increase(30% increases?) significantly in the next 5 years. And that was before the Facebook platform opened up.
What companies and agencies need to realize is that they need to be educated about Web 2.0 and it’s [...]

A Social-Networking Service With a Velvet Rope – New York Times

Great story on Pownce in yesterday’s NY Times -
I’ve been on Powne for about a month and, while it hasn’t integrated into my life as easily as Twitter has, I’ve found new “friends” (different from Twitter and Jaiku). And I have noticed my use growing in the last 2 weeks. So it’ll be interesting [...]

Everone’s Doing It – Christopher Walken Cooking on a Social Network!

From I’m Cooked
(via Divers Alarums)
“Amateur video of one of the coolest dudes alive roasting a chicken and pears. Christopher has always been vocal about his love of cooking. Watch him take the term “celebrity chef” to a new level.”

What Twitter is (Scripting News)

Best definition I read so far – when anyone asks me from now on, I’m sending this!
What Twitter is (Scripting News): “Home > Archive >  2007 >  July >  27
What Twitter is
Friday, July 27, 2007 by Dave Winer.
Congrats to the lead investors, Union Square Ventures and the angels, and the entrepreneurs.  
I’ve been reading various posts and comments, [...]

How big of a Time Waster is Social Networking?

The big ban on employees accessing Facebook at NevilleHobson.com: “Earlier this month, in FIR #254, Shel and I discussed quite an interesting story of what one company did regarding employee access to and use of Facebook.
That story, of the law firm Allen and Overy’s Facebook U-turn, is a good example of [...]

techPresident %u2013 Candidate Noshows at BlogHer: Obama, Giuliani, Richardson, McCain, Thompson, Romney…

techPresident %u2013 Candidate Noshows at BlogHer: Obama, Giuliani, Richardson, McCain, Thompson, Romney…: “”
So incredibly stupid, one of the largest congregations of bloggers this year – ignored.
(Via Scobleizer-Link Blog.)

Book Learnin!

I’ve just started reading “Marketing to the Social Web: How Digital Customer Communities Build Your Business”, by Larry Weber.
The book talks about how he future of marketing is “a two-way street” (Amazon.com) and that you have to “communicate with, not at, customers”. I agree. Companies, especially large corporate entities, don’t own their brand or message [...]

Epicenter – Wired Blogs

This is a Wired Magazine Throwdown, y’all!
Second Life and other metaverses started a marketing frenzy in some of the well-established brands, like Coke, IBM (who’s the model of Second Life adaption) and Starwood Hotels (I have a SL conference center for companies to be able to explore a SL event without investing in their own [...]