blending the mix

Cool stuff I was readingDecember 16th toDecember 24th:

• Top 25 Ways to Tell if Your Social Media Expert Is a Carpetbagger » The Buzz Bin - Tell if Your Social Media Expert Is a Carpetbagger
• Ripple6 > the ripple platform - Another platform to have a look at.
• Twittering Toaster Offers Some Tasty Bites | Gadget Lab from Wired.com -
• Finextra: Barclays pilots Microsoft Surface in new flagship concept branch -
• Twitter has made Dell $1 million in revenue | The Industry Standard - $1m dollars in a year and a half - what could YOUR business do?

Cool stuff I was readingNovember 6th toDecember 7th:

• How should Brand Managers approach the Social Graphs of Facebook Connect and OpenID? « Hard Knox Life: A Brand Manager Blog by Dave Knox -
• Play Auditorium -
• Monetizing Content with Social Media | Online Marketing Blog -
• Explode! -
• Google Analytics and Feedburner Reports plugin for WordPress : tan tan noodles - msg free since 2005 -

Cool stuff I was readingOctober 15th toOctober 28th:

• Social Media Analytics | Andiamo Systems -
• delicious/help/tools - the often forgotten tools page of delicous!
• FORD MUSTANG - Ford Motor Company - digital snippets - Social Media news room from Ford
• The True Value of Social Media Consultants | ::HorsePigCow:: marketing uncommon - What does being a Social Media entail and how should you measure a SMC’s effectiveness?
• Reuters Editors » Blog Archive » Throwing a pebble and watching the ripples | Blogs | Reuters.com - Reuters supporting new broadcast means!

Cool stuff I was readingAugust 31st toSeptember 14th:

• Next generation social marketing (Podcast) -
• Put Thunderbird to work | Software news, tips and opinions from Download.com editors - Download.com - Using thunderbird as your default mail and calendar application
• YouTube - Broadcast Yourself. - A You Tube Channel dedicated to Wine
• The Tshirt and Tee Search Engine - PleaseDressMe -
• Agencies donâ��t get social media - The title says it all!

Cool stuff I was readingAugust 4th toAugust 7th:

• the twitties :: awards for all things twitter -
• The Cluetrain Manifesto â�� a refresher for late adopters. 1 of 10. | blending the mix - Helping non-adopters to undeerstand the what are why of Social Media!
• About BlogStorm & Patrick Altoft - A lad from Leeds who knows his stuff when it comes to SEO!
• A survey worth bookmarking - A survey about why business (in the UK mainly) don’t whole-heartedly adopt social media, combined with a trial of buzzbin!
• FilterForGood: Home - Brita’s great take on using the social tools and community to promote the use of brita filtered tapwater instead of bottled water.

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

These are my links for January 23rd through January 24th:

• FaceReviews: Facebook News and Facebook Applications - Improved stats reporting for facebook apps
• The rise of instant mobile video : NevilleHobson.com - This is soooooo going to be a big issue for 2008
• YouTube - How to Build a Web Start-up, Part 1 - A great video on how to build a web start-up…if you wanted to…
• Digital Web Magazine - How To Build A Facebook Application - Interesting article on creating Facebook Apps. - which we do!!
• WikiHome - JotSpot Wiki (continuouspartialattention) - Continuous Partial Attention - an overview.

These are my links for January 8th:

• minha selecao - My selection: Pimp my Keyboard - Tracking the conversion of a standard IBM keyboard to an olde-worlde typewriter
• Twittertale - You kiss your momma with that mouth? - Watch the potty-mouthed kids on Twitter
• Politweets - When Twitter gets political - Using the Twitter API to track political commentary on Twitter
• Pluck: Leaders in Social Media - Aggregation of social media content
• Groups for Twitter; or A Proposal for Twitter Tag Channels | FactoryCity - Chris Messina - along the same lines. Grouping Twitter feeds
• How I created a TwitterGroup for Gnomedex « kossoâ��s braingarden - creating twitter groups using the API - way cool.
• Innovative Minds Donâ��t Think Alike - New York Times - Interesting piece about how to stop being fogged by convention to continue being creative
• 50 Ways To Improve Your Life in 2008 - US News and World Report (usnews.com) - 50 ways to improve your life this year.
• Communication Overtones: Advertising in Disguise: Cough up a Few Million and Call It Social Media - Advertiising as Social Media - what a load of pants!
• Yahoo mounts fightback against Google | Technology | Guardian Unlimited - Yahoo to take lead on mobile for 2008
• Search Wikia - search - a Wikia wiki - wiki-powered search from the creator of wikipiedia

These are my links for January 7th:

• TechCrunch Blogger Michael Arrington Can Generate Buzz … and Cash -
• The Next Web - Now! - the next web - a blog from the orgainsers
• Ten Common Objections to Social Media Adoption and How You Can Respond - ReadWriteWeb - how to overcome objections to social media marketing
• Content Labels, explained in plain English - Paul Walsh explaining what could be THE next big thing
• BBC NEWS | Technology | Gates hails age of digital senses -
• Gates bids farewell to the computing industry | Technology | Guardian Unlimited - Bill Gates’ final words as boss of Microsoft.
• Disruptive Conversations: The 10 ways I learned to use Twitter in 2007… (aka Why and How I use Twitter) - How to use Twitter
• Terraminds twitter search - a twitter people and subject search engine