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Re: Open letter to Dr. Ron Paul

Alex Merced — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 00:08:59 -0000

http://causeoffreedom.blogspot.com/2008/01/89-r...

that should clear it up

Re: Music News Toolbox: 50+ Links For Discovering New Music

Alex Merced — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 07:13:51 -0000

I can't believe you guys didn't put reverbnation.com on the list, has to be one of the sweetest sites on the net. One of the few sites that was ahead of the curve on widgets and providing artist with useful listener statistics.

oh well...

Alex Merced
http://www.alexmercedrocks.info

Re: 2007/10/06/jihadonyou-lets-you-vent-your-anger/

Alex Merced — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 00:05:24 -0000

This is a clever use of Social Bookmarking, i approve

unlike my not so creative but still something I'm promoting attempt:

http://www.zuki.us

it's worth visiting if only to see the kissing rabbits PSA on the front page

Re: 2007/10/18/asking-the-community-mashable-lists/

Alex Merced — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 07:10:39 -0000

- A list of most useful ning.com communities
- list of white label Social Network solutions
- mobile social network list
- travel booking websites like expedia and such
- list of other web 2.0 blogs
- web cartoons
- networks that put their tv shows online
- free2play mmorpg sites

How about a newtowrk tournament, where you have the top 8 go head to head in poll in a single elimination tournament.

Re: 2007/10/18/asking-the-community-mashable-lists/

Alex Merced — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 11:38:55 -0000

hmmm... I swear you did sql list, whatever happened to the CSS list, I remmeber there was one and it seemed to have dissapeared.

Re: 2007/10/18/asking-the-community-mashable-lists/

Alex Merced — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 11:41:06 -0000

like there's a popular article on the net of 9 white label social networks, corank.com wouldmake 10 but I'm still be looking around for other free white label hosts.

http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/07/24/9-ways-to-...

that's the link with the main 9 + corank.com if you can find more I'd be ecstatic.

Re: 2007/10/18/asking-the-community-mashable-lists/

Alex Merced — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 11:45:13 -0000

- top 10 sites using different CMS

examples:

top 10 joomla sites
top 10 elgg sites
top 10 drupal sites
top 10 pligg sites
etc.

- political sites

- top web 2.0 conferences

- worst looking social networks

- funniest networks

other network superlatives

- best foreign/bilingual social networks

- top mashable members

Re: 2007/10/18/asking-the-community-mashable-lists/

Alex Merced — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 11:47:37 -0000

make a seperate page of mashable lists, cause I refer back to these all the time, and it becomes a hassle since there's no direct way. Not all lists are on the 5000+ post, and not all lists are on the "also see"

Re: SOCIAL NETWORKING GOD: 350+ Social Networking Sites

Alex Merced — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 03:40:27 -0000

new psuedo white label services I've learned about

SixGroups.com
Post282.com
CoRank.com

plus the usual 9 (Me, Ning, KickApps, One, etc.)

Re: 2007/10/29/mylifebrand-features/

Alex Merced — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 23:58:12 -0000

I like walled gardens... it's not fun to create a social network if it just feels like a overhyped profile page.

Which is why i love Ning, they understand the importance of making sure there is concrete boundies between networks so it doesn't feel like if you joined one, you joined them all kind of thing.

I havn't used mylifebrands social network creator yet, what do people think of it.

Re: 2007/10/30/opensocial/

Alex Merced — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 00:57:08 -0000

I'm especially excited to hear how this will work along with ning

Re: 2007/10/30/opensocial/

Alex Merced — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 06:51:36 -0000

I agree, I think this should be pretty sweet, and we'll see even more developers since all those who avoided learn FBML will get in on it.

again, I'm just really interested in seeing how this effects Ning more than the other networks.

Re: 2007/10/31/opensocial-poll/

Alex Merced — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 15:44:10 -0000

If myspace dies, it'd have same effect as when Mp3.com got bought out by CNET, splintering into the bajillion othe networks without ever having same massive one stop that was once mp3.com.

I miss the original mp3.com such a classic site.

Re: 2007/11/03/tech-reality-has-a-well-known-liberal-bias/

Alex Merced — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 12:11:55 -0000

I don't want to prepetuate stereotypes of Ron Paul Supporters... so if you want to hear me pimp Ron paul go to http://merced2012.ning.com

I just mention him cause he's a good example of these old hoagies harnessing the power of web 2.0. Even though Ron Paul online success is due to having a tech-savey fan base and taking them seriously, I guess Obama would be second place in that race.

