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July 25, 2008

The Future of Facebook Connect dwawfs OpenID

I was happy to see Brian Solis post in Social Media Today on Facebook Connects Your Brand Across the Social Web and I believe it will end up replacing OpenID (if you like and use Facebook, that is).  Incidently, I was at a Facebook Developer meeting in lower Manhattan last night, which was fun – [...]

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July 24, 2008

Twitter Chaos

Was trying to figure out what some of my Twitter friends like @chrissieb and @mknell were complaining about earlier today – but now it makes sense and yesterday, I saw the Twitter Blue Whale, just like everyone else did, who tried to use Twitter in the evening – and found it was down. Read/WriteWeb has [...]

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July 22, 2008

The real reason Google is buying Digg is ….

The real reason Google is buying Digg ……. to use to power part of it’s Social Search – heard about the potential sale in TechCrunch in a post titled Google In Final Negotiations To Acquire Digg For “Around $200 Million” In fact, I wrote about Google’s new Search Interface that it’s been playing with in [...]

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July 21, 2008

Know More Media goes belly up

Well, it wasn’t unexpected – Know More Media – which publishes www.Webmetricsguru.com – is going to cease operations at the end of this month – obviously, I want to own the domain, just as I own The Analytics Guru – I’ve wanted to own it all along – and bring all that traffic – here. [...]

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July 20, 2008

Social Media Czar – a job I would not mind being

But…. I’m if I’d ever be doing such a job, I’d be a much more “data analytic” driven than the typical person who is now being considered for such a role -  I noticed most people who end up being in this “new role” are of a communications and public relations “elk” which is not [...]

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Social Media Commiteee Meeting 7-17-08

I meet with my Social Media Committee Members whenever I can and since I have 2 of my 3 committee co-chairs (I’m the Board Director) here in New York City, it makes sense for us to meet on a regular basis – but this is the first time we actually tried to do it. Here’s [...]

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July 19, 2008

Circle of Trust?

I got this message from Facebook today… Eight friends have rated your trustworthiness: * You scored 4.5 out of 5 (Highly Trusted). * Your political power index is 36 (SOMEBODY). Gee ….. so does that mean …. I’m somebody? I tried to find out who thought I was so highly trustable – but the application [...]

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Long Post about the Dow Jones Industrial Average – lousy Metric

Maybe the Dow isn’t a lousy metric – but it doesn’t seem to be telling the real story – or at least, not isolating the fundamentals in a meaningful manor – I wrote a long rant about that today at Webmetricsguru.com Oil Demand falls but prices don’t change that much. I usually write that kind [...]

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July 17, 2008

Social Networks for Corporations often a whaste of money / time

Read/WriteWeb has a post on Corporate Social Networks Are A Waste of Money, Study Finds; I found the Social Network for Cat Litter very interesting – though not many cats are joining: Let’s face it, though. Social networks where a brand name product is what everyone rallies around are a dumb idea. They are stupid. [...]

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Future of Search Engine Optimization – Google’s New Search Interface

I wrote about A Peak at Google’s new “Digg” like Search Interface on Webmetricsguru.com but I held back the most interesting part for here (because I own The Analytics Guru while I don’t own Webmetricsguru.com domain, Know More Media, does, and won’t sell it to me – I create the content for it, though, but [...]

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