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Archive for the ‘News’ Category

May 2nd, 2008

Evil? Genius? Evil Genius?

There’s been a lot of chatter swirling around the interwebs lately that all comes back to one central theme: bullying.
Wired Magazine’s April issue features Apple, calling them Evil/Genius and basically called them to the mat for being one of the biggest bullies in Silicon Valley.
Apple is irredeemably evil, behaving more like an old-fashioned industrial titan […]

By Colleen -- 1 comment

April 28th, 2008

Music industry continues to turn towards new marketing options

Coldplay announced today that they would be offering their first single from their new album “Viva La Vida or Death And All His Friends”, Violet Hill, as a free download from their site beginning tomorrow.  Fans only have a week to  grab the single and the album goes on sale in the UK on June […]

By Colleen -- 0 comments

March 24th, 2008

What is my next social media plan?

Lately I have been experimenting with a few different social media sites to see what type of impact they have on my blog.
Also I have been creating a social media plan for the company that I presently work with. They operate in a different space than my previous company with a different type of audience, […]

By Kevin -- 0 comments

March 17th, 2008

Obama’s Use of Social Media

This weekend I read the new edition of Rolling Stone Magazine and the article The Machinery of Hope. The article talked about Obama’s use of social media as a tool in his campaign.
Really interesting read, check it out and let me know what you think.
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By Kevin -- 0 comments

November 4th, 2007

Plaxo and Kevin Lim Blogging About Walled Gardens

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Kevin Lim a doctoral candidate at the University of Buffalo has a great post about “Walled Gardens”.
One of the focuses of the post is the idea that the next step in social networking is the aggregation of our data and profiles. A topic […]

By Kevin -- 0 comments

October 20th, 2007

This Weekends Quick Hits

MySpace is rumored to be announcing their API next week at a Web 2.0 conference. It will be interesting to see how developers jump on this, I wonder how quick the amount of add ons available will surpass the ones available for Facebook, it at all.
eBay launches their own social networking feature, Neighborhoods. This is […]

By Kevin -- 0 comments

October 6th, 2007

Some interesting stories floating around

Like I always do I collect a lot of stories that I want to blog about but never find a way to write about them or have time to. Here are a few stories that I found interesting that I thought I would share.
I am always looking for a way to aggregate the data from […]

By Kevin -- 0 comments

September 16th, 2007

Sunday Links

As I said earlier this week I was pretty much going to stick to the half hour promotion blogs until I finished the series but I would keep everyone up to date on various news.
Here are some interesting things that I found this week:
Slashdot has an interesting discussion on social networking going
Techcrunch has been invited […]

By Kevin -- 0 comments

September 12th, 2007

More Niche Sites and some other interesting links

A food site with a social networking twist- Epicurious
Watch the power of social networking- HSBC forced to bow to students’ viral protest over overdrafts
Women in the world of business should use social networking sites as an avenue for advancement
Spacelift is an interesting application on Facebook that allows you to import your MySpace profile to […]

By Kevin -- 2 comments

September 11th, 2007

Yahoo! KickStart a Mashup of Facebook and LinkedIn?

In the last week it has leaked out that Yahoo! is going to launch a professional based social networking website that at first glance looks like a mashup of Facebook and LinkedIn.

The concept is that alumni at specific corporations are allowed to invite students and other co-workers to the site. That alumni gains access to […]

By Kevin -- 2 comments

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