Archive for December, 2007
Monday, December 31st, 2007
I haven't tried any of this myself, so I have no idea if it works, but if you're one of the unfortunate people who have to live sans-facebook during the workday because the site is blocked, there may be a way through:
A new service called MoDazzle makes it possible to ...
Posted in Facebook | 1 Comment »
Friday, December 28th, 2007
Business Week reports that a number of oenophiles -- read: lovers of wine -- are starting their own online businesses to cater to the community.
Many of these "oen-trepreneurs" are putting online community building ahead of getting funded, even going into debt rather than sacrifice a community vision:
Sagi Solomon founded OpenBottles ...
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Thursday, December 27th, 2007
As I was sifting through my Google Reader this morning, three posts came to my attention. Each raised an example of why online communities and the technologies that support them are so critically important to business interests.
The first article was by search guru John Battelle explaining why nobody comments on ...
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Saturday, December 22nd, 2007
For those of you who are curious about how Facebook affects the political sphere, you might check out this post that breaks down some of the interesting info you can scrape about politicians and their campaigns from within Facebook:
Does it surprise you that that internet legend Ron Paul (53,104) has ...
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Thursday, December 20th, 2007
In The Economist this week, Evan Williams is profiled as "The accidental innovator." The piece asserts that many of the best new ideas are right-brained in nature and the creation of "accidental stumbling." Twitter is described as an example of this type of innovation.
Another assertion is that minimalist thinking is ...
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Wednesday, December 19th, 2007
Jack Olmsted, CES podcaster extraordinaire, will be interviewing Steve, Teresa, and I tomorrow morning at 10am Pacific Time. We're going to be on his show talking about the who and the whatnot of our second annual blogger party at CES this year.
One of the reasons we love blogging and social ...
Posted in Announcements | No Comments »
Wednesday, December 19th, 2007
Facebook's new lists feature now allows users to build groups of their friends and message them all at once. This is a very cool thing, but there's just one tiny problem: Facebook's messaging management system sucks. There's no way to filter messages, no way to flag them, no way to ...
Posted in Facebook | 3 Comments »
Wednesday, December 19th, 2007
Facebook has launched a feature today that allows users to categorize their friends into lists. So far, I've created lists for my high school friends, college friends, post-college friends and professional contacts.
Now I want to set the permissions for each of these groups. Where is that function, Facebook? You said ...
Posted in Facebook | 1 Comment »
Tuesday, December 18th, 2007
There are good days and there are not so good days. The good days happen when I'm minding my own business and people like Jeremiah drop into my inbox with a collection of links to a really interesting bit of conversation going on in the blogosphere.
It turns out that ...
Posted in Tools | 3 Comments »
Tuesday, December 18th, 2007
Invisibility? On a social network? Whaaaaa?
Jeff Pulver thinks (and I agree) that making an invisible profile would work out to being a pretty useful option in Facebook:
Yossi Vardi recently commented he would join Facebook if he had the ability to be invisible. And after thinking about this, I realized that ...
Posted in Facebook | 1 Comment »
Monday, December 17th, 2007
Your daily dose of humor, courtesy of (apparently) John Cow Images As noted in the comments, it's originally from somewhere else:
Posted in Facebook | 3 Comments »
Monday, December 17th, 2007
The New York Times reported today that academics across the nation are observing people's behavior on Facebook. Some of the lines of inquiry include:
How shared interests promote and reinforce friendships.
How Facebook affects people's perceptions of one another.
How Facebook offers "weak links" that help students who are depressed or otherwise dissatisfied ...
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Monday, December 17th, 2007
Chris Brogan is one of my favorite thinkers in the social media space, and I'm very fortunate to have met him on a couple of occasions. Last week, he posted a great article entitled "Marketing is NOT Social Media-Social Media is NOT Marketing."
In it -- and I paraphrase here -- ...
Posted in Best Practices | 2 Comments »
Friday, December 14th, 2007
Mark Collier at Marketing Profs reports on a study that indicated over one billion people will be using social media sites like Facebok and Myspace by the year 2012:
A new report by Strategy Analytics claims that roughly one out of every 6 people on the face of the earth will ...
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Friday, December 14th, 2007
Apparently Zuckerberg has made it onto the list of winners this year from Blogging Stocks. Is anyone really that surprised?
If half the stuff published about Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is true, the 23-year-old Harvard dropout is a major league kook. But he's also one of the most important entrepreneurs of ...
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