We announced this morning that Powered, Inc. has acquired crayon – here’s the official press release http://bit.ly/4rIR1q. We’re very excited about this merger and where it takes us, especially as the roll-up also includes two other great companies, Drillteam and StepChange.
I’ve had a Flickr Pro account for over 2 years. There’s been this fantasy that I’m going to buy one of those amazing cameras, take a class and carry it with me everywhere (like CC Chapman and Brian Solis). So far, not so much. Then I bought a Diana Camera this year – a quirky, [...]
Thanks to my FriendFeed, I saw a blog entry from Fred Wilson about Disqus.
I’ve been using Mahalo, Jason Calacanis’s “people-powered” search engine for about 5 months – and am really enjoying it.
I was celebrating the Holiday with my sister, friends and a bunch of kids (two of whom were my niece and nephew). They were playing Guitar Hero 3 on the Wii, when I overheard this conversation (which I Twittered), “Club Penguin was last year. WebKinz is now”. About this time, my nephew (who’s eight today), [...]
Social Media Inside the Firewall : [chrisbrogan.com] This week I’m starting an experiment. It might last 3 days or longer, depending on how it impacts my workflow. I’m not going to respond to email conventionally – but by alternate methods of communication including social networking messaging, video and audio messages and texts. I This was [...]
There’s going to be a lot of news about this today as Google scoops Facebook’s spotlight (until next week when FB’s up at bat with their “SocialAds” announcement). I’ll be looking at all the news, but I’m interested in viewpoints. Who’s thinking what. One of the great people I saw and met at PodCampBoston this [...]
What the Facebook Ad Network Might Look Like This is an interesting view of the Facebook/Microsoft partnership and what might be announced on November 5th. While Microsoft partnership in Facebook gives MS a giant step forward in social networking, it also gives Facebook access to Microsoft’s ad network. Only a week to wait! (Via Mashable.)
There are a couple of events I’ll be attending in the next couple weeks: October 16th – 17th: SMX Social Media in New York Agenda Highlights: From the website SMX Social Media will explore current opportunities and future developments, offering both fundamental and advanced panels on topics including: – Social Media Marketing Essentials – Linkbait [...]
I have a large (for me) and expansive web presence. I have two blogs (this one and Setting Contexts, my GTD blog), a Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Jaiku, Pownce, Yahoo!Mash, my Upcoming page, etc., etc., etc. A lot of these services were initiated under my jquig99 moniker. As a woman, I felt a bit vulnerable having [...]
