Archive for the ‘Organizations’ Category
Friday, March 7th, 2008
My friends run a start-up company called Unwired Nation.
I first found out about it three years ago, here at SXSW. Eric Hellweg (online EIC for Harvard Business Review) and I met them at one of the Interactive parties. They spelled out their idea -- and, of course, I hated it. ...
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Thursday, March 6th, 2008
After years of battling with technology companies wanting to tap into the AOL IM (AIM) market, the company has finally admitted defeat and joined the ranks of the social media crowd.That it comes after Time Warner said it was likely to split its ISP service (and possibly sell it), while ...
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Wednesday, March 5th, 2008
I'm getting ready to blow this popsicle stand. I'm heading to Texas for 6 days for the SXSW Interactive Conference and Festival. I'll be updating regularly, posting about new technologies, social media and other tidbits.Some will be here. Some will be to the listserv.Make sure to check it out.Dispatches start ...
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Sunday, March 2nd, 2008
Check out the Ohio Digital Commons for Education 2008 Conference. What's interesting to me -- if not slightly disturbing -- is that the University of Cincinnati has already put together a Second Life island. They have a rather impressive start -- and they have a nice group of folks working ...
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Saturday, March 1st, 2008
Two years ago, I was invited to a conference at NYU (it was hosted by Andy Plessr, who was my ex-boss Jason Pontin's PR guy, and whose name appears at the bottom of this post). The topics were spread across the new media spectrum. One panel in particular involved the ...
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Friday, February 29th, 2008
Nothing drives me crazier than the insistence by journalists that blogs and other social media forms aren't journalism.
My argument isn't that every blog is the highest form of journalism. And I may even be persuaded that some aren't journalism at all (although I think those are simply micro-journalism aimed at ...
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Friday, February 29th, 2008
I'm looking at comScore's Top 50 properties for Jan 2008. I'd link directly to them, but it's impossible because it's a Flash pop-up. However, I'll give you the rundown:
Yahoo: 184 million uniques
Google: 134 million uniques
Microsoft: 119 million uniques
AOL: ...
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Thursday, February 28th, 2008
I'm on the Advisory Board for SXSW Interactive, which basically means I've been going to this event for 15 years (I think) and I'm too nerdy to conceive of a time when I wouldn't be here.
I do some writing, help choose panels sessions after the glorious SXSW folks do the ...
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Wednesday, February 27th, 2008
Whoops. Seeding the Social Media sphere doesn't always work how you planned. In fact, you can be pretty sure it won't. That's the nature of social media.
Universal's marketing department is in a bit of trouble for posting excessively violent clips on Facebook, while promoting one of its upcoming movies (and ...
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Wednesday, February 27th, 2008
Gawker Media fired one of its editors today because she wasn't bringing in enough page views, a killer for an online media company.
I don't know the particulars of Gawker Media's business model, so I don't know whether it was a smart move. However, I'll be at their party next week ...
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