Archive for August, 2007

Steve Rubel explained why and how he started his lifestream - i.e. one central site for gathering any part of his digital trail: any Tweets, blogposts, Facebook notes, del.icio.us links and flickr photos. There is a wide range of different streams, that sometimes intersect at certain touchpoints (like I have my flickr images and my [...]

Just a quick tip for everyone interested in anything happening with social networking: Jeremiah Owyang publishes a weekly digest on social networking news around the net. You can find all digests under the tag “digest” on his site. Well worth bookmarking/subscribing to.

For your bookmarks:
These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can [...]

Martina from Adverblog writes about a new site for a new Diesel Fragrance. It’s based on a series of videos and on the omnipresent shout out “I am alive”.
Throughout the whole site you find lots of this “I am alive”, it can get anoying at some point so be ready to turn the speakers of.

Of [...]

Dave Weinberger, one of the authors of the cluetrain manifesto (”markets are conversations”) expresses his concerns over the increasing wrong adoption of this idea by marketeers. In a comment to this post by Chris Heuer, he writes the following:
Marketing has to change. It has to recognize that market conversations are now the best source [...]

Google introduced video overlay ads for YouTube, as this article on read/writeweb says. As a user I don’t like the idea of these ads”interrupting” me, but it will infact be a good way of better monetizing the video experience. They’re offering it on a CPM basis for now, which seems odd to me, but I [...]

So who is surprised about this move, really? Wasn’t it obvious that at some point, Facebook will leverage their knowledge about their userbase? As it says in a Wall Street Journal article:
Social-networking Web site Facebook Inc. is quietly working on a new advertising system that would let marketers target users with ads based on the [...]

Sometimes things only need a name in order to spread around the globe like a mad virus on speed. This time, it’s bacn. Yes, like bacon, but only without the ‘O’. And again yes: it’s derived from the same thought family as spam. If in doubt, visit the site that was put up specifically for [...]

Shel Isreal has asked Facebook about their numbers, since there seems to have been much speculation on the net:

Over 150,000 registrants daily. That’s 1 million a week since January.
35 million users today. Of course that number will be off a million one week from today.
Half user are outside college. That number was zero [...]

Read/writeweb has an interesting observation. Apparently Amazon has started to place ads on their site that lead to products in shops on completely different sites. Some ads are contextual, others are not. And Alex asks, why on earth Amazon would do something like that, i.e. sending people out of their shop to go somewhere else?
Here [...]

Just a quick note: this could be interesting: apparently, after all the bookmark, photo and video sites, there is one new “user generated content” thing for which VCs put up their money: online games.
Sofar, we have two sites racing for the jackpot: Kongregate and YoYo Games.
I doubt the potential is as big as for [...]