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The Reviews Are Back on Craig Newmark's Speech: It Sucked
via Epicenter by Betsy Schiffman on May 15, 2008
We were impressed when we heard that Craig Newmark, the endearingly bumbling co-founder of Craiglist, said he planned to "wing" a commencement speech at the University of California Berkeley on Tuesday. Granted, he had a topic in mind (the power of the internet), but his mission still sounded slightly suicidal to us. Certainly, we wouldn't have the courage to give a commencement speech, much...
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The Promise and Peril of Ubiquitous Community
via Micro Persuasion by Steve Rubel on May 15, 2008
The following is also my column in next week's AdAge.Over the last five years I have been asked countless times: "Steve, what's the next hot online community?" It seems as though everybody is on the lookout for the successor to MySpace, Twitter or Facebook. Nobody, even in a difficult economic climate, wants to be viewed as a latecomer.Perhaps as a defense mechanism to avoid being wrong...
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Running with the pack?
via Colin Walker by Colin on May 15, 2008
Yesterday, Michael Martine of Remarkablogger posted the concept of using a ‘blog pack‘ to enhance the promotion of your site. A blog pack is a group of bloggers who set up an ‘alliance’ to cross promote each others sites by way of comments, links, stumbles, etc. in order to:- Get established- Build personal networks- Increase traffic- Increase RSS subscribers- Get organic backlinksAt the...
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Are social networks dragging down CPMs?
via The Jason Calacanis Weblog by Jason Calacanis on May 15, 2008
My pal Mark Dempster over at Sequoia sent me a study on CPM's dropping.The key finding here, in my mind, is what I've said all along: social networks are great for traffic but horrible for advertising. Social networking sites are probably not going to figure out a way to insert advertising into people's conversations--just like message boards, chat rooms, and IM didn't. Again,...
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Music Industry Gurus' Five-Point Plan to Save their Business
via Wired: Listening Post by Eliot Van Buskirk on May 15, 2008
Researchers at The Leading Question and experts from Music Ally have determined that fewer people are regularly paying for downloads, while the percentage of the population that regularly downloads music from a P2P network is holding steady. They concluded, like so many before them, that the music industry is in dire need of a ground-up overhaul if it is to survive. However, they've done more...
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Amazon's MP3 Clips Widget Is Cool, but Not Cool Enough
via Wired: Listening Post by Scott Thill on May 15, 2008
Amazon.com took one step closer to our shared online music future Thursday by launching a rather cool MP3 clips widget that lets users build song lists and embed them on sites of their choice. I say rather cool, because it's a great idea that needs more work.For one, Amazon's MP3 clips widget has the tendency to embed tunes that don't fit into its genres. I built a widget using the...
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Animoto: When Using Amazon Web Services Gets You Funding
via Mashable! by Stan Schroeder on May 15, 2008
Animoto, web app for creating videos out of photos and music has received funding from Amazon. The amount of money invested was not disclosed. The service uses Amazon Web Services (S3 in particular) to scale its application which quickly gained tremendous popularity. For instance, the Facebook version of Animoto is one of the most popular applications on Facebook platform, with over 750,000...
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Gilligan's web
via Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog by (author unknown) on May 14, 2008
Despite the party-pooperism of the Deletionists, the true glory of Wikipedia continues to lie in the obscure, the arcane, and the ephemeral. Nowhere else will you find such painstakingly detailed explications of TV shows, video games, cartoons, obsolete software languages, Canadian train stations, and the workings of machines that exist only in science fiction. When I recently felt an unexpected...
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Join "Issues Facing Music 2.0" Discussion
via hypebot by Bruce Houghton on May 14, 2008
PLUS MORE ON "VENTURE CAPITAL TALKS MUSIC"Our recent post The Top 10 Issues Music 2.0 has led to some great comments both here and from several other bloggers. Read the original post a join the discussion here.Attorney Nancy Prager would add a #11 PATRONAGE:"It takes years of hard work to develop a following as a band, touringand luck. So, what new bands really need are patrons a la Medici,...
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Explosion of Blog Aggregators…How to Keep Up?
via I'm Not Actually a Geek by bhc3 on May 05, 2008
I don’t know about you, but I’ve seen the names of a number of aggregation sites out there. It’s a very popular space, and I have not really understood who they were or what made them tick. But my growing enjoyment of FriendFeed made me wonder about what these other sites are up to. So I put together a high level survey of several of them.There’s a really long table below. Before that,...
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