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“I want to hear a 31-year-old guy from New Jersey with a New York Jets spit bucket give his take on wines. Strangely, I’m not alone on that last one. Gary Vaynerchuk’s daily 15-min. video blog has 25,000 viewers who click onto his site each day”
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Gary Vaynerchuk Wine Library TV video podcast
Monthly Archives: June 2007
links for 2007-06-29
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“People want online identities to establish trust-based professional and personal relationships. FaceBook provides this but I believe in the long run a third party validation system could provide you with a ‘universal’ identity to conduct business ove
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“Userplane, the IM and chat service that was acquired by AOL, has announced today that a new revenue-sharing platform is available for anyone developing applications for the Facebook platform.”
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“Assuming Facebook’s growth trajectory continues as we expect, the knowledge that could be harvested from controlling the Facebook platform would appear to be the most valuable data in the history of the media world.”
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Facebook is going to need to address the “value to the apps developer†quickly … like “building an in-the-cloud infrastructure for their developers that they make available to one’s that reach a certain level of popularity.”
links for 2007-06-28
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” 65 million net application installs over the course of the past 30 days. That’s an average of 2.5 installed applications per every registered Facebook user.”
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“Welcome to the FunctX XQuery Function Library. Please browse the available functions by category below, or browse the alphabetical list of functions.”
links for 2007-06-27
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“A VoiceThread is an online media album that allows people to make comments, either audio or text, and share them with anyone they wish. A VoiceThread allows an entire group’s story to be told and collected in one place.”
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“Online advertising and search marketing have “violently†impacted established media as the appeal for marketing tactics closely tied to transactions grows.”
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“a good portion of (ad inventory) goes unsold. It’s our view that the combination of DoubleClick and Google will help these publishers succeed by monetizing their unsold inventory.”
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“Verizon to prospective iPhone buyers: ‘Stay near a plug’. It’s basically a memo designed to help Verizon reps denigrate the iPhone. I think this is bad marketing.”
links for 2007-06-26
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“In an open meeting with Second Life residents, Linden Lab CEO Philip Rosedale revealed that the company may institute a performance based ranking system on non-Linden made registration portals.”
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over next 9 months LinkedIn would deliver APIs for developers, ostensibly to make it more of platform like Facebook, and create a way for users who spend more time socially in Facebook to get LlinkedIn notifications.”
links for 2007-06-21
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Ask “What needs to be done?” Ask “What is right for the enterprise?” Develop action plans. Take responsibility for decisions. Take responsibility for communicating. Focus on opportunities, not problems. Make meetings productive. Think and say “We.” Listen
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“Yahoo will announce tomorrow it has bought collegiate sports site Rivals.com. The news is available due to what seems to be a publishing timing error on an Associated Press story by an Austrian web publication.”
links for 2007-06-20
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“when you’re building the service, is not the time to focus on social value. There is no social value because there is no user base…focus on how a single person can use your service even if others don’t share or tag anything.”
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“Strong social sites build value one user at a time. If one user finds value, then they’re much more likely to tell others or invite their friends. Strong sites don’t succeed by attracting “marketsâ€, satisfying entire groups of people with a certa
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An overview of Flash-based podcast players/widgets
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“a Rich Internet Application that allows developers to create their own game worlds. It has a powerful building engine that lets you touch every conceivable part of the game and customize it down to the smallest detail.”
