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  • Cuil Gets Black And Blue

    Cuil launched today and is already taking a pummelling in the blogosphere, so its black and blue colour scheme seems apt at the moment. It claims to index "120 billion Web pages, three times more than any other search engine." I'm not sure Google would agree with that, but I personally think it...

    By • July 28, 2008

  • Damage control rule # 1, shift the blame.

    Wow, they must have taken classes from our Government. clipped from vista.blorge.com Microsoft blaming PC manufactures & their added software for Vista misconceptionclipped from vista.blorge.comIn the minds of Microsoft execs, the problem lies with the fact that Vista is deployed on such ...

    By • July 28, 2008

  • Are Answers In The Questions?

    Business leaders are faced with daily decisions whose outcomes impact both short and long term results. Constantly trying to balance both results a business leaders has to justify which result, short or long term, becomes the most important factor in their decisions. It becomes difficult to fo...

    By • July 28, 2008

  • Best of 2008 (So Far) - SEO Guidance, Part 1

    There have been so many excellent blog posts and articles written already in 2008 that it's just not practical to wait until January of next year to recognize them. I may have to start doing these monthly or something, but for now, here are some of the best pieces written about the art and scie...

    By • July 28, 2008

  • 5 Predictions on The Future of Social Media

    All we do here at Ignite Social Media is social media marketing. So we watch it carefully, looking for trends, what's coming next, what's likely to bubble up. And it's got me thinking. I believe that social media is in its infancy. Not everybody does. But I'm quite sure we don't have it all...

    By • July 28, 2008

  • Sometimes Breasts Aren't Enough, Julia Allison

    I have been trying to figure out why WIRED's cover story on Julia Allison incensed me so much. You won't find me bashing Paris Hilton or her ilk on this blog. As someone who barely watches TV, her brand of reality-show insta-celebs barely register on my consciousness. However, I do dwell in the ...

    By • July 28, 2008

  • Hexavideo: Tout n'est pas à jeter!

    Hexavideo est une plateforme de diffusion de contenu vidéo lancée par le FSI Hexabyte qui est aussi derrière Hexalove, un site de rencontre.Le site qui se défini comme le "Premier site de streaming en Tunisie" est aussi tout simplement une plateforme totalement illégale de diffusion de contenu v...

    By • July 28, 2008

  • Wants, Needs, and Tactics for Social Media

    I read an item discussing of the difference between Wants and Needs in social media by Jay Deragon on ContentManagementConnection.com. I was tracking with Jay's thoughts until the end of his blog post when I think the concepts of "needs" and "tactics" may have gotten a little muddy.I recommend...

    By • July 28, 2008

  • PR Spam: 10 Ways to Avoid Being Blacklisted

    1.) Do not subscribe to an email distribution service You're just asking for trouble. Those are for traditional "marketers".2.) Do not rely on a press release distribution service This will probably draw the most criticism, but I believe if your press release is that non-specific and boring, th...

    By • July 27, 2008

  • What Will Make You Stick?

    Social network operators are constantly trying to add "stickiness" to their networks aimed at bring users back frequently. They understand the bell curve of user knowledge, experience and understanding or lack of understanding. Vying for our attention, and those of our friends, they strategize...

    By • July 27, 2008

  • Does UPS Have Deep Systematic Problems?

    Recently I've seen signs that may suggest the occasional UPS glitches are not-so-occasional, and there may be deeper systematic problems with our favorite delivery service. The brown truck driver is as friendly as he ever was - it's the systems that appear to s***w customers left and right. F...

    By • July 27, 2008

  • New York Times Commits a Fashion Faux-Pas about BlogHer

    It's not often I get on my soapbox on my blog; my intention is to share with you, my good readers, a bit of widsom and insight and share everything I've learned in kind from all of you. But I'm hoppin' mad at the New York Times for how they've managed to undermine some fantastically accomplishe...

