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Event: Network Solutions – Solutions Stars Video Conference

The Solutions Stars Video Conference is happening October 29th at 1pm. A number of social media luminaries – the kind that you usually pay a couple thousand to see – have participatedin this incredible event.

Sweetcron – Noise Pollution? Host your own FriendFeed!

I’ve been following Youngfook since I wrote about 8apps on Setting Contexts. Unfortunately, 8apps is gone (would be GREAT to see someone buy that and run with it…) and Youngfook has moved on – he’s the guy behind Sweetcron, a self-hosted Lifestreaming solution.

crayon’s panel at Podcamp Boston 3

I was going to be on this panel (until I took a certain job…). The crayon Panel at Podcamp Boston moderated by Greg Verdino, with Doug Haslam, Phillip Robertson and Adam Broitman!

I Still Love Twitter

There’s a bit of unrest among the Twitter natives. The service is up and it’s down and…it is what it is. What it is to me – I’ve been using Twitter for almost 2 years, and as I’ve said I’ve been on long enough to fall in love and out of love and back in [...]

Via Hal Siegel (http://www.collapsingdominant.com)

I think Laurie Anderson once said that when she lived in Chicago “I always felt like I was an hour behind New York.”

Overheard

“Unfollow is the new Follow” – Greg Verdino

My ooVoo Day Political – Let’s Caucus!

This week I’m involved in a pretty amazing event – My ooVoo Day Political (MODP). ooVoo is a video communications platform that allows up to 6 people to chat simultaneously. A couple of months ago, the social media community got together for a charity event – My ooVoo Day – where all the proceeds went to charity. It was quite a success. This time around, My ooVoo Day is about politics.

Joss Whelan’s Dr. Horrible Sing-Along Social Medley

I am a huge Joss Whelan – Buffy – Serenity fan – he’s imaginative, fun and I love the way he writes his female characters. This is a man who likes women. So I was exceptionally bummed when a studio passed on his Wonder Woman script. Then out of the writer’s strike came “Dr. Horrible’s [...]

A Different Sort of Social – Postcrossing (via clusterflock)

There are blogs that are a addictive must-read – clusterflock is one of those for me. This just came across my reader – and I think it’s an different social take. And an unexpected smile. Postcrossing‘s idea is simple – send a postcard, get a postcard from someone picked at random around the world. It’s [...]

Plurk – A New Microblogging Service

With all of the up and down (time) of Twitter, many people are looking at alternatives for their microblogging platform of choice. Tonight I noticed (ironically through Twitter) a number of my friends trying out Plurk.