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Philadelphians just let out a big breath. Finally the stars aligned. ‘80 and ‘08

Mayor Nutter and Phanatic

Another argument to start a blog if you don’t have one yet. I am looking to join a blog marketing network now. I will post the results of my search.

Tags: business growth, Google, social media

I like this clip.

What an exciting close to the penant race.

Tags: penant race, Phillies

What happens when you blend social media? On a serious note, Read the book GroundSwell by people from Forrester Research.

Tags: Blentec

Word of mouth is on steroids, amplified by social networking and new media tools. How do you as a business take advantage. Gary Vaynerchuk of Wine Library TV has the answer: PHCC –>>

1. Patience
2. Hustle
3. Content
4. Community

Tags: branding, Gary Vaynerchuk

NY TImes has a piece on Digital Intimacy. Social scientists call it ambient awareness; the incessant online contact provides by services like Facebook’s newsfeed and Twitter. Each update is insignificant on its own but taken together over time, coalesces into a sophisticated  portrait, a kind of ESP.

Awareness tools aren’t as cognitively demanding as an e-mail message. E-mail is something you have to stop to open and assess. It’s personal; someone is asking for 100 percent of your attention. In contrast, ambient updates are all visible on one single page in a big row, and they’re not really directed at you. This makes them skimmable, like newspaper headlines; maybe you’ll read them all, maybe you’ll skip some.

“Things like Twitter have actually given me a much bigger social circle. I know more about more people than ever before.”

I am finding this to be true. As I follow more A list people my awareness of technology trends grows and following local people expands my social network.

There are more insights in this lengthy article. Please read it. I feel it will be one of the most important of 2008.

Tags: ambient intimacy, ESP, Social grooming, Twitter, Weak ties

Fascinating post here about how years ago cinematic images affected two young men, Sergey and Larry whose destiny was to become the founders of the greatest monster of the internet – you guessed it right, the almighty Google. Both born in 1973 were only 21 years of age when a movie described by Wikipedia as a modern comedy classic was released in 1994. Read here for the connection to Matt Cutts, shagging-wagon and corporate jets.

Tags: Dumb and Dumber, popular culture

Just found this site called fwix.com that has sections on major cities.
It is a Web2.0 site that brings in feeds from Flickr, Newsvine, Yelp,Craiglist, twitter, Orbitz, Technorati and more.

Check our Philly happening.

Tags: fwix.com

NY TImes has a good article on the decline of printer sales. Glad I read it because I learned about new web services to solve a problem I have been having and I bet you also.

Rather than print out an article to read later, we hit “Read Later” or Read It Later, ShifD or Google Notebook and read the article on any computer anywhere.

Lots of times I find some interesting web article but I don’t want to read now and interrupt my workflow. [You know you read one article and hours later you wonder what happened to your productivity].

Wouldn’t it be great to bookmark in a quick list that you could instantly recall when ready and finish those articles. When I bookmark in Firebird I can’t find it again easily.

So I signed up [free] for the first one at http://www.instapaper.com

I was delighted to learn that they had just released a iPhone app also. Now that is real value added. So I can bookmark on PC and read on iPhone when I have some time free. Best of all they have an text optimized view that is easy to read without pinching or rotating. Also a web view when that is useful.

Web view

Text view of same page.

Very clean and readable formatting. No eye strain at all. As Micky D says “I’m loving it”

This is now my favorite app right up there with Twitterific. An app that really solves a web surfer’s info distraction overload.

Thanks Marco for a brilliant solution.

Tags: info overload, web surfing