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October 31, 2006
What's a 'community advocate'?
Last month I posted an entry about Platial and commented that “I think it’s kind of cool that so many of these new companies have community outreach people, even if it is still sometimes hard to tell them from publicists...(See full entry.)
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March 24, 2006
PR getting a clue
I’ve just ducked down to my room on the 8th floor of the Hyatt Regency Vancouver to get some money to buy drink tickets at the welcoming cocktail party at the IA Summit. Ran into David Weinberger, who’s been refining...(See full entry.)
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March 20, 2006
Bubble 2.0 popping soon?
Seems like a lot of the Web 2.0 skeptics come out of Australia. Not sure why that is. Personally, I hate the whole "2.0" concept. It's already played out as a meme and it means nothing (or everything, which has...(See full entry.)
March 1, 2006
Listening to customers
Dispatches from Blogistan says that Amazon is experimenting with product wikis. I hope they have better luck with that than the LA Times did with their “wikitorials” experiment. At least Amazon already hosts a culture used to giving feedback (with...(See full entry.)
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January 11, 2006
Susan Mernit going to Yahoo Personals
I swear, all the cool kids are at Yahoo now: Susan Mernit's Blog: Newsflash: I'm joining Yahoo!...(See full entry.)
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December 31, 2005
Blake Ross's 10 predictions for the new year
Tired of end-of-the-year top ten lists and predictions? Try Blake Ross’s Ten predictions for the new year. Here’s my favorite: Yahoo, acclerating its bid to dominate the social space, will announce that it is buying the actual societies of 32...(See full entry.)
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December 19, 2005
Growing pains for the monsters of Web 2.0
First Typepad had its embarassing outage and now Delicious is feeling some pain: Due to the power outage earlier in the week, we appear [sic] a number of continued hiccups. We've taken everything offline to properly rebuild and restore everything....(See full entry.)
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October 5, 2005
Yahoo buys Upcoming.org
Congratulations to Andy Baio (and Gordon Luk and Leonard Lin): Waxy.org: Daily Log: Yahoo and Upcoming, Sitting In A Tree I'm a day late and a dollar short here, but had to note this. Yahoo is really getting aggressive about...(See full entry.)
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July 26, 2005
GoingOn will be a network of social networks
Lots of buzz around this week about Marc Canter et al. announcing the GoingOn network, a meta social network that will provide a platform for stitching together existing social network and digital identity systems and standards, or something like that....(See full entry.)
July 20, 2005
News Corp acquires MySpace
Quoting from Waxy.org Links: News Corp buys MySpace for $580 million: holy cow Lots of kids and bands on that site....(See full entry.)
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May 2, 2005
Why do you want to know?
The first time I heard about BzzAgent was at South by Southwest this year, when I was on a panel about open source marketing and Jason Calacanis brought it up as a negative example, explaining that the agency's methods involved...(See full entry.)
April 29, 2005
The Yahoo! 360 Product blog
With Yahoo! 360º - Yahoo! 360 Product Blog, the Yahoo 360 team is eating its own dogfood in public, but can any group of people (or Yahoo! Group) have its own blog there, or is this just a custom work-around?...(See full entry.)
A year ago I couldn't even spell jernalist
Today I are one! OK, I've dabbled in journalism before, but it's been a while and it was mostly in the tech trade press. Today my first article has been published at Personal Democracy Forum, Meetup Says Put Up or...(See full entry.)
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April 6, 2005
Might need to register ThePowerOfManySucks.com
Over at Hot Points, GoDadddy founder and president Bob Parsons notes that the US 9th Circuit has ruled it OK for critics of a business entity to register "{entity name here}sucks.com" as a domain name, even when the entity's name...(See full entry.)
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March 27, 2005
How businesses can embrace blogs and wikis successfully
Quoting from Blog and Wiki Best Practices Infoworld has posted a comprehensive package on the use of blogs/wikis in internal communications as well as for corporate communications/PR. Platforms reviewed include JotSpot, Socialtext and Moveable Type. The package is rich with...(See full entry.)
March 20, 2005
Yahoo eats Flickr
I hope neither Caterina nor Stewart punch me in the mouth for reporting this: Yahoo actually does acquire Flickr: Nicely written FAQ there. Example: Are you going to become Yahoo Photos?No. Yahoo Photos will get a lot of Flickr features,...(See full entry.)
