Monthly Archives: September 2008

SocialText 3.0 blends Facebook, Twitter, and the Enterprise

Via Tech Crunch by Steve Gillmor on September 30, 2008 SocialText 3.0 is (or will be in the near term) an enterprise mashup of Facebook, FriendFeed, enterprise microblogging, and the wiki. If you were to take any one of these … Continue reading

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The State of Social Media 2008

Via PR 2.0 By Brian Solis I’ve been on a recent whirlwind speaking tour recently, sharing and learning all things related to the socialization of marketing and service as well as how to measure these new strategies and tactics. From … Continue reading

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How to Know if You Should Fire Your Social Media Consultant

Via Mashable September 29, 2008 – 10:48 am PDT – by Alex Hillman  Disclosure: I’ve been a tech guy for much longer than I’ve been involved in marketing. I’ve been building things, and acting as a consumer far longer than … Continue reading

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If Web Apps are Evil, Why Do We Use Them?

Via Mashable September 29, 2008 – 1:20 pm PDT – by Stan Schroeder   StallmanRichard Stallman is going berserk over cloud computing. In an interview with the Guardian, he claims that the whole thing is “stupidity.” He claims that “you … Continue reading

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Cloud + Client

Via Tech Crunch by Steve Gillmor on September 29, 2008 This week two giants spoke to the technology wave known as cloud computing. Larry Ellison called it a new label on what everyone is doing already. He acknowledged he was … Continue reading

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Microsoft tries to put fear of God into scareware vendors

Via ARS Technica By Joel Hruska  | Published: September 29, 2008 – 09:20PM CT Microsoft and Washington State officials announced a new partnership today aimed at fighting scareware in general and one specific vendor in particular. Today isn’t such a … Continue reading

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Acquia Debuts Drupal for Free

Via Mashable September 29, 2008 – 8:58 pm PDT – by Doriano “Paisano” Carta  Acquia has announced the availability of Acquia Drupal, a free and commercially supported distribution of the popular Drupal open source social publishing system. They also unveiled … Continue reading

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Hey! You’re Not Supposed To Do That

Via Mashable September 29, 2008 – 9:30 pm PDT – by Steven Hodson  Mark Evans wrote a post a couple of days ago that asks a simple question that as far as I am concerned every single web service start … Continue reading

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New Facebook Home Page, New Facebook Tagline Means Too Many Marketing Meetings At Facebook

Via Tech Crunch by Michael Arrington on September 30, 2008   Facebook launched more than a new iPhone app this evening – they also have a new home page (the page you see when you aren’t logged in) and a … Continue reading

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The Name is Bond. James Bond. And Here’s my Facebook Profile

Via Mashable September 29, 2008 – 4:52 am PDT – by Stan Schroeder If you’re a Facebook user and are at the same time interested in doing whatever you can to help your country, you may have seen an odd … Continue reading

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