If you glance at the top lineup of gaming applications on the Facebook or MySpace platform, you’ll notice an interesting fact. Not one is the product of a major...
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Tech Crunch: Playfish: Using Facebook As Its Gaming Console
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LinkedIn Now Speaks Spanish
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Spanish speakers who are using LinkedIn will be happy to know that this business social network now supports two languages: English and Spanish. You can choose the...
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Gartner Says Future of TV Will Require Channel Integration
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With the Internet transforming the way individuals watch and share video content, TV producers must embrace the Internet to avoid losing control of their content,...
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New Studies From PatientsLikeMe Showcase Power Of Health Social Networks
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I’m back from my time off and have been slowly catching up with non-urgent e-mail and news. One item caught my eye from the e-patients blog focusing on two...
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Supernova 2008 - Part 5
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I learned a lot at Supernova as I do every year. It is difficult to explain the depth and breadth of what transpired at the conference, but hopefully I will hit some...
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Designing The Digital Experience: A Forward [Logic+Emotion]
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David Lee King asked me to write a forward to his upcoming book titled "Designing The Digital Experience". I got to see an early draft of the book and it looks...
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Mobs For Good
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The consumer gods have chosen to smile upon a select few in San Francisco. That, or Carrotmob has infiltrated another company. The SF based and socially-responsible...
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More Funding for Casual Games: Zynga Raises $29 Million
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Casual gaming on the web must look like quite an attractive market to VCs right now. Jeff Bezos already invested in two casual gaming companies this year, Kongregate and...
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370,000 Social Networks on Ning!
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We just passed 370,000 social networks on the Ning Platform! Things are hopping fast and furiously over here and the great networks just keep on coming. We love it!
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Top 5 web 2.0 sites account for 1 in every 15 UK Internet visits
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We issued a press release today containing our latest social network market share data. Facebook continues to grow its market share in the UK and reached a new high of...
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Social Networks Change Behavior
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A Washington Post story covers a new study by Nicholas Christakis of Harvard Medical School and James Fowler at the University of California at San Diego published last...
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I don’t like their tone
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“When I was your age, I didn’t spend hours on the internet or have social networks, we watched a lot of crappy TV and memorized the periodic table and we...
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Facebook Keeps Growing - Still Far Behind MySpace in US
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According to the latest data from Hitwise, Facebook, which is kicking off its developer conference today, grew 40% over the last year, while its biggest competitor,...
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This is so cool!
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The Wall Street Journal this morning had a piece on Matt Milletto, the Network Creator of Barista Exchange and how awesomely cool it is to have your own social network....
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Taking on the System release date moved up
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Good news! I just got word from my publisher that the release date for my forthcoming book, Taking on the System, has been moved up two weeks to August 20. James Wolcott...
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iPhone vulnerable to phishing, spamming flaws
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Security researcher Aviv Raff (left) has discovered a pair of basic design flaws that could turn your iPhone into easy bait for malicious phishing and spamming attacks....
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Plurk, twitter for teens?
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Just heard of this new service called Plurk which is a similar “microblogging” service rather like Twitter, Pownce, Jaiku etc. According to Venture Beat it...
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Flying Dog Will Grow through Word of Mouth
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I had a great meeting with a very smart marketer - Neal Stewart from Flying Dog Brewery. We connected in his hometown of Denver where he was nice enough to take me out to...
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Going Mobile: Is Web Work Really Going to My Mobile Device?
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Image via Wikipedia I can’t get the Who’s song “Going Mobile” out of my head, and it is driving me crazy. The other day I came across...
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Facebook's Sandberg: growth before monetization
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Half Moon Bay, Calif.--Facebook's business playbook takes a page from those of the early dot-coms: built it and then figure out how to money. Sheryl Sandberg, the chief...