The A-List Blogger Dilemma

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1. The A-List Blogger Dilemma - 2007-06-25 19:01:11-04
   Robert Scoble, who's on a rant about Techmeme not caring about bloggers just swung over to my cubicle and told me about an upcoming rant/rave about Ustream and Kyte TV. It's a good thing he talked to me because his rant would have been incorrect, and I gave him some key details that prevented [...]
   
2. A tour of MyAOL, a Personalized Aggregator - 2007-06-25 19:24:10-04
   Frank Gruber is here,and hes showing the new MyAOL, here's some of the features, here's the staging URL http://stage.my.aol.com/ . The key concept is that the old AOL homepage was AOL specific content, this new version is agnostic to all types of content. Homepage: -When you create your experience, you select feeds and applications, much like Facebook. -If you're new [...]
   
3. Vote: Do I look like Kenny Sia? - 2007-06-25 22:31:30-04
   A couple of times while in Singapore people told me that I resemble Kenny Sia a popular blogger in Asia. (he's approaching the 200 mark in Technorati) You can see his picture as he prepares for his marathon. Or this picture of himself on Flickr. Asian-ness aside (I can already hear the "you all look [...]
   
4. Getting started with Google Analytics - 2007-06-26 02:44:47-04
   Beth created this great video of Google Analytics for your non-profit (and any other orginzation) she shows how to determine some of the most basic uses of the tool, and makes it easy and useful for anyone who wants to understand how users are using your site. Thanks Beth great video. By the way, if you're [...]
   
5. Updated the list of North American Asian Tech Speakers - 2007-06-26 03:45:08-04
   I was very happy to see that Noah Kagan's upcoming Community Next "Viral" conference has a very diverse set of speakers. It seems appropriate given the conference topic is "Community". I'm not a fan of affirmative action but am glad to see that the speaker set represents the makeup of practitioners in silicon valley. [...]
   
6. Live Video enhances Video Blogging - 2007-06-26 04:49:26-04
   Jason Calacanis made some history last night by creating a video blog by using multiple video streamers in his programmed show. He had one the A list of presenters which included: "Special guests will include Jay Adelson (Digg CEO),Kent Nichols (AskANinja), Ted Murphy (Payperpost), Robert Scoble, Steve Gillmor, and Loren Feldman (1938 Media) plus a [...]
   
7. Live Streaming changes Communication (Financial Times) - 2007-06-26 05:22:34-04
   I had a nice conversation with Chris Nutall, who's reporting from the Financial Times on Live Video Streaming: "Website founder gets everything but the girl", he asked me for an Analyst Perspective of the budding industry, an area that I'm watching very carefully. Actually, I wouldn't mind doing some detailed analysis on this industry, [...]
   
8. Ustreaming The Startup Epicenter - 2007-06-26 12:20:12-04
   Scott Lane of Bay Ventures, is running this Startup Epicenter event here at Fenwick and West in downtown Mountain View, I'm one of the panelists that gets to ask some of the startups questions. They're pitching to a group of entrepreneurs and VCs, it's a community building event as well as a great [...]
   
9. Web Strategy Reading, A Roundup, June 26, 2007 - 2007-06-26 15:38:33-04
   Here's some interesting reads over the last week, you can also subscribe to my shared feed. Recruiting on Facebook? be transparent Here's some great best practices Facebook downsides, who gets the revenues? Great counterpoint to all the Facebook buzz You think you know HTML? This guy can "draw" using HTML. What businesses need to do in the changed environment in Singapore Great [...]
   
10. Exclusive TubeMogul Report: Social Media Measurement of Video Networks Inconsistent - 2007-06-26 20:27:17-04
    Social Media Measurement continues to allude most marketers and advertisers, as we all know this will be an important area to track when the budgets for sponsorship and advertising start to be proportionate to views. Currently, the eyeballs on the web is far out pacing growth of all other mediums but the dollars are [...]
    
11. Fire in Palo Alto Hills near PodTech - 2007-06-27 06:29:00-04
    On Monday, during a meeting with Frank Gruber and Jen from AOL we started to smell smoke. At first I thought it was incense but then one of our colleagues came into the room declaring "The Stanford dish hill is on fire!". It's warm right now in California, in fact a few hundred [...]
    
12. Are you going to Community Next Viral Conference? Get a free ticket! - 2007-06-27 07:09:38-04
    Community Next is a conference focused on the growth and development of online websites,its on Saturday July 14th at Palo Alto. You may remember the last one, Guy Kawasaki was a speaker and a host of others. Noah Kagan and Adam have generously invited me and a guest to attend. That guest could be you, [...]
    
13. Letting go, let your Community create with you, grow together - 2007-06-27 07:21:28-04
    I often use the term Community Marketing. To me this is how corporations should consider changing from 'pitching their product' to being a customer advocate and community resource. I did this at my previous role at Hitachi. While in Singapore, my new friend Bill Claxton took me and some bloggers from The Digital Movement to [...]
    
14. Compete.com expands to Keyword Analysis - 2007-06-27 14:04:22-04
    I'm sitting next to David Cancel here at Searchnomics in Santa Clara, he told me that his company Compete.com has just released a new tool called Compete Search Analytics. As you know, I've been interviewing some of the top Search Analytics guys, so this would be yet one more tool to add to the [...]
    
15. Search gets Social at Searchnomics Conference - 2007-06-27 14:19:12-04
    I was invited as media for the Searchnomics conference, a very important program for the modern web strategy. I'm going to be covering many of the Social Search topics. Eric Peterson: Web Analytics for Search Marketers "They Hybrid Session" I'm sitting in the back of the room where the bloggers sit, not because we're second [...]
    
16. List of companies that provide Behavioral Recommendations and Social Recommendations Web Services - 2007-06-27 17:39:04-04
    Do you have an ecommerce site or a site where the website (or users) recommend different items or content to each other? If you've been building it out on your own you know how difficult it was. Back in Web 1.0 NetPerceptions was the top dog, but they're now longer around (Amazon was [...]