Better than being 60% addicted to heroin, or 20% addicted to skydiving without a parachute, or even 5% addicted to serial killing or sniffing broken glass, I suppose. LOL.
I may also be 90% addicted to tea and books, both of which cost more and stack up higher than Facebook, literally. I have enough books to start a small library. And at least 98% addicted to art supplies, some of which are more toxic than glass or heroin.
Time to get more tea.
Plus, the 2 companies poised to rule the post-Microsoft world
On October 30, 2005, something incredible happened…
In Redmond, Washington, one of the world’s richest — and most powerful — businessmen sent an urgent memo to his top engineers and most-trusted managers.
It sounded the alarm that a very disruptive “wave” was about to wash over the entire world — forever changing the way we get information and do business.
It also warned this would wipe out the $200 billion business empire he’d spent his life building.
Meanwhile, a few hundred miles south, on the banks of the Columbia River, a mysterious outfit known only as “Design, LLC,” quietly constructed two massive windowless warehouses.
This mammoth undertaking was code named “Project 2,” and the International Herald Tribune described the towering monolithic structures as “looming like an information-age nuclear plant.”
This may sound like something out of a Tom Clancy novel, but you’ll want to have all the facts because…
Merrill Lynch estimates this “wave” has grown into a $160 billion tsunami.And experts say it’s going to upend a $1 trillion industry. Yet very few investors understand just how huge it’s going to be.
That’s why it’s crucial to take the next few minutes to read this report in its entirety.
At the very least, you’ll get the full story so you can decide for yourself if you’ll be front and center when the big money starts rolling in.
But be warned, the smart money is on the move…
A handful of investors are already quietly positioning themselves to cash in on this incredible economic shift. Soon, tens of thousands will be rushing to join them.
One of the most lucrative investment opportunities we’ll ever encounterThe next great technological revolution is already under way.
And now that the last pieces are falling into place, the floodgates are beginning to open.
Which is exactly where you come in…Just ask David Gardner, co-founder of The Motley Fool. He’s convinced that this technological shift will dump millions of dollars into the portfolios of investors just like you.
You’ve probably seen David on CNBC discussing his favorite growth stocks with some of the nation’s other top-tier equity analysts. Or perhaps you’ve read one of his many best-selling investment books…
Or maybe you’re just familiar with some of his remarkable stock recommendations… eBay in 1999… Starbucks in 1998… AOL in 1994… Amgen in 1998… Amazon in 1997.
Regardless, it’s not hard to see why Money.com says he’s “among the most widely followed stock advisors in the world.”
And surely you can understand why anytime David gets excited about an investment opportunity, people stand up and take notice…
He’s been closely tracking the development of this blockbuster technology and the 3 dominant players heading the revolution.
These are the companies he believes will rule their respective industries over the next 5 to 10 years and hand investors life-changing wealth along the way.
Recent developments have him particularly excited about one of the companies. Right now he considers it the No. 1 way to profit from this coming technological boom. And he’s telling his followers to snap up shares immediately.
To see why he’s so convinced about this company, you must learn the six traits he looks for in a growth stock — and how they have led him to companies that have soared 231%, 233%, 375% and even 478% in just the past four years.
But first, a little bit more about this amazing technology and why, once again…
The Unimaginable Is Fast Becoming a RealityYou probably remember when computers took up entire rooms and were used only by companies that needed to do intense mathematical calculations.
That all changed when Intel unveiled the microprocessor and a geeky college dropout started writing software with his former high school pal.
Thanks to the virtual desktop they developed, the PC quickly replaced the mainframe as the center of corporate computing and began showing up in homes across America.
Before long, companies began building interoffice networks so that their employees could run programs like Microsoft Word and Excel on their PCs and also access programs, files, and printers from a central server.
But this model was far from perfect.
Due to a lack of standards in computing hardware and software, competing products were rarely compatible — making PC networks far more inefficient than their mainframe predecessors.
In fact, most servers ended up being used as single-purpose machines that ran a single software application or database.
And every time a company needed to add a new application, it was forced to expand its data centers, replace or reprogram old systems, and hire IT technicians to keep everything running.
As a result, global IT spending jumped from under $100 billion a year in the early 1970s to over $1 trillion a year by the turn of the century.
Here’s the dirty secret behind this mind-boggling growth — and the two words that will put an end to the partyIT consulting firm IDC reports that every dollar a company spends on a Microsoft product results in an additional $8 of IT expenses.
And one IT expert admits, “Trillions of dollars that companies have invested into information technology have gone to waste.“
Yet, companies have had no choice but to run these obscenely expensive and highly inefficient networks.
But that’s all about to change…
And that’s precisely why the two words “cloud computing” scare the hell out of Bill Gates.
You see, thanks to the thousands of miles of fiber-optic cable laid during the late 1990s, the speed of computer networks has finally caught up to the speed of the computer processors.
Suddenly computers that were once incompatible and isolated are now linked in a giant network, or “cloud.”
As a result, computing is fast becoming a utility in much the same way that electricity did…
“The next sea change is upon us.” — Bill GatesThink back a few years — anytime you wanted to type a letter, create a spreadsheet, edit a photo, or play a game, you had to go to the store, buy the software, and install it on your computer.
But nowadays, if you want to look up restaurants on Google… find directions on MapQuest… watch a video on YouTube… or sell furniture on Craigslist… all you need is a computer with an Internet connection.
Although these activities require you to use your PC, none of the content you are accessing or the applications you are running are actually stored on your computer — instead they’re stored at a giant data center somewhere in the “cloud.”
And you don’t give any of it a second thought… just like you don’t think twice about where the electricity is coming from when you plug an appliance into the wall.
But cloud computing isn’t going to be just a modern convenience — it’s going to be an enormous industry.
You see, everyone from individuals to multinational corporations can now simply tap into the “cloud” to get all the things they used to have to supply and maintain themselves. This will save some companies millions and make others billions.
“Is cloud computing the next big thing?”That’s the title of an article in PC Magazine.
The answer was an overwhelming yes. And PC Magazine isn’t the only one taking note of this sweeping trend…
The Economist claims, “As computing moves online, the sources of power and money will increasingly be enormous ‘computing clouds.’”
David Hamilton of the Financial Post says this technology “has the potential to shower billions in revenues on companies that embrace it.”
And Nicholas Carr, former executive editor of the Harvard Business Review, has even written an entire book on the subject, entitled The Big Switch. In it, he asserts: “The PC age is giving way to a new era: the utility age.”
He goes on to make this prediction: “Rendered obsolete, the traditional PC is replaced by a simple terminal — a ‘thin client’ that’s little more than a monitor hooked up to the Internet.”
