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This American Life
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May 7 2007, 7:27 PM EDT by
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Sorry...this isn't particularly related, but it reminded me of this post I saw on boingboing a few months ago regarding the radio show 'This American Life' (thislife.org), which has recently been made into a flash-animated TV show for Showtime...(which makes me a little sad because you have to have showtime to be able to watch...)
http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid271557392?bctid=666401814
Anyhow, I think this show could have been an excellent way to integrate Web 2.0 and Radio...if they had outsourced the animating to the public rather than to a pro animator/Showtime...alas...
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hotmail v. gmail
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May 7 2007, 7:20 PM EDT by
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I think hotmail is an interesting example of how viral marketing can work, but by offering a free service, hotmail also generates a lot of junk/ abaoned email addresses. A great example that remedies this is gmail, which is spread with more exclusivity...and with amazing results. Users have to be invited in to become a part of gmail, and therefore, there it becomes (to some extent)...more desirable. For example, I know when I set up my gmail, I automatically forwarded all my other mail to that address because it had more space, and it was more user friendly (well, for the most part). This benefits google, because the more I use my gmail, the more they can advertise to me (and the more they can make off of ad sales in general)...Google's model is like viral marketing, premium edition.
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e-politics
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May 7 2007, 7:14 PM EDT by
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I like the idea of regaining grassroots through Web 2.0 (or just through ICT efforts in general), but I'm curious as to whether this will actually be effective at getting citizens to the polls. What do you think? Are politicians reaching out to non-voters by bringing their campaigns online? As we all remember, the hype of 'Rock the Vote' had the best of intentions, but it was not effective at getting young people to the polls. In some ways it seems like we have the cart in front of the horse: the politics are online, but voting is not.
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Veoh, better than YouTube!
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Apr 16 2007, 5:14 AM EDT by
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Personally, I don't really find Youtube that friendly to use because if I need to watch a program that lasts about 1 hour, I will have to watch in 10 divided segements since YouTube only allows the maximum about 10 or so minutes for each uploaded online videos. Recently, I found the website that let the user to watch online videos in hour series which really saves people the time of stopping every 10 minutes and researching it or clicking it over and over again. The website is www.veoh.com , check this site out...pretty nice to use.
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Blogging and Net Identity
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Apr 12 2007, 3:57 PM EDT by
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This is really intriguing to me, especially the comments earlier in the article about how people view profane comments or comments about silly drunkeness. One of the issues in my paper is about multiplicity in identity and how to manage that. Its interesting because prior to the web, blogging and social tagging sites, your personal life was your own and not really up for judgement by your supervisors. As long as you weren't arrested, gaining bad publicity for the company, and making sure your personal activities weren't effecting work you were fine. Now your blog/facebook/etc, gives a personal glimpse into your life and bosses can judge you based on your "morality." Raises interesting questions about it personal identity and presentation in the social and professional world. Another instance of the world growing smaller?
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Newsvine
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Mar 31 2007, 8:51 PM EDT by
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One of the most innovative and interesting news communities on the web (at least in my opinion) is Newsvine. A non-profit with lots of opportunity to not only re-post news, but create your own, its light years ahead of most other services as is experiencing a lot of growth and recognition right no. Check it out.
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More people with your information
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Mar 21 2007, 9:30 PM EDT by
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Though this sounds pretty cool, and i have heard of a couple other companies that do something similar it raises a lot of spooky questions. One of the big upcoming legal battles will be whether or not insurance companies can base your insurance price on your genetic susceptibility to certain conditions, and whether this kind of testing would mandatory to get insurance. Even though you might never, ever have a heart attack and exercise every day of your life, you may still have to pay extra because you genetically a prone to them. Your genes could easily one day be as precious and secret as your PIN number, and this both excited me and gave me pause.
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What is most interesting..
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Mar 15 2007, 2:10 PM EDT by
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is the NBA's efforts to retain control over digital content spun off by games. Through the release of proprietary game and behind the scene footage, the NBA believes they may limit alternate footage uploaded by users. I believe otherwise. YouTube users will continue to create videos as they please in addition to viewing the "behind the scene footage" via YouDunk. This is, of course, if YouTube is still booming.
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Surprise, Surprise!!
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Mar 14 2007, 1:03 PM EDT by
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What's HOT now, will definitely not be HOT in two years. It is not at all surprising that YouTube may be going down the tube as I expected something innovative to replace and take over the phenomenon. Same goes for MySpace as some would argue it sky rocketed over friendster and facebook and soon something else will send MySpace into Space. In this On-demand generation, the market gets bored frequently and seeks new and improved avenues to channel its boredom. Joost may be one avenue for the market, as I'm sure more are soon to follow.
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Ning - The New New Thing?
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Mar 1 2007, 6:22 PM EST by
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I love the look of Ning, all the flexibility they provide, and the really detailed information that they give to you when try to find out what they are all about. Their FAQ’s page is stuffed full of helpful knowledge.
Ning has defiantly raised the bar in terms of how unique some of their tools are and their free enhancements don’t hurt either. They may have also struck gold with the idea of creating Ning For Business where they offer the ability for companies to add their own logo, branding, and visual design and to choose the features they want. It will be interesting to see if this new social networking site takes off.
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The Departed Will Probably Win Best Picture, not sure about Scorsese
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Feb 21 2007, 10:20 PM EST by
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Id Say that is a pretty good bet. however dont count out Little Miss Sunshine, I personally didn't like it and thought it was very depressing, but there is a lot of buzz about it as the story is innovative. Also, just because he has never won an academy award doesn't mean he is anymore likely to win this year. Letters From Iwo Jima would be another tough call as well.