March 13, 2005
AOL aware of PR crisis
Steve Rubel seems to have evoked a response from AOL PR about the draconian new AIM terms of service, in the comments to his AOL's TOS Change Sparks PR Crisis entry at Micro Persuasion / MicroPerfusion: UPDATE: AOL PR is...(See full entry.)
And another thing
Jason is the head of the company and he handles the tech support for their products (Leave it Behind > Brian Bailey) Hmm, very similar to Craig's commitment to customer support. Oh, and other ways to follow SXSW on the...(See full entry.)
March 4, 2005
Is there an agent role in the disintermediated future of publishing?
In his Fresh Books Blog (Do you need an agent in the tech book market?), literary agent Matt Wagner points to a discussion about agents, how they earn their 15% and how useful they are in today's business climate, taking...(See full entry.)
March 1, 2005
What is open source marketing?
One of the two panels I'm speaking on at this year's South by Southwest Interactive conference (in just under two weeks), is on the subject of Open Source Marketing, with Firefox as a case in point. To prepare for the...(See full entry.)
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January 24, 2005
"Face time" no longer a business virtue?
former FCC chair Reed Hundt has written a mixed editorial/primer on the topics of frequency, spectrum, and licensing. The link is to a copy of the piece on the site of San Francisco radio station KCBS; I stumbled across it...(See full entry.)
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January 6, 2005
Something wiki this way comes
OK, so you're down with blogging? Great? What's your wiki strategy? Blogs are great because logging, chronological entry-making, suits the temporal rhythms of the web, a medium more like music than, say, photography. Like a river, the web is always...(See full entry.)
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January 5, 2005
Here come the reputation brokers
Quoting from Are You Reputable? by Jed Miller (blogging at Personal Democracy Forum): Media research company Bacon's Information says it will be watching "the most reputable online news blogs" in order to help their subscribers "determine the possible impact on...(See full entry.)
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January 4, 2005
Om Malik's Live Journal scoop
It ain't April Fools, so I'm assuming Om is correct with his web excloo at Om Malik on Broadband: Six Apart to buy Live Journal: The deal is a mix of stock and cash, and could be announced sometime later...(See full entry.)
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Business blogging gaining mindshare
Quoting from Electronic Business - Blogs for business? - 1/1/2005 - Electronic Business - CA489801: The hullabaloo surrounding the blog has obscured what it is. It's not complex—it's simply a Web site that lets its owner (and anyone to whom...(See full entry.)
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December 22, 2004
The Graphing Calculator Story
In The Graphing Calculator Story, the author explains how a useful software utility for the Macintosh PowerPC was developed (almost) entirely by stealth: I view the events as an experiment in subverting power structures. I had none of the traditional...(See full entry.)
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Craigwatch: Newsweek calls craigslist 'a sleeping giant'
Quoting from Susan Mernit's blog: Ever see someone you know get really famous for what they've accomplished?It's definitely happening to Craig, whose Craigslist has the media marveling. The latest story, in Newsweek, has a clever pix of Craig with "Where...(See full entry.)
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December 8, 2004
How to Save the World gives us a nod
How to Save the World - STRATEGY+BUSINESS' BEST BUSINESS BOOKS OF THE YEAR, AND MY TOP 12 LIST, Dave Pollard, whose blogging on knowledge management and progressive change is unparalleled, chooses The Power of Many as one of his favorite...(See full entry.)
December 2, 2004
Froogle wishlists added to Blogger profiles
Quoting from Waxy Links: Froogle wishlists added to Blogger profiles: that's synergy, people!...(See full entry.)
November 30, 2004
Hunting for work via eBay
Professional weblogger Jeremy Wright has figured out that an eBay auction and a press release may do a better job of advertising his availability than a listing at Monster.com (Investor's Business Daily: Breaking News)....(See full entry.)
November 17, 2004
Pitching to the blogosphere's long tail
By far, Steve Rubel's MicroPersuasion blog has been my favorite lately, especially for news and ideas related to blogging itself. Perhaps this site should have a featured recommended blog that can rotate whenever I get addicted to a new one?...(See full entry.)