While that may sound far-fetched, in the corporate market, sales of these “thin clients” have been growing at over 20 percent per year — far outpacing the sales of PCs.
According to market-research firm IDC, the U.S. is now home to more than 7,000 data centers just like the one constructed on the banks of the Columbia River in 2005.
And the number of servers operating within these massive data centers is expected to grow to nearly 16 million by 2010 — that’s three times as many as a decade ago.
“Data centers have become as vital to the functioning of society as power stations.” — The EconomistThe simple truth is that cloud computing is becoming as big a part of our everyday lives as cell phones or cable television.
And one company is shaping up to be a remarkable way for investors like you to cash in on the fast-moving cloud computing technology.
You may already know what it is… and you may have even guessed that it’s the real face behind Design, LLC.
But what you may not realize is that this is still an excellent time to get invested — despite what many so-called “experts” in the financial media might be telling you…
Buying This Tech Juggernaut Today Is Like Buying Microsoft in 1990Don’t forget, even after the dot-com collapse and the recent market sell-off, every $10,000 invested in Microsoft would now be worth over $500,000.
Even a modest $3,000 investment would have grown into more than $150,000!
Just imagine what you could do with that kind of money…
Now imagine being given a second chance to secure that kind of profit.
Well, look here… this is your second chance.
You see, like Microsoft in the early 1990s, Google [Nasdaq: GOOG] is just getting started.
It’s already won the search engine war, set the standard for online advertising, and turned the company’s name into a word tens of millions of people use daily.
And now it’s fast becoming synonymous with the future of computing…
Over 500,000 companies — including GE [NYSE: GE] and Procter & Gamble [NYSE: PG] — have already signed up for Google Apps.
This grab bag of business applications can be purchased and run over the Web for just $50 per year and is just one of many Google products now giving Microsoft a run for its money.
Considering that Google Apps costs just one-tenth of what a traditional business software suite does, it’s no surprise that more than 2,000 businesses are signing up per day.
No wonder the Financial Post says, “The cost savings in offering scaled-down versions of large enterprise software is making cloud computing a huge business.”
But at just $50 a pop, you might be wondering how big this business can really get.
Industry research firm Gartner, Inc., says the market for Internet-based software hit $5.1 billion last year and conservatively estimates it will more than double to $11.5 billion by 2011.
But don’t forget, this is just one small part of the giant and highly profitable cloud computing world.
Given its dominance over the online world, massive network of strategic partnerships, and unmatched ability to innovate, you can bet the great majority of the fortunes generated by cloud computing will flow through Google’s coffers.
Even so, you may be wondering…
Isn’t it too late to buy Google?Not at all!
Well, let’s just say this isn’t the first time David has recommended a stock after the hotshots on Wall Street declared it was “too late”…
Back in 2005, he recommended robotic surgery specialist Intuitive Surgical to a small group of opportunistic investors.
At the time, shares were selling for $44.17. One year prior, shares had sold for $17.46, and a year before that they were selling for just $8.68.
You read that right… Intuitive Surgical had risen 500% in the two years before he recommended it — and that scared lesser investors off.
But this visionary investor recognized that Intuitive Surgical was both “top dog” and “first mover” in its industry and still had plenty of room to run…
Shares traded as high as $359.59, and even after the recent market downturn, those who followed his lead are sitting on a whopping 555% gain.
Had you joined them, you could have turned $10,000 into a brand-new car… or a year or two of college tuition… or a prestigious golf-club membership — and all in just 3 short years.
And this wasn’t just some sort of lucky break or fluke, either.
You see, David’s world-famous career began when he caught the financial media’s attention by recommending AOL in the summer of 1994 – after it had quadrupled in just 12 short months.
Of course, the story is the same with AOL — he recognized it as both a top dog and a first mover in an important emerging industry and knew it was only getting started.
Six years later, AOL was a 200-bagger, turning every $10,000 invested into a whopping $2 million — and this growth investor into a living legend.
Here are just a few more of the top dogs and first movers he’s uncovered recently:
Surely you’d love to have gains like that in your portfolio… Any investor would.
Well, you’re in luck because now David is extremely excited about the incredible profit potential of 3 companies he calls…
The 3 Kings of Cloud ComputingThese are 3 exceptionally well-run companies that David and his team of cutting-edge equity analysts have identified as both top dogs and first movers in their respective industries.
You already heard about Google, and just ahead you’ll get all the details on the others — including David’s No. 1 cloud computing pick.
But first, you’re probably wondering how David can be so sure about these companies. It’s quite simple really — they all have…
The 6 traits of a Rule BreakerDavid begins his search by looking for what equity analysts call “top dogs” and “first movers.”
A “top dog” is a company that dominates its industry… and a “first mover” is a company with a technology or product so revolutionary that it disrupts an existing industry and creates an entirely new one.
On the rare occasion that you find a company that is both a top dog and a first mover, the chances are pretty good that you’ve found your next big winner…
Just think of eBay in the online auction market… Amazon in the online retail market… or Netflix in the DVD-rental market (David led investors to big gains on all three).
These companies redefined the way business was done, launched entirely new industries, and continue to dominate those industries to this day. And you don’t need me to tell you how handsomely they’ve rewarded shareholders along the way.
So you can see why David and his Rule Breakers teamwork around the clock to find companies that are both top dogs and first movers.
But they don’t stop there… Because David discovered long ago that in order to find companies that will deliver truly life-changing investment returns, you have to break the rules and go against much of what passes for “wisdom” on Wall Street.
That’s why he searches for companies with…
And here’s the big one…
Remember, many of David’s biggest winners were recommended after all the fast-talking experts on Wall Street already declared you’d missed your chance to buy.
And it’s much the same story with the second king of cloud computing he’s recommending you buy today…
A Bona Fide Rule Breaker With Very Real ProfitsNot only does this company meet all of David’s criteria for a classic Rule Breaker, but it also has a stranglehold on a niche market that’s absolutely essential to the future of cloud computing.
This rising tech superstar designs extremely complex software that allows central servers to function in the first place.
While the market for this software sits at roughly $1 billion today, it is estimated it will soar to $5 billion by 2011 — an astonishing 50% compound growth rate.
And thanks to various patents, a considerable head start, and immense technical know-how, there is very little chance competitors will be able to wrestle the lion’s share of that $5 billion away from this company.
So it’s no wonder over the past two years, VMware [NYSE: VMW] has seen its revenue climb at a 30% clip. Not to mention, returns on equity and invested capital have never dropped below double digits.
But here’s what has really caught David’s attention…
A recent shake-up in management has caused shares to tumble well below their fair value — giving investors who act now a rare opportunity to snap up an incredible growth stock on the cheap.
