Archive for October, 2006
Refresh Dallas tonight!
If you’re in Dallas, be sure to stop by Refresh tonight. It’s going to be a good event:
U Media – Being your own media
Big media has finally realized that their monopoly on our attention has weakened to the point that they will never recover. Big Media is attempting to make the drastic changes necessary [...]
Big in Japan’s Fancast Service
If you’ve noticed my blogging slowing a bit lately, it’s because we’re starting up a new project for Dirt (the upcoming FX show). This project is a continuation of our work with FX using our Big in Japan Fancast system.
Fancast is one of the Big in Japan social tools that gives users and brands [...]
links for 2006-10-17
Reuters opens virtual news bureau in Second Life
Warning: I’m not a big fan of Reuters content… in my opinion it’s faily biased. Now time for the joke: Bringing fake news to the virtual world, Reuters launches Second Life bureau today.
(tags: news SecondLife)
Quackwatch
“Your Guide to Quackery, Health Fraud, and Intelligent Decisions
Operated by Stephen Barrett, M.D.”
(tags: health [...]
The opportunities of podcasting
I came across an interesting article on podcasting tonight and thought I’d share.
Scott Gatz from Yahoo was in town for the BlogOn conference and he stopped by our offices to talk about a survey done in August about RSS and podcasting that Yahoo recently released.
Other bloggers covered the RSS results, but I was [...]
links for 2006-10-16
GreedTube
“Have you ever wanted to make money from the videos find on Youtube? Now you can! Greedtube shares fifty percent of all the ad revenue made on the videos you submit!”
(tags: youtube video)
Techcrunch
(tags: entrepreneurship socialnetworking)
When technology hates you
"I can’t get my presentation to display because my computer is having trouble"
These are the words that no presenter wants to utter in front of a packed house. Last week I had to do that very thing when I gave a "Social Media 101" presentation to the DFWIMA. This was to be the first presentation [...]
BiJ Podcast: Bob Langert
The McDonald’s Corporate Social Responsibility team recently launched their "Open for Discussion" blog, and not surprisingly were quickly caught up in controversy. The key issue was that the comments weren’t being moderated very quickly, and as such the blogosphere assumed that McDonald’s was taking a hard line against actual open discussion. Turns out, the real [...]
The value of community
John Windsor has an interesting discussion happening on his blog about the YouTube purchase. John suggests that without community your company has issues, whereas one of this commenters challenges him with a question: "how exactly do you value a ‘community’?"
After posting a comment there, I thought it would be worthwhile to expand that comment.
How [...]
links for 2006-10-14
Jennifer Government: NationStates
“NationStates is a free nation simulation game. Build a nation and run it according to your own warped political ideals. Create a Utopian paradise for society’s less fortunate or a totalitarian corporate police state. Care for your people or deliberately
(tags: games politics simulation)
iStrip
Cool Mac OSX application that saves your favorite web comics for [...]
Marketing Luncheons for next week
Turns out the next week is the week of marketing luncheons. On Monday it’s the BMA. On Wednesday it’s the AMA.
Come out, join me!
