Archived Posts from October 2007
Nothing fancy in this week's post covering three cool new things I've stumbled upon. No surprise - these three things are all social media related:
The podcast plugin from del.icio.us. This technology is so simple it's hard to believe it made the list. For a while now, I've been looking for an in-line player that works with our community platform. Who would of thought that it would come in the form of a single line of javascript. Even better, the code allows for one click tagging in del. ...
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It's taken me a long time to understand the usefulness of Twitter (or to use the generic term, microblogging) but a podcast I did recently with Ross Mayfield helped me see the light. Truth be told, I began to come around on the benefits of microblogging when I started using the "edit status" feature on Facebook. With Facebook skinned into my Firefox browser, I watched as a number of my friends would tell me that they were "listening to jazz," "stressing about writing a c ...
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One of my hobbies is to try out new stuff -- new restaurants, phones, devices, web apps., etc. After I've tried something, I'm not shy about sharing recommendations (or dissuasions) with friends and colleagues. One of these aforementioned colleagues (and friends), Alicia, recently encouraged me to start posting about some of these the things I'm checking out.
So, my plan is to start a weekly post called "Cool Things I've Stumbled Upon Recently." I'm not great at doing the "weekly ...
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Last week I had an opportunity to catch up with IDC analyst, Rachel Happe. Rachel covers the Digital Business Economy for IDC and recently released a valuable analyst report sizing up the next five years of the social networking application market.
During our phone conversation, Rachel had a number of interesting tidbits to share -- one of which I originally promised not to -- was the fact that Marketing Sherpa's events are some of the best to attend because they are heavily end-user focused. A ...
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