It’s nice to have a lot of contacts. I like the idea of knowing a go-to person for just about everything and that the fact that we know each other makes us more accountable to each other.
There is something you notice when you start meeting a lot of people indiscriminately though. You open [...]

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I get LinkedIn invites from time to time. Although I’m not a huge user of LinkedIn, I see its merits in its ability to basically get straight to the nitty gritty of someone’s work experience. After all, I like recommending friends for jobs, but not as much as I like recommending people who [...]

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Time Inc. is laying people off. Gannett, the owner of 85 newspapers, is laying off 10% of its workforce. Newspapers are seeing 4.6% reduction in
circulation.
What can they do about it, and what the hell does this have to do with Silent Star Wars, a short film by some dude named Geir in Norway?
Contrary [...]

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I tend to like to be behind a camera instead of in front of it, but I felt that the issue of data portability was important enough to step up and lead a discussion at SocialMedia Camp.
The semantic web can fix the issue of data portability in social media. How? By using [...]

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I like Plurk. It’s fun to put out a message and then have all subsequent threads neatly organized underneath. It definitely needs an API and a way to track @replies, but it is a neat tool. I was excited when it first came out.
Why then the harsh title, you ask? Plurk [...]

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We all know tags are important. Tags are a service to other people, because they connect people to the content they have been looking for. I see the value in tagging, I just hate doing it.
If you have photos you want to tag quickly, 2tagger is a Flickr mashup that will allow you [...]

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Mark Zuckerberg is five years younger than me and is a billionaire on paper. A billionaire because he helps a bunch of kids throw their pictures to their friends. Marketers go gaga with the prospects of hocking all the latest goodies at the young ones. These young ones will only get older, [...]

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Will Ferrell is an online video freak, and posted a site of his favorite videos with all his friends:
http://www.funnyordie.com
Hopefully this is not too good, because then I will deteriorate into a lazy pile of mush sitting in front of a computer screen.
Apparently, Ferrell is teaming with guys like Dimitri Martin on a “Funny or Die” [...]

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