Dion Hinchcliffe reports on “Ten Ways To Take Advantage of Web 2.0“.
One of the questions I get asked fairly frequently is how people can leverage Web 2.0 techniques in their applications and infrastructure today. Now that it’’s getting more well known, more people seem to be actively interested in making immediate, practical use of [...]

By now I”ve gotten used to seeing the occasional generic blog comment that is designed to get through the spam filters just to get a link to some spam site:
Quite interesting site. I”ve bookmarked it and will return. (oh please don”t!)
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Your site is also very interesting, very calming effect just reading it. Will spend more [...]

Via Barbara Safani:
Career Hub, a career advice blog I contribute to, recently launched their second free ebook, Insider’s Guide to Resume Writing. The free download is http://careerhub.typepad.com/main/2007/01/resume_writing_.html

Big Media’s Crush on Social Networking:
Sony, for instance, paid $65 million for a video-sharing site called Grouper.com and started a nifty service through which you can load your favorite clip from one of its movies — say, Jack Nicholson barking, “You can’t handle the truth” at Tom Cruise in “A Few Good Men” — [...]

Thanks to some regulatory arbitrage, AllFreeCallswill let you make phone calls to many foreign countries for free. Dial 712-858-8094, and at the prompt dial 011, the country code you are calling, and the number you wish to call. Easy.
Some of the bloggers writing about this service call it “free”, but that’’s a bit [...]

Via recruiting expert Shally Stackerl, the pros and cons of sites like LinkedIn, Spoke, and Plaxo .

My friend Dean Hua just did something really cool… he put me on The Dean’’s List.
Now, I”m not posting about this as an ego thing for me — I”m posting because I think it’’s a really, really cool relationship-building thing to do. What a great way to strengthen relationships — to make a public acknowledgment [...]

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Seeking ecommerce/consumer technology experts for Chicago Jan. 16th and San Francisco Jan. 17th Hedge Fund Dinners.
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Nitron Advisors, an investment research firm, is hosting two dinners for ecommerce and consumer technology experts to talk with hedge fund investors interested in these sectors. These invitation-only events will be taking place in Chicago – January 16th and in [...]

Every so often in the business-oriented online communities in which I participate, the issue of free speech and censorship comes up, usually from someone (or several someones) who is testing or pushing the envelope of the acceptable boundaries within the community — profanity, flame wars, etc.
Is free speech an absolute right within online communities? Can [...]

I”ve recently talked with a few people about ”social commerce”—the idea that our online business activities will both reflect and in part be driven by our personal social network. My coauthor Scott Allen recently did a market research study on “Transactional Trust in Social Commerce”, which provides some context on this.
For example, [...]