links for 2006-05-01

• Bokardo » Web 2.0 Talk - Leveraging the Network
  Del.icio.us, though providing very cool tagging features, is mostly about a single person remembering items for later.
  (tags: 2.0 ,del.icio.us ,design, networks ,software social_software usability business network)
• toread - an email-based bookmark service
  Very cool way of organizing more things to read…later, of course.
  (tags: web 2.0, del.icio.us, tools, productivity, social software,)
• Movable Type Style Generator
  DIYhelp.
  (tags: blog ,design, templates, tools, movabletype, css)
• When digital kids rule the classroom | CNET News.com
  wired to learn.
  (tags: education, edublogging, edtech, learning, Gen Yes, Tech technology, MySpace)
• MySpace reaching out to parents | CNET News.com
  (tags: MySpace, parenting, web2.0, social networks, software, media, advertising,blame)
• Quote of the day: Livening up the Sunday morning ’sleeper’ | News.blog | CNET News.com
  (tags: House of Worship technology,)
• Is Jesus the next killer app? | CNET News.com
  (tags: House of Worship Technology, webcasting, digital, internet, marketing, media)

links for 2006-04-26

• MediaPost Publications - Web U: Search Your Site for Answers - 04/12/2006
  It.s all about me…track yourself tips.
  (tags: seo ,search, blogs, sem, metrics, links, search engine, google, yahoo, msn)
• MediaPost Publications - Viacom Buys Gaming, Social Networking Service - 04/25/2006
  (tags: social networks, web 2.0. Viacom, on-line gaming, blogs,media,advertising,social media,data mining)
• MediaGuardian.co.uk | Media | BBC unveils radical revamp of website
  From Steve Rubel
  (tags: user generated content, web 2.0, MSM, social media, media , technology, new)
• Adrants » Behavioral Targeting Whoops Contextual’s Ass
  context vs behavior…but what is the context of the behavior?
  (tags: research, advertising, marketing, contexual behavioral advertising)
• Toyota’s Got Game and ‘Mobisodes’
  “computer-generated, sound-and-picture gestalt represented by the campaign”….the campaign that has it all; Gestalt ,no therapy.
  (tags: mobile advertising, marketing, mobisodes, interactive, automobiles, game advertising)
• Wal-Mart To Emphasize In-Store Experience
  career driven and time starved shoppers only visit 46 times vs loyalists who visit 63; “Our objective is to champion a broader range of customers with products, services and a more compelling experience to get customers to shop in more categories. We’re
  (tags: brand experience, branding, advertising, marketing, retailing)
• Research: Moto, Target Most ‘Engaging’
  Are you listening WalMart? Also…Wal-Mart spends 0.3 percent of its revenue on advertising. Target spends 2.3.Motorola most engaging advertising according to Brand Keys…did we ever define engaging? Are we talking 30 second spots or what?
  (tags: advertising,marketing, research, ad CPG, TV)
• Converstations: Create Your Own FeedBurner FeedFlare
  ANOTHER great tip from Mike Sansone at Converstations:Feedburner FeedFlare.
  (tags: RSS, marketing ,feeds, business, advertising, Mike Sansone)

links for 2006-04-24

• Ten video sharing services compared - DV Guru
  ratings for video sharing sites….beyond YouTube
  (tags: video, web2.0, youtube, media, digital, reviews, video sharing, blogs. blogging)
• Actual advertising in a virtual world - Technology - International Herald Tribune
  real ads in virtual world.
  (tags: adidas, gaming, internet video ,advertising, media, MMO)
• For MySpace, Making Friends Was Easy. Big Profit Is Tougher. - New York Times
  More on MySpace…show me the money.
  (tags: MySpace, web2.0,social networking, media, marketing, advertising)

links for 2006-04-23

• DiggLicious.com - a cool blend of digg.com and del.icio.us
  (tags: web2.0, del.icio.us,social software)

links for 2006-04-22

• My Virtual Life
  Life imitating, art, imitating life.
  (tags: games, online, second life, MMOG, advertising, marketing, social media, networks, communities)
• Fifty Ways to Take Notes » Solution Watch
  Great list of note taking tools…even includes voice notes.
  (tags: blog, web2.0, write, writing, personal productivity, design ,tools ,notetaking ,research, reference, social software)

