DISQUS

Jonathan,
Thanks for the kind words. All we are trying to do is to get brands to look at how they can engage in social networks and make real connections that matter to their customers. ;) Let's get the conversation going.

We have a multi-media package coming out very soon that focuses on how brands can do it well on twitter. http://facereviews.com/twitter-book as an fyi you can see that I have done aprox. 25 blog posts about twitter here. http://facereviews.com/category/twitter

Cheers!
Rodney Rumford

While it might be unfair and it is up to legal eagles to wrestle it out; the best practice is to just steer clear of names like facebook, google, twitter, etc. it is only a matter of time before their bigger leagal teams swoop in for the kill.

Kathleen. Yup. Might be a glaring case study for how not to use twitter.

she is such a fricking expert her tweet is asking people to tell her what to put in her outline for her speech. LMAO

Nick, you should show up and video punkd her if she is speaking in DC.

it is just like people claiming to be SEO experts because they got on page one of google for some lame keyword... ;)

Dave.
You are right on. Pownce has nailed this payload issue beautifully. I really like it.

Kudos to the Pownce team. Come twitter... get it going.

Matthew. Nice insights. I agree 100%. This guy is totally clueless. I published an article about this yesterday here. I think PC magazines reporting is in a death spiral. ;)

http://facereviews.com/2008/02/25/pc-magazine-p...

Cheers!

Hey Nick,
Facebook has "updated" their stats and the numbers are still seriously incorrect and nowhere near fixed (8:20 am pacific time).

In fact the numbers for 10 apps that we looked at all went up but are still off by a serious magnitude of several hundred percent... The plot thickens. ;)

Cheers
Rodney Rumford
www.facereviews.com

Nick,
I think some of the HOT BUZZ is slowing down for sure. But I will say that there is an insane amount of content that has yet to be covered regarding facebook. Many bloggers will move on to other topics; which is what I would fully expect.

The HOT NEWS will come but in slower bursts. The rate of innovation at facebook has hardly slowed. The rate of new apps on the platform has only increased.

I think there is not enough time in the day to cover everything regarding facebook. Publishing deep thoughts and value added content regarding facebook is no easy task as you well know.

Hope you had a good holiday buddy!

Rodney Rumford

Congrats on the new launch Nick! You are such a social guy... The events for the tech people is a good idea.

Helllllooooo Brand Managers. Are you listening??

Great point Nick. This goes to the point that I discussed 2 months ago with the wall street journal about applications hijacking brands. Now the same is happening with Facebook Pages. ;)

No one seems to care... UNTIL there is a huge negative event experience associated with a previously positively perceived brand. Only then will these lax brand managers care. They are happy for the free ride social media is giving them.

Cheers!

Rodney Rumford
www.facereviews.com

Nick,
Chill buddy. This is thin ice you are walking on my friend. Don't follow Valleywag down the toliet.

I am sure they have a security policy and officer.

My Buddy Nick... Why so down on the Google app buddy? You are right about the invite friends portion, they are missing that. I am sure they will fix this in a few days.

But actually the cool part of the app that you are missing is that it BRINGS me news and i can easily share it.

Also, I can see what each of my friends has chosen to share. So I wouldn't harsh on them too bad.

The real news here that Google Released an official application on facebook. What does this mean? What can we read into this if anything at all? Is this just the first of many apps from google that we might see on facebook?

My thoughts are here from a blog post that I did this morning at about 5 am...lol
http://facereviews.com/2007/10/20/get-your-goog...

Cheers Nick!

Rodney Rumford

Scott,
It is indeed facebook conference month. ;) Thereis a lot happening in the developer community and in he business community around facebook.

Creating more engaging applications and working through the surrounding business and technical issues has it's definite challenges.

It is going to be exhausting. I will be be covering all 3 conferences from our blog http://www.facereviews.com

I will be speaking at graphing social and Snap.

Cheers!
Rodney Rumford

Hey Nick,

Just for clarification here. 50% of businesses have not blocked facebook use at work. Not sure where you got that figure.

Definitely not smart to say those sorts of things without having data to back it up. The reality is most North American companies are only acutely aware of facebook and have their IT staffs actively blocking facebook access. I would imagine it to be a very small percentage (possibly under 5%)

Cheers!

Rodney Rumford

the tour will be coming next week. you can actually upload video through our site. :) but the main point is aggregation and sharing... not hosting..

please tell me what you found confusing please.... we are still tightening up the messaging. we would appreciate your feedback... actually the site has been live for over 3 months in limited alpha... just live in beta less than 12 hours...

You might also want to check out http://www.videosticky.com it allows you to search for videos from many sources and aggregate them into a channel and add them to your blog.

Nice Blog post. The facebook f8 platform is going to be the genesis of many useful applications that thrusts facebook into the mainstream. How businesses form business models and monetize thier facebook applications is another issue.

The firehose of applications has been turned on and we are trying to help users find the most useful applications on the facebook platform by rating and reviewing these applications at http://www.facereviews.com

Cheers!
Rodney Rumford

I really like the "good word bites". It allows people to digest content and have it boiled down to small inspirational packets.

I suggest that you start a thread on the gems that people took away from the conference on how to become a better blogger/publisher. Ask for 3 submissions from every attendee, boil it down, turn it into a PDF and give it away to the world.

Or set up a video channel on http://www.videosticky.com and have people webcam a 1 minute recording on their take away and turn it into a video channel. ;)

Do a press release when you are ready to set it free and watch the blogosphere beat a path to your blog. Email me and i will share more details.

Cheers

Rodney Rumford

You will see traffc from mybloglog if you interact. The real benefit is making connections to people that you would have never met otherwise. The blogosphere is too large to discover blogs linearly. So this tool does help quite a bit in making connections.

Thanks for the book list here. I actually have not read the Citizen Marketers yet... looks like it could be a good read. The whole concept of citizen marketers is really an amazing cultural phenom that the world is going through... People having a voice and sharing wisdom and becoming evangelists...


This concept is central to the new start up that I am involved with: http://www.mojopages.com This book has been on my "to read" list for about 2 months... but it will have wait just a tad longer until I finish The Long Tail which I should be able to finish on a cross country filght this week.



Cheers,

Rodney Rumford