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In what has become something of a trend after my UN meeting last month, another friend invited me to meet with a world leader to discuss Social Media. (That actually sounds more formal than the dinner last night actually was.)

My US friend Tom Watson of Changing our World and On Philanthropy invited Pamela and I [...]

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I can’t believe this is back. After all this discussion you would think that Blockbuster must have SOMEONE watching the blogosphere who might have alerted someone not to use David in an ad. But No, HE’S BAACCKKK!
BTW, this appeared on my Facebook News Stream.
UPDATE: David has blogged this again, and has created a contest!
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I spoke yesterday on a panel at the Eastern Technology Council at Penn State Great Valley.
My host and the panel moderator was Thomas Kozzolikno of Liquid Hub, and the panelists include Anthony Gold of Unisys, Liza Potts of Electronic Ink, Matt Baldwin of BEA, Sean Vandermark of Microsoft, and Derrich Beauchamp of Vignette.You can read [...]

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This morning, Jeff Pulver does a great job at summarizing what many of us in Social Media have been seeing for the last few years (Jeff included) - that the biggest attraction on the net is the Other People and the ability to Have A Conversation with them.
The Jeff Pulver Blog - Notes, comments and [...]

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I’m at Cooper Union, learning about the Amazon Web Services efforts. My old friend Mike Culver, one of the AWS evangelists, is on stage talking about it. Below are notes - in draft, with errors and typos. Just sharing what I’m learning, in real time.
Amazon – AWS was past the “experiment” stage 4 years [...]

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Twit-lebrities?

Lazy Web request: Which celebs are on Twitter, which politicians, musicians, etc?
2nd question: Why? What value are people getting from being there?  As a politician, are you seeing more donations or are your supporters getting better connect feelings?
As a musician or entertainer are more people coming to your gigs? Are your messages spreading more [...]

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Here I am at the “Future of Onlilne Advertising” conference, and here we are, 12 or 13 years after the first banner ads were placed. We’re up to at least Web 2.0, according to everyone around. It is my contention that in Web 2.0, companies would discover that talking to, and with, their customers would [...]

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Good bye ZDNet, hellow Insider Chatter. Donna Bogatin, long time Internet Industry veteran and, for the past year, ZDNet blogger, has launched Insider Chatter. We’ll see the same intelligence in covering marketing and media trends, but under her own banner. Subscribed.
Donna is promising coverage from the Future Of Online Advertising conference tomorrow. See you [...]

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Review of the TechCrunch NY Event

I was able to attend and blog the TechCrunch NY party tonight. (Thanks very much to Jeanne.) As a party, it was a great event, and I ran into a lot of cool people. The party itself was quite packed, though since I got there early I was able to sample some very good snacks [...]

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I just joined Twitter, as you can see from the badge on the right side of the blog.
Twitter allows you to send a status update (via GoogleTalk IM or SMS from your cellphone) to a server, and friends who are watching you can see your status. Wonderful for keeping track of all my SF friends [...]

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