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Adobe is showing off a sneak peek of its upcoming Photoshop Express online image editing application. There’s not a lot of information available, but with a new online image editing site popping up nearly every other day, it makes a lot of sense for Adobe
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The team behind del.icio.us has been feverishly redeveloping and scaling the application since yahoo purchased it over a year ago. del.icio.us has been building a new platform that speeds up the bookmarking process and enables it to grow without issues, a
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Age of Conversation: 60 days later….we have sold 1,274 books and raised $9,997.60. WHO will put us over the top? Can we get to our $10,000 goal before September 16th, the 2 month anniversary of the launch?
links for 2007-09-10
links for 2007-09-07
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It’s been kept secretly under wraps for a while, until recently getting a sneak preview with some tempting screen grabs. But last night I was granted an exclusive, world first tour through the service tipped to give Joost a run for its money, WiTV, and
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Social bookmarking site Delicious launched a limited, invite-only preview of version 2.0 of the service this afternoon. The new site can be accessed at preview.delicious.com, although only invited users can actually get in.
links for 2007-09-05
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Tanguy will move to eBay’s offices in San Jose (California), where he will join eBay management as Global Head of Advertising. A recognition for the man who turned eBay into the largest e-commerce website in Belgium in a few years, with a current total
Open source marketing
While I was looking up some extra information for the presentation I need to do at the Social Media Forum I came across an older link that was on my blog’s ‘scrapbook’ for a while but that I hadn’t used so far.
The post that Valeria Maltoni wrote for the Blog Herald was called ”3 reasons why blogging is open source marketing” and the title immediately caught my attention. Valeria might not have been the first to use the expression ‘blogging is open source marketing’ but it was the first time I read it and I liked it, it sort of captures quite well the concept I think.
Here are the 3 reasons (and I’m sure there are more), read the full article to get the details:
- Blogging as News Broadcasting — Your Feed, Live all the Time
- Blogging as Self Publishing -– Your Expertise for Finding (and Sale)
- Blogging as Relationship Builders – Talk is not Cheap, the Tools are
Anyway I ended up using it for my presentation as well. Thanks Valeria!
links for 2007-09-04
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“I was researching something unrelated yesterday when I stumbled upon a gem from the past of Daniel Lyons, a.k.a. Fake Steve Jobs.”
Sphere of influence (2)
This morning Gavin Heaton shared a little neat online tool with us on Twitter, called TouchGraph. In a blog post Gavin wonders if this is the tool that’ll allow you to calculate someone’s sphere of influence, which reminded me of this graph made by David Armano.
The whole thinking around influence interests me probably more than anything else, so I had to check it out. Here’s the graph for this blog:
First thought, it looks like a pretty neat application and I haven’t done testing it to be sure what exactly the benefits might be. It doesn’t look like the graphs your sphere of influence though. It sort of maps all kinds of links it can find for this url (it can do keywords as well by the way). On a personal level you see links to LinkedIn, my Blogger account, my other blog, … and as far as Kinepolis (which was my old employer). On a ‘content’ level you see links to a cluster around Sonic Youth, which is probably because the name of this blog refers to a Sonic Youth song. And then there are some more random links really only relate to some of the wordings on this blog.
So for now, a lot of random links mapped around a url or keyword if you ask me, but nevertheless pretty interesting to check out a bit more.
Overtaking myself
I’m pretty sure that before the week is over, this other blog of mine will have passed this one in traffic. The graph you see here is from the last 15 or so weeks, and shows this blog in blue and I Blog Mustang in red. I would never have thought this would happen, believe me.
The Mustang blog is more of a fun side project, on which I post only once a week maybe and with long periodes of no updates at all. But it’s been growing steady almost since day one. There are also a few curious differences between the 2 blogs. See the dip in the blue line for instance? That was a 2 week no-blogging holiday, which clearly impacts this blog but doesn’t change a thing on the other.
Some differences are maybe a bit more obvious, looking at browsers and operating systems for instance. On this blog 57% use IE and 33% use FF versus 73% for IE and 20% for FF on the Mustang blog. And I see 6% using a OSX on the Mustang blog versus 12% here. Windows Vista is around 10% on both.
Last but not least, although traffic is quite similar now, Technorati authority is way different. This blog has around 246 as I write this and the other one’s authority has a mere 10. It’s fine though, I do tend to believe I know something about marketing but I can assure you I know nothing about cars :)
Clearly a different audience on both, still I’m surprised of the growth over the last few weeks. Hopefully that 3rd little project will do the same (or even better). But more on that later.
Technorati Tags: mustang, blogs, traffic, blogging, audience, brower, firefox, internet explorer, osx, vista, windows
links for 2007-09-01
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Get ready for the newest widget platform on the market, Joost. They have just rolled out their API and opened things up for developers to make masterpieces that integrate with the P2P TV client application.
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Following the release earlier this month of a new Forrester report looking at how social media is impacting the buying process, there’s been some discussion between top marketers bloggers about the death of the traditional marketing funnel as we knew it.
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To entice you to read this article, I’ve cut/pasted tasty snippets from each of the six themes the authors contend CMOs much have to out-perform their peers.
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Single-page aggregator Netvibes quietly launched a mobile version of its site in February. It was a bit of a hack: If you created a “mobile” tab, then when you visited Netvibes from your mobile, the feeds you put in that tab would show up.
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It is rare for a company to dominate its industry while claiming not to be motivated by money. Google does. But it has yet to face a crisis


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