Mashable!
Dan Schawbel is the author of Me 2.0: Build a Powerful Brand to Achieve Career Success (Kaplan, April 09), and owner of the award winning Personal Branding Blog.Creating the perfect resume is not easy. Luckily, there are a number of online resources dedicated to helping you create outstanding traditional and social media re (Read More)
TODAY ON BUZZ3R - Web 2.0 STORIES
I've been sharing articles I've read in Google Reader for the better part of two years. I don't know exactly when I started, but I'm fairly sure I'm nowhere near finished. And while I admittedly started sharing to a link blog without having a clear goal in mind, I'm finding that this massive shared items repository is beco (Read More)
LexiBlog - The Official Blog of Leximo, a World Social Dictionary
Being the social media junkie that I am, I've created a news network on SocialMedian (a social news site) called the World Cultures Network.This is a network for sharing information and news related to world cultures. So go ahead and join Leximo on SocialMedian and add all your favorite sites relating to world cultures.Belo (Read More)
Mashable!
Twitter is undoubtedly becoming one of the fastest growing social media tools in existence. As it continues to expand, so too does the diversity of its user base.
Whether you’re new to Twitter, a veteran user, or someone that is just interested, here’s a list of the 10 people you meet on Twitter. (Read More)
Delicious/erier2003
Everything from Google products to blogging to online video to productivity and beyond. Twitter, Facebook, StumbleUpon, Friendfeed, and Delicious all got the How-To treatment. (Read More)
: I don't know if I'll read this, but I was just wondering if it comes with a set of Ginsu Knives. You can do just about anything with them too. O.k. it's a smart ass comment, but I can't help it, I spent an entire day on ff. What else would you expect? To be fair,I'll check it out.
: I normally love RWW, but this one doesn't spread the depth of information that is out there on industry blogs. I'm not even sure that it was written recently, as AideRSS has been PostRank for a good amount of time. I have a similar article topic @ http://123socialmedia.com/2008/09/26/social-media-measurement-finding-top-industry-blogs if you want some additional ways of finding top blogs too. :)
ReadWriteWeb
It's the end of 2008 and everyone on the Web is hurting due to the economy. But we know that things will get better, because slow-downs eventually bury the old and give birth to new evolutionary ways of doing things.One of these evolutions started quietly in 2008. We are witnessing the rise of a new kind of web: contextual. (Read More)
: It's the end of 2008 and everyone on the Web is hurting due to the economy. But we know that things will get better, because slow-downs eventually bury the old and give birth to new evolutionary ways of doing things.
One of these evolutions started quietly in 2008. We are witnessing the rise of a new kind of web: contextual. You might not have heard or thought about it much yet, but you are already using it today. Search remains the killer app on the web, but context is quickly become a viable contender. Why? Because context is what happens instead of search.
Delicious hotlist
There are literally thousands of social networks on the web right now, but which ones should you join?Many people have spread out their personal brands on too many networks and are now unable to manage their existence on all of them. As the number of social networks grows (more startups) and shrinks (economic downsizing), w (Read More)
: I think its more a question of managing your presence on the plethora of networks out there. I'm still of the mind to be able to post once to many. Now to figure out how all of the networks I belong to are all strung together.
: Some good common sense advice on choosing which social networks to join (for those who haven't already been through the time investment of working this out).
Submitted by Solacetech:
Soon, anyone with a Facebook account will soon be able to use it as login for micro-blogging service Twitter, we've learned.That's because Twitter is at this very moment working on an integration with Facebook Connect -- the service that allows Facebook members to login to third-party Web sites using their Facebook account. (Read More)
: Serious? Ok, so combine that with the fact that Google just announced Twitter is coming to Google Connect. Does that mean you can use that as a workaround to login to Google Connect using your Facebook account??? :)
Engadget
Hang tight, kiddos -- Toshiba's about to take you on a wild, unpredictable ride through the untamed wilderness where Qosmios are born. The outfit has just unleashed some 20 new Dynabook models over in Japan, with the most notable additions coming in the gamer-oriented Qosmio FX (15.4-inch) and GX (18.4-inch) and the SpursE (Read More)
Submitted by Eristoddle:
Social media mimics real relationships — in many cases. Would you do the following within real face-to-face relationships?. (Read More)
: Well, I like tje article and I am here for peaceful networking. I view yesterday on LI a pps by a dutchman that I liked particularly one of his slides:
To own is about building your ego. Sharing is about building a Network. To share means that what is good for you, can be good for others. Why keep it to yourself! The message is important. The messenger should not be a messiah
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)
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?
: 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.
Submitted by Jasongoldberg
from Twitter:
RT @barcelonaphotos: You can create your own news network at SocialMedian http://tinyurl.com/5ngydt - Check it out!. (Read More)