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30 Oct This post is from from my other blog here Who are we...but the sum of our individual stories? Tokoni a new start up by Skype and Ebay Veteran Alex Kazim is an online community that is changing the face of story telling today. Inspired from the many untold stories of discovery, history and intrigue behind the items bought and sold on eBay, Tokoni exists as a place for people to share their stories and experiences with eachother.
30 Oct This post is from from my other blog here interesting post, Louis Gray Jesse Stay asks his audience what they think about the mainstream state of Twitter, and concludes: I'm worried that Twitter is in a fragile state that, while it disguises the whole community as its own, seems to really have no unified community in reality that can truly say they only care about Twitter. Oddly ... Click here to read the entire blog post
30 Oct This post is from from my other blog here manage our online hosted files (from Youtube, Facebook, Flickr...) in a desktop-like environment. Instead of focusing on file syndication, Oosah's new release focuses on content distribution. Now, consumers will be able to show their favorite content from major sites and consolidate it into a single, linkable, shareable, embeddable widget without having to create an Oosah account. Oosahs can be embedded into blogs, websites, social networking pages, or e-mailed ... Click here to read the entire blog post
29 Oct This post is from from my other blog here caseywest via FlickrAfter the Hollywood stars, it is now the turn of CEOs of top tech companies to encourage people to vote. Youtube opened a new site, the votehour.org, to post all those videos in one place. In addition to watching the videos on votehour.org, you can also, as an employee, request that your boss post a similar video on the site. If you are the CEO of your company, you can easily submit your video to votehour.org from the site too. As Stephanie Condon mentions on cnet: The site was inspired ... Click here to read the entire blog post
29 Oct This post is from from my other blog here interesting video about video SEO. First off, I'm glad to see a video service provider videoblogging; that makes more sense. I want to share some extra thoughts on this though. Yesterday, I wrote about Youtube's deep linking and how this feature could affect rankings in the video search engine. Video consumption online is making a shift from traditional search to discovery. The video space has now reached a point of high saturation, and the user ... Click here to read the entire blog post
28 Oct This post is from from my other blog here currybet.net about posting delicious links automatically to your blog. The writer gives 10 useful bookmarking tips to create compelling link pages. I don't quite use the same method to automate link posting. Delicious' problem is the lack of choice on the posting frequency: It's daily, period. Now I'm sure you can find a more flexible solution through Delicious' API, but for non-developers, the auto-posting tool sucks (with all due respect to the Delicious development ... Click here to read the entire blog post
28 Oct This post is from from my other blog here #smartshopit http://tinyurl.com/5ectna Click here to read the entire blog post
28 Oct This post is from from my other blog here Youtube deep linking news. Youtube has done some pretty impressive development work these past few months, releasing groovy features like active sharing, annotations, insight... Deep links enhance the abyssal feel of the Youtube video network. The deep linking news has found quite a profound echo in the blogosphere. Unfortunately, nobody really elaborated on the opportunities hidden behind deep linking. On Reel SEO, Mark Robertson raises a good point: It would be interesting to see how, if at all, ... Click here to read the entire blog post
27 Oct This post is from from my other blog here Firefox. As soon as I started using it, I realized that the app was doing the work I was expecting Apture to do, except automatically: links to Wikipedia, Crunchbase, ... Click here to read the entire blog post
27 Oct This post is from from my other blog here price comparison service allows individuals to see lists of prices for specific products. The Wikipedia article on price comparison explains how price engines work to retrieve data: One way price comparison sites can collect data is directly from merchants. Retailers who want to list their products on the website then supply their own lists of products and prices, and these are matched against the original database. Another way comparison sites can collect data is through a data feed file. Affiliate networks such as LinkShare and Commission Junction ... Click here to read the entire blog post
23 Oct This post is from from my other blog here CrunchBase Google Reader is my social media cockpit, the place where I pilot my online life. A lot of information ca be processed through the greader, but the trick to grow your online presence is to transform incoming RSS signals into outgoing signals. Here are a few tools that can dramatically increase the interaction between your feeds and other social networks. A great source for info about Google Reader is Louis Gray, a darn smart tech blogger and feed lover. Those are GreaseMonkey scripts by the way, ... Click here to read the entire blog post