But ambitious investors might be able to do even better…
You see, David is convinced another revolutionary company is changing everything about how we use computers. As more and more people and businesses go online, its rampant success will continue — and richly reward savvy investors who buy shares now…
This Company Makes the Internet FlyWhen David first recommended this company to the
Rule Breakers community back in 2005, he admitted it wasn’t “cheap.” Since then, it’s up 105% — handing our group some nice gains.
David still admits it’s not cheap… but with the arrival of cloud computing, he’s more excited than ever about its potential to make investors rich.
In fact, its potential currently outshines both Google and VMware — making it the No. 1 cloud computing play for new money.
You see, it works behind the scenes to make sure you can access everything the Web has to offer at lightning-fast speeds.
And thanks to the ever-growing number of people now using the Internet to do everything from watch movies to buy houses, this once-flailing refugee of the dot-com meltdown is now one of the most important tech companies in the world.
Apple [Nasdaq: AAPL], Microsoft [Nasdaq: MSFT], Sony [NYSE: SNE], and Nintendo [NTDOY.PK] are among its top clients — and they’re all more than happy to pay up for the quality this company consistently delivers.
While this usually runs somewhere in the neighborhood of $275,000 per year, more and more complex applications are coming online all the time — giving this company even greater pricing power.
At last count, it had more than 100 clients paying $1 million or more per year. So it’s no wonder that cash from operations has more than tripled from $83 million in 2005 to over $390 million today… Or that the cash on its balance sheet has grown from just $92 million to over $200 million today.
You can bet that this growth will only accelerate as cloud computing becomes an even more vital part of our personal and professional lives.
And because it is both a top dog and a first mover, it has been able to gain an almost insurmountable lead in market share — allowing it to sport superb operating margins.
Gross margins currently sit at an incredible 76%; meanwhile, net margins have climbed to an all-time high of 18% — and continue to grow.
All things considered, you can understand why David thinks this will be one of the most dominant players in the cloud computing world for years to come.
And by becoming a Rule Breaker, you can get its name and stake your claim before the big money gets behind it.
But you may be asking yourself…
Is now really a good time to be buying growth stocks?Sure, the market looks pretty grim.
But David’s not worried.
For one thing, our current economic situation bears a striking similarity to the economic downturn of the early 1990s. And Morningstar reports that during that recession, growth stocks more than doubled the return of “value” stocks.
For another thing, SmartMoney recently confirmed that “growth stocks can excel even if the broad market continues to stumble.” In fact, it reported that right now, “analysts expect better profit prospects for growth stocks than for value stocks.”
Money manager Dan Becker says, “Growth is as rare as a diamond, and everyone’s looking for it.”
Meaning, right now, we have a historic opportunity to snap up Hope Diamond investments at cubic zirconia prices.
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After all, you’ll be the first to know about tomorrow’s next great companies and have the rare chance to get these fortune makers into your portfolio before the masses catch on and drive prices out of reach.
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Facebook Lite claims to be horsepowers faster than the regular site. But regardless of the hundreds of kilobytes saved when browsing FB Lite, the design keeps changing; and getting better than “regular Facebook”.
First off, everything important to you is at the top, like a section with upcoming events you’re attending:
Event names are also SEO-friendly now, so you can find them in Google. Event pages themselves have been simplified quite a bit too:
While some parts of the Facebook Lite design are simpler, others are more complex, but not in a bad way. A normal comment like this on regular Facebook:
… now has much more detail on FB Lite:
They are finding ways to show more content with less code. And giving your social graph a chance to comment on it, right inline.
I started thinking to myself that FB Lite was a sandbox for Facebook designers to test the new layout once I saw this thick red border on the home page:
This is a technique front end web developers use called diagnostic styling.
Their auto-complete search box works 10x faster, and only shows the names:
They removed the Home tab all together. Now you click the Facebook logo to see your home feed:
The home page shows more detailed versions of the comments that people post on your content. Links, photos, all of it. Anything you “post”, that gets commented on, you’ll see it in your home feed.
Even something as simple as someone “liking” a note you wrote. FB Lite tries to give you a full preview:
The region on the page that usually houses advertisements is replaced by little quips and tips:
Chat has it’s own popup application now. I wonder if Friendfeed is developing it because it’s fast.
I think if Facebook converted their regular site to this design, no users would complain. What do you think?
If you want to make Facebook Lite your default experience, check out this article.
source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/weblife/?p=1317&tag=nl.e539
Dunbar’s Number (Dn) is a theoretical “cognitive limit to the number of individuals with whom any one person can maintain stable relationships”, according to this Wikipedia article about its originator; British anthropologist Robin Dunbar. He proposed that this limit was a function of neocortical size, i.e that the ability of a person to understand all of the complex relationships inherent in a community group was limited by the capacity of the neocortex to process the information.
Web 2.0 applications that promote social networks such as Facebook, Twitter and MySpace are subject to the same social forces that govern our real life social interactions, so it’s reasonable to assume that Dunbar’s Number applies here as well.
The theory doesn’t propose a precise number, but it’s generally understood to be approximately 150 individuals. Looking at “followers” lists on the social nets and blogs that I inhabit (or keep occasional tabs on), it’s hard to imagine that a single individual could count each of the thousands of listed friends or followers as participants in a meaningful relationship. In Ashton Kucher’s twitterverse, for example, his aplusk twitter page currently lists 4,437,990 followers – but he’s only following 304. Smart guy – he’s keeping fairly close to the Dn limit.
Blogger Seth Godin suggests that this is the reason social groups or tribes that exceed the Dn limit split in two soon after hitting it. It also explains the regular emergence of sub-sects in religious groups where a group of disgruntled disciples separate from a parent group to form their own version of religious devotion.
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I always love how rumors get started on Web sites like Twitter.
Today, the rumor spread throughout the afternooon/evening that Johnny Depp had died in a car crash.
The story, just so you know, is not true.
From E! Online:
In yet another example of the Interweb gone terribly wrong, Johnny Depp was faux-killed in France after a car crash late Saturday, sending bloggers into a fact-finding tizzy, and fans tweeting “RIP Johnny Depp” right into a Twitter trending topic.
E! News has confirmed that Depp is alive and well, and was not involved in an accident of any kind.
“He isn’t dead,” Depp’s rep, Robin Baum, told E! News. “He’s fine.”
The Golden Globe winner has been linked to several death rumors in the past, the most recent elaborate hoax using images of a hodgepodge of wrecked vehicles, and even a fake CNN website confirming the news.
Hari gini belum punya facebook ? itu pertanyaan sekaligus ejekan beberapa teman saya sebelum saya daftar Facebook.