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Barack Attack!
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Feb 20 2007, 4:20 PM EST by
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I just blogged the same thing on the blog for Elizabeth's class...did you know Barack also has a flickr page? Barack's page is pretty cool...but it seems to have a few loose ends...you have to register as vollunteer and and blogger/online campaigner separately...which I think could easily be combined into 1 registration...
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apple, the next microsoft
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Feb 17 2007, 3:43 AM EST by
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here's a great rolling stone article on how apple may be the new Microsoft...
the image of Steve Jobs wearing a Darth Vader mask says it all...
http://www.rollingstone.com/rockdaily/index.php/2007/02/08/is-apple-the-new-evil-empire/
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Why we don't care about 'protecting' our privacy online
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Feb 16 2007, 11:55 PM EST by
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This article from New York magazine is called "Kids, the Internet, and the End of Privacy: The Greatest generation Gap since Rock and Roll." This article argues that there are significant changes in the new youngest gneration that make them not care about their online identity. Am I / are we in that generation? Interesting. I'd say that I am somewhere in between. I don't care much about hiding anything -- and don't care to hide much -- yet I don't want something silly to mess up a good opportunity.
here's the link. long, but def worth reading:
http://nymag.com/news/features/27341/
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agreed, it does work.
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Feb 14 2007, 3:07 PM EST by
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I had a colleague who worked as a bzzz agent and got all sorts of good stuff. I agree that these approaches really work, and research into them consistently shows that friend recommendations are much better motivators than traditional advertising.
I do have some concerns about the ethics though, particularly when these approaches are used (as they often are) to target kids and teens who are more susceptible to peer pressure. There is a company called Girl's Intelligence Agency that markets products to pre-teen girls through slumber parties that I find particularly questionable (http://www.girlsintelligenceagency.com). I probably would have loved it as a kid, but thinking about it now, it seems somewhat unethical to turns kids into an army of mini marketers for random products.
As a mom, how do you feel about this issue?
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A good blog on "jobbing": JibberJobber
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Feb 14 2007, 3:03 PM EST by
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"Jobbing" is a word I just made up, to describe the process of looking for a job, learning job-hunting skills, refining your career path, and so on.
JibberJobber has a good blog on this topic, and it's at: http://www.jibberjobber.com/blog/
The site is started by Jason Alba, who is also an active contributor to the MyLinkedInPowerForum.com.
Take a look at the blog, and I am sure you'll find thoughtful posts.
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I'm a big fan of "guerrilla marketing" so when I saw the link on JibberJobber for Guerrilla Job Hunting http://guerrillajobhunting.typepad.com/ I had to check it out. As expected, it offers bold and creative approaches to the job search. Even if you can't imagine yourself using "guerrilla" tactics in your job search (For example, today's post tells us to "Call the personnel department of the companies on your target list. Ask their manager or recruiter what outside agency or third party recruiting firm they use.") you will enjoy the posts and if you aren't careful, you might learn a thing or two. There is after all, a method to his madness...
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Now I get it...
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Feb 14 2007, 1:55 PM EST by
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I'm curious to watch how car sales progress and what other manufactures jump in and the prices they set for their vehicles (Hmmm...if a Scion costs $1, what will it cost for a Hummer?)
So far Second Life hasn't been about much other than owning your dream home on an island, but if you can drive your dream car, maybe things are about to change? Maintaining your virtual home is pretty boring, but cars -- real or virtual, cars are fun! The cars will need maintenance, insurance, a road side assistance plan, parking (Ben?), gas stations, car washes...The market for advertising and sales of real-world accessories sounds promising.
It looks like Glenn was on to something last night, when he suggested "First run movies in Second Life." With the right hook, selling and buying real world items in the virtual world seems quite natural.
Second Life may be a bit slow in getting off and running, but I now see the potential. I'm off to scope out some prime parking lot real estate...don't tell Ben.
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Humor lies within
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Feb 13 2007, 1:52 PM EST by
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About a year ago, a friend called me and lectured me on how I must immediately remove several pictures from my "myspace" page. The pictures were of some friends and I in Amsterdam posing in front of a huge Bong. Anyways, he said that his job devoted an entire day to searching myspace pages of current and prospective employees. He also stressed that not only were they searching through peoples pages, but they were actively making notes on prospective employees files. For starters I do not use my professional email address on myspace and if I am not hired due to a picture of me in Amsterdam holding a Bong, then I would have to say the employer doesn't appreciate culture and must be jealous that he/she has not been able to travel.....and is not a believer of the old saying, "When in Rome, do as the Romans." HAHAH, ok just joking. Seriously though, I find the strategy an unfair hiring tactic. Do these employers really believe that the people they hire are saints and do not have alternate lives aside from their professional lifestyles?
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Online Reliability
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Feb 8 2007, 4:47 PM EST by
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If an employer knows enough about the internet to screen an applicant, than the employer most definitely knows how easy it would be for an applicant to bullshit them whether it be tampering with digital footprints or flat out lying about the facts. From what I saw working at a music publishing company was that companies, at least in the music buss, use the internet to get a general idea of something. It's more or less like going through the yearbook, seeing a picture of someone and checking out a few of their associations in clubs, sports, and how popular they were. It will be interesting to see how many online linking networks like Linkedin become credible and accurate enough sources for companies to rely on them and what kind of trust mechanisms will be built in for this to happen.
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Interesting!
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Feb 8 2007, 12:55 AM EST by
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Wow! This is interesting! How many employers do you think rely on internet social networks like MySpace to screen job candidates?
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