22 Oct This post is from from my other blog here Tokoni is the perfect place to easily share your most profound stories. With good content and a vibrant community, Tokoni is also a nest for professional writers. Matt Katz, who 'documents the life of an engaged male in modern America', shares stories on Tokoni. Tokoni makes a lot of sense for professional writers. As a blogger, you are not only in charge of creating your content, but you also need to distribute it: SEO, social networks, buzz, RSS marketing, offline PR... That's not a life for a writer! Tokoni embeds your story within your audience. The social experience is designed to ... Click here to read the entire blog post
21 Oct This post is from from my other blog here The previous episode of Tokoni covered Tokoni's early-stage integration strategy exemplified by the Womencount's dedicated group on the story-hosting platform. Well today is story day. What is Tokoni's story? Its original story? It implies ducks at eBay. Intrigued? Then watch the video below to understand Alex Kazim's original leitmotiv for creating Tokoni: If this kind of story had a place to be shared on eBay, it would probably add a great deal of value to some auctions. While Tokoni can add value to other content/service providers, its story-hosting platform can also add value for the writers who post on Tokoni. Tomorrow on HyveUp, ... Click here to read the entire blog post
21 Oct This post is from from my other blog here Andy Gadiel joins us in this episode to discuss communities and music - how editorial and consumer voices are mixing to provide the best user experience, and does that framework apply to other media? Social media and its impact on events, a live concert still remains the ultimate social event - as the nature of content changes - actions are becoming content: calendar sharing, twitter, wall-posts... that content is fueling also offline event sales.
20 Oct This post is from from my other blog here As I'm trying to make an habit out of it, here are a few news from the companies that previously featured on HyveUp: Ready To Launch - There and Back again. So studying all of these different models we found a great unanswered need on the internet. The need to give humans a chance to create their own search results. To do this effectively is a trick shot as evidenced by the various other players in the market. What's cooking in the Swivel kitchen? News and updates from the Swivel team Any RIA'ers on Twitter yet? Connect with RateItAll on Twitter Twitter on Android The title ... Click here to read the entire blog post
20 Oct This post is from from my other blog here Youbundle is the perfect place to share links through bundles. Since recently, you can embed your bundles and paste them in any blog. To demonstrate this tool, I imported bookmarked items from Delicious tagged 'twitter', created a bundle with those items, copied the embed code of the bundle, and pasted it here. This bundle idea was inspired by Brian Solis' excellent post on Twitter tools. Extensive Twitter Resource
20 Oct This post is from from my other blog here After reviewing the main social features on the site, we're now taking a look at Tokoni's potential to integrate new communities onto their platform. The best example is the WomenCount page on Tokoni. WomenCount is a non-profit political organization that gives women of all generations and backgrounds from around the country a powerful voice in the political process. Thanks to the story-sharing platform Tokoni, WomenCount can concretely offer their members to share their stories on a dedicated platform. When WomenCount's members land on the womencount.org Website, they are directly invited to share their experiences with the community through Tokoni: 
Once they click on ...Click here to read the entire blog post
18 Oct This post is from from my other blog here Yesterday, I started telling the story of the story-telling Website Tokoni. Tokoni launched in private beta about a year ago, and opened to the public merely two weeks ago. The idea is to create a platform where people share life stories. As I mention, some stories can be really intense to share for some, so the social set up on the site is important to make sure the stories told are well-received. The Homepage The homepage gathers a wide variety of different browsing solutions. In the left sidebar, the stories are organized by categories, keywords and genres. Categorizing stories by genre is ... Click here to read the entire blog post
17 Oct This post is from from my other blog here Blogs are now part of our daily experience online. In Technorati's 2008 State of the Blogosphere, a few interesting numbers explain the blogging trend: - 900,000 posts are created every 24 hours; - 75% of all bloggers blog for personal satisfaction. - 67% of all bloggers say blogging enhances their online social experience. Another reality of blogging is that 60% to 80% of blogs are abandoned within a month. Blogs are almost like Tamagotchis: you nurture them with attention, or they digitally die. Alex Kazim identifies the ephemeral blogging phenomenon as follows: Through blogging, people mainly want to share stories. Life stories. Drinking coffee ... Click here to read the entire blog post