Hari gini belum punya facebook ? itu pertanyaan sekaligus ejekan beberapa teman saya sebelum saya daftar Facebook. Pertama kali sayapun jengkel dengan facebook, karena bagi pemula terasa sangat terasa ribet ketika meng-add orang. Untuk seorang pemula, facebook mewajibkan mengetikan huruf atau angka yang ditampilkan setiap kali meng-add orang lain.
Tetapi setelah beberapa lama atau sudah meng-add beberapa orang (mungkin sekitar 30) verifikasi untuk pengetikan tersebut akan hilang dan mulailah bisa merasakan asyiknya facebook dengan game dan aplikasi-aplikasi menarik yang disajikan dari facebook sendiri atau bahkan para penggunanya. Jadi kitapun dapat berpartisipasi dalam membuat sebuah aplikasi dalam facebook, menarik bukan?
Taukah Anda bahwa facebook bisa menampilkan artikel atau rss feed dari blog kita yang juga merupakan sarana publikasi blog kita, jadi apa salahnya kita coba dan mungkin aja menaikan sedikit traffic blog kita 
Artikel ini saya buat karena beberapa pengunjung blog ini meminta artikel tersebut atau terkadang blog ini dapat kunjungan lewat google dengan keyword ” buat facebook ” atau ” daftar facebook ” padahal artikel tersebut tidak ada. Dan untuk menambah indeks di google ga ada salahnya saya buat kan artikel “cara buat facebook” ,”tutorial daftar facebook” atau mungkin bisa dibilang “tips daftar facebook”
1. Silakan Kunjungi www.facebook.com dan isi beberapa pertanyaan dibawah
2. kemudian Anda akan disuruh mengetikan gambar yang ada
3. Setelah itu facebook akan mengirimkan link verifikasi ke email yang anda daftarkan di facebook. Silakan buka email Anda dan klik link yang diberikan dari facebook.
4. Konfirmasi teman di facebook berdasarkan daftar email yang ada pada email Anda atau silakan di Skip this step
5. Jika Anda punya email yang lain silakan masukan, yang memungkinkan Anda menemukan teman difacebook atau silakan skip this step
6. Isi dengan smu, universitas dan tempat kerja. Tidak haru semua diisi atau silakan Skip this step
7. Facebook merekomendasikan beberapa orang yang mungkin Anda kenal dan bisa di add as friend atau silakan Skip this step
8. Silakan masukan kota tempat tinggal Anda
9. Silakan upload foto Anda
Selesai………..
We share a lot of information each day! We are going to capture some of our favorites here each day and highlight our favorite interactions each day with the hope that you’ll find great new people on twitter to connect with.
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Amazon Cracks Open the Kindle http://ow.ly/ZbZE
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How to Build Conversations in Social Media Using the 3 P’s from @webworkerdaily http://ow.ly/Zc1a
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RT @HowellMarketing 10 Ways to Benefit More From Social Media in 2010 /via @valeomarketing http://ow.ly/ZbKo
Mobile Marketing & Apps
Google Has High Hopes for Display, Mobile Advertising in ‘10: NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Google turned in a strong fo…http://ow.ly/ZbPb
Sooner or Later, Facebook Will Launch Its Own Phone: Facebook easily has the brand equity to launch its own phone…http://ow.ly/ZbQK
Nat Geo Adds World Atlas App, More Coming http://ow.ly/16osUw
AdMob: Apple may break its tie with Nokia for world dominationhttp://ow.ly/Zcfq
Five Mobile Trends For 2010: Advertising is not what it was ten years ago. The past decade has seen the advent of …http://ow.ly/ZbR9
U.S. Army Gets an iPhone App -http://ow.ly/ZeTp
Videos
Video Insider: Flash: The Death Of HTML – Quick question for all you power-marketers out there: Is Fla…http://ow.ly/16odII
Here’s The Situation: Little Jersey Shore Is a Big Online Hit [VIDEO] – http://ow.ly/ZeVc
NBC Pulls Web Clips of Conan’s Most Expensive Bit Ever [VIDEO] - http://ow.ly/Zf1x
Social Good
Charities fight for piece of $5 million prize on Facebook http://ow.ly/ZaEO #socialgood #facebook
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Hmm…
I Gave My 3 Year Old an iPhone: Have I Created a Monster?http://ow.ly/Zc3F
Just Plain Funny
RT @jeffreyhartmann: @EvansMediaGroup I still have memories of this Bill Gates story, a problem I wish I had: http://ow.ly/Zf66
Stats & Case Studies
Stats: More than 60% of North American marketers have used iPhone apps as a marketing channel - http://ow.ly/Zf2T
Stats: 36% of North American retailers say they will offer mobile coupons by the end of 2010 #eDaily http://ow.ly/Zf3n
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Dave Keys is on facebook. Of course there are a good number of people by my name on Facebook but, of course, none of them have the propensity to use SEO to claim a place on page one of Google for Dave Keys on Facebook.
I’ll take it.
Thanks to effective SEO techniques and web strategies, Dave Keys is first on Google for Facebook.
Dave Keys, SEO, web design and photography 2010.
OMG I can’t believe that Japan’s going for the “Glee Craze”
Check this out!
Expect special guests. I hope they have Utada Hikaru or YUI as guests or main stays!
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Note: Only try it if you really want to start over.
Have you ever asked yourself this question “What is my PURPOSE in LIFE? Many of us have that question. The sad part is many of don’t have a clue to what are purpose is. Well I ‘ve written a book with proven strageties on how to find out what your purpose is. This book will help you discover how God wants to use you and be represented through. You’ll never live life the same way again, once you pick this book up you can’t put it down. Get your copy today at www.ayannathomas.com .
Question what do you think you Purpose is? What motivates you to see it comes to pass?
Everyone has heard by now about the devastating earthquake that rocked the nation of Haiti. I can’t help but feel heartbroken for all those people who lost loved ones and everything they had. My church was scheduled to go on a mission trip to Haiti next month, but because of the earthquake it is either postponed or cancelled; they’re still not sure if they’re going to be allowed in. I saw on Facebook that people are wearing red on the 19th to support Haiti. This is an easy way to show your support for the Hatians, especially if you’re not sure how to contribute otherwise. I’m not sure how many people this will reach, but I hope that whoever reads this will do something to help the people of Haiti, whether it’s donating time or money to the relief effort, or by wearing red tomorrow. All I ask is that you do something.
On January 5, 2010, Jim Dwyer from The New York Times broke an embarrassing story for clothing retailer H&M and superstore Wal-Mart. Dwyer was tipped by a New York City graduate student, Cynthia Magnus, that the two stores on 35th Street in NYC were destroying and discarding articles of clothing that for some reason could not be sold. Dozens of trash bags filled with ripped shirts and jackets were found, even though donating these items during an amazingly cold winter season seemed like an obviously better choice.