    By • July 27, 2008

  • Un blog, ça apprivoise

    Quand on découvre un nouveau blog, soit on a un coup de foudre, ce qui n'arrive pas si souvent, soit il nous apprivoise. Ainsi, on tombe dessus par hasard ou parce qu'on a suivi une série de liens et on commence à le lire. Si un article capte notre attention, on va y rester un peu, sinon on v...

    By • July 26, 2008

  • Second Life's economy is dominated by women's clothes

    At least according to this entertaining article from Michael Parsons in the Times.Link to original post

    By • July 26, 2008

  • I Will Smack The Next Person Who Calls Behavioral Targeting "Creepy"

    I really don't want to smack anybody today. I have a 3 p.m. client meeting, and if I were to miss it because I was incarcerated over at County on 7th Street, that would be really embarrassing. People would make jokes about me, as the social web strategist who got arrested for smacking somebody....

    By • July 25, 2008

  • From oCommerce to eCommerce - Chinese Case

    From oCommerce to eCommerceview presentation (tags: government regulation china benjaminjoffe) Link to original post

    By • July 25, 2008

  • TwitbookFeed

    Facebook has it's new look available for preview. Just go to www.new.facebook.com to have a look. It is quite a large redesign. For example the minifeed looks similar to FriendFeed and there are different 'tabs' to get you to different parts of the site. A couple weeks ago, those with iPhones go...

    By • July 25, 2008

  • Social Media Group Therapy

    Groups for social media enthusiasts and practitioners are popping up, and that's a great thing. Whether you're a lone soldier looking to network, or a large corporation that needs to take social media beyond the basics, there's a group for you. Here, just a few that I've come across in my travel...

    By • July 25, 2008

  • A completely unscientific study of social computing, social media tools, Part 1

    How do you use, interact with, and communicate with social computing/social media tools? Lately, I have spent some time thinking about the way I use specific social computing tools and why others bore me, or why I simply have no interest in others. Certainly not a science, as these are my obser...

    By • July 25, 2008

  • 1 Out of Over 100 Million?

    The number of blogs on the net now exceeds 100 million and growing. Blogs have become the new media of expression by individuals and institutions throughout the world. Bloggers like to see increased traffic, comment ratios and links over time. These points of reference suggest that just maybe w...

    By • July 25, 2008

  • Enterprise Communities: Build or Join or Both?

    Over on ZDNet, Aaron Strout, VP of social media for Mzinga, tackles a question that many organizations are considering as they formulate their social media strategy: Build or Join? Is it better to build your own community or to join an existing third-party community? He suggests the answer is t...

    By • July 25, 2008

  • Senior marketing sur mesures

    Hier, Jean-Paul Tréguer intervenait au micro de Jean-Michel Dhuez sur Europe1 pour donner son avis de senior marketeur sur la campagne de mensuration des plus de 70 ans organisée par l'Institut Français du Textile et de l'Habillement. Approche transgénérationnelle, richesse du contenu informati...

    By • July 25, 2008

  • Social Media + Company = Are you ready to innovate?

    Social media marketing means you let anybody advise you about your product. And if you don't want that to happen ... you can't, that's already settled people can do that. Nobody had to wait for the Internet to do so, but web has helped people raising their voices. Most of the time to complain, a...

    By • July 24, 2008

  • Using Google Knol as a B2B Marketing Toolb

    Yesterday, Google officially launched Knol, its Wikipedia-like tool for crafting encyclopedic expert articles. As with Wikipedia, subject matter experts can write or contribute edits to a Knol page on a specific topic. Unlike the case with Wikipedia, however, the author(s) is identified, so rea...

    By • July 24, 2008

  • Internet Marketing, Social Media and CGM Attracting the Dollarsonli

    Senior marketers expect spend for new media and online initiatives to increase in the next year despite the poor economyThe sixth annual PRWeek/Manning Selvage & Lee (MS&L) survey by Millward Brown polled 252 U.S. chief marketing officers, VPs of marketing and marketing directors and ma...

    By • July 24, 2008