Hmm, if miracle of miracles Kaka goes to Chelsea I’ll go to his home town of Taguatina and walk into his cousin’s gym (yes, I’ve been there, alright?) in my Chelsea tracksuit (yes, I own one, alright?) and ask if their are discount rates for Chelsea fans, alright?! CARLO ANCELOTTI is emerging as [...]
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Microsoft report on social networking + advertising
Nice PDF of a Microsoft report on social networking and advertising — could be useful to someone?
Business Social Software Jeopardy
“Community sites run by companies need to contain at least 10% negative content in order to be regarded as credible. I take this with something of a pinch of salt because perceptions around service vary among different geographies. Even so, it’s always useful to hear when service sucks because that’s the primary way things change.”..
Social networking cold war?
Last November, when Google launched Open Social we asked readers if Facebook would join Google’s platform. The results were split right down the middle, but as we get farther from the Open Social launch, and the two sites continue to launch competing APIs (Google FriendConnect vs. Facebook Connect, for example — the former banned by Facebook), that seems less and less likely. This is becoming a social networking cold war according to Duncan Riley..
Challengegringo.com for sale
A quick note to say I’ve put the domain challengegringo.com up for sale on sedo.co.uk.
Vidal on the US election campaign
C4’s Jon Snow interviews Gore Vidal on the US election campaign..
Shell Livewire website gets social networking
Shell LiveWIRE has over 25 years experience encouraging young people to start and develop their own business, and now has a social network to take this task on..
Why taking cognitive enhancing drugs when you can just get older?
Hmm, interesting piece in the NY Times, while this applies to older people and how they think differently its a way of mentally approaching the world which I kind of like myself, though it’s taken some hard work to get there, I’m looking forward to my ‘early retirement’ so to speak..
Clusters for hire
I read this morning that there’s a new service (Aster) to (eg user generated) large sites which will provide low-cost clustered analytics for huge quanities of data. Wonder if they’ve figured you can use networked PS3’s to do this for low cost and high power as they have at Stanford?