Cool Web 2.0 share site SocialPicks (’The Stock Idea Community’) currently only covers the US market, I’ve discovered. Which means I can’t add PetroLatina Energy Plc (LON:PELE) as a pick. Nevermind.
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Social community thoughts
Someone asked me today how I would so a social community differently than locating on a specialist platform like Blogtronix as currently. And thinking about it what I might suggest is to make a community using WordPress, hosted by someone good like PressHarbor for support issues having tested them out with my own blog, and [...]
Start of the season with LCFC
Good to see Leicester City second from the top. Apart from Leicester vs Hartlepool on the 27th looking forward to Leeds vs Leicester on Boxing Day, should be fun (though hopefully I’ll be in Poland then enjoying the skiing in Zakopane;-)
Edge article: Clay Shirkey on Gin, Television & Cognitive Surplus
GIN, TELEVISION, AND COGNITIVE SURPLUS
A Talk by Clay Shirky (
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And this is the other thing about the size of the cognitive surplus we’re talking about
How to read your opponent to win in poker & battle
I read an interesting piece on today on how the very best poker players are always learning: “The line that separates a good poker player from a winning Poker player is the willingness to constantly learn, observe, and adapt.” What I also found interesting was the contradiction between perception and self-control: “Successful poker players survive [...]
Sienfeld does Windows
From the Guardian’s jemimakiss via Twitter: “So Sienfeld - a Mac user for years - is doing ads for Microsoft. Any other examples of inappropriate brand representatives, people?” Hmm, what do you reckon, people? Who would be a better rep’ for Microsoft is a more positive way to put it? I nominate myself, for one. [...]
Building online communities
After the 90-9-1 ratio, another one for building online communities. Within any 30-day period, 10 percent of people who see an invitation will come, and 10 percent of those will post. Visibility is key.
Buzz is open to all
Thanks to Techcrunch:
Buzz, Yahoo’s Digg-like effort to leverage reader gestures and third party content in determining the most popular news, removes it’s barriers to entry tonight.
Until now only a hundred or so invited publishers could post news to Buzz. This was a big plug - Yahoo pushes a few Yahoo Buzz stories to their home [...]
Are employers bleeding social capital?
Piece in the FT on 15 August which follows on from recent case, highlighting trends on employer vs employee social capital:
Do I ‘own’ social networking contacts?
I run a national retail business employing over 100 sales representatives who are encouraged to use social networking sites, such as LinkedIn, to market the business and build contacts. I’m [...]