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2009: Products I Can’t Live Without
At the beginning of each year I traditionally publish a list of my favorite startups and products. This is the fourth year I’ve done this - previous lists: 2006, 2007, 2008. You guys get to pick the winners…
January 4 2009, 10:54pm | Comments
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Twitter Officially Hits Mainstream; First Phishing Scam Reported
I guess we can all say that Twitter has hit the mainstream. This afternoon reports have come in about a phishing scam which uses direct messages to push people to visit a site "access-logins.com" based out of China.…
January 3 2009, 4:14pm | Comments
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Attention + Influence do not equal Authority
In the dustup over whether it is a good idea to sort Twitter posts by authority - defined as the number of followers one has - John Naughton rises above the cloud to see a larger fallacy in…
December 28 2008, 8:19am | Comments
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Actual Conversations On Twitter Not Possible Until Twitter Lets Us
One of the big complaints about Twitter is that conversations are hard to follow. Users can write a response to a Twitter message (or anything else), but the easy way to do this is to add an @[username]…
December 28 2008, 7:55am | Comments
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30 minutes at 12seconds.tv shows future of “reality based” tech startups
Welcome back after Christmas. Yesterday I visited Santa Cruz to shoot some surfers with Marc Silber, photographer, and to visit 12seconds.tv. At first glance 12seconds.tv is a lame idea. But, most of you thought the same thing about…
December 27 2008, 10:17am | Comments
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Regardless of what holidays you celebrate, Christmas Eve is the perfect time to reflect on the year that passed and the year that is coming up. If you read this Blog, there is no doubt that you are…
December 24 2008, 6:32pm | Comments
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Of Streams and Stopping Points
Twitter is a stream. Facebook is both a stream and a stopping point (but mostly a stream). Your blog is a stopping point pretending to be a stream. It’s important to think about where you want information to…
December 19 2008, 10:35pm | Comments
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If you are a fan of Twitter, you should make a point to download and try TweetDeck. Twitter is like looking through a keyhole and TweetDeck is like having your own NORAD system for the micro-blogging platform. With…
December 19 2008, 7:53pm | Comments
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Google Friend Connect launched with Twitter this morning, a big win for Google in the fight for control over user logins on third party sites. Recent speculation was that Twitter would be partnering with Facebook to integrate Connect…
December 15 2008, 2:24pm | Comments
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What The Twitter/Google Announcement Means
Google’s got a new partner at Friend Connect, their service to let users log in to third party websites with their user credentials from social networks. Last week at Le Web conference MySpace was doing all the heavy…
December 15 2008, 9:02am | Comments
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Seth Godin Wants to Know What You Are Doing With That Duck
Disclaimer: Melissa edited this interview herself, and while she’ll tell you herself that she’s come a long way, she’s still at best semi-pro. Had the brilliant professional Adrienne Brawley who shot the film edited this video it would’ve…
December 15 2008, 7:21am | Comments
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The Ultimate Social Media Etiquette Handbook
Social media mimics real relationships — in many cases. Would you do the following within real face-to-face relationships? Jump on the friendship bandwagon without properly introducing yourself? Consistently talk about yourself and promote only yourself without regard for…
December 10 2008, 5:00am | Comments