links for 2006-04-21

• SON-OF-A-PITCH: GM Takes Grassroots Approach with New Blog
  GM launches employee blog, FYI.
  (tags: corporate blogs, blog marketing, PR, business media, GM, FYI)
• Freevlog
  How to tools.
  (tags: video ,vlog ,blog ,videoblog tutorial ,Videoblogging)
• Interactivefactpack06.pdf (application/pdf Object)
  2006, state of interactive.
  (tags: interactive, social media, conversational RSS, advertising, mobile, games,search)

links for 2006-04-20

• WSJ.com - Can Bloggers Make Money?
  And the answer is…..it depends.
  (tags: Blogs, bloggers, monetize,Google Adsense, advertising, media, business model)
• Mobile Phones Could Soon Rival the PC As World’s Dominant Internet Platform
  Can you hear me NOW?
  (tags: mobile, advertising, internet, marketing, Face of the Web 2005)
• MySpace for the Office
  (tags: social networks, corporate marketing, search, communications)
• The Seattle Times: Business & Technology: Blogs: Just more white noise?
  Blogs to email, “Thanks for getting there first…but now I need a larger audience.”
  (tags: blogs, email, blogging, journalism, media, content, UGC)
• ElectricNews.net:News:Bloggers a potential PR menace: report
  CGM is having an impact on brand communications in Europe according to Jupiter Research.
  (tags: user generated content, blogs, social media, research, Europe, trends, media)

links for 2006-04-19

• Reminder, Today is the Day!!!!! Media Slave Podcasts
  (tags: Media Slaves Podcasting Blogher Debi Jones Zadi Diaz Nicole Simon Marianne Richmond Mobile Social Conversational User Generated Content)

links for 2006-04-18

• TheStar.com - Not all they’re blogged up to be
  Blogs and msm are not an "either or choice" but part of the same spectrum.

  Quoting Gladwell "I have come (belatedly) to the conclusion that a blog can be a very valuable supplement to my books and the writing I do for The New Yorker. What I think I’d like to do is to use this forum to elaborate and
  comment on and correct and amend things that I have already written."

• (tags: MSM, main stream media, blogs, links, Technorati, Sifry, blogosphere)

• Peer Mind - Your Personal P2P Monitor
  (tags: rankings, peer ratings, downloads, users, media, music, software,)

links for 2006-04-17

• Creating Passionate Users: Why face-to-face still matters!
  (tags: communication, blog, relationships,neuroscience, attachment ,blogs)
• e-fluentials - Word of Mouth and Moms
  Word of Mom
  (tags: word of mouth, WOM, parenting, media, marketing, brands)
• e-fluentials - Online Media Clubs
  (tags: communities of interest, communities, on-line media, books)
• In-Game Advertising and Advergames: News: IGA To Publish Dynamic Ads in Mobile Phones
  IGA goes mobile; Blog is companion to master’s thesis on IGA by llya Vedrashko
  (tags: IGA, media, advertising, marketing, blogs, gamethesis)
• Killer Interviewing Tips for Podcasters, Part 1
  (tags: podcasting, media slaves, , marketing, digital media, cgm, resources, how to)
• Creating Passionate Users: Steve’s stories…
  “Bottom line: To create a passionate user, create a passionate community as well. When you present to that user or that community, be passionate yourself–not by overacting, but by telling a story that is spare, but compelling. Don’t be distracted by a
  (tags: SteveJobs, presentations, storytelling, Presentation Zen, persuasion, marketing)

links for 2006-04-16

• What’s All The Buzz About? Listen or Die…Media Slaves Podcasts, Tuesday April 18th
  (tags: podcasts, mobile, blogs, media, social media,cgm, consumer generated content)
• BrainConnection.com - Why Zebras Don’t Get Ulcers
  “insofar as we are smart enough to have invented this stuff and stupid enough to occasionally fall for it, potentially we have the wisdom to keep it all in perspective so that we’re not done in by it.” Saplosky
  From Boing Boing
  (tags: Neuroscience,brain, stress, attention, science, Boing Boing, Saplosky)
• A Jolly, Socratic Science
  Reference for Sapolsky on stress.
  (tags: Sapolsky , neuroscience stress, brain, blog, research, reference,)
• Wiki Hosting. Seed Wiki, web based solution for public and private Wikis. Affordable and free Wiki
  Great resource for MySpace watching.
  From Debi Jones.
  (tags: MySpace, MySpace Economy, Rupert Murdoch, teens, web 2.0)

