From the category archives:

:: real-time ::

Twitter Drama

We live in such a reactionary society. The fact that, in this day and age, people (Congress?!) will argue against universal healthcare in the U.S., when so many other ‘modern’ societies consider this a basic right, is just the tip in the iceburg. Everyday I get a little bit more scared that we really are [...]

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Twitter vs. Buzz. What’s better? THE ANSWER TO YOUR BURNING QUESTION.

Buzz is too different from Twitter to be ‘better.’ Better depends on both the intended use and the user. Better means you can tell all your clients to use one and not the other.

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Vancouver on Your Desktop

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Looking for a way to find out exactly what Olympic events are coming up next? Trying to follow results while working?
Olympic.org has a great desktop widget to enhance winter sports enthusiasm. Use it to track events, results, breaking news, and more.

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Cascaad :: A Step Forward in Social Media Filters

Caught this Scoble video flying by on FriendFeed.
I’ve only had a few moments to play with this app, but I can already tell it’s absolutely tremendous. It has a beautiful UI and gives an entirely new, more comprehensive experience to tweets. It is the first time I’ve actually seen an intuitive information architecture, the type [...]

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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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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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New from Salesforce :: Chatter

Advanced social collaboration and security for the enterprise? Sounds like a good thing. Integrate social feeds, plus monitor and comment on the activities of your competitors. Sounds like this product may have a bright future.

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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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