ReadWriteWeb
What's got a button to push, knows how to make money while changing the world and is read all over? StumbleUpon! The social discovery network, like Pandora for webpages and videos, just passed 7 million users according to the site. That's about 50% bigger than Twitter, though Stumble is rarely talked about and never prom (Read More)
Submitted by Louisgray
from Google Reader:
Wow. All in one day, I learn that the Facebook platform is dead, Blogs are passé and RSS is only used by 11% of people (or some percentage of those who know what it is).Here’s my response: 1. I have no idea if the Facebook platform is alive or dead. I’ve got left-over MREs from Y2K, however, so I think I can survive its dem (Read More)
Submitted by Michaelfidler:
There’s an amazing story today reported by Kara Swisher about Twitter rejecting a $500 million acquisition offer from Facebook three weeks ago. Kara refers to some unnamed sources both in Twitter and in Facebook that claim that the talks actually existed - with no one knowing about them through all this time. (Read More)
Submitted by Eng1ne
from Google Reader:
I think everyone has been thinking for a while now about how the entire internet industry is flawed and how it will face even more serious problems in the future unless something is changed in terms of how businesses make money here. Recently every time a new startup sends me a pitch about their new product, I’ve been stubb (Read More)
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Submitted by Michaelfidler
from Google Reader:
That's a question I used to get all of the time in the early days of this blog. I don't get it so much anymore. Because slowly but surely people are wising up to the fact that blogging is work and its a very valuable use of my timeTake yesterday for example. I wrote a longish blog post on the Union Square Ventures blog abou (Read More)
: Yes. Blooging can be a real job at times. Heck we are giving our feedback and our time for such information we supply. Now, as for my actual job.....nah I barely do any work. LOL
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A new study released today by AT&T proves that social networking at the workplace actually happens to increase efficiency of employees instead of distracting them as we usually think about it - depending on the tools used and the purposes. The study has been carried out for AT&T by Dynamic Markets in five European countries (Read More)
Submitted by Jasongoldberg:
Social Median, an online news site and social activities aggregator powered by your peers, is launching a special election site, in partnership with the Washington Post and other content providers to help users get even more ramped up in advance of next week's presidential election. The new site, found at http://election.so (Read More)
Submitted by Michaelfidler
from Google Reader:
journalist, author and self-proclaimed hater of all things free Andrew Keen sees many Web 2.0 operational models melting under the pressure of a tightening economy. And he tells us what could very well take their place.
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AppleInsider
As an aside Tuesday, Apple also announced that it's refreshing both MacBook Air and the 17-inch MacBook Pro, though both systems will largely retain their existing industrials designs. (Read More)
Submitted by Michaelfidler:
Of course it is quite understandable that everyone has to do some personal staff now and then when in the office - like answer an urgent phone call or have a quick chat on Skype with a friend to decide where to meet in the evening. I believe that it is even worse with IT professionals as we have even more distractions now t (Read More)
Submitted by Michaelfidler:
The never-ending competition story between Apple and Microsoft is always a funny thing to watch - they exchange biting words constantly and the entire blogosphere is invariably ready to discuss who is more successful in the latest example - Apple or Microsoft. (Read More)
Submitted by Michaelfidler:
ShapeWriter™ Inc. is developing a variety of products on various mobile platforms and devices. Please send an email to info@shapewriter.com if you are interested in buying or being a beta tester so we can inform you when they are ready. Please direct your question to manufacturers and carriers on the availability schedule o (Read More)
Submitted by Louisgray
from Google Reader:
Friends, Romans, countrymen, followers, page views, in-bound links, share of voice, unique visitors and subscribers. These are just some of the more common ways serious content creators (and those who hope to reach them) measure online influence. However there are big flaws in all of these metrics.
Followers and/or RSS (Read More)
: I semi disagree. Using blogs as an example, I know several well known and highly influential beauty and fashion blogs who previously held a page rank of 6. When Google last did it's major shake up a few months ago and stated that affiliate links needed to have a "no follow" tag in the code, these blogs suddenly became a 3. They had been using affiliate links in their posts without no follow tags. To any advertiser, marketer or PR person coming upon these blogs for the first time after the Page Rank striping, a 3 is mediocre and it would be assumed that they may not have much of an influence in the blogosphere--and they would be mistaken. Of course, you also have those bloggers who have been around a while that may be jumping off of the Blogger.com bandwagon and establishing their own domains. Automatically they start from scratch with page rank even if their traffic came with them.
However, I do agree that it is something that takes time to build and is earned and I do think page rank is part of a well rounded look at the quality of a site.
What do you think of the splogs out there that have gained page rank despite being entirely stolen content?
: as the web becomes more dynamic (some people call this 'flow') - we'll need different search experiences. one example already exists. live search (summaize/twitter).
: @karenswim This is exactly what I was discussing with someone the other day! Influence is more spread out and not solely contained to one location for a specific "influencer." The conversations that take place may be fragmented because of this, but it doesn't make them or the person initiating the conversation any less important or influential due to the page rank being higher or lower for a particular profile/page.
Submitted by Louisgray
from Google Reader:
On Friday, like clockwork, I got calls from three reporters asking me to defend citizen journalism (again) after its latest mortal sin against the gods of journalism: the report/rumor/lie on CNN’s iReport that Apple’s Steve Jobs had been rushed to the hospital with a heart attack, which spread and sent the company’s share’s (Read More)
: In the midst of the panic, I remembered this video and wanted to post it on freindfeed which was on full tilt by that time, but I couldn't find it. I thought it might help put things in perspective for some people. How is the mood in London, and the rest of Europe?