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Archive for January, 2006

Web 2.0: Wave of the Future

Monday, January 23rd, 2006

My notes from tonight’’s NYSIA panel on “Web 2.0: Wave of the Future”, in New York:
Web 2.0 Decoded—by Howard Greenstein
The slides for this presentation are at howardgreenstein.com .
Phrase coined by Tim O”Reilly and Dale Dougherty of O”Reilly
Usually used to refer to a group or class of web sites/applications that exhibit certain properties
Is this really [...]

Carnival of Marketing 1-22-2006

Sunday, January 22nd, 2006

A couple of months ago, I helped kick off Noah Kagan’’s Carnival of Marketing. Well it seems to be really taking off — he’’s got hosts lined up through April!
But the submissions are a bit slow in coming — I had six this week, with seven slots for stories. No problem - I took the [...]

MySpace - The Biggest Threat to North Korea?

Sunday, January 22nd, 2006

“Digital Slob” Curt Brandao says that MySpace may be the biggest threat to North Korea. It’’s a pretty funny piece about his “interview” with Kim Jung Il (who supposedly has a profile on MySpace), conducted “the style of shallow ‘’surveys” that litter the Myspace landscape”, e.g.:
Question: If you could be any kind of tree, what [...]

Summary: Oxford & York Media Conference: In the Age of the Blogger

Saturday, January 21st, 2006

Back in October, I blogged my contribution to Oxford & York’s New Media & Entertainment Summit. Christopher Clark just sent me the official executive summary of the program. If you”re interested in the impact of blogging on the media industry, and vice-versa, this is well worth reading.
Executive Summary here.
Here are the [...]

Everybody Loves a Secret

Friday, January 20th, 2006

Everybody loves a secret, right? This has to be one of the most brilliant word-of-mouth campaigns I”ve ever seen. I”m not even going to tell you any more about it… go check out the secret for yourself and see if you”re not totally captivated.
One observation… whoever put this marketing campaign together really knows how to [...]

Blooker Prize Deadline January 30

Thursday, January 19th, 2006

First of all, what’’s a “blooker”? A blooker is a blogger that has turned their blog into a book (a “blook”), e.g., Naked Conversations Blog => Naked Conversations, the book.
The Lulu Blooker Prize is offering a $1,000 prize in each of three categories (Fiction, Non-Fiction, Comic-blooks (i.e. based on a web-comic)), with an additional [...]

Carnival of Marketing Next Week on The Virtual Handshake

Monday, January 16th, 2006

I”ll be hosting next week’’s Carnival of Marketing here at The Virtual Handshake Blog next week. If you write about marketing, send me a link to your best post within the last week or two (or write one this week) by Sunday, January 22.
Remember, Carnival of Marketing only showcases the seven best submitted posts (as [...]

New Wiki for Lawyers and Consumers of Legal Services

Wednesday, January 11th, 2006

I think that one of the most obvious applications of the wiki model is in the legal space, and no surprise, it’’s been launched: wiki-law.org . I think that this site has the potential to significantly change the practice of law.
My motivation and likelihood to contribute to this site is far higher than it is [...]

What Bloggers Would Like from the Blogosphere

Tuesday, January 10th, 2006

Toby Bloomberg of Diva Marketing has talked to dozens of top bloggers about the changes and trends they”d like to see in the blogosphere and compiled them all in Bloggers Wish List for 2006. I contributed my thoughts:
I”d like to see more of less. What do I mean? I”d like to see blog carnivals with [...]

Three common misconceptions about LinkedIn

Sunday, January 8th, 2006

The extremely active mylinkedinpowerforum has evolved into an online network platform for LinkedIn users, since LinkedIn deliberately does not provide that functionality. Konstantin Guericke posted on that list “three common misconceptions about LinkedIn”. My notes are below.
1) LinkedIn is primarily for people who like to network online.

We wouldn”t have started to LinkedIn to [...]