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Weekly Recap 070408: Identi.ca Nearly Identical 
Hutch Carpenter via I'm Not Actually a Geek on Sat, 05 Jul. 2008
Plenty of buzz about the new microblogging service Identi.ca. Send out public messages of up to 140 characters, and subscribe to others to make sure you see their messages…
Twitter…
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Darwin and FriendFeed’s “Bounce to the Top” Algorithm
Hutch Carpenter via I'm Not Actually a Geek on Thu, 03 Jul. 2008
I really enjoy seeing the flow of new content come through FriendFeed. And the best feature is that people’s interactions make content resurface at the top of your FriendFeed page. Human filtering to
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Made the Switch: FriendFeed Now My Homepage
Hutch Carpenter via I'm Not Actually a Geek on Wed, 02 Jul. 2008
In recent weeks, I’ve noticed my behavior has changed when I fire up the PC in the morning. My Yahoo has been my home page forever. I love the portal approach, with everything I like easily visible and accessible with a click.
But as soon as My Yahoo loaded, I quickly clicked over to FriendFeed. I really didn’t read much of what was displayed on My Yahoo.
I can be pre
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What does this mean? “Organize the world’s energy”
Hutch Carpenter via I'm Not Actually a Geek on Wed, 02 Jul. 2008
Through a Fred Wilson post, I decided to check out Umair Haque’s call for the development of technologies that will help a number of the world’s problems:
Organize the world’s h
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Why Bloggers Should Want Comments on FriendFeed
Hutch Carpenter via I'm Not Actually a Geek on Mon, 30 Jun. 2008
Blog comments aren’t dead, but FriendFeed comments have emerged as equally valuable. Robert Scoble has a post up now in which he states:
My Tesla post gathered two comments here.
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Breaking the Rules and Still Winning: Twitter’s Je Ne Sais Quoi
Hutch Carpenter via I'm Not Actually a Geek on Mon, 30 Jun. 2008
When I was in grad school our professor gave us an assignment. Our papers had to be within a set word count. Nearly all of us diligently stayed within that rule, constra
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Weekly Recap 062708: The FriendFeed Immigration Continues
Hutch Carpenter via I'm Not Actually a Geek on Sat, 28 Jun. 2008
Twitter’s replies tab has been disabled most of this week, causing a fair amount of consternation…without Replies, it’s hard to maintain asynchronous conversations, or even synchronous ones
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What’s Your Blogging Style? Use FriendFeed Likes/Comments Ratio to Find Out
Hutch Carpenter via I'm Not Actually a Geek on Fri, 27 Jun. 2008
Julian Baldwin asked a question today on FriendFeed: “Roughly speaking, what is your comment to like ratio here on FriendFeed?” Based on the responses, a lot of folks are doing more commenting than liking, but I suspect the responses aren’t totally represent
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Smart Workers Will Figure This Out: Social Media = Career Advancement
Hutch Carpenter via I'm Not Actually a Geek on Thu, 26 Jun. 2008
Do you think you’ve got more to contribute to your organization than you’ve had a chance to show? I’ll bet you do too.
There have been a fair number of posts about the adoption rate of web 2.0 inside companies. In my previous work doing enterprise 2.0 product marketing for BEA Systems,
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Using FriendFeed Rooms for Work: What’s Needed?
(author unknown) via I'm Not Actually a Geek on Tue, 24 Jun. 2008
I believe that Participation is the killer app.
Whether it is end user participation in content driven conversations on blogs and wikis, or end user developed applications, mash-ups and widgets, I think that it is participation that key difference between Enterprise 2.0 and Enterprise 1.0.
Rod Boothby, Particip
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Social Media Effect: Improve Customer Service Before It Hits Twitter
Hutch Carpenter via I'm Not Actually a Geek on Mon, 23 Jun. 2008
Customer service is the new marketing and you have to Engage and Respect your customers.
Joseph Rodgers, Filter 2 Evangelist, Joseph Rodgers’ Internet Marketing Blog
The above quote actually has two meanings in my mind. The first meaning is to find customers who are having problems with
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Fred Wilson’s Techmeme Challenge: Can a Little Tweet Go Big Time?
Hutch Carpenter via I'm Not Actually a Geek on Thu, 19 Jun. 2008
Last week, Fred Wilson asked this:
What will be the first twitter post to get picked up on Techmeme and who will post it?
It’s a good question. First hurdle is a technical issue - Techmeme doesn’t index and scan activity around Twitter. Here’s Gabe Rivera’s
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Knowledge & Innovation: The Journey Is as Valuable as the Destination
Hutch Carpenter via I'm Not Actually a Geek on Wed, 18 Jun. 2008
I don’t know about you, but I’ve had a pretty traditional background in terms of product management. I was an assistant buyer for a retail chain, I marketed as an investment banker, and I’ve had over seven years in the software world. From that work, I’ve gotten a good feel for the process that occurs in producing an end result.
Start with the idea
Bounce
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Experiment: Stream All FriendFeed Entries with Selected Keywords into Rooms
Hutch Carpenter via I'm Not Actually a Geek on Tue, 17 Jun. 2008
With the new ability to pipe feeds directly into Rooms, I wanted to try something new. Why not pipe all FriendFeed entrie
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Same Sex Marriage in California - What Change Will We See?
Hutch Carpenter via I'm Not Actually a Geek on Mon, 16 Jun. 2008
Same sex weddings begin today here in California. I’m wondering how this is going to change things around here.
Before Same Sex Marriage
I have some gay neighbors. I see them driving around. I see one of them walking their dogs. Chat with them on the sidewalk. They buy groceries over at the neighborhood store. Other ne
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Weekly Recap 061308: Social Media Exposure
Hutch Carpenter via I'm Not Actually a Geek on Sat, 14 Jun. 2008
Social media means exposure…exposure of your life…exposure to people interested in and knowledgeable about subjects
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Smart Social Media Marketing: Caleb Elston and Toluu
Hutch Carpenter via I'm Not Actually a Geek on Fri, 13 Jun. 2008
Interacting with bloggers called vital for business
Brice Wallace, Deseret News, June 7, 2008
Toluu released several new features on Wednesday. The features are cool, and are covered in another
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Subscribe or Not? Toluu Just Got Better at Helping You Decide
Hutch Carpenter via I'm Not Actually a Geek on Wed, 11 Jun. 2008
A couple months ago, I had a chance to review Toluu, the blog recommendation site. The site is great,
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Will Brands Figure Out FriendFeed?
Hutch Carpenter via I'm Not Actually a Geek on Tue, 10 Jun. 2008
No one wants a relationship with their mustard.
NeoAtOgilvy COO Greg Smith, via Kara Swisher at Boomtown
Two posts caught my attention. Kara Swisher has a nice post titled Social Ad
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Nick Carr: Google Making Us Stupid? How About Smarter?
Hutch Carpenter via I'm Not Actually a Geek on Mon, 09 Jun. 2008
The media or other technologies we use in learning the craft of reading play an important part in shaping the neural circuits inside our brains.
Nick Carr, “Is Google Making Us Stupid?”, The Atlantic, July/August 2008
Nick Carr has a really interesting piece in t
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