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You Are Not A Gadget

Language defines, or at least provides structure for our thoughts and therefore our actions. A language without singular pronouns is probably used by a culture that sees the world as made up of groups. How would this culture act versus a culture whose language uses the first person singular pronoun in every sentence? Would one [...]

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What Does Corporate America Think of Web 2.0?

This is a live blog of Andrew McAfee‘s session at South by Southwest on March 15, 2010.  The session focused on the barriers to adoption of web 2.0 within corporations and recommendations for overcoming them.  Overall it was inspiring, straight talk. 10:54:03 AM: RT @SterlingBooks: 2.0 is an amorphous term – quality comes from collaboration, [...]

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2010 State of the Internet Video

This 2010 State of the Internet video is along the same lines as “Did You Know” videos, plenty of stats on the internet, email and social media sites as a video infographic with an electronic beat. addthis_url = ‘http%3A%2F%2Fttrumble.com%2F2010-state-of-the-internet-video%2F’; addthis_title = ’2010+State+of+the+Internet+Video’; addthis_pub = ‘TTrumble’;

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LinkedIn Adds Twitter Integration

This week LinkedIn added Twitter integration so that tweets from your selected Twitter account can also update your status on LinkedIn.  You can either have all tweets update your status on LinkedIn or only tweets with a #li or #in hashtag. It’s about time that LinkedIn got linked up with Twitter like most other social [...]

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Lifestream Updates: Amazon.com Wishlists and Zune Playlists

One problem with Lifestreaming is that occasionally the streams that you’re trying to aggregate change their course and need to be reigned back in.  With my social media push I decided to add a few streams and in the course of this discovered that a few of my existing ones had gone missing. So I [...]

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What Facebook Needs In Order To Own Status Updates

This summer I wrote about how Facebook’s privacy settings could be the real game changer in their challenging Twitter and reversing the role of Facebook aggregating my Tweets to Twitter broadcasting the subset of my Facebook updates.  In that post I gave the following example of how the privacy settings could lead to this happening: [...]

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Social Media Count

Gary Hayes at PersonalizeMedia.com put together the sweet little widget below with data on the adoption and use of social media. It’s available for insertion and download which could be handy for presentations. This isn’t tracking current usage, it’s generating data based on current statistics for activity on the sites that Gary will be updating.  [...]

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Did You Know 4.0

The latest in the “Did You Know” series of videos is available with new facts and figures on media, social networking, web usage, advertising and sundry other things juxtaposed in a Harpers Index style. If you liked the latest “Did You Know” here is “Did You Know: Shift Happens“, “Did You Know 2.0” and “Did [...]

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ÜberTwitter: A Breakthrough Twitter Application for the BlackBerry

I was turned on to ÜberTwitter for BlackBerry the other night by Amanda Palmer’s use of the application.  ÜberTwitter is not getting a lot of press and their website has very little information about the application or it’s features, but don’t let that scare you away.   ÜberTwitter’s combination of speed, reliability and features has [...]

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Facebook’s Publisher Privacy Settings The Game Changer Against Twitter

While Facebook has been inching closer to Twitter-like functionality for awhile I see the publishing privacy change that they are rolling out in the next few weeks as the first real run at assuming Twitter’s position in the online attention marketplace. So far Facebook’s functionality changes to publishing; the addition of the News Feed, more [...]

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