Keynote:
Everyone can create content.
Think like a publisher.
Think about distribution channels.
Get users to opt-in and pass the content along.
Engagement is a metric.
Items posted to Facebook are essentially public, and content should be considered in light of that fact. Public information can impact your life and employability.
User generated content can be hazardous for any person or company with high negative opinion ratings. Mitt Romney, presidential candidate, is opening the door to a web full of pain with a new campaign gambit.
The greatest hazard of Web 2.0 is a failure to be genuine. Thus, every time WalMart try to enter the social space, something blows up in their faces.
I really don’t believe most WordPress sponsored templates are ranking rockets for the sponsors.
Rolling into the three-decade long primary race, we have studies evaluating the search effectiveness of various US presidential candidates already.
One limiter of the study is that it seems to focus purely on PPC spend. I find some of what various candidates are doing from an organic perspective to be far more interesting. They’re all on [...]
This one’s for the Funk King of Minneapolis, Paul Jahn.
There’s a Salon blog post today on the reliability of online reviews. Here’s a choice bit:
Online ratings are beset by one main flaw, something pollsters call “response bias.” Because people are more likely to rate products that have moved them in some way — either positively [...]
The latest round of privacy (and other) concerns of various types are now hitting Google Earth:
Salon discusses how the alleged plot against JFK airport was being plotted with the images on Google Earth.
CNN discusses the ick factor of finding nosepickers in action on Google Earth imagery.
The first isn’t truly a privacy concern, but it crosses [...]
Paul Jahn is funk king of Minneapolis.
Maybe I just haven’t been paying attention, but when did Google start showing ‘Note This?’ links in search results for signed-in users?
I know Notebook launched in April 2006, but I can’t recall having seen this show up like this prior to now:
Is this another collaborative filter-Web 2.0-data collection manuever? Or is it just a ‘hey, [...]
