Posted on March 22nd, 2009 by Nathan Burke
No one seems happy with the state of news aggregation. I know that I’m not. When it comes to my RSS reader, I often feel completely overwhelmed, and I always see duplicate content. Where most personalized news services try to be your one location for all news across the web, Nuze2me is taking a different [...]
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Posted on March 5th, 2009 by Nathan Burke
On March 24-26 here in Boston, there will be a conference entitled “The Business of Community Networking“. The overview: We have designed the one marketing event that you can’t afford to miss – a best practice conference to create social networks and measure ROI of online marketing. Help your business interact, network and exchange knowledge [...]
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Posted on February 24th, 2009 by Nathan Burke
I just got a message on GTalk from someone I almost never talk with on IM. The message: Check out this funny video- http://tinyurl.com/something Upon clicking, I was redirected to viddyho.com, which asked for my GTalk login: Of course, I didn’t enter my gmail credentials, as I can’t think of a reason why I should [...]
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Posted on February 12th, 2009 by Nathan Burke
You’ve seen the "25 Things" meme on facebook. If you’re a blogger, you’ve probably been "tagged" before. The rise of the "share your experience" trend is heating up, and now diddit has launched to take advantage of it. What Is diddit? Well, I’m glad you asked. Diddit is a social site where you can check [...]
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Posted on February 10th, 2009 by Nathan Burke
Okay, so I think this is a question of philosophy. It’s really a question of “does it hurt to have it?” Let me back up and actually tell you what I’m talking about. The “Share this with others” buttons that have become so ubiquitous are actually starting to bother me in certain circumstances. For instance, [...]
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Posted on January 28th, 2009 by Nathan Burke
Image via CrunchBase Today, Brian Solis and Mukund Mohan announced the public beta of BuzzGain, a social media monitoring service much like MightyBrand. Here’s what they say: BuzzGain is an online service for discovering and engaging with the people who will help your business thrive in today’s social economy – where attention is a precious [...]
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Posted on January 22nd, 2009 by Nathan Burke
Lately I’ve been noticing a trend: startups that have offered free membership to their sites are now going pay-only. Even sites that have been built on the "freemium" model (free membership with feature limitations or pay memberships with unlimited use) are ditching the "free" part of their offering. While these startups are blaming the free [...]
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Posted on January 5th, 2009 by Nathan Burke
BlogTalkRadio, the site that lets users record and broadcast live podcasts, has updated their UI and added some excellent new features. I’ve used blogtalkradio a lot in the past, and absolutely love it. The fact that you can sign up, call a phone number, and create a live multi-user podcast with audience interaction….all for free [...]
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Posted on December 31st, 2008 by Nathan Burke
As a startup, it makes sense to do awards submissions. One of the biggest ones out there is “The Crunchies”, a competition put on by TechCrunch to award the best startups and internet/tech innovations of the year. This is the second annual competition, and final voting just started. This afternoon I got the following email [...]
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Posted on December 29th, 2008 by Nathan
New on Media Bullseye this week, I’ve got an article about pretty much the same thing I’ve been on about since leaving CustomScoop in October–when my job doesn’t require it, how do I stay involved in social media? I’ve got my own top five tips and ask that you contribute your own! If you’re busy [...]
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