November 13, 2004
Blog post poses potential legal problem for Electronic Arts
In Blog Post Spurs Potential Legal Trouble for Electronic Arts (Micro Persuasion), Steve Rubel writes: The San Francisco Examiner reports that an anonymous writer who claims to be the spouse of an Electronic Arts employee has sparked an online venting...(See full entry.)
November 9, 2004
Google's hosting the Firefox start page
With the hard launch of Firefox 1.0, Google appears to be hosting a Mozilla Firefox Start Page that will probably help with bandwidth management. Andy Baio calls Firefox "the best consumer product out of the open-source movement."...(See full entry.)
November 4, 2004
In this corner Yahoo and RSS, and this corner Google and Atom
Steve Rubel's Micropersuasion weblog is bursting with great insights into blogs, public relations, and the way conversations are changing marketing online. I find that in the first year or so of a new blog from an insightful weblogger like Steve...(See full entry.)
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November 3, 2004
Still no stand-alone "killer" wiki application
Scot Hacker has been exploring the various wiki applications (Where's the Movable Type of the Wiki World?) and though he settled on MediaWiki for the purpose of a Berkeley class, he says he's still waiting for a "killer app" wiki....(See full entry.)
October 6, 2004
The mating dance of geeks and suits
Scott Rosenberg has also been blogging Web 2.0 and his view of this moment in the evolution of the web- as- a- business platform is instructive: What we're seeing is that a lot of the ideas and technologies that have...(See full entry.)
September 20, 2004
Spam-style multilevel viral marketing
I just got sent an invitation to FreeFlixTix by a friend and as I poke around the site it's clear to me that the whole thing is a giant spam address collector by its very nature. I wish she hadn't...(See full entry.)
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September 15, 2004
YA clueless SNS
I received a spam invitation to join a SNS, but then they wouldn't let me in......(See full entry.)
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September 7, 2004
Deals vs. dates
Judith Meskill notes an article at Time.com called What Are Friends For (Relationship-Capital Management - The Social Software Weblog - socialsoftware.weblogsinc.com): Deals vs. dates? Is that the difference between LinkedIn.com and, say, Orkut.com? Not really. But it is the difference...(See full entry.)
September 1, 2004
Friendster not into interpersonal communication?
Joyce Park has been fired from Friendster and assumes it's because she blogged about her work. Ross Mayfield has a good, short take on who Park is, how it happened and, more importantly, where the implications are when a YASNS...(See full entry.)
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August 20, 2004
Escape from Multiply
In Weblogsky: Divide and Subtract, jonl, who sent me my first invitation into Multiply, contemplates leaving it entirely: Finally, today, I decided that Multiply really does suck, so I killed some of my data there and tried to find a...(See full entry.)
August 18, 2004
We don't need no steenking YASNS
While discussing Multiply on the Well, I was prompted to spew out my current thinking on digital identity and portable networks and what I wrote earned a "Nice rant, dude" from bumbaugh so I've included it here for the archives:...(See full entry.)
August 17, 2004
More qualms about Multiply
Apparently there's yet another social network manager now. I received an invitation to join it from 3 people so far. Two of them are male, one isn't and has never evidenced an inclination to be identified as such that...(See full entry.)
August 16, 2004
Blogging a social network experience
Cliff Figallo, whom I've met via the Well and our blog conference there (likely to "graduate" from being an independent conference to a featured conference, next month, if current trends hold) is blogging his experience trying to use LinkedIn for...(See full entry.)
August 13, 2004
eBay and craigslist, sitting in a tree
eBay Acquires Minority Interest in craigslist Craig's take on it seems to be that it's pretty benign. I'd give him the benefit of the doubt. This sounds big. Let's keep an eye on this. Update: Commenters on Craig's blog seem...(See full entry.)
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August 12, 2004
Go forth and Multiply? Hold on a sec...
Brian Dear wonders who is behind Multiply (brianstorms weblog: Multiply? Subtract 1.): You know what? A customer should not have to search high and low to find out simple things like this. Of all the kinds of web businesses, SOCIAL...(See full entry.)
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August 11, 2004
Survey report: 'Online Communities in Business'
Online Communities in Business: Past Progress, Future Directions is "a survey report focusing on how companies and other large organizations are using community and collaborative technologies." (via Nancy White)...(See full entry.)
