DISQUS

Tumblr type approach would be good.

Working with many large corporate clients, trying to get them to think this way as well - the upside to exporting the brand in my mind completely overshadows any downside they may feel about the loss of control (which i think they actually lost sometime around 1996 anyhow). Wrote a post on it a while back....

http://leighhimel.blogspot.com/2007/11/brand-ma...

So far liking tumblr groups as well.....testing it with the strategy group at my company for the next two weeks...trying to avoid the email scrums that tend to happen....

I know some people have tumblr pages with comments - wold be good if i could figure that out.....(finding templates with functionality, exposing the code on templates - finding all that a bit difficult)

In fact, that's what all the marketing rags are saying. IMO what you're probably seeing right now is a general market nervousness with everyone cutting back on all their total budgets while they watch to see what happens and regroup. What you are likely to see is that as sales start to slump, marketers will regig their budgets and Google should see a big wack of that - what is likely going to be hurt are more traditional media (TV/Print) that have had a pause and likely won't see the same recover due to lack of direct ROI.

nice one Mathew. You'll enjoy this. Found via Federman

http://medicine.plosjournals.org/perlserv/?requ...

Reading books feels awkward in part because— they’re not connected to anything.

Other than your imagination and possibly your soul.....(and of course your neural network too just in case you rolled your eyes at the soul comment)

Time to but your networked ADD aside M and go home and read a book. :)

Parakey anyone? Blake Ross anyone?
Facebook bought them and they've been MIA. However, if we read the parakey stuff from Ross that's exactly what he was saying Parakey was going to be.

...things that make you go hum......

I would add on to Antje's point - all this great data everyone keeps speaking about...i work in marketing communications - companies have got nothing but data (customer data, market research, website, yada yada yada) and they do, well, pretty much nothing with it. So why is everyone so damn hot over the data? Particularly on a closed network, that to Antje's point, other people own?

And great marketing isn't based on demographics anymore. So really, what are you all investing in? If the app somehow supplied info about unmet customer needs in a particular verticle, maybe then someone should care.....

I'm sorry but this is the 1.0 equivalent in my mind of investing millions of dollars in a destination site for people who own dogs.

They were just making out in public.
Wait 'till they break-up and the next GF or BF get's to read that. Then go back and ask them how they feel about it and if they would do it again...

:0

Did i say totally? I meant mostly, you are mostly wrong....
Which of course, makes me, totally right.

;-)

I totally diagree with you M..Letting me "discover" that I am being tracked outside of facebook and that they are co-relating that info to me personally is not only a potential violation of bill C6 here in Canada (where the burden of disclosure happens to be on the Corporation in question and NOT the user), it's a complete abuse of trust with their community. Which IMO is integral to the long term viability of facebook.

Ok enough of that. I coudn't find an OPT out link - can you point me to it?

I saw that on the facebook news blog this morning and I remember thinking, christ i hope mathew doesn't link to that story and it ends up on freakin' Techmeme as news...

damn you mathew ingram. damn you.

Yeah I hear you (although I still think misuse will run rampent) - but think your point that you made in the comments to his post are important to highlight ....

"It’s a bit harder to do well for clients (I just wanted to say that before someone turns up and asks “great, how do I do this for a client selling mortgages?”)."

:)

I'm seeing agencies from around the world hiring for this position

Wanted: Social Media Manipulator

qualities desires:

- supreme liar (that includes lying to oneself)
- ability to manufacture relationships based on false premise
- complete lack of integrity masked in big comfy blanket known as marketing creativity

(for the record, I'm not judging...i'm just sayin'....)

I call this a random act of customer service...
nice one

With the blurring of the desktop and Web this actually becomes important. We have had a real usability issue with our product ucaster (peer to web filesharing and publishing) in having people differentiate between what's on their desktop and what's not....

I'll be interested to watch to see what people do with it...

I think they shoulda made Katee the bionic woman. I watched the first one. Other than Sackhoff, i thought it was boring. Guess it's waiting for Battlestar to start in January for me! Frack...

- oh by the way, how does the two blogs thing work with comments?

googling the name "Leonard Brody" as we speak....he sounds like a crazy smarty pants

Because I was focused on my $10 Mathew....duh….
(which i am happy to say after email number 20, they decided to make an exception and give back to me)

"Fueled by an unsatisfactory experience buying something on the website"

Ha! For any clients that think one customer can't make a difference in their lives. I wonder if he got the same ditsy customer service agent that I did when i started my "give leigh her 10$ back Amazon.com" campaign years ago?

I'm thinking a word.

what is it...

um...trying to remember...

oh yeah...

SELF-OBESSESSED??

(and for the record, I’m not knocking it…some of my favorite people are self-obsessed.)

Welcome to the wonderful world of web design. No matter what you change, people get all freaky about it. Personally I don't care as long as:

1. It's readable
2. You keep that cute little photo of you as a baby on your home page

(number 2 should be read in a really annoying baby talk like voice to get the most impact)

Seriously F...i think we watched the same 10 min of TV... oy vey. and for the record, I can say with strong conviction, that owning a marketing company, and being an entrepreneur is NOT the same thing...

So the dragons on dragons den yelling at entrepreneurs saying things like

"give me 50% or we are out. and then you have NOTHING but we are rich and successful and you are a plebe"

is not the norm?

(and I can't tell you if you they took it bc i was too disgusted and switched to mark cuban dancing with the stars and then i was too disgusted again and just turned the damn thing off)

Yeah but I bet Mathew ends up on Techmeme....