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December’s Central PA Tweetup is still going on as always — tonight (12/18/08) at Appalachian Brewing Company, starting around 7pm and ending around … well, whenever.ย Nothing has changed.ย And even though some forecasts are calling for yet another OMG STORM OF THE CENTURY, we’ll be out there regardl (Read More)
Submitted by Eristoddle:
Social media mimics real relationships โ 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 Michaelfidler:
Anthony Ha at Venturebeat reported on Friday that Socialmedian has left the beta stage (whatever that means). Ha says it's an important milestone for the company. Ha went on to note, "I'm not seeing anything that will tempt me away from social messaging/sharing sites like Twitter and FriendFeed, or the sharing option within (Read More)
: This is an example of a reviewer not taking the time to erly test what they are reviewing. He's entitled to his opinion's but there is information in here that's inaccurate. I'll leave him a comment on his site when I get home tonight
: @michaelfidler Indeed! I'm sure there's a disconnect here! But, I simply cannot parse his flamepost, his problem, his defensiveness, and his lazy generalizing. I won't have it! And, I'm sure I'll forget all about it in a few weeks.
: @jasongoldberg We got your back ... without prompting! I agree with @reechard, @centernetworks still refuses to reply when he was asked directly by me to explain despite complaining that no one asked! Seems that it must only be flamebait. It is unfortunate because I am turned away from CN now.
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:
Obama officials say privately it is unlikely a running mate will be selected before the candidate returns from a weekโs holiday in Hawaii, which starts this Friday. That leaves about 10 days until the start of the Democratic party convention in Denver.In spite of ever more feverish speculation about who Mr Obama is likely t (Read More)
: Senator John McCain (or rather his team) recently posted an ad http://tinyurl.com/6ro4gd to undermine Obama's leadership credibility as being more leadership celebrity (hey, it worked for Tony Blair). Paris Hilton (or rather her team) respond to her inclusion in the celeb-bashing with her own (not entirely appalling) policy ad. Sends chills...!
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Bloomberg.com is reporting that Boscov's Inc., the Reading, Pennsylvania-based department-store chain, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in Wilmington, Del. (Read More)
Kathleen's blog needs a much better title
There’s something in the water in Central PA… more likely it’s in our net connection because the social media types around here are basically the greatest people you’ll ever tweet.I don’t know if it’s the tweetups or the smaller city feel… I have no idea what it is, but we have a ph (Read More)
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Tests on Twitter, wiki-style study groups, students quizzed on yesterday's most popular YouTube videos and the biggest hits on Del.icio.us/Popular - is this what the future of education is going to look like? In some journalism schools around the US, it just might be. Would that really be so bad?Inside Higher Ed has an ar (Read More)
Mashable!
Itโs official: lifestreaming is going to become a part of every major social network on the Web (or so it would seem). The latest to add the feature is AIM, the worldโs largest instant messaging network, who has just launched BuddyUpdates. Like FriendFeed, Plaxo Pulse, and more recently Facebook, BuddyUpdates allows yo (Read More)
Submitted by Jasongoldberg:
9 months ago most of us hadn't even heard of the guy. But today he's breaking tech news like the best of them. Active on FriendFeed. And, already the most popular non-employee Newsmaker on socialmedian.
http://www.socialmedian.com/users?s=popular . (Read More)
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