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July 29 2010
Treating Facebook Like An Utility
Treating a company like a utility [...] can help to lock in its dominance and discourage innovation.
Lost in Translation
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Patterns in language offer a window on a culture’s dispositions and priorities.
Zynga Confirms Softbank Investment. They’ll Confirm Google Investment Later
Zynga issued a press release tonight confirming the more than month-old news of an investment by Softbank – $150 million – and are announcing a joint venture to “develop and distribute social games across Japan.”
Zynga didn’t talk about the other $150 million they took from Google in connection with a partnership over the new Google Games property. Although they soft-confirmed it to the New...
So Is The iPhone An “iPhone Killer” Killer?
This morning, Reuters published this article. On their site, it seems fairly innocuous, with the title “RIM stock jumps as market eyes revamped BlackBerry” but that wasn’t the original title. And it’s not the one Reuters syndication partners are picking up. That title is “RIM seen unveiling ‘iPhone killer’ next week“. Yep. Here we go again.
If Reuters is to be believed, the BlackBerry 9800 set t...
July 28 2010
5 Lessons New Media Could Learn From 4chan
I had the distinct pleasure, this week, of bringing you a story straight from the bowels of /b/ on the notorious site 4chan.org. In case you’re not familiar, 4chan started innocently enough as an image board, what it has grown into is something far greater than the sum of its parts. While this isn’t meant as a plug to the site, or to condone some of the things that happen on it, I think that...
Reviewing the Rules of Engagement | Jonathan MacDonald
Shared by papadimitriouSeveral years ago I wrote a piece called The Rules of Engagement which appears in my book The Communication Ideal. These covered also in a piece called 'The
Excellent piece
Back by popular demand: The Basics of Social Media R.O.I.
Though the presentation has morphed a bit since this version made its debut at the first Social Fresh conference a scant 11 months ago, this original version still manages to pretty clearly explain the basics of a) defining what R.O.I. (Return on Investment) is, and b) applying that basic knowledge to Social Media endeavors.
After almost a year of teaching this, over 730 embeds and close to...
Google Develops a Facebook Rival
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While Google is smart to follow the social gaming trend, it's still unclear how they will leverage all the pieces they've got into one coherent social platform
Does adding Twitter to a brand make it cooler? — Scobleizer
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Love the comment: "Even if a monkey wears a gold ring, it is and remains an ugly creature". So by just adding a @ does not make you a different person"
deal architect : More tenets for the next-gen analyst
Shared by papadimitriouGood friend Ray Wang lays out his 7 tenets of starting a new analyst firm - it’s a nice summary of his own decision process as he exited Forrester and what he has learned since. I would like to contribute...
"The coming New Polymath world opens up opportunities for, well, a new generation of Polymath analysts. Scary and exciting times, ahead." I can't wait.
July 27 2010
Altimeter Report: The 8 Success Criteria For Facebook Page Marketing
Web Strategy by Jeremiah Owyang | Social Media, Web Marketing
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Fantastic report. Will dissect it.
Report Snapshot (full report embedded below)
Altimeter Group conducted research, and gleaned input from 34 vendors, agencies, and experts, to determine success criteria and develop a roadmap for Facebook page best practices. We found Eight Success Criteria for Facebook page marketing, and then tested the maturity of 30 top brands...
Fact: Most People Have Never Heard of Location-Based Apps
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Early adopter vortex.
Amid all the attention that location-based services have been getting – particularly Foursquare, which recently crossed 2 million users and landed a substantial round of venture capital financing – it’s easy to lose sight of the fact that most people have never used them, and in many cases may not even realize that they exist. That’s the main...
DoucheRank
Have you ever worried that you might be a douche? Or if you’re douchier than friends or colleagues?
“ Management is the delusion that you can change people. Leadership is deluding other people instead of deluding yourself. ”— Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle /via Leah Besa-Jimenez
It’s Official Now. Google Announces Their Search Platform Provided To Yahoo! Japan
Google Asia Pacific and Japan vice president Daniel Alegre announced [J] on official Google Japan blog that Google’s search technology is again provided to Yahoo! Japan.
According to the article, Yahoo! Japan uses Google’s search engine as a backend, is able to customize frontend in any way. Google emphasizes that Yahoo! Japan has freehand on how to display search results, what o...
July 26 2010
Privacy, Secrecy and Reputation, Oh My!
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over time the net result of a transparent world will be a real premium on authenticity and direct communication
I love the duality of the Jeffrey Rosen piece about the End of Forgetting in the NY Times Sunday magazine with the release of the Afghanistan files via Wikileaks. Citizens and governments are faced with a fundamental challenge to privacy and secrecy. This i...
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Defamation On Twitter
I seriously doubt it. While the social norms will eventually adapt to open communication, libel will remain. We have to take responsibility for what we write. What we do in public. ➡ Be careful what you tweet