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Exploit Calliflower to promote your online events

April 7, 2009

Want some help promoting your teleseminar, or online event?  Calliflower conference calls have a number of features that are designed to help internet marketers do just that. Google Indexing Each public call in Calliflower is Google indexed.  Calliflower uses the Subject of the conference call as the <META> Title, and publishes the Agenda of the [...]

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Facebook’s opaque ban policies

January 9, 2009

As Facebook has grown, Internet Marketers have come to call it home.  There are countless events at any one time being promoted that are focused on getting people to join self improvement seminars or buy products.  The Facebook for Business group has over 33,000 members at this point, and is still growing.  When we launched [...]

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SquawkBox October 14: Election Day in Canada, plus new MacBooks

October 14, 2008

It’s election day here in Canada.  Today on the SquawkBox we talked about the impact of digital media and the web on the election campaign, both here and in the United States where they’ve got a little less than a month to go on their election. After a little bit of good-natured ribbing from my [...]

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Squawk Box Sept 22 – Slot Music and Social Network Marketing

September 22, 2008

Sandisk has announced a new initiative called Slot Music. It’s music purchased on an SD card. It’s going to be available in Walmart and Bestbuy; you buy a 1G MicroSD card, and simply plug it into your phone or PC, and play the music.

We also discuss a new study by Universal McCann which says that consumers now trust social networks and strangers more than brands. The survey covered 17,000 internet users from 29 countries.

Squawk Box September 22 [ 52:24 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download
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Squawk Box September 8 – live from DEMOfall with Chris Shipley and Peter Yared of iWidgets

September 8, 2008

Today and tomorrow I’m in sunny San Diego for the DEMOfall conference.  This is grand daddy of product launch conferences. This morning we chatted with DEMOfall Executive Producer and Host, Chris Shipley.  We talked about the origins of demo, what makes it special, and what companies presenting here can expect to get from the show.  [...]

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Facebook exploit spreads

August 25, 2008

A video worm has broken out on Facebook, and appears to be propagating at high speed over the past weekend. Facebook has responded with bandages, but no cure.

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Squawk Box July 28

July 28, 2008

First topic — Facebook Connect launched last week. It lets you add Facebook identity to any web site. It’s a bit like OpenID, but with the backing of Facebook. Plus, it has the ability for you to populate your Facebook news stream with data from that site, and for applications that aren’t part of Facebook to access your social graph.

Is this a good idea? Or is it a privacy busting virus from the folks that brought you beacon? Our consensus was that it was probably a good idea. Facebook is distributing apps across the social graph, and that can only be good for everybody.

We also discussed the talk last week that iPhone was for the Rich, and Android for the masses. Show us the phones, we said. Even so, we believe that Android will be a success, and will change the dynamic of the phone industry. Listen to the call to learn why.

And lastly we chatted about Cuil, the new search engine that launched last night. A couple of folks had tried it. Pluses: The layout is nice, as is the related items feature. Minuses: the index isn’t as complete as it could be yet.

What would it take to really beat Google at this game, though? Or maybe Cuil’s strategy is simply an exit to Microsoft.

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Squawkbox July 22

July 22, 2008

Kind of a light SquawkBox today. On the first day back after my vacation we had an open line show. I needed to catch up on what has happened over the last three weeks!

We discussed the Apple iPhone 3G launch, RIM, Skype’s recent successes in enterprise, and the Facebook profile update.

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SquawkBox Special Edition: June 15

June 15, 2008

Last Wednesday evening I had the opportunity to participate in a panel discussion at the Ottawa Network on Social Networking as a marketing strategy. It was great fun, and my fellow panelists Linda Moran, Bob Ledrew, Peter Childs and Luc Levesque participated in a lively discussion. Much has already been written. My contribution is a recording of the event, attached.

Enjoy!

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Squawk Box June 3

June 3, 2008

Today we started off with Craigslist’s decision to ban VoIP and prepaid cellular numbers from their system. We had Cory Andrews and Garrett Smith from VoIP Supply on the line to talk about it with us. Cory had written a blog post for the VoIP Supply Blog yesterday about this.

Generally there was sympathy for Craigslist, but consensus that the approach is too blunt an instrument.

We also tried to talk about Facebook Open Platform. Yesterday the API infrastructure, the FBML parser, the FQL parser, and FBJS, as well as implementations of many common methods and tags were released. However, there was little enthusiasm for this topic on the call.

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