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Email Optimization: How Simple Changes Increase Open Rates, Clickthrough, Response, and Average Order Size : MarketingProfs Articles
Apr 15, 2009

Submitted by Porch Light Scott: Nice refresher course on email delivery. (Read More)
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What’s In Your Social Media Toolkit?
Mar 27, 2009

Delicious/l3ahb3tan What’s In Your Social Media Toolkit? You can think of social media as a set of tools that organizations can use for a variety of purposes - customer service,... submitted by Dave. (Read More)
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19 Handy Twitter Mashups and Tools | Design And Marketing Blog - Houston Web Design - Search
Dec 09, 2008

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louisgray.com: 10 Top New Web Services of 2008 and Their 2009 Forecast
Dec 10, 2008

Submitted by Normansm: 2008 has been both an exciting year and a very trying year for the world of Web innovation.When the year kicked off, we were still in the middle of Web 2.0 fever. We were just two months removed from Microsoft having invested $240 million in Facebook at a stratospheric $15 billion. In the first week of January, Yahoo! CEO J (Read More)
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Jasongoldberg,
Dec 10, 2008
: Wow! We're honored and flattered :-)

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1) Summize (Twitter Search)

Search is still king, and real-time search is having a huge impact on the way people find news, share ideas, and see trends. Summize built its business around being a search engine for Twitter, and soon became more stable, and theoretically, more useful, than Twitter itself. The Twitter team, in desperate need for more engineering help, acquired the company and absorbed into the microblogging service.

Expected Exit: Acquired - Already Complete

Twitter's acquisition of Summize was a smart move, considering how real-time search is becoming critical in times of breaking news. Many, including myself, are turning to Twitter search instead of Google, Yahoo! and the traditional news wires to hear reports from people on the ground, unfiltered.

2) Socialmedian

While many different sites have conquered the online activities aggregation space, Socialmedian went about the process in a different way than all the others, letting people not only follow friends and pipe in their shared content from a wide variety of 3rd party sites, but organized it in terms of categories. The category feature was so successful, CEO Jason Goldberg has been able to showcase specific events, including the 2008 election, and the financial crisis, and make Socialmedian a go to site to interact with "newsmakers". The site, starting from scratch in the Spring, has risen up to challenge FriendFeed, Digg and other sites for social news - and continues to grow at a rapid clip.

Expected Exit: Acquisition by First Quarter of 2009

With Goldberg and team having raised so little capital to get the product off the ground, and having kept costs very low, with the development team in India, the bootstrapped Socialmedian looks to be a ripe target for an acquisition, in my opinion. Without strong revenues and the public markets the way they are, Socialmedian would be smart to find a strong content or media partner, to join forces and enable the service to continue its growth.

3) BackType

Technorati and Google Blog Search, as well as many other directories and search engines have typically focused on the blog as the central nervous system for their offering. But as many would agree, it is the comments and conversation, no matter where they are, that have real meaning to blog authors and participants. While everyone was busy trying to see who could land on the Techmeme leaderboard or break new ceilings in Technorati Authority, BackType debuted a site that tracks comments by individual, lets you follow individual commenters across a wide variety of sites, be alerted when comments with keywords take place, and see charts that display keywords' momentum.

Expected Exit: Acquisition in Second Half of 2009

The BackType founders are working together on their second startup, having abandoned the first when it didn't gain traction. While BackType doesn't yet have an amazing market presence, they have forged a unique foothold that so far looks unchallenged. With any luck, I would expect the BackType team to deliver more enterprise-capable brand and identity management tools that would enable the service to gain revenue and exposure, letting the service to remain independent through the majority of 2009 before finding a place within WordPress, Six Apart, Google or Twitter.

4) TweetDeck

TweetDeck isn't a Web service, but this Adobe AIR application introduced new functions to Twitter usage that changed the game in terms of how people use the service. By introducing a multi-columned app that features groups, integrated search, direct messaging, and replies functionality, many are swearing by TweetDeck, and it looks like it may soon overtake Twhirl as the most popular Twitter application. Busy Twitter addicts including Guy Kawasaki swear by it.

Expected Exit: Remaining Independent through end of 2009

Iain Dodsworth is continuing to upgrade the product, and it's widely rumored he may soon integrate multi-account support, as well as integration with additional services, outside of Twitter. If he can get enough people to donate or pay for the application, there's no question he could make a full-time living from the resulting revenue. The question is, will people who expect a free service to have 100% uptime spring for the app that gets them there?
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Markatodd,
Dec 14, 2008
: Great recognition, however to go big SocialMedian needs a beautiful Iphone App. News on the go is the way to go....
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Desormeaux,
Dec 15, 2008
: Excellent, and I love this site, Jason. You and your team have done a superb job here with this. I've been in and out of many sites on the web but find this and (and Facebook) my only two daily routine sites.....well, and email.
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Revolving Door at Twitter
Apr 24, 2008

Barcelonaphotoblog's clipped stories The high-profile changes continue unabated at Twitter. (Read More)
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New Firefox 3 Digg Extension Released
Aug 06, 2008

