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Tech: Yahoo! News — Studios Cut to the Chase: “Hollywood sees Germany as a crucial battleground in its assault on piracy. Industry officials say the country is the Internet piracy capital of Western...
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USA: The Village Voice gives the RNC a great big welcome with a top 10 list of all the ways W screwed New York City: Will any convention speaker dare mention the name of Osama bin Laden? What ever...
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Isolated Americans are trying to connect
This article first appeared on my old blog at http://www.bloglines.com/blog/wsodeman?id=39 http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060805/ap_on_re_us/lonely_nation “People are increasingly busy,” said Margaret...
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Arizona woman gets 70 speeding tickets in 5 months
This article first appeared on my old blog at http://www.bloglines.com/blog/wsodeman?id=42 http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060811/us_nm/speeding_dc “I don’t want to get off on a rant here…“ Dennis Miller,...
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What is RSS?
I really enjoyed class this weekend with the MBAs! I did get a few questions about why we’re using Bloglines, and what’s it all about, anyway? As I mentioned in class, I’d like you to try some push...
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ESPN sacked, Helio scrambling
ESPN announced yesterday that it was shutting down its mobile virtual network, Mobile ESPN, at the end of 2006. See these articles in Forbes and Gearlog for details. I was wondering if anyone was...
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The top 10 most dangerous online activities
This post first appeared on my old log at http://www.bloglines.com/blog/wsodeman?id=219 http://www.forbes.com/entrepreneurs/2006/10/25/microsoft-mozilla-malware-ent-tech-cx_sb_1025smallbizresource.html...
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Web 2.0 and the Virginia Tech massacre
Facebook and other social networking sites are getting more attention as the media examines how Virginia Tech implemented its crisis communication plan yesterday. The New York Times interviewed to...
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2-channel: Japan’s biggest Internet forum
Lisa Katayama of Wired reported today on 2-channel, Japan’s largest Internet forum. It’s like Howard Rheingold’s smart mobs, but much better organized. Now I want to see the movie Train Man.
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MySpace comes to China
The New York Times reports that News Corporation is bringing MySpace to China as a start-up venture. The venture will be headed by Luo Chuan, who managed MSN’s China portal. MySpace China hopes to...
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Facebook opens up
According to Wired, Facebook now allows third-party developers to write small applications that users may embed in their profiles. This is a necessary addition to Facebook’s business model, especially...
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Illinois high school holds diplomas after crowd celebrates
An Illinois high school withheld diplomas from 5 graduating seniors after audience members celebrated too loudly. The punishment seems heavy handed, but administrators had decided that disruptions,...
View ArticleWhat I’ve been reading
One of the nice things about this summer is that I’ve had more time to read. Here’s a sample: When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth by Cory Doctorow. In this short story, a sysad faces the ultimate outage....
View ArticleFacebook vs MySpace
I’ve got accounts on Facebook and MySpace. Today, CenterNetworks asked bloggers and readers to discuss which service they prefer. Frankly, I hate MySpace. I hate how the media players will autostart a...
View ArticleCXOs face malware email attacks
ZDNet reports that several hundred CXOs are receiving a new kind of email attack. Messages containin Word documents that include an executable file. If the recipient clicks on the file, it runs a...
View ArticleForty-somethings flock to Facebook
In a Business Week article earlier this week, Aaron Ricadela examined Facebook’s growing popularity with adults. Social networking is a business tool Facebook was started at Harvard, and remains...
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Arrrrr, matey! Here be a day for merriment!
It’s 19 September, and that means it’s International Talk-Like-A-Pirate Day. Time to break out your iPatch, wish me a happy birthday, shiver your timbers, and really tick off those pesky ninjas. Here’s...
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Impression management and Facebook
I’ve been removing apps from my Facebook account over the last month. Some of these apps sounded fun when these apps were a novelty. Over time, I got more and more invitations from other Facebook...
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Crazy money
From BusinessWeek comes a long profile of the Facebook economy. As I discussed on 10 August 2007, Facebook has become very popular as the service opened its APIs to third-party applications last 24...
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Microsoft makes offer for Yahoo
As I told my IS 7010 class last night, Microsoft wants to buy Yahoo. Microsoft made the announcement this morning (AP, New York Times, ValleyWag, BoingBoing). The offer is almost US$45 billion in cash,...
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Facebook gets too sticky
The New York Times reported on 11 February 2008 that Facebook users were unable to delete their profiles and data from the social networking site. Manhattan consultant Nipon Das has become a reluctant...
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Social Media 101
Business Week has updated a popular article from 2005 on business blogging. The new version is well worth reading. It now covers social media, including social networks. and provides many examples of...
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Widgets won’t work without a plan
From Business Week: large companies, startups and individuals have been developing and launching widgets over the last few years. Widgets are small software applications that run inside a specific...
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Using Facebook as a lost-and-found department
From the Chronicle of Higher Education, here’s an interesting idea: the University of North Texas is using Facebook to post lists of lost-and-found items. Facebook users at the university can join a...
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Social media in action
Scott Clark asked a question on LinkedIn earlier this week: I’m putting together a magazine article about how arenas/venues may use social media, such as blogs, twitter, facebook in innovative ways....