The public’s reaction to the story forced both stores to investigate and make necessary changes to its stores’ policies. H&M’s Facebook page, for instance, contained several comments from consumers who promised to boycott the store until it disposed of its unsold clothing in a more socially responsible way. Following Wal-Mart’s lead, H&M eventually promised to stop the practice and donate the items to charity.
The recent scandal for H&M and Wal-Mart came at a unique time – temperatures were at a record low. To see a few examples of the news stories that led the nightly news, watch the following videos:
Discussion Questions:
1. What harms could the scandal above have caused for Wal-Mart and H&M?
2. Was the response by both of the companies effective enough to repair their tarnished images? Why, or why not?
3. What could both companies do in the near future to continue to repair their image after this embarrassing news story?
Every week I read thousands of blog posts. Here, for your weekend enjoyment, are some highlights from my recent reading, for you.
On Starting Up…
http://www.unionsquareventures.com/2010/01/we-need-an-independent-invention-defense-to-minimize-the-damage-of-aggressive-patent-trolls.php
In defense of independent invention (and against software patents).
http://500hats.typepad.com/500blogs/2010/01/startups-vcs-eat-your-own-damn-dogfood.html
On the importance of your startup, and treating it right. Or, why you need a great product manager and designer more than anything / anyone else.
On Modular Innovation…
http://lifehacker.com/5446707/facebook-adds-comment-reply-by-email
Facebook’s latest Modular Innovation, ‘reply by email.’
Have a great weekend!
Jeremy Horn
The Product Guy
I am addicted to Facebook. I check it every morning, in between flipping pancakes and shouting “Hurry up kids! Breakfast is getting cold!” I leave my husband to pour the orange juice and mutter that I just need to check the morning news. In actuality, I’m checking the morning, midday, just before I have to cook supper, and the evening news (hour-long edition).
I have played Bejeweled Blitz and Lexulous for HOURS (and like an addict, I have figured out how to turn off the notifications so that my husband doesn’t know that I am).
I like to collect friends like those trading pins at the Olympics and have been trying to crack the 200 mark for months. I like friending old boyfriends, so that they can peruse my photos (carefully edited, of course) and think that “they coulda had all THIS!” I like seeing what happened to the cool kids from high school and cannot believe who got fat and bald.
But I knew my little habit had become a full-fledged problem when I knew that “Sabrina has left the building”, “Jenny had too much lunch today!” and “Peter is going to SNAP!” before I had heard about Haiti’s earthquake.
Here’s to less snooping through the past and more living in the present! Here’s to Haitians everywhere, our thoughts and prayers are with you.
Love Lucie
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You’re A God – Vertical Horizon
my story goes like this:
my grandparents had two kids, Dean and Debbie. when Debbie was 19 she got pregnant with me. i was born in july of ‘86 and i was a month premature. Debbie didn’t know she was pregnant until she started having contractions because 1) she was a bigger girl and didn’t gain all the much weight (i was 7lbs when i was born) and 2) she never stopped having her periods. anyways, when she was 20 and i was 10 months old, she died in a car accident. she’d been drinking, had dropped her friend off and was on her way home when she crashed, killing herself instantly. they think she was reaching down to get something she dropped. at that point, my grandparents adopted me and have been my parents my whole life.
i grew up with love all around me and with my real family. i have some of the best parents you could ask for and i’ve known this story for my whole life. my mom used to tell it to my grade school teachers when i started class. it’s not something i would really cry or get sad about, especially when i was younger. it’s always been apart of my life and always will be. it was harder to deal with/talk about when i got to college for some reason. its like the older i got, the more i missed Debbie.
during my junior year of college i took a shakespeare class with miss lorelle browning. she’s a beautiful soul. after class one day i somehow got into a coversation with her about my real mom and biological father. i ended up crying and realized that i’d never really examined my feelings towards my biological father.
here is what i knew about him prior to a few months ago:
-his name was john
-he was tall
-my mom met him at college
-he never wanted to see me
-he didn’t believe he was the father
-his mom came to see me in the hospital
i think i was angry (and maybe still am) and i felt like he wronged Debbie. i got a sense of that from my mom. after about the 3rd grade, i never really wanted to meet him. someday i wanted to see a picture of him because i was curious, and who wouldn’t be? and up until a few months ago this is all i ever knew or wanted to know about him. but one night in late september my mom and i decided to try and find a picture of him. after perusing many people finder sites and facebook, we found who we thought he might be as well as his mom—pat. so i sent off a facebook message to his mom asking her some questions to figure out if these were the right people (my mom apparently had a last name—thaggard). a few days went by and i was back up in portland looking for a job. then i received a reply message from pat and later that day we facebook chatted for hours and she told me tons of information about her and her family and john and apologized for his actions. when i make it back to montana, i would like to meet her.
john also contacted my family. but not me, and not my mom. he apparently looked for other family members of mine on facebook and contacted my aunt linda. she then called my mom and that set off an exchange of emails between my mom and john. these emails were hard for my mom because of the tone of john’s emails and some additional information we found out about. after and exchange of about 7 or so emails, my mom decided to no longer have contact with john because it was too difficult for her. at that time i didn’t want to speak with john just yet because i was in the middle of looking for a job and living out of suitcase in my boyfriend’s apartment and life was up in air. when i searched john and his mother out, i never expected a response and that was probably naïve of me. i probably wasn’t ready for a response. but that doesn’t matter now. not too long after the cease and desist between my mom and john, john made a facebook profile specifically for me. he put pictures up and in the little info part below your photo on the left it says: “LeAnna, I hope someday you will communicate with me.” his statuses on this profile have to do with me and a couple of them have been along the lines of “sitting around and waiting,” “a test of patience?,” etc. those kinds of statuses irked me, miffed me, ruffled my feathers. not really sure why. in my head, i understand that i contacted him, and that i said i talk to him when i was ready, and that i probably wasn’t ready in the amount of time he’d like me to be. i get that. but i was also trying to find a job, trying to find a place to live, switching jobs, moving in, getting settled in portland and talking with my biological father seemed too time consuming—both literally and emotionally.
i decided that once i was settled, i would reach out. that’s what i did last week. i worked on a message to send him and went through a few drafts. i mean, it’s a little weird to write: “Hello biological father, this is the daughter you’re not sure is yours and i’m just writing to say hi! let’s be friends!” i mean, come on. just applying the words father and daughter to my relationship with john feels VERY strange and not quite right to me. he’s still not sure he’s my father and wants a paternity test. which i’ll be ok with eventually. just not right now. i’d like to get to know him a bit before i go there.
i mean, what if we don’t click on any level at all and possibly don’t even like each other? would it still be worth it to try, to get the paternity test, to try and awkwardly fit into each other’s lives even if it’s in the smallest way? i feel like i opened a can of worms and don’t know what to do if it all goes wrong.
