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  • I hate social networking

    I hate social networking

    I hate social networking. I despise it. All of it. For me it’s a tool (like me, some would say). “But, Aaron. You have 1500 friends on Facebook and nearly 10,000 on Twitter. You’re lying.” Oh but I’m not. I used to love social networking. I used to travel to conferences where other social media…

  • How Has Social Software Changed Your Life?

    This is an open comments style post, so I want your comments. The thing about my “beat”, as they’d call it in the newspaper business, is that I’m not really all that interested in “the news”. I’m not trying to cover all the stories, nor am I trying to cover most of them. I’m not…

  • White Label Social Networks Panel

    Frank Gruber hosts panel. Eric Altermann of Kickapps, Michael Jones of Userplane (AOL) represented, Kerri Evans of Mixx.

  • Where Social Gets to Business – Panel at GSP East 2008

    Continuing the Live coverage of Graphing Social Patterns. We’ll be bringing live coverage of a panel entitles “Where Social Gets Down to Business”. On the panel is Michael Lazerow, Kevin Barenblat, Eddie Smith, Chris Cunningham and Shiv Singh. The description of this panel is: How does traditional advertiging work on social networks? What products and…

  • Facebook Business & Marketing Solutions – Kent Schoen, Facebook

    9:53 AM – This is going to be an interesting session considering my “history of hate” with Facebook Beacon, etc. Who knows? Maybe Beacon won’t even be mentioned. We’ll see. The description of the session is as follows: This session will present an overview of Facebook advertising and marketing solutions, including the Facebook Social Ads…

  • Graphing Social Patterns – LinkedIn Keynote – Adam Nash

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  • Day 1: Graphing Social Patterns

    I’m sitting here at the Hyatt in Crystal City, Virginia. Planes fly in low overhead to touchdown on the runway at Reagan National Airport a mile away. It is hot, muggy and trains are derailing not far from here. Generally, it’s the kind of day that sets folks on edge. I’m at the Graphing Social…

  • Live Coverage of Graphing Social Patterns East

    Starting tomorrow through Wednesday, Technosailor.com will be bringing you coverage of the Graphing Social Patterns East conference here in Washington, D.C. We were a last minute applicant for media credentials, but squeaked in by the skin of our teeth. Thanks, Dave McClure and Maureen Jennings for making that happen! GSP is an interesting conference to…

  • I Own My Data, Dammit

    Micah had a very encouraging article last night about two commenting social networks, Disqus and Intense Debate. It was all about listening to your customer base and making trajectory adjustments as needed to ensure you’re meeting real needs, instead of just assuming your business model has everything mapped out for you and you know exactly…

  • A Manifesto for Mobile and Location Based Social Networks

    Mobile is hot. Untethering from computers is the next generation of the web and I’ve said it for awhile. FindWhere CEO Jaap Groot and my friend and DoC co-host Geoff Livingston have co-authored a white paper (they call it a manifesto) for mobile and location-based social networks outlining eight requirements for a successful mobile endeavor.…