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The professors strike back
The New York Times published an article yesterday about an mtvU television series called Professors Strike Back. MTV purchased RateMyProfessors.com last year, and has been offering professors a chance...
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TechHui — a social network for Hawaii’s technical professionals
Last week, Dan Leuck invited me to join TechHui, a website that he developed. According to Dan, “TechHui is a new social network for Hawaii’s tech community. It provides groups and forums covering...
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Get LinkedIn with billso.com
On 31 March 2008, I mentioned that I’d joined Dan Leuck’s social networking site TechHui. Dan sent me his invitation through LinkedIn, a global professional network that I’ve mentioned in several...
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Finding business contacts and passwords on the Internet
On 31 March 2008, Hawaiian Telcom’s Cliff Miyake published an article in the Honolulu Star-Bulletin on how to find business contacts in Google. It’s not that hard to do, especially with the growing...
View ArticleMySpace keeps trying to sell music downloads
Smells like… depseration! The New York Times reports that three of the largest recording companies will sell digital music through an updated MySpace music store. ReadWriteWeb has more details on the...
View ArticleIt’s 2008 and email is still broken
I’ve said it before in 2004 and 2006: email is broken. It’s a great rant topic for my 1200th blog post. The credibility of email as a marketing medium was destroyed years ago by UCE (unsolicited...
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Outsource your projects online
Need some more time at the office? Perhaps you’ve got a project that needs several hours of tedious work. You could hire an assistant or a temp to come in and handle these tasks, but if that’s not an...
View ArticlePlease phrase your LinkedIn question in the form of a question
I enjoy using LinkedIn, especially the Answers section of the web site. Users can post questions there, and get answers from other LinkedIn users who have an informed opinion on the topic. How hard can...
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My social networking activity
I’ve set up a billso.com page that displays my social networking activity from several different web sites. It took a bit of coding, but SimplePie handled the RSS formatting with little effort on my...
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LinkedIn’s valuation reaches US$1 billion
LinkedIn, which has become the leading social network for professionals, tripled its size last month. Europe, North America and India are the main sources for new members, and the site is adding 5...
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Two quick questions for 500 people
There’s a site called Ask500people.com that lets users post and answer questions. Last night I asked: How much free space do you have on your main hard drive? How many text messages did you send today?
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I’m writing for BrightHub
I started blogging back in 2003, and I learn something new every day about writing, attribution, and basic research when I write a story. When i was in art school, my drawing instructors told us to...
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Virgin Mobile buys Helio
Helio, the mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) that tried to sell MySpace-branded handsets and service, has been purchased by Virgin Mobile. After EarthLink bailed out, SK Telecom pumped an...
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The battle against Twitter spam
I’d been offline all weekend, so this morning I decided to check my Twitter page. Twitter is a web site that lets users microblog with 140 character messages typed into the web site or mobile text...
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Scrabble vs Scrabulous
Electronic Arts is publishing an authorized version of Scrabble for US and Canadian users of Facebook. It will compete head-to-head against the popular Indian knockoff Scrabulous, which has become a...
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Is email in danger from microblogging?
I’ve claimed for several years now that email is broken. At best, email is the lowest common denominator (LCD) for sending messages to a specific Internet user. Every ISP subscription comes with some...
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Social networking in IBM’s Beehive
IBM has been using an social network called Beehive to help employees share pictures, videos, links and meet in ad hoc groups. Users can post, share and reuse top 5 lists, which are called Hive5s. The...
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A torrent of textbooks
As we approach the start of the academic year, the rising cost of almost everything has created a surge of interest in electronic books, in legal and unlicensed versions. As we’ve discussed in earlier...
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Scrabulous access blocked for US and Canadian Facebook users
Rajat and Jayant Aggarwalla have blocked access to their Scrabulous Facebook app for US and Canadian users, according to this NY Times article called Scrabulous Barred to North American Users and...
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Manoa Geeks meeting and social networking
Ryan Ozawa, one of our better-known bloggers on Oahu, invited me to this month’s Manoa Geeks meeting, which will be held at the HMSA building in Honolulu tonight. Details are available here. This year...
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A few new features
I’m testing a few new features here on billso.com, as I recover from a brief service outage earlier this week. I’ve added ShareThis to almost every page and post on this site. It’s a drop down menu...
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My Twitter poll on favorites
How many favorites have you saved on Twitter in the last 24 hours? TwtPoll.com lets users set up short surveys that can be sent on Twitter, so I thought I’d do a sanity check. I save a lot of favorites...
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12 seconds of St. Patrick’s Day
It’s so much easier to post and record video to the web these days. I used my iPhone and 12seconds.tv’s app to make a 12-second long video of yesterday’s St. Patrick’s Day celebration in downtown...
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My public Facebook page
I’ve set up a public page for myself on Facebook that will feature my work at Hawaii Pacific University and as an indepedent consultant. My public Facebook page is located here and I also have a short...
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I’m speaking at the Hawaii Social Media Summit on October 19, 2011
I’ll be speaking about social media and business ethics as part of a panel at 3 pm on Wednesday, October 19, 2011 at the Hawaii Convention Center. The program for the 2011 Hawaii Social Media Summit is...
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