If you have $35 to drop on a gag gift, spend it on this remote control. With giant buttons, this extra-large remote is easy to use and impossible to lose. Sorry, it’s not social or media or biz … just geek chic. I had to post it. Just imagine giving that gift. (Saw it...
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I’m jealous … It helps, of course, to have great corporate identity/branding. Update: perhaps this card from Garrett Dimon is even better … business, cards, flock, will pate, john koetsier
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Recently read … Cusp, by Robert A Metzger Wow. Mind-altering. Awesome. Couldn’t put it down. Belgarath the Sorcerer by David and Leigh Eddings Yawn. Shouldn’t have picked it up – Eddings is for 12-year olds – but I have this silly thing about finishing books I start. The Guns of Normandy by George G...
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Back from trick-or-treating with the kids. Ethan counted his candy, and he’s got 135 chocolate bars, bags of chips, and assorted other candies. The other kids have about the same. We didn’t go to that many homes …. many just give out 6 or 7 candies at a time. Sheesh – when I was...
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The juggernaut continues: Jotspot is now owned by Google. Wow. Purely from an individual perspective, this is really, really cool. Jotspot has been focused on building specialized wiki applications for specific purposes like wedding planning or class reunions. They were cool when they cost money, and they’ll be even better when they’re free, as...
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The American Marketing Association has an upcoming webcast titled Mining the Blogosphere: It’s a Whole New World of Marketing. The title is a little ominous … I have never viewed myself as a resource to be mined. I’m sure most other bloggers concur. However, the content appears to be fairly good: Mining the blogosphere...
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Shutterfly is a well-funded, well-run, well-executed company in the online photo printing space. Why then is it just barely breaking even? This post in the Tabblo blog got me thinking. Tabblo’s saying that Shutterfly is competing against nonconsumption … i.e., not printing your photos. And they’re right. The other reason Shutterfly having a tough...
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This just in … from 2005: Click the pic to go to Flickr and check out the many, many notes. web2.0, flickr, social media, john koetsier
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Want to get an insider’s view of the YouTube/Google deal? Check out Mark Cuban’s blog: Some intimate details on the Google YouTube Deal. Includes such gems as: The media companies had their typical challenges. Specifically, how to get money from Youtube without being required to give any to the talent (musicians and actors)? If...
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TV is racing to become … whatever it will become. I happened to actually be watching some last night – a relatively rare occurence these days – and noticed ads for this service: GlobalTV online. Beats my expectations I checked it out today and it’s fairly cool. Cool in that I’m “watching” TV while...
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Ars Technica branches out from their standard hardware reviews and shows how Weird Al Yankovic finally got his first #1 single: White and Nerdy. In three words: YouTube MySpace iTunes Everyone hates it when their sandbox is overturned, but the music industry has to realize the game has changed and the rules are different....
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Talk about good timing – Chris Abraham jumped ship from Edelman just before the proverbial sh*t hit the proverbial fan: Leaving my fancy agency and its cutting-edge online advocacy team in early August was a blessing in disguise. Sounds like he would have been on the Wal-Mart team: That was my team and was...
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Imagine the classroom of the future. Does it look something like this? Learn more at Sloodle – the “3D Learning Management System.” It’s a work in progress, as is most open source software. Here’s the vision: SLoodle is a project to integrate the VLE platform Moodle with the 3D world of Second Life. Imagine...
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Yup, I’m working on a web start-up. Yup, it involves aggregation and filtering. And nope, I’m nowhere near ready to start talking about it. But I saw this today with great interest: One of the solutions to this media overload is collaborative filtering. I want people who are smarter and hipper than me, and...
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