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July 20, 2004
Who will influence the influencers?
BeyondVC: Influencing the influencers: If I were a startup, one great and cheap way to build buzz and excitement is through the blog community. I call this "influencing the influencers." Think about it - many of the more well known...(See full entry.)
July 2, 2004
Orkut code stolen?
Wired News reports that Affinity Engines is suing Google, claiming that code for Orkut.com was copied from their inCircle product....(See full entry.)
June 15, 2004
You are who you know
Salon article [ad-view required] covers SNSs, saying, "The new social software turbo-charges friendships, sexual hookups and the business of human relationship -- and could turn our lives into an open book."...(See full entry.)
May 4, 2004
U.K. blog on business blogging
I just discovered a blog called Cutting Through. The guys who run it say about themselves: We run a marketing & technology consulting business that helps smaller companies in the UK. A lot of our work is now centring on...(See full entry.)
April 29, 2004
Fortune calls craigslist a pretty good business too
Craigslist is ready for its closeup.... (Fortune.com)...(See full entry.)
April 28, 2004
Researching social-software-research sites
Sébastien Paquet has a wiki-enabled page to list sites and blogs and such doing research on social software. He also has "a wiki page to help find a promising strategy for enabling a self-organizing directory of research weblogs."...(See full entry.)
April 16, 2004
Avoid Ickiness
A couple of linked posts that have been delayed while I was ill... Berkeley's danah boyd explains how personal feelings of vulnerability should be given priority when analyzing systems that lend themselves to data collection, privacy invasions, and security failures....(See full entry.)
April 8, 2004
orkward?
Is the term "orkward" going to catch on? No sign of it doing so yet... (That's not fair to the link blog entry, which is really very interesting and in which the coinage is a tiny aside.)...(See full entry.)
Weinberger on YASNSs / ASNs
David Weinberger (JOHO the Blog: The truth about why I hate Friendster) has "fake but worthy reasons" and "real but unworthy reasons" why he doesn't like "artificial social networks (ASNs)": I am a member of Friendster, LinkedIn, Spoke, Flickr, Orkut,...(See full entry.)
April 6, 2004
Bogus degrees of separation
In 1967, Stanley Milgram developed the "the small-world method" or "small-world experiment", which became popularly known as the "six degrees of separation" hypothesis—"the idea that every person in the United States is connected by a chain of six people at...(See full entry.)
March 31, 2004
E-marketing, plus online/offline sales
From Publisher's Weekly, a note about MoveOn's book (from Inner Ocean Publishing; links added). Perhaps it's worth noting that networking or marketing online always has a slight hazard of turning off potential customers or partners who aren't wired? Grass roots...(See full entry.)
March 25, 2004
For our executive business readers
Newsweek writes about Google (which owns Blogger), so of course bloggers write about Newsweek writing about Google. And here's the Newsweek article: "Let's face it—it's good to be Google. Every minute, worldwide, in 90 languages, the index of this Internet-based...(See full entry.)
March 20, 2004
Social networks reading list
Jonas Luster (whom I know primarily as jluster on #joiito) provides a pretty deep starter bibliography on the topics of social networks, social networking, and social network analysis....(See full entry.)
March 18, 2004
Book tours via blogs
A Penny For is running its second Business Blog Book Tour, modeled on the Virtual Book Tour. Something to mention in the business chapter—and perhaps also to add to the PoM marketing plan?...(See full entry.)
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March 12, 2004
Subjective analysis of LinkedIn requests
Auren Hoffman has been getting a lot of requests for referrals from LinkedIn and wrote this summary of a month's worth of requests recently....(See full entry.)
March 11, 2004
First-person report of Orkut launch party
Some good insights from Peter Merholz and Anil Dash reported in hiphopmusic.com: Fear and Glowing at the Orkut Launch Party. Also, found via the same source (Waxy.org links), someone who is mapping the social networks in Shakespeare's plays....(See full entry.)
Reciprocal vs. passive models of friend-building in YASNSes
A few days ago,Jen Golbeck, a Ph.D. student in computer science sent this message to her friends of friends at Orkut: Christian > Dan > Jen 3/9/2004 from: Jen to: friends of friends subject: Social Nets: Obligated to add friends?...(See full entry.)
February 27, 2004
Why would a VC blog?
