Filed in archive Chat and IM
by pete on April 30, 2006
tourb.us is a new cool little startup out of Boston that's making it easy for fans to keep track of when their favorite bands come to town. It is a mashup in that you can upload your favorite...
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Filed in archive Research
by pete on April 29, 2006
The map to the left is a graph of a social network of mayors: We are seeing more and more interest in "regional economies" all over the world. One of the key players in regional economics...
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Filed in archive Future
by pete on April 29, 2006
BusinessWeek has the story: The avatar named Anshe Chung may be a computerized chimera, but the company she represents is far from imaginary. Second Life participants pay "Linden dollars,"...
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Google and the discovery channel have teamed up to embed videos about geographical destinations into Google maps: While an educator is using Google Earth to teach students the geography of say,...
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Filed in archive Advertising
by pete on April 29, 2006
Report from Center for Media Research: User-generated media remains primarily national in scope with 98.1%, or $20.0 million, of all advertising spending coming from the broader market in 2005......
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Marketing genius, Ben McConnell, solicits advice for YouTube. He asks what they should do with their huge lead in online video sharing: Other than a few content partnerships, YouTube doesn't sell...
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Facebook launches networks for Companies. From Niall Kennedy: Basic profile information still seems geared towards college students and dating. Members can self-select what they would like to find on...
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Filed in archive Social Search
by pete on April 29, 2006
Straight from the Del.icio.us blog: del.icio.us users discover interesting things on the Web every day. We want to make it easier for you to find and connect to these people, so that you can benefit...
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While Microsoft spins it out, AOL plans to leverage its AIM network to build a social network. More from David Card: But like I said, the best hook may be "snaggable" modules. AOL's...
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Microsoft has spun out Wallop, a ridiculously visually stunning online application for social networking. I checked out Wallop awhile ago and was very impressed with its capabilities and it's...
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This is pretty old, but I thought it quite interesting: But SimplyHired is doing some interesting things that differentiate it from the category traffic leaders. Rather than just crawl and aggregate...
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Filed in archive Web Services
by pete on April 23, 2006
Building on my post about Amazon's Web Services Platform, this post from Peter Rip caught my attention. Peter suggests that Microsoft's MSN, a distant third in consumer usage, could leap frog...
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Myspace from NYT: Fox officials wonder whether this sort of commerce, built on relationships [and profiles], can be extended to small businesses. A Ford dealership in, say, Indiana could create a...
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Filed in archive Event Software
by pete on April 23, 2006
In my earlier reading and exploration of Google calendar, I missed some important impacts that the Google Calendar API will most likely have. Greg Sterling is to the rescue with some keen insights:...
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DVGuru has a great post comparing 10 video sharing sites. (Found Via Pat McCarthy) And the winners are: Publishing ease: Vimeo Biggest audience: YouTube Making Mashups: Jumpcut With the proliferation...
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Filed in archive by pete on April 23, 2006
Shimon Rura, the creator of Frassle, shares some great lessons about building web applications: Yet overall, the core problem with frassle is that it tries to do too many things. It makes conceptual...
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Filed in archive Social Search
by pete on April 23, 2006
I am not a bigg follower of digg. I'd prefer to get my news filtered by people I trust. However, there are lots of people that trust digg to deliver the best tech news. So, it's a bit...
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Filed in archive by pete on April 23, 2006
Patricia Seybold says: I began to daydream about different kinds of mash ups I could use. As I did so, I realized that there are lots of opportunities for businesses to create and expose the kinds of...
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Filed in archive by pete on April 23, 2006
Scott Karp discovers that Dave Winer got knocked off by young Asian women. Knocked off the technorati Top 100 List, that is. Or if you prefer: Young Asian women got knocked up the Technorati Top 100...
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Filed in archive by pete on April 23, 2006
Google has entered the calendar and evite-space in one motion. It doesn't seem that it is getting the traction that gmail did in the beginning. I think the holy grail of online calendars is...
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Filed in archive Web Services
by pete on April 23, 2006
I've written on this subject previously. The problem with web services is that most are designed by geeks for geeks. Very few are designed by business people for business use. Amazon changed that...
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Filed in archive by pete on April 23, 2006
Tara from HorsePigCow has a great post about marketing to niches and defining your target market as thinly chunked as possible: The issue arises when companies take a look at the diagram and think,...
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Wow - not a sight you see every day on the web. A CEO apologizes to the websphere (take a look at the flying pigs!)here: http://blog.plaxo.com/archives/2006/03/an_apology.html . The thought is...
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(Rocklin, Calif.) A young California skate company is tapping into the power of the estimated 41 million MySpace subscribers by providing them with a steady stream of news. The company, Roller...
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