Barcelonaphotoblog's clipped stories Thank you Mr. Rose! So it make s it more like the Flock browser?. (Read More)
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Marketing Made Easy With Retaggr | Are U Taking Advantage? | Social Web Tools
Aug 06, 2008

Barcelonaphotoblog's clipped stories This looks like a good marketing tool - Is anyone else using it?. (Read More)
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Aug 06, 2008

Submitted by Porch Light Scott: Rare is the month that goes by when the spectre of the none-too-solid argument for hoarding link PageRank and link juice doesn't rear its ugly head. (Read More)
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What is What? Social Networking, Social Media, Social Sharing - Left The Box.com
Aug 06, 2008

Submitted by Porch Light Scott: Very interesting and informative - Helps put the whirl wind of social options into perspective. (Read More)
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Socialthing! First Impressions | thingsiknow.net
Aug 06, 2008

Submitted by Porch Light Scott: Socialthing! is a lifestreaming web application that lets you pull in updates/news from your profiles on lots of major social networking sites ranging from Twitter to Digg to Facebook, even Guitar Hero Community. AOL just bought it last week. No clue yet on what they intend to do with it. (Read More)
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Which of the following features should socialmedian build first?
Aug 04, 2008

Submitted by Jasongoldberg: This week we're busy fixing about 100 user-submitted bugs. (Gee, thanks guys!) But, we also want to make some progress on your feature requests too. So, which of the following would you like to see us to do first? 1. Auto-share your socialmedian activity onto FriendFeed. 2. Import my blog to my socialmedian page. 3. (Read More)
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Isthisstupid,
Aug 04, 2008
: Duplicate content flag. Pretty please?
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Jasongoldberg,
Aug 14, 2008
: Agree! we need to add person-group and person-person communications, replies, etc. working on it! polls and surveys are asked for a lot too. We have a feature up our sleeves to enable NewMakers to start and lead discussions with their readers via SMS :)
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Michaelfidler,
Aug 15, 2008
: Great Ideas, All of them. I'm still going to send a couple suggestion in an Email, only because they need a bit more thought, and will come with possible solutions. I would have already sent it, but, I was in meetings this afternoon and still have some catching up to do . Besides, I've got stories to clip. One little thing I can mention. I'm starting to feel like an orphanage for abandoned networks. I try to throw some stories in them whenever I find something relevant, but I feel like some of their owners might not be coming back. Have you had time to think about abandoned accounts. A couple I wouldn't mind taking over. I know this is low priority, and I would be disappointed to see you waste time on this right now. I read your blog and I had a feeling you might be working with a small team,but that would be an understatement. I'm am truly impressed at how much you've accomplished. Just like with Twitter, less is more. I don't remember your assistants name, but I'm sure he deserves credit also.
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Location-Based Social Networking to Generate $3.3 Billion by 2013?
Aug 01, 2008

Submitted by Rutgerblom: According to a rather speculative report by research firm ABI Research, location-based social networks like Brightkite, GyPSii, Pelago and Loopt could reach revenues as high as $3.3 billion by 2013. (Read More)
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Jasongoldberg,
Aug 01, 2008
: A friend of mine had idea to day for a "Train Me" LBS app for iphone. Idea is person could click a button to find personal trainers available that day near them, read reviews, etc. What do you think?
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Aug 03, 2008
: I think urbanspoon is on to something with their LBS iphone app. Being able to find out what the community recommends as the best restaurants near to where you are right now is awesome.
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Porch Light Scott,
Aug 03, 2008
: Just started on Brightkite - there's no question of it's value.
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Aug 03, 2008

Submitted by Porch Light Scott: Cha Cha Fance finds another great tool. This makes FF much more manageable . (Read More)
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Advanced Stumbling: How to Make a Stumblable Page
Aug 01, 2008

Submitted by Onlinetreason: In this portion, we will answer the following questions: * What kind of pages do Stumblers like? * How do I get even more visitors from SU? * How can I convert a Stumbler into a regular visitor? * What are five big mistakes people make with StumbleUpon? * How does StumbleUpon make money? . (Read More)
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Aug 01, 2008
: Wow, good info @onlinetreason - i never really spent the time to understand SU that well.
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123socialmedia,
Aug 03, 2008
: Interesting article- stumbleupon is an amazing traffic source if you understand how to use it.
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Sep 25, 2008
: As a stumbleupon user,I've just uninstalled its toolbar a few days ago.It works,I totally agree,but avoid pulling down the browser as so many firefox extensions there,I had to uninstall some.
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socialmedian: Where did the opening day traffic come from?
Aug 01, 2008

social|median Here is a list of where traffic to socialmedian came from in the past 24 hours since we opened up the site for anyone to use.Notables:Twitter is our #2 source of traffic, and performed better than any of the media sites as a sourceFriendFeed also performed very high relative to other sites.LouisGray.com outperformed Venture (Read More)
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Boredof,
Aug 01, 2008
: wow, twitter really is the way to reach those of us of a geekier persuasion
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Porch Light Scott,
Aug 01, 2008
: That's a great testament to the power of social networks! Awesome, congratulations on your success
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: Very Cool site!
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