I started Facebook soon after I came to the United States on September 2008. Most of my friends told me that I needed to make an account of the Social Networking Service (SNS) to contact friends, to participate in events, and to share pictures. Although at first I hesitated to take part in Facebook for a while, I eventually followed their advice. At the time, I already had an account of mixi, which is a SNS in Japan. Since then, I compared and contrast them without conscious. As a total, mixi and Facebook have similarity each other, but some of their character is different. I read the article, which is “Mixi vs. Facebook,” and it compares and contrasts both of them, and concludes that mixi is a more successful site than Facebook.
The article focuses on systems of these two SNSs. It explains that mixi is diary-based, and it looks like blogs. Also, comments can be posted to most of its posters in mixi. Unlike mixi, Facebook is more focusing on uploading pictures. The unknow author said, “Facebook seems more public, whilst mixi is more private – I think this reflects the two cultures in that Japanese people in general are much more concerned about their privacy, about what is public, and what is private.” The point is interesting.
Although the article mentions technological characters of two networking services, the article is missing two aspects. One aspect is that Facebook is totally easier to make friends and to widen networks. In my own experience, I usually don’t hesitate to apply to friends online partly because I do not need to say anything. Only I have to do is to click “Add as friend.” On the contrary, when people apply to friends online, they have to say some kinds of greeting. That makes people more bothersome. Undoubtfully, one click is much easier. In fact, while I still have only 83 friends on mixi, I already have 122 friends on Facebook despite of that I have stayed in the United States for one and a half year. Another aspect is that some of participants of mixi do not use their actual name; on the other hand, people usually use their real name on Facebook. Therefore, Facebook users can search their friends much easier.
Overall, two SNSs, mixi and Facebook, have different points. As opposed to the assertion of the article, I would have to say that Facebook is more successful service as a SNS because the first purpose of SNS should be to broaden and widen relationship among people, and Facebook does its duty better than mixi.
Just the facts – A great post from our often quoted friends at the Center for Media Research, facts you can use during your reports, speeches and water-cooler arguments during 2010. Ah, we love stats.
Mobile Phones
Source: The Nielsen Company, November 2009
Looking Ahead To Mid-2011
Source: The Nielsen Company, November 2009
Growth of cellphone only homes in the U.S.
Top 5 Smartphones (% Ownership)
Source: The Nielsen Company, November 2009
Top 5 Mobile Web Sites
Top Social Networks on Mobile Phones
Top 5 Mobile Video Channels
Internet
Social Networking
http://www.mediapost.com/
For all those people who want to find out if your partner is cheating or the password to your partner’s facebook/myspace/e-mail/msn and other. Or if you are a parent worrying about what your kid might be doing at the computer behind closed doors.
Business going bad? Time to check up on your employees surfing habits. But how to do this, without getting caught trying to get some information?
Keep reading, I have the solution for all of you people.
I chose to introduce you to a keylogging/surveillance program after finally finding the tool that will give myself some answers to questions regarding my own relationship. I have searched for quite a long time and thought that there just aren’t any effective programs out there yet. But I found out that there is, it’s called All In One Keylogger, I gave it a try and I was honestly said frightened about the information it is able to collect, it will give you the answers to all your questions and suspiciousness.
The program fits for:
a) People in a relationship
b) Business administration, finding out what your employees do when they “work”
c) Parents who want to keep track of their kids.
From their homepage you can read about the futures of All In One Keylogger, as I find it a bit pointless to copy paste whole production info page. Don’t be scared off by the word keylogger, YOU are the master of the program, only you will ever have control of the logs, pictures and audio that it monitors. Below is a lot of information about the features and what the program does, I recommend to read it in order to get a idea about the program.
Product Website:
http://www.plimus.com/jsp/redirect.jsp?contractId=1682768&referrer=Niar
I chose to speak more about my personal experiences of the program instead of talking about all the futures, those can all be found by following the link above to the product site.
What does All In One Keylogger do?
All In One Keylogger logs all keystrokes and passwords that have been typed into crypted files on your computer, it tracks all windows and applications that have been launched, clipboard, chat conversations (sent and received), all Web sites that have been visited, e-mails sent and received.
You can set it to take screen snapshots every few seconds or on each mouse click, just like a surveillance camera. It can also record Microphone sounds and restrict the access to specified Web sites and applications if wanted. It can even be set up to send these logs to your e-mail or FTP for tracking when you are away!
Personally I hate it the times I get the feeling in my stomach that something might be going on when I’m away from my partner, this is the solution to get rid of the paranoia, or to get proof for your suspicions. It snaps up all usernames and passwords into the very easily readable log viewer supported in the All In One Keylogger program. And maybe even more importantly you can set it up to take screen snapshots every few seconds and view the pictures later. I chose to divide the potential usage areas into different categories, you might wonder what the All In One Keylogger could be good for, I’ll tell you.
Relationship:
In the survey that took place in United States in the year of 2005 which includes married couples only, 56% of the participants of the survey said that during their marriage they had at least one sexual encounter with a person that is not their spouse. Are you living in a relationship and suspect that your partner is cheating on you, or doing other stuff he/she shouldn’t be doing on your/her computer (flirting harshly on community sites, MSN messenger contacts, webcam usage, microphone usage or visiting sites that are uncomfortable in a relationship.. the list goes on.
This is where All In One Keylogger can be there to save you from wasting time on your relationship, you wonder what your partner does when he/she is on the computer and you are away or working night shift. Well there is no reason to keep wondering and being paranoid about what she might be doing, you can find it out directly by downloading the trial version straight away (it is amazingly easy to set up, and the best part is that it is totally undetectable/invisible in windows, so no one can find out it’s installed and running.. read more on product site for more detailed info).
It basically records all keystrokes, and shows in which program the text has been typed in, stores visited sites and you can set it up to take a picture of the screen for example every 10 seconds!
Employers:
In the survey that took place in Britain in the year 2006, 87% of the employees participating in the survey said that they surf on the internet during their work at least once a week. 73% of them said that they surf at least once a day. 23% of them said that they dedicate more time to surfing on the internet than to their work! In the additional survey that took place in the same year answered 36% of the employers, participants of the survey mentioned that they are afraid that secrets of the company will be sent to their competitors from the company computers by their employees. 4% announced that they fell victim to the theft of company secrets by their workers from the company computers.
Are you running a small sized company, and wonder why you aren’t getting as much work done as you should be getting. Well the solution is here, with All In One Keylogger you can make sure who are actually working and who are not. The result can be scary, you might find out that the employee is actually playing online poker half day or such, no wonder that the results aren’t so promising. There are a lot of people who don’t care as long as their getting paid, so they will just entertain themselves in some way instead of actually working.