Huckabee is attempting to capitalize on the internet, the difference is that Ron Paul like FacebOok had a very organic growth. In many ways, I feel Ron Paul is the facebook for the US, ina sense empowering the user in his message.

Hope people enjoy political web 2.0 rhetoric

this is only a political comment cause it's a political post.

Re: 2007/11/03/tech-reality-has-a-well-known-liberal-bias/

Alex Merced — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 12:13:14 -0000

although, maybe he's more like opensocial since that's more akin to free/open trade and facebook could be seen as isolationism... damn analogies.

Re: 2007/11/03/tech-reality-has-a-well-known-liberal-bias/

Alex Merced — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 14:26:57 -0000

I think he has the support he needs to win the primaries. He has won pretty much every RL straw poll except for a few, and the reason he does so bad in the national poll cause the pool is skewed (I've expalined this so many times today, just take my word for it)

But if worse comes to worse, I'll be running at the maverick Write in Cadidate in 2012, lol. Check out my campaign @ http://merced2012.ning.com

I'll be annoucing my candidacy on a radio show in a couple of weeks (and yes I know I'm too young to run (I'm 22 (yes I just put a parenthesis in a parentesis)))*noodle code!*

I love ning, I can't wait till they implement opensocial.

The funny thing is my platform is to run the country like OpenSocial/FB Apps.

Re: 2007/11/03/tech-reality-has-a-well-known-liberal-bias/

Alex Merced — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 14:27:25 -0000

oh yeah, if you are an RP fan,

http://my.ronpaulspace.com

Re: 2007/11/03/why08-2/

Alex Merced — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 14:29:27 -0000

I love this site, I spend a lot of time reading all the ideological wars.

Re: 2007/11/05/radiohead-music-industry-machine/

Alex Merced — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 17:56:53 -0000

The label in an antiquated business model, you don't really need them anymore except for musicians who havn't done their research.

Most of the services you need from them can be handled by a decent management team of `1.

The margins can't be the same, mean production costs can't be the same. I've seen great albums made for almost nothing and real crap made for million in production cost. The major labels in order to survive just need to stop wasting so much money in production. It's called free market pressures, it breed innovation.

Re: 2007/11/05/radiohead-music-industry-machine/

Alex Merced — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 18:05:06 -0000

other methods of revenue:

- Donations
- Recording Vblog ads
show them the music before they even have chance to steal it, and sell ads
- give a portion to charity, it'll shorten margins but increase sales
- abandon the cd
- subscription, new songs every month emailed eight to you for small monthly fee
- Live Show subscriptions, this could be bad
- Licensing & Endorsements

GIVE all content away, and focus on merchandise sales, but you got to cut production costs.

Re: 2007/11/08/tools-independent-musician/

Alex Merced — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 05:44:17 -0000

again, no reverbnation.com it's widgets and statistical breakdown, and mailinglist features are so sweet

Re: Mashable Lists: Your Suggestions

Alex Merced — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 09:55:08 -0000

- still no central place to find the lists

- what happen to white label social networks list, new services have been popping up

- list of top networks for each White Label Solution

- Top Networks made with certain CMS, like top 10 drupal powered networks, top 10 elgg powered networks, etc.

- Old-school psuedo networks from back in the hey-day like youthink.com and hotornot.com, time for a history lesson

- re-do the top web 2.0 directories, a lot oft hose sites don't really update anymore

- re-do many of the old lists

Re: 2007/11/20/crowd-finally-gets-it-they-can-group-up-and-manipulate-adsense/

Alex Merced — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 08:48:33 -0000

why are you assuming us in the Ron Paul and Obama camps are doing this, I've been quite outspoken about taking the high road and most of us in the Ron Paul camp are the same. There has been the occasional misguided person, but trust us, most of us take the moral high road.

RonPaulForums.com you can see us discussing many of these issues. I mean if Romney might be involved in push-polling himself why can't other campaigns be involved with this.

Re: 2007/11/20/crowd-finally-gets-it-they-can-group-up-and-manipulate-adsense/

Alex Merced — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 08:51:25 -0000

This is not googles problem, this an issue with an ad media. The difference between a valuable view and the opposite. Sure google should develop more options but I doubt click thrus will go away like how people still buy by impressions.

Google has the technology to offer options so when they do it'll be good, do you really doubt google is prepared for like... everything.