Ed Sim is a venture capitalist and explains why he blogs about it. (Link via Scobleizer) Recently, a number of people asked me why I blog as a VC. Isn't privacy a good thing for VCs? Don't you want to...(See full entry.)
February 25, 2004
Orkut inventor's academic precursor
Google engineer Orkut Buyyokktoken and two collaborators published A social network caught in the Web, a paper about a social network Orkut created at Stanford University called Nexus, in a peer-reviewed web journal called First Monday. In it, Orkut and...(See full entry.)
February 24, 2004
Social networks are a security nightmare, warns Orlowski
Avoid Friendster and its clones, warns security expert: The 'social network' sites present opportunities for ruthless marketroids and stalkers. Plaxo, the most notorious example Clarke cites, encouraged users to upload their entire address books to the servers. "Every IP-address, every...(See full entry.)
Comments on FOAF and SNSes
Christopher Allen, whom I met at the recent blogger/new media dinner event in San Francisco put together by Susan Mernit, Deeje Cooley, and J.D. Lasica, offers his advice to social networking services (abbreviated SNS or YASNS, for "yet another" social...(See full entry.)
February 17, 2004
Finding an agent
Online Business Networks Blog » Waterside Productions to represent The Virtual Handshake: ScottAllen (in "Success Stories", "OBN In The News"): I’m pleased to announce that Danielle Jatlow at Waterside Productions will be representing us for our second book, The Virtual...(See full entry.)
Scoble and Reuters, face to face
Napsterization.org: Press - Blog Feedback Loop, or The Napsterization of The Non-Fiction Media...(See full entry.)
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February 9, 2004
After we sign up, what next?
S.F. Chronicle: CLICKING FOR CONNECTIONS: After a big splash, social networking sites (both business networking and dating) try to hold onto users. Social networking, as the industry is called, has enjoyed phenomenal growth during the past year. Millions of Internet...(See full entry.)
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January 30, 2004
danah is hating orkut
danah noticed the massive security hole that exposes private email addresses to any friends of your friends: apophenia: orkut pissyness, round 2. She has other criticisms as well....(See full entry.)
Social software more useful for novices
Caterina Fake explains why the backlash against social software among the most thoroughly wired blog technorati elite distracts from the fact that social software tools are useful for people who don't have long-crafted online social presences, in Caterina.net: Continued Enthusiasm...(See full entry.)
January 27, 2004
Seattle Times tech writer skims over the social software field
Not much new (though the "so last year" line is good)—but have we already noted XFN "rel" tags? Social networking sounds like a roundabout term for dating, and in some ways it is. A new Web site, Friendster.com, connects friends...(See full entry.)
Seattle Times tech writer skims over the social software field
Not much new (though the "so last year" line is good)—but have we already noted XFN "rel" tags? Social networking sounds like a roundabout term for dating, and in some ways it is. A new Web site, Friendster.com, connects friends...(See full entry.)
Wanted: personal social network coordinator
[via filchyboy at rfb] Wanted: personal social network coordinator: newyork.craigslist.org > manhattan > admin/office jobs > Wanted: personal social network coordinator last modified: Mon, 26 Jan 12:50 EST email this posting to a friend Wanted: personal social network coordinator Reply...(See full entry.)
January 26, 2004
Distributed versus hosted FOAF
Marc Canter defends the notion of hosted FOAF-speaking soscial network services in a dispute with those who argue for a more "distributed" approach. He is responding to Cory Doctorow (Towards a non-evil social networking service) who quotes Foe Romeo (My...(See full entry.)
January 5, 2004
A heavy dose of social bullshit
David Weinberger (guesting at Many-to-Many) points to a problem inherent to social software: [R]eal social networks are always implicit. The ones constructed explicitly are always - yes, always - infected with a heavy dose of social bullshit. It’s like thinking...(See full entry.)
January 1, 2004
Security problems at social-network sites
Oddly, the primary example is a hacked LiveJournal account: SecurityFocus HOME News: Defenses lacking at social network sites...(See full entry.)
December 28, 2003
Evaluating social software services
Christopher Allen compares Friendster, Ryze, LinkedIn, Tribe.net, and a few other misc. services in his Life with Alacrity blog. He also has a more extensive followup to his earlier post with some comments from others....(See full entry.)