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A couple of weeks ago, I was on a panel for Web 2.0 Expo, Facebook Marketing Best Practices. Jeremiah posed the question:
What is with these useless apps? Many people don’t get them, yet they are wildly popular.

I’ve heard this question a lot about these apps come mainly from adults and pundits of the social media […]

I got this message across my inbox:
“If you’re a frequent Twitter user, a journalist writing a wire service (AFP) article on Twitter would like to talk to you. If you’re interested, contact Kara Andrade at kara[dot]andrade[at]yahoo[dot]com”
After more research, she is interested in the following:
The two main questions I’m interested in asking frequent Twitter users is:
(1) […]

Ficlets was a skunkworks product within AOL. It allows a group creation of short stories. Here are the kickers:

It supports OpenID
It is under the CC License
“AOL” shows up only twice on the front page

Yes, I’ll let you soak that in for a bit. I went and visited it and was impressed by the ui, […]

when the blog author and her associate look like stock photos!

Anothersatirical blog via Jeneane Sessum & Chris Locke? I dunno they seems pretty real to me … and real pretty. The writing is nice and sassy, the way a good Chief Blogging Officer should be.
P.S. Love the double entendre in the name.
Technorati Tags: kat […]

My friend recently launched and re-spun his sixsense product to be able to work on the desktop witihn the Firefox Browser. It’s enables you to surf profiles of those physically around you. Come on, I know you’ve always wanted to know about the person sitting next you!
A cool feature that they have is a virtual […]

I met Bess at Lunch 2.0, and she told me about WebSig is back, and their first event is tonite!
“We will learn about the mistakes from Wiki 1.0, how Wiki 2.0 customized into Wiki applications and Social Wikis, and Wiki 3.0 can do for us in distant future. Can Wiki outperform Blog, outsmart Subscription-based Software […]

It seems the Bitacle Saga continues. Val has done a great post on her blog on what you can do to prevent this. One of her subscribers, Owen has written a funny script that does the following (writes that the content is copied and stolen rather than the real content):

I hope he’ll publish it soon […]

Wow, this is even more interesting from my previous post, I followed a trackback from the blog Logic& Emotion, and was taken to Bitacle. This time it was a Bitacle search result where it had the person’s full blog entry, access to other entries and ads all over.

I DO smell a lawsuit coming. I […]

Wow! I’m shocked at the meme I’ve been uh skimming/following of people asking NOT to videoblog. Scoble sums up some points here very well. But I wanted to address some of the remarks I have been reading, and honestly I am shocked:
Brad Templeton basically states that video is not reader/viewer friendly (without a large over […]

I was reading Guy Kawasaki’s blog about why Smart Companies do Dumb Things, and this part really got me thinking:
…The most serious problem with experts have a tough time accepting surprises that are outside of their comfort zone. For example, if you come to me with a marketing problem, I will usually tell you that […]