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:: new media ::

Let’s Hear it for New Dorks :: Entrepreneur State of Mind

A lil bit of new media/new dork genius from Grasshopper. (@grasshopper) Sweet.

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Not Feeling So Lucky

Today, I got an email encouraging me to follow Lucky on Twitter. But why would I want to? They don’t provide a very compelling reason.

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MC Hammer on Social Media

MC Hammer says it all about social media in 2 and a half minutes. And says it perfectly.
Great, GREAT video from pblackshaw:
While attending Snowcial (a relatively new conference that fuses social media and snow sports), I had a chance to interview the superb kickoff speaker, none other than MC Hammer. A social media maven since [...]

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Coca-Cola’s New Social Media Policy

Here’s a corporate giant (non-tech) with a social media policy that actually seems to make sense.
(Via Digital Buzz, interview by Andy Sernovitz.)

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TechCrunch Crunchies: Who Deserved to Win, Who Should Have Won, and WTF

Friday night marked the first time I’ve attended the TechCrunch Crunchies. I’ve attended two of TechCrunch’s Real-Time CrunchUps, but as an award ceremony, this event was somewhat different.
Oh. Don’t worry. There was plenty of schmoozing and boozing. But instead of discussing the future of what’s to come, it was about honoring what’s been done.
The tight [...]

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Social Media Platforms for Enterprise :: Cutting Down on the Noise

Involved in a business with strong social media engagement?
Looking for a way to make Sharepoint more complete and collaborative?
Trying to figure out how your business can integrate and shift towards using social media?
Here’s Robert Scoble sitting down with Jive’s CEO, Dave Hersh, to openly discuss what’s changing with social media for business. How do you [...]

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About the Realtime CrunchUp

Yesterday, I attended the second TechCrunch Crunchup, as some of you know.
My most lasting impressions are of the incredible vibe and community of the room. Only thought leaders and great talent seemed to fill the room. So, I’m not sure what I was doing there, but the guys and gals I met were incredibly nice [...]

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more #crunchup demos

Mozzler –Gain greater control over your personalized news stream, as well as the most popular topics during a specific period of time.
Bonus! Audience Demo: SuperFeeder — Connect the web in real-time. API only service XMPP or PubSubHubbub.
PlyMedia — Provides captions and subtitles for on demand and online media. Very cool. Multilanguage. 3 – 5 second [...]

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#crunchup demos: round 1

Hot Potato — Web and iPhone app focused on streaming around events, allows you to share to your social streams. Will be live in a few minutes. itunes approval coming soon, perhaps today.
Seesmic — Announcing Seesmic for BlackBerry and Android.
Qwisk — Extension like app, that aggregates your social feeds in a browser sidebar. Nothing to [...]

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#crunchup roundtable

Roundtable: Filtering The Stream. Getting Rid of the Noise.
Facebook, VP of Product Chris Cox
Seesmic, CEO Loic Le Meur
Futurity Ventures, investor/entrepreneur Edo Segal
CrowdEye, CEO Ken Moss
Microsoft, GM of FUSE Labs, Lili Cheng
Facebook, director of Platform Bret Taylor
Thing Labs/Brizzly, CEO Jason Shellen
Angel Investor Ron Conway
Ron Conway: “I love the real-time data segment and I’ve invested in about [...]

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Hi Google Wave

It’s me Doug.
We met today, briefly, but I didn’t have much time to talk or get to know you. I have to say, I found you very attractive. I had heard about you from a friend, and when she sent me an invite, I was pretty excited once I got a closer look at you. [...]

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Social Media Improves Learning Abilities

Go figure. We’re humans. And we like interacting with other humans. So, when we interact, we learn more than we would by just watching other humans on a screen. Or so says Patricia Kuhl in an article that appeared today in The Wall Street Journal.

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