Posted on August 29th, 2008 by Nathan Burke
Just saw this one and had to give it a test drive. Though somewhat cryptic right now, it looks like Signal Patterns is trying to help people find content based on dating site-like personality profiles. From their site:
We enable self-discovery through research surveys on topics as varied as tastes in music and the psychology of [...]
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Posted on August 28th, 2008 by Nathan Burke
Today we had the chance to talk with @dmitrigunn about Social Media For Social Change, and idea by Gradon Tripp that has been turned into action. Here’s the main premise: We’re all using these new social media and marketing tools to get the word out about our products and services. We’re constantly communicating with a [...]
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Posted on August 28th, 2008 by Nathan Burke
We’ll be doing our live show on blogtalkradio today at 2:30 PM EST.
We’d love to hear from you. The call in number is: (718) 506-1372
Today we’ll be talking to one of the organizers of Social Media For Social Change. I’ll be posting more on this great event later, but here’s a short intro from [...]
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Posted on August 27th, 2008 by Nathan Burke
While reading through my RSS feeds this morning, one title caught my eye: “SocialU: One of the Most Obnoxious Apps We’ve Seen in a While (Invites)” by Marshall Kirkpatrick on ReadWriteWeb. I just loved the fact that he trashes a service, yet has invites to it. Just thought that was excellent.
From his review:
SocialU is [...]
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Posted on August 25th, 2008 by Nathan Burke
Just a quick post to help me get back into the habit. See, I’ve been off for 5 days. In those 5 days, I haven’t created a single blog post, haven’t paid attention to my RSS subscriptions, and haven’t paid attention to twitter. Tomorrow I’ll be back, but I thought I’d take a look to [...]
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Posted on August 20th, 2008 by Sarah Wurrey
UPDATE: In deference to the very worth cause of the Social Media For Social Change event happening on 10/10, we have changed the date of the Blogstring Pub Crawl to 10/25. Hope you can make it!
After the colossal success of Blogstring’s first Pub Crawl Tweetup back in March (as evidenced by the Official Blogstring Pub [...]
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Posted on August 20th, 2008 by Nathan Burke
Episode 5 of the Blogstring.com live podcast will be broadcast live at 2:00 PM EST. You can listen to our show below, and call in at (718) 506-1372
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Posted on August 20th, 2008 by Nathan Burke
NewsCred.com launched yesterday with a mission to aggregate all of the world’s most credible news in one place. While most players in the “get-your-news-here-and-nowhere-else” game focus on having their members both submit and vote on stories, NewsCred is all about credibility. NewsCred aggregates stories by category from top sources and their users vote on the [...]
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Posted on August 18th, 2008 by Sarah Wurrey
Props to Nate for alerting me to the existence of Kirtsy, a Digg-esque social site with a female perspective. I was interested to check it out and see what’s popular in the world of female web users.
This is what I don’t understand: Any woman will tell you there is a lot more to us [...]
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Posted on August 18th, 2008 by Nathan Burke
You’ve heard of Saas- software as a service: things like salesforce.com where the software is hosted on the web rather than on the desktop, and users can access their account from any computer. Well, I’ve noticed a trend lately online that I’m calling Feature As A Business (faab).
Here’s the idea: some developers come up with [...]
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