Download trial (7 days free):
http://www.plimus.com/jsp/download_trial.jsp?contractId=1682768&referrer=Niar
Parents:
Today, almost every child has access to internet. This comes thanks to the advance in technology, but has also risks involved. Did you know that: The average age when the children encounter pornography in the internet is 11? The age of the largest pornography consumer group in the internet is between 12 to 17? 85% of children between the ages 6-16 encountered pornographic content intentionally or unintentionally (most of them while preparing their homework). 25% of children between ages 9-17 will freely disclose their home address in the internet? 60% of children who committed suicide, declared their intentions online directly or indirectly? One in five children who use the computer chat rooms has been approached over the internet by pedophiles? Only 25% of youth who received sexual solicitation told a parent.
The children today are very sophisticated and most of us parents don’t have the knowledge to know what they are doing behind their closed doors in front of the computer. Are they browsing to inappropriate websites, are they downloading illegal content using P2P programs that will in the future result in lawsuits of thousands of dollars? What personal information they disclose about themselves, are they talking to adults, or maybe they meet them?
All In One Keylogger has many features:
No activity on your computer will be able to evade this high quality Keylogger. Does your kid make secret chat conversations with adult strangers? Maybe even with a pedophile that searches for his next victim? Does he surf to pornographic sites? Maybe he even exposes his personal details where he is not supposed to? Does he use P2P programs, sharing copyrighted materials which could constitute a pretext to a lawsuit of tens thousands of dollars? Have you ever wondered why does your husband “work” on his computer so late at the night? Does he have a secret online lover?Have you ever wondered who is your wife’s “partner” she talks with all the time? Do your employees surf on the internet instead of doing their work which you pay them for? Do they sell company secretes to your competitors? A high quality Keylogger should give you the answers to all these questions. No activity will be able to evade from it. No undesirable activity will be able to evade from you! As said, a high quality Keylogger is an “All In One Keylogger”, so just press this link to download “All In One Keylogger”:
Download trial (7 days free):
http://www.plimus.com/jsp/download_trial.jsp?contractId=1682768&referrer=Niar
Link for buying full version:
https://www.plimus.com/jsp/buynow.jsp?contractId=1682768&referrer=Niar
I tried to bring up the most important things in this article, but there sure is more to read if you still aren’t sure, simply visit the links provided and read more about people who have bought the product or view the awards that the product has received. Everyone has different use or needs of the program, and it sure was a relief to my head after finally getting answer to my questions using this brilliant program.
We all knew it was coming. Below is the full text:
From: Manager Stephan Goldman
To: [incorrect email address]
Date: Thursday, January 07, 2010 9:02:10 AM
Subject: MySpace Password Reset Confirmation!
Hey [incorrect username] ,
Because of the measures taken to provide safety to our clients, your password has been changed.
You can find your new password in attached document.
Thanks,
Your MySpace.
Attached was a file called “MySpace_document_49792.zip” that recipients would be advised to not touch with a thirty-nine-and-a-half-foot pole. Whatever’s in that ZIP file, you don’t want it. Trust me on this.
Once again, social networking sites are never going to email you a new password, and in general aren’t going to email you files at all.
Who the heck is “Manager Stephan Goldman?”
Anyway, delete this garbage if you receive it, okay?
Ok I know I shouldn’t be angry but I JUST CAN’T HELP IT! Ok so I was on Facebook and I kept seeing this guy Logan Huffman. So I checked out his page. I was like ok we have three mutal friends that’s interesting. Then something told me that these mutal friends personally knew him. I went over to go check to see if his name would pop up on IMDB.com and guess freaking what… IT DID!
Ok so whats the problem you ask me? Well the fact that HE’S FROM MY HOMETOWN and he’s YOUNGER THAN ME TOO! AAAAGGGGHHHH (oh I forgot to mention he’s an actor) IDK why but this makes me extermely mad and angry!!!! I guess its cause I’m like “Why isn’t that me?” “Why am I not living my dreams?” “WHY DAMM IT WHY?” Seeing the fact that he’s a couple months younger than me, on a hit t.v. show and prolly graduate the same year (class of 08 baby!) I did from my hometown hits really really reeeeeeaaaallllly hard. Now I’m sad. 
(its this Coldplay music)
I just want to pack all my stuff and leave. Even though I have no money nor car how will I be able to get there? Hitchhike? NO way thats too dangerous… fun but how do I know I’ll even end up in Cali. I guess I just have to be patient and go with my original plan… which is to wait till July when I have enough save up, finished all my NYRs and have a car.
Man do you guys feel my pain? Has there ever been a time when you’re like “Man that should be me?”. If so I feel you. It will be our time soon. Who knows maybe when you finally get to your dream you’ll be so successful at it that the wait was well worth it. God please let that be me.
Well I’m done with my jealous rant until my next steps,
DreamChaser.
Once again, if you haven’t read William Deresiewicz’ article “Faux Friendship,” I highly recommend it.
I recall my first year of grad school being crazy enough without the complications of electronic social networking. As if I didn’t have enough reasons to feel old in my early twenties, on my first day I had a student abbreviate a discussion with me into another language (“Hey. Can we convo? LOL. Sorry, I like to abbrev.”), and soon after I felt the outward pressure of dealing with virtual friends—hereafter referred to as “friendeds.” After much prodding from my peers, I finally opted to give Facebook a shot, but only if I could assure that I could have all the privacy I wanted, and more. I resolved to only “friend” people that I had actual face-to-face interactions with, but my interactions on Facebook were limited until I discovered my personal Holy Grail: ultra-paranoid privacy settings. Thanks to the setting which removed my searchability on Facebook, I was free to happily enjoy all Facebook had to offer from the confines of my virtual cloaking device.
As the years have gone by, however, the ever-widening user base has had some undesirable results. While Facebook features (Facebook chat, applications, video, etc.) have consistently expanded, I’ve always had my private little wall that prevented “that one creepy guy from the coffee shop who I really never want to talk to” or “that obnoxious girl from my sophomore physics class,” or “my high school graduating class” from attempting to “friend” me. Sure, you can always ignore the friend requests, but can’t they just not know I’m there? Regardless, I’m proud to say that I’m still app-fee and I have resisted the urge to upload video or engage in real-time chat. I also was completely invisible to all but those I actually wanted to communicate with. What’s nice, is that I have had that choice.
You can run, but you can't hide. At least not anymore.
