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 [...]

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 [...]

“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 [...]

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, 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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]