Category Archives: Social Media

Facebook is Not “THE” Internet

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This is one of the best discussions I’ve read in a long time. And if you didn’t guess — I’m on the side of “own” your digital hub. Anyway…Go read it. NOW.

Facebook S-1 Analysis by Bill Gurley

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Facebook analysis was all I could find online the last few days — I read a few, but largely (tried) to ignore most of the analysis. But I just read Bill Gurley’s post today as a result of a Tweet by Rich Barton — awesome stuff. Go read it for yourself.

HuffPo to Stream News 12 Hours a Day

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Wow, this is interesting news — the Huffington Post is getting into the streaming news game to take on the likes of CNN. With 12 hours a day of streaming talk show like news. And moving to 16 hours a day next year. I personally think there is already enough news in the world. In fact, 24 hour a day news is kind of a joke if you ask me since it leads to much of the over exaggeration of many of today’s issues that are really A LOT smaller than the media makes them out to be. What do I really wish a media company would do? Figure out how to cover all the good happening … Continue reading

The End of the Web and the Emergence of “Post Social”

Those who know me know I’m a huge Fred Wilson fan, who I happen to think is one of the best community builders on the web. But that’s not the point of this post. Fred posted the following video on AVC Sunday, and 1 day later, there are over 350 comments on the post — and the video got me thinking a bit. The video was a presentation Forrester CEO George Colony gave at Le Web (a tech conference) in Paris — where he gave … Read More » Continue reading

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Klout

I’m not a fan of Klout. At all. I don’t see any value being added to the world by what they are doing. Jeff Turner just deleted his Klout profile, and ended the post with: I’d rather use my influence to make other people’s lives better. Mine’s pretty damn good already. That, my friends, is why I love Jeff Turner. If you are reading this post and don’t think you have it pretty damn good already, think again.

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The Social Media Intern

The ROI of social media is that your business will still exist in 5 years Yes.

The Cost of Community Building

Is the people. Not the platform used.