I know I know, I haven’t abandoned you, dear reader. Have a squiz at this and tell me what you think: 4INFO Mobile Search Blog: 4INFO Mission Movers = Community-based SMS 4INFO announced today a partnership with Mission Movers Group, a marketing innovation firm, to provide The Rainier Chamber with the first community controlled text…
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WebDirections event – interface design and ethnographic research
The lovely Maxine Sherrin from westciv sent me this: Interface design, and the use of ethnographic research in designing for the web: announcing our second free Sydney event for 2006.On August 31 we’ve got a diverse evening, with Emily Boyd of Remember the Milk speaking about the development of this very successful Australian web app,…
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What am I up to?
Good question. Up to no good, no doubt! The University of Sydney’s Centre for Continuing Education Spring Guide came out yesterday. In there, you’ll note, I’m teaching two courses – you might be interested. The first one is in the Professional Development area (Marketing, Sales and Events). On the 20th October in fact: Marketing into…
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DOPA – children’s social networking
NMA.co.uk brought to my attention that the new ruling about children’s social networking sites will be out today: MySpace, Bebo and others are awaiting the result of a ruling on children’s access to social networks from the US government. The implementation of the Deleting Online Predators Act (DOPA) could result in children being barred from…
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Two Sunday Night Quickies
If peer2peer marketing/advertising spells disaster for traditional media, and doctors are shirty about peer2peer health support, what do you think the banks will do with peer2peer banking???!!?? (From the Orlando Sentinel’s Richard Burnett). People in search of loans are finding deals through online auctions Turned away and turned off by conventional banks, Jerry R. Brown…
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digg vs Netscape – everyone’s gotta eat??
Hmmm. I think I have the story straight now. Jason McCabe Calacanis from Netscape (otherise connected to WeblogsInc/AOL/blogsmith), Hello. My name is Jason. I’m the CEO of the blogging network Weblogs, Inc. On this blog I write about the startup experience, my life, my bulldog, and my Knicks. put a proposal out there on this…
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Ransacking communities
Thanks to Erietta for bringing Netscape/digg war to my attention: I’ve been waiting for someone to try this. Bribes are rife in the online RP gaming world but straight down-the-line online communities? Interesting. “Netscape boss Jason Calacanis has offered to essentially buy out the top users on Digg, Delicious, Flickr, MySpace, and Reddit for $1000…
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Technorati birthday and update
It’s Technorati’s 3rd birthday. I really do think they are a the next ‘thang’ after Google. Certainly they are leapfrogging in a direction that makes sense to me. In June I blogged about their deal with Associated Press to deliver “the living blogosphere as a compliment to their (AP’s) core professional news product”. We’re delighted…
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Apples not Oranges
Adoring FreakONomics. I picked up the book Freakonomics, A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner. Loved it, inhaled it in one sitting. Head over to their website and check it out. If you want to know if Sumo wrestling is fixed, whether Chicago teachers screw…
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