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Great article in the Sunday Times Online called Learn to love social network sites, it is about the widespread perspective of social networks and how allowing them to be used at work will contribute to employees wasting time and losing money for companies.It talks about how many companies have banned social networks all ...

I was reading, Delver Comes Out Of Stealth With a New Twist on Social Search on Techcrunch tonight. Delver is a social graph search engine that allows you to easyily connect with people. Delver is attempting to solve two key search-related problems: The first is that current search engines do not take into account the identity of the searche...

Came across a post of Google Blogoscoped today on Google testing using Google Gears for offline Google Docs access.This would be huge in taking more market share from Microsoft Office. It would allow users to work with documents much in the same way they do with the desktop Microsoft version.They seem to be only testing it out right now and will be initially making it only available for Google Docs and n...

Was just reading some of Now is Gone by Geoff Livingston. There is a great paragraph I just came across that really sums up a lot for me:Companies and organizations should look at social networks as a way to engage potential community members outside of the confines of a corporate URL. By participating intelligently and building value, a company can create a great conversation with its constituents as well as future customers. Further, they can encourage them to take actions an...

Everyone is a little intimidated and overwhelmed about where to start with your social media marketing campaign. There are so many sites and so few metrics for evaluating your success.You really can't ignore social media for your company anymore, if you do your competitors are going to eat your lunch. So where do you start?InsideCRM just released a great list of Read more →

It isn't quite embracing OpenSocial, but with their latest joining of the data portability as well as now opening up the JavaScript client library which allows you to make Facebook API calls from any web site, Facebook is getting closer to being fully open.Since the library does not require any server-side code on your server, you can now create a Facebook application that can be hosted and ran on any web site.Almost all Facebook APIs are supported except for Photo Upl...

The Youtube team recently release a couple of new features for the Youtube video platform. They added: New View for Videos tab which improves the video browsing experience by fully exposing the search options on the videos page. This makes it easier to find what you're looking for quickly Also Added a display of the most recent comments you have made on YouTube videos, choose the new 'My Recent Comments' setting on your profile page. On your channel page, users can ...

Ever wish you could show your ads to a specific group like women aged 25-34? Want to see how your ads perform with certain demographic groups and then adjust your bids accordingly?Google is introducing a new demographic bidding feature from AdWords. Demographic bidding helps you display your ads to specific gender and age group audiences on some sites in the Google content network, giving you more control o...

In 2008 I have started really using Blogger as an extension of my idea and content platform.With this post I now have 42 posts for January of 2008 which beats the 41 entries I posted in the entire year of 2007.Really feeling my voice this year.

Not everyone knows you can about the Amazon Web Services Platform let alone that you can use it to create highly scalable applications for Facebook.Amazon Web Services is an ideal hosting environment for these applications. Developers can start small, test and prove out their ideas, and then rapidly add processing and storage resources as they develop an audience.Amazon is talking about building Facebook A...

Was just reading Could Instant Messaging (XMPP) Power the Future of Online Communication? at ReadWriteWeb. Enterprise collaboration company Jive Software posted today about a theory it's advancing on the rise of XMPP (called Jabber in IM) for powering communication services hosted in the cloud. The company also a...

I wish Google would go ahead and make their move with Jotspot. I have a Jotspot account, but I forget about it when using all my other Google Applications. Hopefully soon they get Jotspot integrated withe the rest of the Google Universe. A Wiki environment will really tie everything together.

Was listening to NPR today and a podcast on Choosing a Doctor in the Digital Age. It was great about how to use online review sites to find out what people are saying about doctors.Health consumers are increasingly shopping online for doctors through peer-based sites like FindADoc.com, DoctorScorecard.com, and even local city search sites.Great example of how grassroots growth in online usage...

I was just listening to an NPR story about how senior Al-Qaida press department has asked supporters to submit questions on a message boards.Supposively they are to be answered by Osama bin Laden's deputy, Ayman al-Zawahiri.Many jihadist and terrorists posted questions about he organization and what they should do?Seems everyone is seeing value in social media.

After posting about cellular and mobile barcodes yesterday I received a comment from a guy who started an online magazine on the subject. 2d-code @ http://2d-code.co.uk/From their home page about the magazine:In Japan QR codes are found on everything from business cards to fresh lettuce. Now they are coming to the West and advertising and promotion will never be the same again. 2d Code will keep you informed...

I am stilling sifting through all the blogs I read and information I gather on a clear definition in my mind of what describes all the content I generate around the Internet.My social graph is a definition of my relationships and my communication with these people.I have been reading more on the social m...

I have talked a little about how I organize my information using the Google Platform. I use Google Reader and Google Notebook to do all my research and thought gathering. I then use Google Docs to group and further refine my thoughts. I am working more with using the collaboration features to work with others to refine these thoughts in Google Docs as well.I have a constant problem with information and topics I would like to keep relevant getting buried an...

I was just reading this article from the NY Times on the future of hand-held mobile devices (well for us in the US, others are using it). It talks about using your cell phone / hand held as a physical communication device in the real world.With wireless and blue tooth communication, your cell phone could be used to commun...

Some very interesting stuff in two-dimensional camera phone barcodes out there on the Internet. Was reading the NY Times Articles on Mobile Phone Barcodes and it referenced a couple of technologies like Semacode, QR Read more →

Had a new idea on how to use the Google Platform today. Reading so much about micro-blogging and twitter these days in the blogosphere.Was reading how non-profits can use micro-blogging and how it could be used in disaster and emergency scenarios until I read how Twitter failed during the MacWorld conference.So I was building upon an old idea on how you could use Google Notebook for micro-blogging and I thought even better you could use Google Spreadsheets.