social networking

SquawkBox Special Edition: June 15

by alec on 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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SquawkBox from Barcelona next week

by alec on February 8, 2008

CNET says that some of the big stories at next week's Mobile World Congress in Barcelona will be iPhone look-a-likes, Femtocells, Mobile advertising, Location and Navigation, and Social Networking.  I'll be heading there myself, on Sunday.  I'm particularly interested to see how far beyond "here's my facebook button" mobile social networking can get.

Next week's Squawk Box's will all be created live in Barcelona, except for Fridays, which will be guest hosted as I will be travelling.

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mig33 targets the US with Blackberry

February 7, 2008

Most of mig33's 10 million users are from outside North America.  With their roots in south-east Asia, and their focus on mobile devices, mig33's subscriber base has come from youth in countries where the primary way to access the internet has been via mobile phone.  Today they rolled out their first products that are specifically [...]

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Lunn on viral applications

January 22, 2008

Bernard Lunn's analysis of which businesses are viral, and why is a good read. One of the points he makes about communications applications is an especially good one: Only Communication is a sure fire viral success. It only works when it is a genuinely new form of communication (webmail, social networking, microblogging). You cannot launch [...]

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Jeff drops LinkedIn

July 16, 2007

I watched Jeff Pulver's Facebook status updates all day yesterday from my BlackBerry, as he spent his entire day networking inside the popular social networking portal.  It's no surprise to me this morning that he has pulled the plug on LinkedIn, deciding not to accept any new LinkedIn requests, and has moved all his social networking (both business and personal) [...]

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It’s not a baby, Reid. It’s an API.

June 25, 2007

Reports are that LinkedIn will provide an API, opening up to developers a la Facebook.  It may take nine months to do it.  In my opinion, that may be too long to wait.  Facebook has momentum now, and with their API, are capable of exerting extreme competitive pressure on LinkedIn now.  Example: some months ago, [...]

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Just send me an email

May 5, 2007

Jeff Pulver has always been the consummate networker.  People want to know him, and he's the type of gracious and wonderful individual who makes time for others.  So, it's easy to understand why Jeff feels a need to disengage himself from the LinkedIn introductions process.  When people you don't know ask for introductions to your [...]

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Brick-bats and Flowers from Mark Evans

November 8, 2005

Normally I’d be happy to have traffic from Mark Evans.  Today’s a 50/50 day, and it’s my own fault.  On the one hand, he’s linked a very positive take on Foldershare to me, and then in the next posting he’s taken me to task for being a social networking spammer.  Mea Culpe! My apologies to Mark and [...]

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