Submitted by Svartling
from Google Reader:
A friend of mine is a very well-read, successful blogger. His personal narratives, short stories and semi-autobiographical fiction normally collect dozens of comments, sometimes well over 100, and spark lots of interesting exchanges between his readers. He’s built his audience steadily, over the course of a couple of years, (Read More)
: That's interesting. Never think of MySpace blogs, because most of them have empty content. I personally don't like MySpace, because every time I login to it I have something weird happen like a banner that says my computer is corrupted and needs to be checked.
Delicious/javacola
Over the past couple of months, I’ve been curating a list of social media marketing examples. The list started with 100 examples (including 35 from Mashable) and has since tripled in size with the participation of over a hundred contributors with examples from companies around the world. (Read More)
: This is extremely helpful for those of us who work with larger organizations and want to show solid examples/case studies of big brands and their use of social media.
Delicious/storyspinner
Yesterday was probably one of the most exciting days of this year, if not the past 4 when it comes to the possibilities of emerging media being pushed to the forefront and actually being a factor in something very important in not just our nation's history but quite possibly world history. Yes, the United States elected it (Read More)
: "One of my sources on the inside told me that it was some of the people who were on Dean's 2004 campaign team that came in and built upon what they knew, and that doesn't surprise me in the least. Not only did they learn the power of the infamous "Dean Scream" hitting YouTube, but they learned the power of fundraising and brought that to the Obama campaign, improved on it and turned it into a finely tuned machine. So much so that the majority of Obama's donations came from donors giving $200 and under.
So what kind of technology did Obama use? Let's take a quick, deep look at what was implemented."
Submitted by Johanbryggare:
I was delighted to host Wells Fargo at the Financial Services Club last night.Wells gave an update on their Web 2.0 strategies, which are far and away ahead of most other banks in Europe. This was corroborated by the bankers attending, who said to me afterwards that they were stunned by just how leading edge some of Wells F (Read More)
Submitted by J Deragon:
It seems that everyone looking for the next golden nugget in the social networking space is studying the behavior of early adopters. The theory is that to create the next big thing find something worthy of the early adopters time and attention. (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb
"Hi, my name is MrCucumber69, I have a gray blob for a face and that's all I care to share about myself - will you be my friend?" Silly as that sounds, this is the way users of many social web applications great each other. It's not very useful or inspiring. Communication is a lot more useful when you have a good idea who (Read More)
: I really like social|median so far. I'd participate a whole lot more, if I didn't have to earn some money during the day as well!
I've got this cute little avatar that a friend made me in his spare time a few years ago, and I tend to use that across the networks. It's a reasonable likeness. I've no issue with folks knowing basic stuff about me anyway.
Submitted by Michaelfidler
from YouTube:
http://www.beet.tv/2008/09/the-ugly-truth.htmlThe technology boom of the late nineties, and its subsequent bust in 2000, led institutions to create exotic financial instruments to duplicate the steep gains enjoyed during the boom, says professor John H. Vogel Jr, a real estate expert at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmo (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb
Cognition Technologies, a Semantic Web company that specialises in Natural Language Processing (NLP) search, is today announcing the release of what it claims is "the largest commercially available Semantic Map of the English language." We interviewed Cognition CEO Scott Janus to find out what this means. We also discovered (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb
There was a time when managing finances from your computer meant you had to use desktop software. Today, that's no longer the case. There are now a number of applications that let you do your banking in the cloud, a trend we've dubbed "banking 2.0." These sites aren't just simplified versions of our former desktop apps, eit (Read More)
Mashable!
If you’re anything like the Mashable crew, you just can’t get enough Miley Cyrus lyrics Bruce Springsteen lyrics, so you turn to the Web to make sure you’ve got them right. There are a ton of lyrics sites out there, we’ve put together a list of 9 great music lyrics services that do everything from pr (Read More)
Bokardo - Social Design by Joshua Porter
Ravelry.com is a social network site for the “knit and crochet community”. A site for knitters? What will they think of next…a site for dog owners? The reason why these sites seem so alien is because they support communities that we often don’t see: they’re niche communities. My wife is a knitt (Read More)
: The future of social networks will be niche networks that can be managed via a one stop service that will allow you to publish, interact, and track your networks.
Submitted by Islamcrunch:
There are a lot of wimpy "Twitter Tip Lists" out there; this is NOT one of them. These 100 Twitter Tips go from insightful Twitter toddler level to explosive Twitter-bomb advanced. Even if you think you're a Twitter social or Twitter business pro, you might want to start from the beginning. (Read More)