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Today David Bradshaw commented in Ovum's Hotnews (its a great service, but needs a subscription, so no link) that the exuberant valuations being touted for Facebook are a good indicator that a 2.0 bubble could be about to burst. Unlike every other Read More
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The Wall Street Journal (here) and the FT (here) speculate that Microsoft is angling for an equity stake in Facebook.
Charlene Li gives context. Steve Clayton poo poos the story.
Obviously its all speculation. Curiously, the WSJ story is dated Read More
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Tech PR copywriter The Friendly Ghost has created a "relentlessly functional" tool using free Zoho Creator online database software. The Friendly Ghost Social Media Resource tracks PR social media knowledge, both theory and proof, and the Friendly Read More
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Had an exhausting and enriching time at this year's Penny Arcade Expo, hanging out with 40,000 (!) of my best friends ever at the Seattle convention center. I attended panels on PR and community, the social component of gaming, blogs and podcasts Read More
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Wait, weren't MySpace and MTV just recently destroying the moral and intellectual fiber of the Republic?
From Future Majority:
Trumping even YouTube in interactivity, the forums will be held town-hall style in front of a live audience on yet-to-be-determined Read More
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Fig. 1. - The Cult of the Ball
I and a few of my unsuspecting co-workers at Metia's Seattle office are attending Penny Arcade Expo 2007 (aka PAX) this weekend. If you see me, please say hello! (To me.)
I plan to Twitter from the show.
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I've been blogging less, lately. Of course, "less" for me might still be "an ungodly huge amount" for you.
Why? Well, until now, blogs did the heavy lifting for nearly everything I wanted to do online. With blogs I could keep in touch Read More
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Veronica Belmont reports from BlizzCon 07, interviewing the enigmatic Leeroy Jenkins of viral video fame.
...at least he had chicken.
Veronica recently left CNET's Buzz Out Loud to join Jason Calacanis' startup Mahalo, a human-powered search Read More
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In his post Covering an Apple press event, Robert Scoble offers sage advice on how to get your coverage noticed. The bad news is that it requires a team of four to five people:
"TechMeme will never link to video, streamed or otherwise, so if you’re Read More
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We all know the rules for writing on the Web, don't we? It's all in Jakob Nielsen: keep it short, highlight your key words, insert meaningful sub-headings, use bulleted lists, etc. and so on. People don't read, they scan. We must write for scanners. Read More
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OK, I know I'm swimming against the tide on this one (and also contradicting myself)... but is Facebook *currently* the right platform for professional communities?
By professional communities I really mean some of the more technology, marketing averse Read More
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ABC News posted an article entitled "100 Blogs We Love".
Wow! I bet those bloggers really appreciate the...um...
...links.
D'oh!
(via Kung Fu Grippe) Read More
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A clutch of interesting links on social networks from the weekend and Monday:
Danah Boyd is academic about class-ism on Facebook and MySpace - summarized on BBC Online.
Tom Murphy starts to hang with the kidz on Facebook. He has Read More
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Continued from In which I am shamed into podcasting
After we decided to do an internal Metia podcast, my job was to gather
content and, well, do a podcast.
Speak freely, comrade, and please to ignore microphone
If you decide to do a podcast in Read More
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My fledgling career as a podcaster began when I was on a conference call with a client and one of our account managers. While we were waiting for my interviewee to get on the line, the three of us discussed ideas for some interesting things that we could Read More
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