blending the mix

Cool stuff I was readingJune 27th toJuly 5th:

• Rohit Bhargava Social Media Bio: M YB I O - Rohit’s social media biography
• Resume 2.0 « The Secret Diary of a Bonafide Marketing Genius - A great piece about the social media release
• Again, One Clueless Person Destroys the Privacy Of Millions - Overview of the beginning of the end for data privacy
• Training Field Teams | Retail Sales Training | Field Marketing | Tips | Advice - Sales training advice
• Pam Ragland’s Have Anything Blog - interesting thoughts about personal development from Pam
• FT.com / Companies / US & Canada - FriendFeed openness puts pressure on rivals -

Cool stuff I was readingJune 5th toJune 11th:

• Plurk: Unique or Just Another Twitter Clone? - ReadWriteWeb - Quite the most comprehensive review of Plurk (or in fact any social media tool) I have seen in a LONG time!
• Revenue Robot | Plurk Tools and Tracking - Plurk Tracking Tools
• Mento -
• Blogger Outreach is PR and Not Marketing < Chris Abraham - Blogger Outreach
• entrepreMusings - entrepreneur, business, babies, parenting - A fantastic way to respond to negative blogger comments
• Shapeways | Home -

Cool stuff I was readingJune 2nd toJune 4th:

• lovefilm quiz on Flickr - Photo Sharing! - great idea
• Smithereens: Make Google Reader Your Web Brain in 3 Simple Steps - Google Reader as your web Brain
• New Facebook app â��turns users into affiliatesâ�� â�� Digital marketing news | Digital marketing events at Netimperative - An interesting commercial approach to Facebook, controlled by users.
• Carsonified » Blog Archive » Writing copy for real people - Tone of Voice
• Compare Your FeedBurner Subscriber Numbers with Others » Feed Compare -

Cool stuff I was readingMay 25th toJune 1st:

• BBC NEWS | Technology | Facebook ‘violates privacy laws’ - News that Facebook is breaking MORE laws.
• Advertisement feature | guardian.co.uk - Interesting immersive “urban” competition by Nissan
• BBC NEWS | Business | Will fake business blogs crash and burn? - Authenticity will ALWAYS win through
• PR Secrets for Startups - Great PR tips from Brian Solis
• Beyond Blogs - Are blogs the ONLY way?

So FriendFeed is taking over the planet - tell me something I didn’t know! it is fast becoming THE aggregator of choice for many people, enabling conversations to take place outside of many “closed” networks. It even seems to work when Twitter doesn’t - which technically could mean that even with 50% uptime, it would still beat twitter

NOW, it is looking to create its own content by launching Rooms, a way to create original content INSIDE Friendfeed, making it a destination site in its own right (rather than an aggregator).

With frustration growing with Twitter and comments creeping in that Jaiku is a) better and b) more consistently up, could this new feature spell the end for Twitter?

Part of me really hopes so, because i see NO other online app/network treating its loyal customer so consistently badly as Twitter.

Cool stuff I was readingMay 19th toMay 23rd:

• The Work of Jonathan Harris - Quite the most stunning work I have ever seen on the web.
• YouTube is the UK’s biggest social media site, says Nielsen | PDA: The Digital Content Blog | guardian.co.uk - Some very interesting stats. Facebook up, myspace down.
• Top 15 Corporate Blogs (Ranked - May 2008) « Marketing Nirvana - The Top 15 corporate blogs - on what basis? I don’t know, but a welcome list all the same.
• The French Open - Twitter Tennis conversation aggregator
• The 5 Types of Corporate Blogs (with examples) « Marketing Nirvana - Interesting from mario. always a good read and thought provoking. A subject close to my heart too.

Cool stuff I was readingMay 15th toMay 18th:

• Minggl â�� socialize from anywhere on the web - Inside facebook (2)
• Media6° - Inside Facebook’s Social Graph (1)
• Official Google Blog: Demographics now available in YouTube Insight - Insight for youtube video - yay!
• Loic Le Meur Blog: Steven Spielberg, Harisson Ford, George Lucas in Seesmic this morning - An incredible new way to engage with your audience
• Robert Scoble on the Best iPhone Applications | Fast Company - Best of the Best iPhone apps
• Tickets | Coca Cola League 1 Play Off Final - THIS IS WHERE YOU WANT TO BE

Cool stuff I was readingMay 11th toMay 14th:

• Making a Business From Social Media | chrisbrogan.com - making a business/career from social media
• BBC NEWS | Technology | Solving the web’s image problem - A cool way to get people to tag images for reference on the web
• The Evolution of the Press Release - Something close to my heart
• BuzZ 2.0: Twitter Business Model, Why google is scared - Why google is scared f Twitter
• Zappos.com Takes Twitter By Storm, Hosts San Francisco Party | Laughing Squid - First real case of commercially acceptable Twitter usage

Cool stuff I was readingApril 13th toMay 10th:

• Facebook to open the gates with ‘Facebook Connect’ | The Social - CNET News.com - The first steps to setting your Facebook data free!
• 18 Niche Affiliate Programs Perfect for Mom and Dad Bloggers -
• UTalkMarketing - Buzz marketing illegal from May, warns IPA - Friggin rule makers spoiling the fun again!
• Twitter Testing Advertising In Twitter Streams - Is Twiter turning to advertising already?
• Era of bloggerâ��s control is over « Scobleizer â�� Tech geek blogger - Blogging heading the way of TV. Defragmentation of comments.

Cool stuff I was readingApril 6th toApril 9th:

• Ideas in Action -
• Windows Live Writer Goes Portable | Sarah In Tampa | Channel 10 - windows live writer goes mobile!
• We ignore internet at our peril, Murdoch warns editors | Media | MediaGuardian - rupert murdoch on the internet
• The Omni Group - OmniGraffle - Download -
• Twitter Fan Wiki / Apps - This is where it ALL happens!