Archive for the ‘Announcements’ Category
Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008
Teresa Valdez Klein, blogger, political activist, and social media goddess extraordinaire is leaving the Parnassus Group at the end of April to take a very cool new job as a Product Planner with T-Mobile in Seattle.
Teresa started her run with us in the fall of 2005, and from her very first post ...
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Wednesday, April 16th, 2008
I received an e-mail from the FWE&E this morning letting me know that the videos from the event I participated in last month are now online.
There were some fantastic presentations that are worth a look, or even a second look.
Click here to download them free.
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Wednesday, April 9th, 2008
Check out this post over on Face Reviews. Also read this article in the New York Times.
Despite agreeing not to shut down or mess with Scrabulous, Mattel has apparently launched their own version of Scrabble on Facebook. It's bug ridden, poorly executed, and apparently nobody likes Mattel.
Here are the ...
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Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008
Cisco is putting together an hour-long TechWise TV webcast about the application of Web 2.0 to business with our good friends Jeremiah Owyang and Robert Scoble. Here's the trailer:
The event will take place tomorrow at 10:00 a.m. PST. You can click here to test your system, download the streaming software ...
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Tuesday, March 25th, 2008
I'll be speaking along with a lot of amazing people at the Forum for Women Entrepreneurs & Executives: Business Applications of Social Networking event this morning. If you're interested in watching, join us via Ustream.
Update:
Here is video from the entire event split into two.
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Monday, March 17th, 2008
Next Tuesday, I'll be on a panel moderated by Forbes' Erika Brown along with Karen Appleton, Katie Jacobs Stanton, and Lena West. Other incredible speakers include our good buddy Jeremiah Owyang and Ning CEO Gina Bianchini.
If you'd like to join me at the event for a discount of $50 off ...
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Wednesday, March 12th, 2008
I read Nick O'Neill's post about SocialAds earlier today with some curiosity. After all, SocialAds have proven themselves to be somewhat underwhelming since the announcement from Facebook on November 6th.
Nick is right that what SocialAds taps into is the online version of Word of Mouth Marketing, plus a bit ...
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Tuesday, March 11th, 2008
Irving Biederman, a neuroscientist at the University of Southern California, studies the biological basis of the human need for information. His research opens a window into understanding why many people are willing to scan thousands of tweets a day, or to hover over a newsreader for hours ingesting many scores ...
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Thursday, February 21st, 2008
A little while ago Facebook launched a Spanish edition of the social network, and since then I've heard pretty much nothing about it. So how is it doing?
A quick Google search yields this piece on the American Observer, which has a collection of Spanish user reactions:
Carlos Sanchez, who accesses ...
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Wednesday, February 20th, 2008
Paul Jeffries, who leads the Platform Developer Operations & Support team at Facebook, posted this morning on the Official Facebook Blog with a rundown on the new features they've put together to deal with the "application spam" problem.
The lesson for app developers: don't be spammy, you will get smacked. ...
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Thursday, February 7th, 2008
I'll be giving a free webinar entitled Locating and Participating in the Online Conversations that Matter on February 19th at 10:00 a.m. PST with an encore presentation at the same time the following day.
Here's the description of the event:
This hour-long presentation will give you the skills necessary to find and ...
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Thursday, January 31st, 2008
Jason Goldberg wrote a post today on Socialmedian talking about his descent into Facebook Fatigue. The "shiny new" effect of Facebook has worn off on him, and the core utility of the system is down to a few basic features of the network.
And importantly, he's cut off his third-party app ...
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Wednesday, January 30th, 2008
The Wall Street Journal has announced a new Facebook application that allows users to share articles, It's called "Seen This?"
According to ABC news it "will allow readers to see which Journal stories are popular among that user's Facebook friends."
I've been trying to find and install it, but it does not ...
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Friday, January 25th, 2008
We haven't exactly been "tight-lipped" about this app while it was in development. If you showed up at our December Web Community Forum or ran into us at CES, chances are you heard something about InDesign Tips somewhere along the way.
What we've been whispering in the aisles is that ...
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Thursday, January 10th, 2008
One of our favorite online communities is the group of gadget heads that gather at CES every year to blog and geek out. We love them so much that we throw them a party every year. Here's some video footage of this year's event:
Full coverage of the event can be ...
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