Submitted by Jasongoldberg:
socialmedian's Jason Goldberg, Twit.tv's Leo Laporte, and several guests discuss election night and the impact of technology on campaign 2008. (Read More)
: So how do the hard working folks keep the new liberal president and the largely democratic senate and house out of our pockets. The one thing that we cannot afford is 12% unemployment, 12% annual cost of living increases, tax rates doubling accross the board, etc that has been seen when liberalism runs rampant. So where does the small business man go when the mandates that our new president says he will pursue makes it impossible to stay afloat and we die, along with our employees joining the unemployment lines..... We can only hope that he is a smart as the "majority" thinks he is and he does not play the stupid card.
Mashable!
Is there anything Twitter can’t do? Apparently, you can even use it to guesstimate the result of US presidential elections in certain states. This little chart below, although not graphically beautiful, is the result of some algorithms put together by Setfive Consulting. They’re parsing tweets to see if users ha (Read More)
: This reminds me of "Dewey defeats Truman". The US twitter community is significantly left-leaning, which automatically leads to bad polling data. I love twitter, but using it to predict political issues is silly, the majority of the twitter community are almost guaranteed to be democrats or at least left-leaning independents.
ReadWriteWeb
Credit crisis. Blah, blah. Cut costs. Blah, blah. Don't you just love it when you get an alarm call from your hotel at 9.15 when your meeting is at 9.00? At ReadWriteWeb we have been sounding alarms about the economy for a year (here, here, here and here...enough already), suggesting strategies to cope with the coming downt (Read More)
Silicon Alley Insider
Used to be that a blogger's biggest concern was deciding whether to change out of their pajamas for the day. But now that some of.., um us... are in real businesses, making real money, we are also legitimate targets for libel suits: The Citizen Media Law Projects says civil suits against bloggers have grown from 4 cases in (Read More)
Submitted by Dobata
from Google Reader:
Thanks to Lorraine Ball at Roundpeg for turning me on to Jay Ehret’s blog, the Marketing Spot.I wanted to talk about some of the concepts Jay uses pertaining to the marketing circle of life. I wanted to relate his four pillars to social media marketing for small business.Jay has a post entitled The Marketing Circle of Life. (Read More)
Submitted by Robdiana
from blog:
Image via CrunchBaseDigg has done a lot of interesting things over the years, but recently they did something that confuses me. First, they banned Zaibatsu, possibly the third most active user of Digg. A few days later they announced new funding for what they call international expansion. About one week after that announcem (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb
As the world financial crisis has gotten gradually worse over the past few weeks, I've been pondering what this means for web technology. ReadWriteWeb as a publication focuses on technology - web products and trends - rather than business and VC happenings. So with the exception of one of our feature writers Bernard Lunn, w (Read More)
Louis Gray - FriendFeed
This morning, I had the pleasure of taking part in a podcast with Wayne Sutton and Kipp Bodnarf for their Talk Social News program. During the conversation, we discussed how to find time to participate in multiple social networks, how today's technology luddites might some day consume information, using RSS, and what the re (Read More)
: "In my opinion, the advent and adoption of mini-computers masquerading as cell phones is the first big step, and one we are seeing in a big way with the market share growth of the iPhone, the newest Blackberry models, and the potential of Google's Android platform."
: @louisgray Louis, you bring up the ever popular point of what happens if someone dislikes a story. I think you had "disliked" something I had shared, but I did not ask. Do we really need to know, should the user comment on the reason for "dislike"?