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Month August 2007

Global Race to Monetize the Social Web has it’s Bumps

Advertisers find new headaches in lawless world of social Web sites – International Herald Tribune: “By Doreen Carvajal“ Great story in the Internation Herald about the advertising challenges in the Social space (ie. What happened in the UK with Vodafone, Virgin Media, First Direct and others temporarily leaving Facebook). I think these challenges are good, [...]

Web Stategists Take Note!

“Web Strategy: What the Web Strategist should know about Facebook“ Jeremiah Owyang is the Director of Corporate Media Strategy at PodTech.net. His blog, Web Strategy by Jeremiah has become one of my daily must-reads. In today’s post, he gives anyone working or interested in Web Strategy a primer on Facebook. How to get started, resources, [...]

Brian Solis: The Future of Communications: A Manifesto for Integrating Social Media into Marketing

The Future of Communications – “ A Manifesto for Integrating Social Media into Marketing I was reading PR 2.0 – Silicon Valley (AdAge just named it one of the Power150) and Brian Solissent me this link. He also posted it on his Facebook. In his manifesto (a must-read!), Brian talks about how all of these [...]

Interesting Twitter Conversation: Robert Scoble

Interesting one-side conversation from Robert Scoble (Twitter / Scobleizer) on what and how to get his – and many other A-List blogger’s attention these days. In brief, he says that he answers things in the public space first (like Facebook’s Wall), rather than email or even direct Tweets (Twitter) or Facebook messages), “Because those communications [...]

After Selling Opsware, Andreessen Turns to His Third Startup, Ning

I’m a huge fan of Marc Andreessen. His blog is one of the first things I read daily. He’s a success story from the wild, wild west days of the Dot.Boom and has gone on from Netscape to start (sell) and focus on new companies. He started Ning (with a partner) in 2005, which I [...]

Facebook – The Race to build a Platform within the Platform is on!

I think that Facebook is completely open to people (using their API) figuring out how to monetize their platform. It’s not a closed system (like MySpace), it will make Facebook even more valuable in terms of being bought. And it helps the company develop quickly without having to do the usual heavy lifting by itself! [...]

Improve Your Social Network : [chrisbrogan.com]

This is a great article that focuses on growing your social networks in terms of relationships and not just numbers. Sometimes in the midst of adding new “friends” or “followers”, we forget that these are actually people with lives (hopefully) outside of their computers/networks. It’s great to find out what else you have in common! [...]