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Just because you only met social media idiots does not mean that everybody is one …
Every time the meme of “oh look those idiots are calling themselves Social Media [Gurus|Experts|Specialists]” comes up I get highly annoyed at the hidden insult. And the fact that this kind of posting most often is link bait.
Just because there are millions of nephews putting together web sites by clicking in Frontpage does not mean that there are no real web developers. And just because there are millions who use Word merely as a better typewriter or Excel like a better calculator does not mean that others can’t do great stuff.
It is an insult not only to the people doing …
Blogworld Expo 2009: 10 Ways to Grow Your Audience
I have been putting this of for far too long, because I wanted to have a more detailled posting, but as usual, there are your plans and then there is what life makes out of it. ;)
My presentation at Blogworld Expo 2009 was titled “10 Ways to Grow Your Audience” and was basically an enhanced version of my 2008 presentation “10 Ways To Build Your Readership“.
The big trend in 2009: Everybody
One of the big trends for me in 2009 was, how much ‘normal’ people started to adapt this stuff I have been …
Who needs instruments when you have a voice?
Found this one by accident and really like the music from dubfx.
Love someone:
Soothe Your Pain
The last one is not purely him, but still very nice.
Flow
Now can I please just have a way to buy the album w/o a real CD? I would only rip it anyhow to my computer and throw the CD away. :)
Friends help Friends: Get more than 100 fans for your Facebook Fan page
Summary: Helping friends get over 100 fans in order to claim their FB Fan page. Add your Fan page to the list and add yourself to some of the others. Please use the tag #FHF100 for twitter and co.
Starting today, you can have a vanity Facebook URL for your Facebook Fan page. At least that was the idea when I went to bed yesterday – only to find out this morning, that you actually need 100 fans to do that.
Many pages have enough fans, but others don’t. Instead of trying to ’suggest’ them to your friends I thought it might …
Silly me, and I though Plaxo was a tool to manage my contacts data
Today I got a ping about “Status Update: Plaxo and Facebook are now in an “Open Relationship”“.
We’re really excited about this integration. We think it’s going to be really good for our business and really good for Facebook’s business. More importantly, it’s going to be great for users.
I also got excited reading the news, because one of the biggest problems is to keep the data synced. Xing (german version of Linkedin) for example is *the* way of having updated contact information for all your contacts. But as not everybody is on Xing – or for a matter of fact on …
Linkedin taking the traditional approach in Germany and why that will fail (as usual)
Update 2009-02-07: Video production manager Rob Getzschman mailed me yesterday about their updated version of the video, correctly titled “Cheesy LinkedIn German video updated” ;) I have included the new version below. The only change is a a new voice over for the small German part, but that already is an improvement. I leave my original notes below for reference, but have replaced the video with the newer version. Also I have added at the bottom a longer link list of German and English links for this topic. You should be able to use Google Translator or alike for easier …
Events surrounding DLD
This is a short overview of events happening in Munich around the time DLD is in town. Besides of course the event itself there are some other possibilities to meet up with people. For example:
- Sunday 25th Jan: Klaus Eck’s Blogger meetup / tweetup (enter yourself in the comments)
- (only for registered attendees of DLD) Monday 26th: Jeff Pulver is planning a Breakfast with Jeff Pulver (tbc)
- Tuesday 27th: Girl Geek Dinner with guest Amazon evangelist Simone Brunozzi (web / twitter) Amazon Web Services Evangelist Europe
Did I miss anything? Please add! :)
Watch all the tweets about DLD or DLD09
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Can I have MID with that?
What do you say when somebody asks you to test out mobile MID gadgets? You first say ‘yes please’, then ask how long you can keep then plus what exaclty MID are. I am going to find out over the next week. Meet the MidMoves project, sponsored by Intel:
The MID Moves project is an event designed to highlight how mobile Internet and Mobile Internet Devices bring you the power of the full Internet and the full Web in a way that enables you to go mobile while remaining productive, able to communicate, able to locate yourself and your contacts and even …
Blogger Edition – LeWeb 2008 interview
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This is a combined edition of some of the bloggers attending through the Blogger Programm. It is the last entry for my preconf podcast interviews and I hope you enjoyed them as much as I did. :)
Enjoy the talks with:
- Erno Hannink – @ernohannink
- Andrea Vascellari – @vascellari
- Peter Bihr – @thewavingcat
- Tom Morris – @tommorris – Thanks for the Plato ;)
Additional links
Want to spread the love? Why not tweet (click on link to tweet)
listening to the blogger edition http://tinyurl.com/ctbk096 leweb interview
- If you have a favourite quote to add to the shownotes, please …
Linda Avey – LeWeb 2008 interview
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Linda Avey is the Co-Founder of 23andMe, a company which enables people to access and understand their own personal genetic information. Basically they are using the curiosity of a human being to find out more about themselves, but want to help them at the same time. As they describe it:
23andMe, Inc. is the leading personal genetics company dedicated to helping individuals understand their own genetic information through DNA analysis technologies and web-based interactive tools.
We talk about
- what kind of information you get back and how to use it
- how many samples …