As of December 10th, I can still opt out of search results, but I have no means to opt out of being “friended” by “friends of friends” if they happen to see my picture or name in a group or wall post. “But they’re your friends’ friends,” Facebook says. “Why wouldn’t you want them to be your friend?” Well, if you’ve got one Facebook acquaintance that’s “friended” all of Northwest Ohio—and we all have got at least one who has—then that opens you up to all of Northwest Ohio as a “friend of a friend.” My real friends’ friends are not mine, so why on Earth would the Grand High Facebook council assume that I want to have the friendeds of my friendeds be able to see me? Facebook friendeds of friendeds are exponentially further away from being actual friends. Sure, there might be some that are, but does that make it worth opening me up to all of the friends of a guy a met once at a conference in New York?
The painful truth is that social networks like Facebook and MySpace have the power to dictate social privacy trends. What makes Facebook different from myspace is its respect of privacy, which has steadily eroded with every new app. Every “feature” which enables users to share more establishes a new trend which eventually becomes a standard. Not only do these new features presuppose that people want to share as much as possible, they actually encourage people to make public things that they would have never considered to display in the past. As much as I hypocritically condemn the self-important web 2.0, whether or not you want to share pictures of yourself doing a keg-stand in a unitard isn’t my business. However, you make it my business by giving all of them access to me.
I notice that every time I type “friend,” it means less and less until the word is almost meaningless. I wonder if having 1,283 “friends” on Facebook has the same effect on actual friendship?
“This information is name, profile picture, gender, current city, networks, friend list, and Pages. The overwhelming majority of people who use Facebook already make most or all of this information available to everyone. We’ve found that most people who do limit access just want to avoid being found in searches or prevent contact from strangers.”
-Facebook Blog
There’s a new fake email message making its way around the web the last few months. This time, it targets Facebook users.
The messages all have something to do with your Facebook password, using subject lines such as “Password Reset Confirmation Email.” They contain an attachment that is supposed to be your new password, but is actually a pretty nasty Trojan horse program that opens your computer up to a variety of attacks. One of these programs is known as Bredolab, and it’s just bad news all around. Below is the text of an example message from “The Facebook Team:”
Hey,
Because of the measures taken to provide safety to our clients your password has been changed. You can find your new password in attached document.
Thanks
The Facebook Team
There are other fake Facebook messages that try to lure victims with a “New Login System” message and contain a disguised link. In this case, it seems to be a pretty standard password-stealing attempt, but given the amount of malware that can be spread and the fraud that can be committed with a hacked Facebook account, it could lead to much worse problems than someone just messing with your Facebook page.
Facebook is never going to send you an email message with your password as an attachment. In fact, they’re never going to send you an attachment at all. If you get one of these messages, hold your cursor over the link (DO NOT CLICK) and you’ll see that the message actually takes you to a non-Facebook website (most likely hosted overseas).
Furthermore, Facebook isn’t going to “confirm” your request for a password reset unless you’ve actually requested it, and any links contained in these messages will be hosted at Facebook.com, not a website with just an IP address (numbers separated by periods, as in ”123.45.678.90″), and not a website hosted overseas.
Once again, a new threat just goes to reinforce the old rules of thumb: never open an attachment in an email message you weren’t expecting, and never click on links in an unsolicited email message without verifying first that the message is legitimate.
What is the deal with Facebook and Twitter lately? It seems like they’ve both been targets of an awful lot of phishing, fraud and malware activity these past few months.
Both sites have astounding numbers of users—I recently heard that if Facebook was a country, it would be the fourth most populous in the world, just behind the U.S.—so I imagine it has to do with the sheer numbers involved. When you’ve got over 300 million potential victims, even a 0.1% success rate (1 in 1,000) is a pretty large number of people.
I don’t get it, to be honest, but it’s here, and it’s happening, and I guess I have to deal with it now.
It started off as a decision. And I should have heeded the warnings. But, no, I didn’t, and now I’m stuck dealing with something I shouldn’t have to. It should have been resolved a while ago, and if I had done what my gut was telling me, I wouldn’t be in this predicament right now. But… ta da?
I’ve done it over the phone. Over text. Over Facebook message. No, it’s not what you think it is. Gutter brain, get off my blog. It’s an argument, something very real that I’ll have to deal with tomorrow.
As a leader, I guess you have several things you have to deal with.
Some people don’t quite get that, and I don’t see why they should lead. I’ve been a follower in the past, and I know what I like and don’t like from a leader. They’re the same things that make an argument (discussion, debate, etc.) win. If you look like you aren’t at your wit’s end with something, you’ll be fine with it. Right?
I have a feeling what I’m doing tomorrow will work. I’m still unsure, though, about how I’m going to present it. Carefully, check. But I get kind of passionate about arguments. And with two coming at me right in the face tomorrow, what am I supposed to do?
Let’s take it as it comes, I guess. It’s better than worrying about it now.
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Online social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter really went to work in 2009.
Previously the domain of college kids, geeks and garage bands, social networking caught the interest of businesses last year. That trend is only heating up for 2010.
One Rochester company, MLT Group Advertising & Marketing, is adding social media planning to its menu of print, video and Web design services as the calendar flips into a new decade.
“These days when people out there are looking for a product or service, their first stop is the Web,” says MLT Founder Mike Pruett.
And businesses are starting to notice. According to the “2010 Marketing Trends Survey” by StrongMail, businesses surveyed cited e-mail marketing, social media, and search engine optimization as their top three priorities for the coming year.
Pruett pointed out Pepsi-Cola recently announced its decision to forgo its usually multi-million dollar TV commercial slots during this year’s Super Bowl and use part of that money for online marketing.
“The larger companies are starting to get it,” he says.
But is social media really something that a small business in Rochester or Byron needs to have to be in the game?
“If you are a business that sells directly to consumers, probably. If your target market, extends beyond the local area, definitely,” says Alan DeKeyrel, owner of Corporate Web Services, Inc. “If you sell to businesses and stay mainly in a small area, it might not be a big help. However, it can’t hurt to be there.”
DeKeyrel, a long-time technology expert, started marketing himself in 2009 as someone who can speak to business groups about social media trends. As such, he has a speaking engagement in Salt Lake City, Utah in early 2010.
While setting up a Twitter or a Facebook account is free and relatively simple, Pruett of MLT says it is what a business does with those accounts that really matters.
“A lot of people can teach you about social media; what we do is help you develop it and actually walk you through it every step of the way,” he said.
It is another path to reach potential customers, especially young people, says DeKeyrel.
“These days they are a lot smarter than in past. They don’t want to be sold to,” he said.
Pruett agrees, but stresses that he believes companies need to have a variety of ways to reach their markets to be successful.
“Is it going to replace TV, radio and newspapers? No. It is not the magic bullet. It’s another tool,” he said.
By Jeff Kiger
Post-Bulletin, Rochester MN