16 Oct This post is from from my other blog here I'll start this article by mentioning a news item that most of you have probably come across in your feed readings: The purge of Digg's top Diggers. The problem is that top diggers were holding a monopoly on the site's activity, making it almost impossible for the social news aggregator to organize social networks within the larger social news site’s community. As Steve O'Hear mentions on this ZDnet article: "The result is that the site’s content becomes even more relevant and social to its users, while at the same time providing even more hooks to advertisers." If I get this right, the ... Click here to read the entire blog post
16 Oct This post is from from my other blog here PubMatic just released their Adprice Index quarterly report. As we all know, with the re***sion coming at us, Web startups have been warned that ad revenues are likely to go down. Most Web startups rely on an advertising model to bring cash in, so this Adprice Index should be closely examined for some. Here are the main key findings: * Throughout the year, display advertising pricing has generally trended downwards across website sizes and verticals * All categories moved down from last quarter, with the exception of Technology which stayed flat * Social Networks is still the lowest priced category with Sports a close ... Click here to read the entire blog post
15 Oct This post is from from my other blog here In the previous post about Aggregate Knowledge, I quickly compared the recommendation engine to a few other discovery tools online (Whonu and Evri). In this post, I will compare Aggregate Knowledge to other recommendation engines to better understand how their technology sticks out from the crowd. Click here to read the entire blog post
14 Oct This post is from from my other blog here Aggregate Knowledge, the recommendation engine, is a tool for discovery, not search. When Web users search something, it means they know what they are looking for. Recommendations lead to serendipity. There are quite a few providers of that service online, so let's look at a few.
13 Oct This post is from from my other blog here This week on HyveUp, I am trying out a new publishing format. The intention is to offer video content that is more adapted to the discussional Web. I basically break down the video interview into 3-4 parts, that each constitute a single blog post. Thanks for letting me know what you think. Last week, Facebook was announcing the Live Search integration into the popular social network search utility. The reactions on popular tech blogs were almost unanimous: Why? Chris Law is the co-Founder and CEO of Aggregate Knowledge, a Web startup that specializes in serving recommendations on medium and high-traffic sites. Previously, ... Click here to read the entire blog post
13 Oct This post is from from my other blog here In this episode Lisa walks us through some of the most successful ad campaigns in history and what we can learn from the past as well as how sometimes a failure in the traditional sense can become a success with social media. And why jumping into the "conversation" makes sense for any business large or small.
10 Oct This post is from from my other blog here This is snappr.net presentation at the sfnewtech meetup. They are not the first ones to develop this kind of technology, but from what I understood, they try to make it really easy for anyone to create bar codes, opening the door to mainstream mobile marketing (please comment if wrong).
09 Oct This post is from from my other blog here Yesterday night was the Sf Newtech Meetup down at the Mighty. chi.mp was there to introduce their new service to the very select SF tech crowd. Chi.mp is a "Content Hub and Identity Management Platform". If this doesn't mean anything to you, watch the video :)
08 Oct This post is from from my other blog here As I am in the post-prod of Aggregate Knowledge's video interview for HyveUp, I decided to share this chunk of video that I believe fits today's news. If social graphs are not ad preformance boosters, then why exactly shall Facebook be a money-making makina? Most ads I see on Facebook are about a friend who liked something or joined some network. I never click on those (I just never click on Facebook ads), and I don't usually care about those. That's why I don't see how integrating Live Search into Facebook will be profitable for Microsoft's search technology, branding strategies put aside. ... Click here to read the entire blog post
07 Oct This post is from from my other blog here On October 2nd, 2000, the popular P2P software company Napster was accused and sentenced for "engaging in, or facilitating others in copying, downloading, uploading, transmitting, or distributing plaintiffs' copyrighted musical compositions and sound recordings, protected by either federal or state law, without express permission of the rights owner." By outlawing P2P file-sharing providers, music labels thought they were putting an end to anarchic uncontrolled distribution channel, to impose their own traditional distribution models online. However, the deed was done. At the time of the trial, 10,000 music files were downloaded every second (and growing due to the publicity of the trial). Today ... Click here to read the entire blog post
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