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The story of two bloggers and blogs as businesses
via Gautam Ghosh - Management Consultant by Gautam Ghosh on March 02, 2008
I guess this is where things are headed.Businesspundit which was one of the first business related blogs I started reading in 2001 and was written by Rob May was recently sold to Ryan Caldwell's firm and so now Businesspundit will have a group of bloggers at its helm.Isn't this the way forward from businesses when they scale up. As Larry Griener stated in his seminal paper on...
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Photo industry braces for another revolution
via Underexposed by Stephen Shankland on March 02, 2008
Think of it as digital photography 2.0.In the last decade, photography has been transformed by one revolution, the near-total replacement of analog film cameras by digital image sensors. Now researchers and companies are starting to stretch their wings by taking advantage of what a computer can do with ...
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Your Truman Show releases VideoMap for visual graph of friends and videos
via 901am by Dennis Bouchand on March 02, 2008
Your Truman Show released its VideoMap application, which it previewed during the last DEMOFall 2007. VideoMap adds a new dimension to the web by enabling online video enthusiasts to visually discover and share content and connect with friends across popular social networks from inside the embeddable widget – wherever the videos reside on the web.VideoMap provides a graphical video relationship...
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Gary Vaynerchuk Puts the Social in Social Media
via PR 2.0 by Brian Solis on March 02, 2008
If there's one person who personifies the words, "Internet Rock Star" or "Internet Famous," there's no need to look any further than Gary Vaynerchuk, host of WineLibraryTV.Gary is the epitome of the old adage, “If I can do it, anyone can do it.”Vaynerchuck’s passion, dedication, and perseverance has given way to success that has yet to reveal it’s full potential. He’s moving on...
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A Facebook Mapping Application that Doesn't Suck
via The Map Room by Jonathan Crowe on March 02, 2008
The mapping applications for Facebook that appeared after the social-networking site opened up its API to developers generally sucked, in my opinion: they were rather lame user-plotted maps that didn’t do anything with data from your social network, which is the whole point, I think, of sites like Facebook. What I was hoping to see was something like Friends Density, which plots your friends...
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Compete acquired by Taylor Nelson Sofres
via David Cancel by dcancel on March 02, 2008
Compete the company I co-founded with Reed Cundiff was acquired today by Taylor Nelson Softres [LON:TNS].Reed and I started Compete in the post-apocalyptic, post-bubble fall of 2000. It was a very strange time to start a company and an even stranger time to try and raise venture capital. Reed and I were lucky in finding an investor that was ready to stand with us during the darkest of days.That...
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Here's my problem with many rogue coders, hackers, Open Source cultists
via ZDNet Blogs by Russell Shaw on February 27, 2008
I'll call a spade a spade here. Too many hackers, coders, and open source religionists are elitists. They think they know better, and are better, than you and me. But they are not. I've been carrying around this 'tude for a long time, but it's really been bubbling in my brain since yesterday when I read a comment on my post about Ubuntu not really mattering that much now....
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Social Graph API: One small step for Google, one giant step for the Internet Operating System
via O'Reilly Radar by Tim O'Reilly on January 31, 2008
By Tim O'ReillyGoogle's announcement today of the Social Graph API is a major step in the development of what I've called "the Internet Operating System." In a nutshell, what the Social Graph API does is to lower the barrier to re-use of information that people publish about themselves on the web. It's the next step towards the vision that Brad Fitzpatrick and David Recordon...
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Google Sites Jumps the rel=nofollow Shark
via Kevin Burton's NEW FeedBlog by burtonator on February 27, 2008
... this the future of the web? Every URL is going to have rel=nofollow?Google Sites isn’t alone. Google Finance uses rel=nofollow as does Google Code.The rel=nofollow attribute is a cancer that’s destroying the link graph.Every URL I create is going to be blocked from link based trust metrics like PageRank? That’s just dumb. I’d rather use another wik...
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List of Marketing, Public Relations & Social Media Blogs in India
via Gauravonomics Blog by Gaurav on February 27, 2008
... in India.Not very long back, I had mentioned that Gauravonomics Blog was one of the five Indian blogs on the AdAge Power150 list. Today, as many as fifteen Indian blogs can be on that list.The blogs included in this list are not only written by marketing, public relations, or social media practitioners, they are also focused on these topics. Blogs on unrelated topics written by marketing, pub...
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