Re: 2007/11/20/best-of-mashable-politics/

Alex Merced — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 08:53:03 -0000

take a look what happen to meetup.com and Ron Paul campaign, that's why

Re: 2007/12/16/ron-paul-funding-records/

Alex Merced — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 10:16:56 -0000

Ron Paul is my hero

http://causeoffreedom.blogspot.com

Freedom from Tyranny Y'all

Re: 2007/12/25/here-comes-the-ron-paul-social-network/

Alex Merced — Tue, 25 Dec 2007 21:02:21 -0000

ROnPaulSpace.com came out before the giuliani SSN, but since it's run on Onesite.com no one cared.

I started a SSN for Freedom Movement to elect not only Ron Paul but people like him, We have candidates for congress like Rick Frey on the SSN, and Thomas Hill from NC

Join The Freedom Movement@
http://libertyia.ning.com

Re: 2007/12/25/here-comes-the-ron-paul-social-network/

Alex Merced — Tue, 25 Dec 2007 22:26:55 -0000

There is a lot to lie about Ron Paul

- A Candidate that doesn't take money from special interest or campaign Matching funds

- Honest and educated, willing to get booed for not pandering to the mainstream

His views are:

- Small government that IDEALLY only effect self-defence, protecting civil liberties, and honoring voluntary contracts

- Against Income tax, willing to cut spending the 40% neccessary to get rid of it without replacing it with a horrible sales tax (Huckabee is for a 23% sales tax... boo)

- Is against government regulating the internet in any way

Re: 2007/12/25/here-comes-the-ron-paul-social-network/

Alex Merced — Tue, 25 Dec 2007 22:28:08 -0000

oh yeah, he against all wars for the most part, but he is for pulling all troops out of iraq and around the world and trading with Cuba and Venezula... plus he has an iphone and a twitter account

Re: 2007/12/26/web-poll-93-of-americans-celebrate-ron-paul-not-jesus-at-xmas/

Alex Merced — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 09:42:03 -0000

This made me smile

Re: 2007/12/25/here-comes-the-ron-paul-social-network/

Alex Merced — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 09:43:11 -0000

yep, a twitter account is automatic sell for a president :)

Re: 2007/12/26/myspace-impact-channel-presidential-primaries/

Alex Merced — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 08:10:23 -0000

lol, Ron Paul does have the most myspace friends of all the candidates so here we go doing what we do best again.

http://causeoffreedom.blogpspot.com

Re: 2007/12/31/2008-new-years-resolutions/

Alex Merced — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 00:40:05 -0000

Paul will be heard in 2008

Re: 2008/06/07/log-into-several-gmail-accounts-same-time/

Alex Merced — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 13:42:05 -0000

http://www.orgoo.com is great, I can check all my gmail accounts pretty eaily on the fly, the only disadvantage is you can only log into one Gtalk account and it can be slow at downloading you inbox.

Orgoo is still in Beta, but it's my new favorite webapp, once it's got all the kinks worked out it'll hand down kick meebos ass. Unless Meebo can add some email functionality to their service.

Re: 2008/07/25/sendible/

Alex Merced — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 21:28:19 -0000

Ping.fm already has a pretty huge list of supported services plus an easy enough method to have any site support it.

Re: 2008/07/25/sendible/

Alex Merced — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 11:01:03 -0000

I only had problems with faceboo for abit, now it's working fine. I'm hoping they add service for Metaki, orkut, yahoo 360 and Livespaces (read my profile to see how many networks I'm on)

Between ping, switchabit, and tubemogul, I've been able to manage a lot of media going out.

As far as RSS goes, just use an RSS reader that emails the feed to you and direct it to the ping.fm email address you get for your account.

Re: 2008/08/08/socialgo/

Alex Merced — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 12:37:27 -0000

I saw the implmentation this with the Ron Paul Network... it just seemed like I was signing up for Moli except I had extra profile with a Ron Paul banner above it.

Which I don't mind much, cause Moli has a pretty cool interface, but I wouldn't call it a white label solution.

Unless someone wants to show me a more isolated example.

Re: 2008/08/16/the-twitting-point/

Alex Merced — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 12:16:21 -0000

http://twitter.com/alexmerced

Re: 2008/08/29/7-more-facts-about-sarah-palin/

Alex Merced — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 12:21:10 -0000

yeah, I enjoy the posts, it actually broke the news for me while I took a broke from work to check my tech news.

Very happy to see Palin get the spot, she's legit. I've been following her for awhile.

Re: 2008/08/29/7-more-facts-about-sarah-palin/

Alex Merced — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 15:51:48 -0000

yeah, Palin really is a different breed of politico, I've followed her for a bit, real shocked they picked her.

Read my analysis here

http://causeoffreedon.blogspot.com