February 2008
How to Increase Your Twitter Following 438% in 30... →
Saw this on Sphinn…
How to Increase Your Twitter Following 438% in 30... →
Saw this on Sphinn…
Finally done with the major projects of the day - I’ll handle the rest this weekend.
Loving FriendFeed - just not the FB app - too many apps installed that do the same thing. Need to readjust
Wikia Open Sources Social Networking - Focused... →
After initial tough reviews, Wikia is going Open Source.
Social Tools Go to Work...Facebook, MySpace,... →
I’m always looking at new social media enterprise tools to leverage for my clients.
Developing Possibilities →
We’ve got OpenID. We have OpenSocial. We have cross-platform IM clients like Adium and Pidgin. We have life stream aggregators like Friend Feed, Spokeo, and Lijit.
I want the…
Product Blog update: Webware 100, "a design... →
Some recent posts at the 37signals Product Blog: Reactions to the new Backpack from around the web
“I’ve always been a big fan of Backpack, but this is a whole new thing. If you’re part of…
Wikia Open Sources Social Networking - Focused... →
After initial tough reviews, Wikia is going Open Source.
Social Tools Go to Work...Facebook, MySpace,... →
I’m always looking at new social media enterprise tools to leverage for my clients.
Thinking About GOOG This Morning →
On Monday, I bought some more GOOG (and some more AAPL). I explained my rationale for both trades in this twitter post. I went into even more detail on the Google purchase in this covestor…
48 Unique Ways To Use WordPress →
WordPress, one of the most popular blogging platforms (if not the most), is capable of being more than just a blog platform. It’s capable of being a full-blown CMS (Content Management System). As…
Design Decisions: Calendar picker for Backpack... →
Last night we added a calendar picker to Backpack’s Reminder form. You don’t need to choose a date or time for Reminders if you use the preset options like “Tomorrow morning.” However you can…
The 2 Technology Magazines You Should Read →
I read a ton. Online, magazines, newspapers. I troll the newsstands for new magazines just trying to see if there is something out there Im missing. I also get asked all the time what magazines that…
Is having the 3rd of 5 insane days. Looking forward to seeing @kathrynjones tonight.
The Community Play →
Publishers are scratching at this right now: how do we turn our publications into communities? In the magazine world, FastCompany swapped their magazine site out for a social network with a magazine stuck in there between the member content. Last year’s Gnomedex conference used IntroNetworks to power people-to-people connectivity before the event started. Webkins knows it’s not about the cloth or...
Lessons Learned As An In-House SEO Consultant →
Jessica Bowman’s article in the Winter issue of Search Marketing Standard, “Bringing SEO In-House,” defines the In-House SEO Life Cycle as: Courtship, Honeymoon, Reality, and Synergy phases. In the courtship phase you recruit the best in-house SEO possible. When the honeymoon is over, reality sets in. That’s when you have a chance to develop synergy. She also suggests two...
How To Manage Your Online Reputation -... →
Another list of resources to help manage your online reputation.
The Ten Words That Define You →
Sam Lawrence from Jive Software is on a roll. His latest blog post, 10 Thought Leaders Boiled Down to 10 Words, holds a few folks in this space (including me) to the words we use on our blogs. The cloud was fascinating to observe, and there were some great people mentioned in the post, including Robert Scoble, Jeremiah Owyang, Shel Israel, JP Rangaswami, and more.
My 10 words, by the way, were:...
The Beatnik Questionnaire →
Beatnik Questionnaire, copyright 1960, Gimmix Novelties, White Plains, N.Y. (Harry Ransom Center) Do you live like there is no tomorrow? Are you gone? Real gone? If so, you may be
a beatnik! To find out, take this hilarious quiz, posted by the University of Texas’s amazing Harry S. Ransom Center for its exhibit “On the Road […].
Top 10 Signs You Might Need a... →
1. You type “@” before names in e-mail, blog comments and data fields. 2. Your written communications have become extremely short. 140 characters or less. 3. You change your Twitter avatar at least 3-5 times a week. 4. You don’t use your phone to make calls anymore. 5. Your blog hasn’t been updated in weeks/months. 6. You check your Twitter account daily/hourly to see if...
Twitter →
My Guardian column this week is a tribute to Twitter. Since I haven’t written about that much in the blog, here’s the full text:
When I first used the microblogging platform Twitter - which enables users to publish 140-character-long messages via the web and mobile phones - I thought it was silly. Or rather, the uses to which it was being put were silly: people announcing that they’d just woken...
How Microsoft Can Beat Google on the Web: Take... →
The times are changing, Microsoft is losing and Google has won as computing moves to the web - right? That’s not necessarily the case. In fact, Microsoft has a clear opportunity to come from behind online and dominate the future, albeit in a radically different way than they dominated the past. Look to the bank, as metaphor, for one vision of how it could go down. Microsoft could beat...
ABC thinks you're an idiot →
From well-regarded television industry journalist and future blogger Bill Carter: Looking to strike a blow against the proliferation of digital video recorders, the ABC network, its affiliated broadcast stations, and Cox Communications’ cable systems are establishing an on-demand video service that would allow viewers to watch ABC shows like “Lost” and “Desperate Housewives” any time they...
Steve Rubel Attacks SEO’s Use of Social Media -... →
I like Steve Rubel. He’s a great PR professional and a thought-leader in social media, but he’s way off the mark with his new blog post: “SEO Shenanigans Pose a Clear and Present Danger to Social Media”
If you go and read it, you’ll see hypocritical statements like this:
Search engine optimization (SEO) professionals of late seem poised to take over blogs, digg, StumbleUpon and other sites with...
