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- When People feel the need to share too muchJuly 1
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Oversharers is a brand new web site started in January 2009 that has been silently collecting a large collection of people who share way too much on line. Given that the real time web is like watching a really bad episode of the Jerry Springer show, Oversharers is a laugh a minute comedy ride presenting information that people just should not have shared.
Oversharers and Tweeting Too Hard are two different web sites but both will leave you laughing for hours because it is hard to believe that people will share what they share online, or that they can be so amazingly self centered. While we can laugh at this the same way we laugh at the Jerry Springer show, there are a couple of important things to know about.
1. Tweeting too Hard and Oversharers while funny also show that people just do not understand that people will find what they say amusing, but that some things are better left unsaid. Sharing too much or being too self
- Following in Robert Scobles FootstepsJuly 1
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Honestly, no one could be more surprised than I am about following in Robert Scobles footsteps. Back in August of last year I wrote a quick write up on how Robert got started in Social Media, blogging, and how he parlayed that into a viable career for himself. When Robert got started, blogs were still new technology, now we accept them as a day to day thing we read, visit, or do. Here is how my current career is following in Roberts’s footsteps 10 years after Robert got started with his career.
Robert had Dave Winer and Dori Smith to turn him onto blogs, and they told him that this is the next big thing, and they were right. I had a number of equally excellent people who turned onto blogs in 2005, and soon after I started talking about technology, and how to use it, I was picked up by Toolbox.com as a stringer. After a couple of years of writing at toolbox (and I still write on toolbox) I started my own blog, this one here, techwag, and have been keeping it going since then. Toolbox is my professional p
- Yahoo 360 shutting its doorsJune 30
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Yahoo 360, one of the odder attempts at social networking is closing its doors on the 13 July 2009. In an email message to people who use the service they state:
Dear Yahoo! 360° customer,
On July 13, 2009, Yahoo! 360° will be closing and your new profile on Yahoo! will become the place where you connect with the people who matter to you most. With only fourteen days remaining, it’s important for you to save any information you’d like to keep, and begin transferring your blog to your new profile. Anything not saved from your Yahoo! 360° account before July 13, 2009, will no longer be accessible. Here are some details to guide you through the transition.
What you need to move to your new profile
Your 360° information will not be automatically transferred to your new profile on Yahoo!. To move your profile photo, nickname, and any personal status messages, you’ll need to first save or download them before July 13, 2009. Once you’ve saved this information, you can later upload it to your new profile. Be sure to head over to your new profile soon so you can make it lo
- You have to have a life to life streamJune 29
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The new rage, stop blogging start life streaming is great if you have a life. If you don’t have a life, or you do not want to live on a public stage, then life streaming might not be right for you.
Life streaming is quickly becoming the euphemism for people who are tweeting about their lives today, so thanks for sharing that you had a latte this morning, and that your car was starting rough (you really should get those belts checked on your car), or that your darling snow flake turned over for the first time today, or that you are married to a swimsuit model but are looking because the relationship is just not hitting it right lately. In the mean time, there will be more and more people sharing the small little things in life, that really in the grand scheme of things do not and cannot amount to very much. In my opinion, life streaming is for people with lives that do not change the world.
Interestingly enough, Steve Rubel (who I do like and is worth following/listening to) has posted an int
- FriendFeed as a business enabler to strengthen product brandingJune 29
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The hardest thing to do is associate a brand name with product, one way of approaching this is to use FriendFeed as a way to help you associate the brand name you are building with the products you are delivering. You can see examples of this littered throughout FriendFeed, and here are some of the more interesting brands currently using FriendFeed as a name/product association system.
Fantagraphics – Fantagraphics is one of the older mainstay comic book publishers that publish comics under two brands, Eros comix and Fantagraphics. They are located in Seattle, and have been delivering underground comics since 1976. In the world of comic book publishers this makes them part of the old school, people who started publishing comics when fanzines were just starting out. While Fantagraphics is well known in comic circles, using FriendFeed to expand their base enables their business to reach more readers, have people comment on their stuff within the confines of FriendFeed, and otherwise help reach a newer younger audience that they need to reach.
