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Facebook Places and Geosocial Land Grab

August 19, 2010

This isn’t about Facebook places, it’s about the goldmine of aggregating GeoSocial data. Facebook fires an impressive shot… can Google answer?

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New, Notable, & Nifty from the week that was Aug 14

August 14, 2010

Here’s what I found interesting from the past week. Hootsuite launched Premium Accounts – I think the plans are reasonable and I’m glad to see such a good service actually show interest in making money. We’ll see how the community responds and this will hopefully open doors for other competitors. (We have Hootsuite joining us [...]

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A feature wish list for Facebook

August 10, 2010

Today we’ve learned that Facebook is testing an notification unsubscribe option and honestly it’s about time. I’m weary of liking something only to get notifications of ever comment left on that post. This idea of subscribing to a topic has been around the web for years and yet Facebook is just discovering it. It is [...]

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Adding Value by unlinking Facebook & Twitter

May 11, 2010

A shortcut to create links to nowhere and telling your twitter community you don’t care by linking Facebook and Twitter. For mobile/rss readers here is the direct link to the audio. Applications mentioned in the post Tweetdeck HootSuite Selective Tweets Posterous

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Rediscovering Facebook

April 13, 2010

or, “How I learned to stop worrying and love not hate the bomb” It’s no secret that I’ve been a Facebook critic for quite sometime, and rightfully so, but some recent changes in my approach has opened my eyes to the real possibility behind Facebook. I’ve long used Facebook as a friends and family platform [...]

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A 2010 social media wish list

December 29, 2009

Ah the New Year… time for every blogger to bloviate and speculate on upcoming trends. I don’t practice the black art of predictions but I sure as heck have a list of things I’d love to see change in 2010. 1. The ultimate Address book Chris Brogan says you live and die by your database. [...]

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Why Twitter will Outlast Facebook.

May 14, 2009

Social Networks come and go faster then you can spell Orkut. They get hyped, gain popularity and then we all jump to the “next thing”. It’s the web 2.0 equivalent of the the cool kid mentality, and that mentality is fickle.  Two years ago Myspace was all the rage but it has become a geo-citiesque [...]

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