BusinessWeek:Social Media Will Change Your... →
Stephen Baker and Heather Green at BusinessWeek have updated their 2005 cover story, “Blogs Will Change Your Business,” to reflect today’s reality: “Social Media WIll Change Your Business”. It’s a must-read for CMOs, CEOs, PR and ad agencies, political parties and anyone else who’s still wondering why traditional marketing has lost its punch. The original...
Affiliate Summit Keynote →
The Affiliate Summit keynote went really well…. it was less controversial and more substance. I’m really glad they invited me and we had the hard discussion about affiliate spam. I’m going to post the coverage below: Live Blogging the Jason Calacanis Keynote at Affiliate Summit Jason Calacanis Urges Affiliates to Think Big, Stop Holding Up Checks Message board discussion of the...
Is George Clooney the last movie star? The only... →
Is George Clooney the last movie star? The only one we have. Wow. There’s one teensy-weensy problem, though, that nobody seems to have noticed. One tiny little thing missing from the George Clooney is the World’s Biggest Movie Star storyline…nobody watches his movies. On the other hand, Will Smith gets Oscar noms and gets people into the theater. (link)
The NY Times launches TimesMachine, an alternate... →
The NY Times launches TimesMachine, an alternate look into their vast online archive. It’s basically an interface into every single page of the newspaper from Sep 18, 1851 to Dec 30, 1922. The advertising on these old pages is fascinating. (link)
<72pt text>What?</72pt text> Clarence... →
<72pt text>What?</72pt text> Clarence Thomas hasn’t asked a question in a Supreme Court session in over two years…that’s 142 cases. Says Thomas: One thing I’ve demonstrated often in 16 years is you can do this job without asking a single question. (via clusterflock) (link)
SearchCap: The Day In Search, February 26, 2008 →
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on
Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
From Search Engine Land:
SMX West Day One Coverage The sessions for the first day of Search Marketing Expo West is now complete. I am about to head into the Search Bowl Tailgating and SMX Search Bowl but I’ll post that coverage tomorrow, if any. Here are the blog posts and news...
The Beatnik Questionnaire →
Beatnik Questionnaire, copyright 1960, Gimmix Novelties, White Plains, N.Y. (Harry Ransom Center) Do you live like there is no tomorrow? Are you gone? Real gone? If so, you may be
a beatnik! To find out, take this hilarious quiz, posted by the University of Texas’s amazing Harry S. Ransom Center for its exhibit “On the Road […].
TaskPaper: A Deceptively Simple To-Do List →
A few months ago I received an email asking me to check out this new to-do list application, TaskPaper. I’ve been using OmniFocus which is a full-featured GTD app. But sometimes you need something simple that allows you to just get your job done.
TaskPaper takes the principles of GTD and uses a clean user interface with the focus of an outline to easily organize projects and tasks. Project...
How To Manage Your Online Reputation -... →
Another list of resources to help manage your online reputation.
Wired cover story on FREE now live →
And so it begins. Just as I started The Long Tail with a feature in my own magazine in 2004, today FREE begins in magazine form: a 6,000 word preview of the book in the current issue of Wired. The big differences this time. First, we finally figured out how to package my abstract thinking into something that would work as a cover (The Long Tail wasn’t on the cover back in ‘04...
Feature: Manage Your Online Reputation →
Great reference guide of free tools to manage your online reputation.
Feature: Manage Your Online Reputation →
Great reference guide of free tools to manage your online reputation.
Macworld | TalkShoe community chat service goes to... →
TalkShoe is a great service that enables anyone to easily podcast.
Quotations - February 25 [Ian's Messy Desk] →
“To make a man happy, fill his hands with work, his heart with affection, his mind with purpose, his memory with useful knowledge, his future with hope, and his stomach with food.” —Frederick e. Crane
“Happiness comes when you believe in what you are doing, know what you are doing, and love what you are doing.” —Brian Tracy
“Did you ever see an unhappy horse? Did you ever see a bird that had the...
Dealing with workplace conflict →
There are so many ways for people to butt heads in the workplace, it’s amazing anything gets done at all. Here are five techniques that will help you resolve workplace conflict.
Pingg—Invitations Done Right →
Whenever a niche gets really crowded with startups, you know that something is broken. Online invitations, which has been dominated by Evite for the past decade, is one of those areas where there is literally a dozen services trying to make it better—MyPunchBowl, Amiando, Invitastic, MadeIt, Socializr, iPartee, Renkoo, ImThere, Skobee, Zvents, Zoji, Windows Live Events. Now add Pingg. The site...
Macworld | TalkShoe community chat service goes to... →
TalkShoe is a great service that enables anyone to easily podcast.
All you Nokia N95 users out there - Help! - what service are you using? And can I get just a data only plan - no phone?
waiting for my neighbor to show up to use my shower so I can go to work.
In the Drama of Britney Spears, a Show Business... →
Hopefully this is about more than money.
Great - they cut off the water to the whole building. Guess I’m getting up early to shower at the gym…so much for my neighbors…
ShifD Launches in Beta. Move Notes, Places, and... →
Today, in conjunction with the 1.0 release of Adobe Air, the digital labs of the New York Times Co. is releasing an application in public beta called ShifD. An early version of the app won a Yahoo Hack Day last June. It is designed to let users easily shift notes, links, and addresses between their computers and their mobile phones.
Instead of e-mailing yourself notes to remind yourself to do...
LinkedIn Goes Mobile—Finally →
Six months after Facebook came out with a version of its social network for the iPhone, LinkedIn is finally coming around to releasing a mobile version of its own.
It is live now. Just go to http://m.linkedin.com/ on any mobile browser. Of course, if you have an iPhone, you will see a version optimized just for that device.
This isn’t exactly what we had in mind when we noted there is still an...
Hmmmm - Ben Afflect on the Jimmy Kimmel aftershow? Must. Stay. Up.
Most disturbing moment - Nicole Kidman