Submitted by Jasongoldberg:
A humorous and informative podcast on early use of socialmedian by The Social Geeks.
Corvida and I dig deep into Social Median, the beta site for collecting and sharing social media news. It offers groups to join and people to follow. Listen in to hear our ratings and review. (Read More)
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Disqus makes changes to accommodate its most frequent users. Louis Gray, Robert Scoble, and Steven Hodson.
It turned out to be really useful stuff too. (Read More)
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Mashable!
Long before there was a Facebook, MySpace, or even Friendster, message boards were the de facto online communities. And while there are still thousands of popular boards scattered around the Web, there has been little innovation in terms of the software that powers them, minus a few upstarts we recently profiled. This wee (Read More)
: The service combines aspects of Userplanes other services like chat and IM with threaded message board discussion, creating a real-time environment that makes following conversations much easier.
Submitted by Louisgray:
Jason Goldberg is a serial entrepreneur, who founded and headed Jobster, and who is now on to his next startup, social|median, a social news website. In a long article on his blog, he talks about what lessons he learnt from his first startup, and what he is doing differently in social|median as a result. (Read More)
: Thanks for re-posting this. When it comes to our team in Pune, it's really about working with the best team in the world regardless of location. It's worth it for me to get on a plane to visit them monthly because they are the best group of developers. We've even joked about my moving to Pune :)
Submitted by Michaelfidler:
The attacks have already managed to compromise several government web sites, with continuing DDoS attacks against numerous other Georgian government sites, prompting the government to switch to hosting locations to the U.S, with Georgia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs undertaking a desperate step in order to disseminate real- (Read More)
Submitted by Zhiq:
In Japan, since 2006 more people have been accessing the web through cell phones than through PCs. Is this a picture of things to come in other countries?. (Read More)
: The reason why this e-Eutopia won't be replicated either in Europe or the US is because both the governments and the mobile operators are so greedy and self-serving that cooperation is practically an expletive in their limited vocabulary...
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Lijit raises $7.1 million to build an ad network in conjunction with their blog search
2008-08-12 10:51:06 by Bilal Hameed in Startup Meme
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Submitted by Jasongoldberg:
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Time Warner Inc's CNN plans to double its newsgathering presence in the United States, even as threats of an advertising recession have led to job cuts at other news organizations.ADVERTISEMENTThe pioneer global cable news network said on Tuesday it will double the number of regions from which its newsg (Read More)
: Every brand is trying something to capture anyones attention. Te more brands that try anything and everything the more fragmented our attention will become. I can't wait until "my social portal" is my dashboard of contacts and content for my participation everywhere and with everyone I choose to collaborate with.
"Social media is like water - in more ways than you would think!"
I read the full article! Wow! Thanks for the follow on Twitter! This article is outstanding.
Let's connect; you and I are on so many levels feeling the impact of making a difference through the love emanating from positivity power.
You're the one to read, to follow, to light the way of hope & healing.
Thanks for sharing you on Twitter, for your kind words, and for inspiring me to follow you here to read this article. Limitless & powerful probabilities are realities to we who want this for good!
Valleywag
Metrics firm ComScore reports that 132 million unique visitors logged onto Facebook in June 2008, up from just 52 million in June 2007. 117 million worldwide users visited MySpace during June 2008. Its Facebook's first definitive traffic victory, from a source advertisers actually pay attention to, over MySpace. Way down on (Read More)
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XENIA, Ohio (WDTN) - Some workers at a Greene County restaurant are in hot water with the health department, after an employee took a bubble bath in a store sink.It happened at the Burger King on Orange Street in Xenia.A four-minute video posted on MySpace captured the employee, self-described as Mr. Unstable, bathing nude (Read More)
BeRelevant!
The gaining popularity of social networks, as well as increased texting and cell-phone use, is beginning to impact the effectiveness of e-mail marketing, according to “The Social and Portable Inbox: Optimizing E-mail Marketing in the New Era of Communication Tools,” a report from JupiterResearch. According to the report, 2 (Read More)
Submitted by Jasongoldberg:
My real estate agent back in Seattle (I live in NYC now) assures me that the loan I have on my condo back in Seattle (which I rent out for a loss each month) is probably $50-$100k more than what I could sell the unit for now. Oh joy. Anyone else in this boat?. (Read More)
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: If it makes you feel any better, looking to sell my house now and it is worth about $400k less than a cash offer I turned down 2 yrs ago. I won't have to write a check, but will get a much smaller one.
: Whoa. That's rough. I bet a lot of folks are in this boat. We are stuck right now renting at a considerable loss monthly vs. selling for a huge loss.
: Right there with you. My sad story is in the Bay Area. I'm relocating to teach in Washington, DC. But I will be renting my place at a loss for at least a year to see if the market can shake out. Argh.