The One Big Thing: Follow The Data

Photo courtesy of theeerin. In this mashed-up and syndicated online world, the The One Big Thing you need to know for preparing for the increasingly local and mobile Web is Follow The Data. Have you taken a good look at your business data online? Just the essentials: Who, What, Where, When? Any business that relies on local, feet-on-the-ground [...]

Twitter Geo-Location Place Stamp Demonstration

Here’s a quick screencast demonstration of Twitter’s new geo-location feature. Found at YouTube from estrategy.

Trend: Haul Videos

Haul videos are the democratization of the home shopping network. They typically feature teen girls just back from the mall, shopping bag in hand, gushing over their purchases (or “haul”) to their webcam to be uploaded to YouTube for the world to see. Haul videos are funny, a little weird, and they’re the latest thing. The following [...]

Have You Been Nexted? Chatroulette Explained

In my quest to bring you all varieties of online behavior, there’s chatroulette. Chatroulette is the act of conducting random video chats with complete strangers from around the world. Casey Neistat explains. WORK WARNING: Video includes profanity and some adult themes. Found at Vimeo from Casey Neistat via The Awl via Holy Haw!

Generation X Technographics

Jennifer Jones interviews Nate Elliott of Forrester Research about how and what social media Generation X uses.

Salesforce’s “Facebooked” Product, Chatter

Robert Scoble interviews Senior VP of Product Marketing Kraig Swensrud about Salesforce.com’s new social release, Chatter.

Minnesota Politics & Social Media

[/caption] I can credit the start of my career in online strategy in large part to my fascination with online political communication. In 1994, I read about the first online gubernatorial debate held by E-Democracy (of which I am now a board member); but [...]

Google Buzz Demonstration

Google announced Google Buzz today, their integration of social accounts and online conversations with Gmail. TechCrunch has a rundown, here’s Mashable’s coverage, here’s ReadWriteWeb’s coverage, and here’s Google’s own blog post about Buzz.  Here’s a video demo of Google Buzz. Found at YouTube from Google. UDPATED: 2/9/2010 3 P.M. Google Buzz on a mobile device. Found at [...]

The Yellow Smiley Face

This is “a heartwarming comedy of parents using a computer for the first time to communicate with their son in America.” It’s a nice depiction of how people interact with technology. This is a Romanian film directed by Constantin Popesc. Found at YouTube from FutureShorts.

Facebook Becoming A Heavy Hitting News Distribution Channel?

via weblogs.hitwise.com Facebook was the #4 source of visits to News and Media sites last week, after Google, Yahoo! and msn (see table below). News and Media is the #11 downstream industry after Facebook, receiving 3.69% of the social networking site’s traffic. For journos: Facebook is increasingly where people are their news. You need to be there [...]

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