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“Year-over-year online video usage for all Americans aged 12 to 64 rose 56 percent. Younger people are generally watching jokes and bloopers, and older viewers news, with news generally dominant…”
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News Corp explores swap of MySpace site for Yahoo! stake-Business-Industry Sectors-Media-TimesOnline“News Corporation has discussed swapping MySpace, its internet social networking unit, with Yahoo! in return for a 30 per cent stake in the enlarged group.”
links for 2007-06-19
links for 2007-06-18
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“YouTube Mobile is a data intensive application. We highly recommend that you upgrade to an unlimited data plan with your mobile service provider to avoid additional charges.” — it doesn’t seem to be working with Windows Mobile 2003
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“Rainbow 9 is a tool that simplifies developing web interfaces. It provides an environment to execute and test Javascript, CSS and HTML; sharing and publishing the application.”
links for 2007-06-17
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“There can be little doubt now that Facebook is a platform for social media, as opposed to simply a web site community. Time will tell whether it can continue to scale through opening up its audience to 3rd party developers like Microsoft did in the 80’
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“It’s possible that business considerations (Patents? Existing agreements?) prevented Apple from releasing the iPhone without being tied to a carrier. Thus, the iPhone is closed to third-party development by a double whammy of carrier demands and Apple po
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eBay Item tracker and last minute bidder as a Firefox extension
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“a WebOS is defined as virtual operating system that runs in a web browser environment.”
links for 2007-06-14
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Holt Labs launched Vidmetrix 2.0, making available to everyone a powerful video tracking tool. Building on its suite of online video management applications the new Vidmetrix system tracks the views and interactions viewers are having with videos on the w
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“I think this could become the basis of open competition with Google — not replacing Google but allowing publishers and advertisers to put together higher value ad hoc networks. Or maybe I’m just projecting.”
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“An excellent talk on “How to Design APIs†given by Joshua Bloch (author of Effective Java, JSR 175 spec lead, and much more)”
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“my personal opinion is that the new Facebook Platform is a dramatic leap forward for the Internet industry.”
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“Launching just over two weeks ago, iLike on Facebook signed up a million users in its first week; then a million more in the 5 days, and another million in the next 4 days. We’re currently signing up about 300,000 new users per day.”
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“The question that emerged was whether REST needs contracts (a la WSDLs) and even more fundamentally whether REST with contracts was still REST.”
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“Thomas Steiner has released version 0.3 of his REST Describe & Compile tool, which creates a WADL description from existing REST messages, and can then in turn generate code for multiple languages.”
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“Google announced they were holding a let freedom ring party to promote Google Checkout during the eBay live conference. In (un)related news, eBay announced they were pulling their US AdWords ad budget. Google responded by canceling their freedom party.”
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“Yahoo’s content and advertising alliance with newspapers has grown almost threefold in the program’s first six months, the Internet portal said this week. The rapid growth suggests that Yahoo’s newspaper partnership strategy could prove far more su
links for 2007-06-13
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List of Lenses with sample images
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“Photosynth (based on Seadragon technology) creates breathtaking multidimensional spaces with zoom and navigation features that outstrip all expectation.”
links for 2007-06-12
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I said this the other night on ODM: “And if LinkedIn is growing fast, its growth remains practically sluggish compared to Facebook’s rate of 150,000 new members each day.”
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“All of the web developers on the planet just became iPhone developers. Ladies and gentlemen, here comes the Mobile Internet Revolution.”
links for 2007-06-11
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Agility through transparency… Jazz is about helping people work together to build software more effectively, while making the software development experience more fun!
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“tapefailure lets you record your users’ browsing sessions and play them back, just like a tape, as well as view numerous useful statistics about your users.”
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“the reality is that reading blogs trumps just about everything for me–whether it’s news, fashion, tech or gossip, blogs are the favored channel, along with videos, social media network notes, and photos and event listings.”
links for 2007-06-10
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Web performance testing tool
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“one of the biggest offshoring firms in India is now offshoring its own jobs to Mexico”
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after a few clicks you’ll be able add del.icio.us to your Facebook Profile page.
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“Four Eyed Monsters, a movie developed out of a video blog, has debuted on YouTube in what is believed to be the first full length feature film on the Google owned mega-site.”
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“Overall Babelgum feels like a poor man’s Joost. Competition in any field drives innovation and is good for the consumer, yet for Babelgum 2006 is calling and it wants its innovations back”