For those of you who don't know Pownce is a application where you can send music, photos, messages, links, events, and more. You can do it all on our web site, or install a lightweight desktop software that lets you get out of the browser.
It is a pretty interesting little application that allows you to import your contacts from your major networks using Plaxo it looks like.
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All signs point to increased growth and popularity of social network in 2008. New regional and niche focused social networks are popping up everywhere and new users are getting involved everyday.
This is definitely a space that businesses cannot continue to ignore and at least need to come up with a basic strategy for having a presence on the major social networking sites.
With the economy slowing, spending may d...
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I keep talking about what my single social interface, which I have been wrestling with as part of my social graph. Figured I better clarify for some of you what the social graph is?A social graph consists of who an individual is connected to based on the type of connections, such as work, friendship, interests, and location.I am still grasping the definition of my social graph as I partic...
Everyone is getting in on the social media marketin...
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I use the "Google Platform" to help me build and evolve my central "content platform". For either one project or across all of them.
I too am a software developer so I approach very similar.
I have been using Google Platform to organize and publish my thoughts for some time now. I have wanted to start blogging on how I do this and work to organize my thoughts in a way I can share with others. I was reading
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It is fun finding new Google Features. I never really know when they come out, but when I find them they are new to me so I am blogging a...
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All right I have a couple of new Google Features for Google Docs tonight. In addition to Taking an ordered list in Google Docs and highlighting and publish as a Google Presentation, I would like another one:I am working about 40+ documents in Google Docs right now. I would like to share them all with someone and have them help me work on some and generally allow them to acess them.So what do I have to do? I have to go th...
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I have been using Google Notebook pretty heavily. I use it for about 80% of my data gathering in combination with the Google Notebook Firefox Add-on.I have permanent and temporary Google Notebook Folders for different purposes. I will export a notebook from a Google Notebook to Google Docs using the export feature available in the top right corner under tools.It really helps me internally publish gathered information to allow it to be more refined using Google Docs. ...
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I was reading a post by Stowe Boyd called The Costs Of Being A Creative. This blog post really rings true in my world.I am constantly battling with my development life. I was taught that if you are a programmer that you are similar to being an accountant or insurance salesperson. I can't remember where I first got this perspective, but it was ingrained in me somewhere along the way.Only in ...
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LinkedIn is just doing it the way it should be done. They fully embrace data portability as well as understand that they need to open their platform up via API's and taking part in OpenSocial. They provide what average users need in data portability as well as privacy. They also understand what us developers are looking for in a business class social networking platform.Check out their perspective by reading th...
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Google quietly release another cool feature of Gmail today. Now that we have groups under the Gmail contact manager, you can email to groups of contacts now instead of just to individual contacts.Seems they are really growing their contact manager system and introducing more of the relationship management features moving towards social network management.They continue bringing it together.
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Was introduced to GigaSpaces today by a friend at the University of Oregon. What an amazing application platform. It truly an infinite scaling application that just doesn't handle the back-end tier, it tackles the business layer as well.This is similar to the technology that Google and Amazon have built for themselves and their offerings. They also have an GigaSpaces Amazon Machine Image (AMI) that is publicly available, a...
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I am formulating my thoughts around data portability and how it will affect life as I continue to become 100% web-based in my work and personal life. I thought as I am working through it I would talk about here and help users understand their data portability, the standards and why it is important to have.So this first post I guess is about what is data portability. So in this Web 2.0 world we are increasingly interacting with other people and services online. Our data is sprea...
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I went ahead and signed up for Bebo Social Network tonight. I was reading a blog post on Techcrunch called Bebo's Platform Now Open for All Developers and thought I should go ahead check it out for myself.I belong to most of the major Social Networks now and was reading the other day on how Bebo was named a...
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So in the last year I have completely move online. Everything I do is web-based. Most of my world exists underneath my Google Account.However I use many other web services to get done what I do everyday. I can sit down at any computer pretty much and access my world online and get busy.One area I am lacking is a web-based code editor to manage develop my sites and web applications. I utilize the OWS Architecture for managing a lot of the content on our sites and
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I was reading John Udell's post on Managing Service Relationships, talks about managing your service profiles and choosing to receive or not receive paper bills, renewing your accounts etc.I have pondered this on several levels and thought about how nice it would be to have an application that would aggregate all your relationships under one interface.So this is really an application that...
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Joining the Conversation is one my new catch phrases. It just sounds good, and it really means so much to me in the 2.0 world.I have seen it so many places lately and describes so much about my approach to Social Media Marketing.Marketing these days is not about broadcasting our message to an audience, it is about joining the conversation.I have had lots of problems with business owners and clients not getting ...
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So I signed up for a system I really think is going to become a big part of my daily life. It is a voice to text voice mail system called Jott.It is one of the best ideas and well built systems I have seen in a while.The core of the system is I can call a number and say a word that references a name or link and then talk for 30 seconds and it translates the voice mail to text and registers it as a "jott" in the system.Th...
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I have sen talk about maintaining the information you post all over the Internet and how people really don't think about the value of the information they have on the sites they use daily.If you spend most of your time on Facebook and you have a history of your friends and daily interactions for your entire time at college. This is valuable, you may not think about this now, but when you are 35 and are looking back, the value will be huge!What happens if they shut do...
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Reading several posts on Yahoo's CES announcement about Yahoo Life! at Mashable - Will Yahoo Life! Revolutionize the Way We Use E-Mail?, and Read/Write/Web - Yahoo! Life! and Go 3.0 Announced at CES - is Yahoo! Back in '08?, and ZDNet - Jerry Yang offers sneak pea...
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I was just playing around with Deki Wiki a free open source wiki and application platform for deploying enterprise scale applications.I was blown away with the functionality of this. It has all the great Wiki characteristics, however it goes a step further and truly is an application deployment platform.It shares some common characteristics with my Original Web Solutions Network Platform. They embraced a web services architectu...
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I was just playing around with a site called the Big Think. It is a Youtube for ideas. Having various business, social, and whatever ideas flowing out constantly naturally I think this is a great idea!So I setup my profile and I am going to start putting my ideas in here and storing them.I decided long ago to stop keeping them in my notebook and start publishing them. As I post them I will write a little blog entry about them a...
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I have started building OWS Network system based presentations using Google Docs Presentations. This helps me explain to customers how they can manage their systems using our tools.I noticed you can now publish the spreadsheet as an embedded presentation. This is nice for presentations that I will be publishing within sites.I will have to try and see if I can upload these to other sites and / or reference them from other sites.
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The Amazon S3 team is now beta-testing support for an important low-level networking feature which has the potential to significantly increase the performance of large data transfers to and from S3, particularly for long distance data transfers.Per the thread in the Amazon S3 Forum, early results from the beta testers are quite good with reported speedups of 4x to 18x! If you are m...
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A while back I started helping my daughter Kaia build her blog at http://kaialane.blogspot.com/. She really likes making pictures and stories and posting there from time to time.Recently she has been learning to read and write more so she started to want to chat with me and got on her mom's IM and would talk to me at work.So recently she said she wanted to chat with me on her own chat. So I set up a Google Account for her and setup a Gmail account so she can email an...