links for 2006-04-15

• MediaPost Publications - Six Degrees Of Mark Green - 04/14/2006
  Stanley Milgram, Paul Erd, and Walt Disney brought together to explain the maven effect.
  (tags: word-of-mouth , social networks, influence, mavens, media, marketing, advertising, WOM)
• Advertising Age - Under-30 Crowd Will Drive Media Future
  Because you can’t trust anyone OVER 30? Well, Anne Sweeney the President of Disney TV Group says 40% of baby boomers “go home at night and watch TV” so probably it doesn’t matter.
  (tags: millennials, media, advertising, marketing, market segmentation, channels, cable,)
• Techdirt: Thai Teens Want Their Parents’ Love… Or A Cell Phone
  And do we wonder why there are research studies that conclude, parents don’t matter? Calling Judith Rich Harris and Malcolm Gladwell…..
  (tags: mobile, attention, teens, parenting, culture, demographics, technology)

links for 2006-04-14

• WSJ.com - Starwood’s Web Log Caters to Loyalty
  Starwood Hotel has a blog.
  (tags: blog, corporate blogging, business blogs, hotel, loyalty, advertising, promotions, brands)
• The MySpace Economy - Forbes.com
  MySpace Economic Ecosystem.
  (tags: myspace, software , community social networks, culture, marketing ,networking web2.0)
• Bloggers Blog: The Small but Growing MySpace Economy
  MySpace economy. List of MySpace resources, hacks and templates from Forbes.
  (tags: MySpace, web 2.0, advertising, marketing,entrepreneurship, social networks, software)

links for 2006-04-13

• CGM as an Advertising Tactic
  “CGM” happens. Nuff said.
  (tags: CGM, Media, advertising,marketing, Tahoe, Converse)
• ADWEEK April 12, 2006
  Spending and trending.
  (tags: blogs, blog marketing, advertising, YouTube, User Generated Media, Content)

links for 2006-04-12

• The Artful Manager: The power of flaws
  ” It’s an insight as old as theater — conflict, flaw, and tension are what make narratives compelling’…advice to cultural non-profits, strengthen communications through imperfection.
  (tags: brands, branding, narrative, character, flaws, imperfection, non-profits, marketing)
• A Resource for Publishers, by Publishers
  (tags: blogs, Yahoo!, wikis, communities, tags, comments, RSS, publishing, web,advertising,marketing)

links for 2006-04-11

• O’Reilly Radar > Doc Searls: Business as Morality
  The Cluetrain of Web 2.0: relationships, conversations, transactions. Link from How to Save the World.
  (tags: web2.0 , relationships, conversations, social networks, media, conversational morality, business, transactions)
• blog.radarresearch.com
  Nine do’s and don’ts of in game advertising
  (tags: advertising, on line games, video branded entertainment, product placement)
• How to Save the World
  Dave Pollard expands upon Umair Haque’s Blockbuster to Snowball effect driven by shift to consumer.
  (tags: marketing, consumer, attention, YouTube, blogs, Gladwell, blockbuster,snowball, shift, economics)

links for 2006-04-10

• A Venture Forth » Blog Archive » User Generated Content and the “Contribution Economy”
  secrets of highly successful web 2.0 ventures.
  (tags: business models, web 2.0, revenue, User Generated Content, Contribution Economy)

links for 2006-04-09

• How to Wow ‘Em Like Steve Jobs
  5 keys to WOW.
  (tags: presentations, marketing, Steve Jobs, visuals, brands)
• iPlot: Web 2.0 or Not Web 2.0?
  Web 2.0 in the news.
  (tags: web2.0, tech, web, Flickr, MySpace, Ning)
• What is Web 2.0? by Andy Budd
  Really useful!
  (tags: web2.0 , presentations, tutorial, reference, definitions)

links for 2006-04-08