article in NYTimes: ThinkEquity Starts Web Log to Gather Ideas

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/17/technology/17place.html?

ThinkEquity Starts Web Log to Gather Ideas

By JENNY ANDERSON

Published: February 17, 2005

BLOGGING transformed political commentary, rattled the media business and inundated the Internet. Does it have a place on Wall Street? ThinkEquity Partners, a boutique investment bank in San Francisco, will find out as it introduces a Web log today. The firm, which specializes in technology, health care and other fast-growing fields, is seeking to make its investment research department - an albatross at most Wall Street firms - relevant.

article in CNN - Tools to ease Web collaboration

http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/internet/02/16/web.collaboration.ap/index.html

Tools to ease Web collaboration

Wednesday, February 16, 2005 Posted: 1:53 PM EST (1853 GMT)

 

DonationPal | SPM Jobs

Besides consulting, I’m putting all of my effort into my two entrepreneurial endeavors:

 

DonationPal

&

SPM Jobs

 

So I don’t have much time to blog.

 

Luckily my dog Sam is a prolific blogger.

Sam the all-black beautiful German shepherd dog

article: Wiki's gaining momentum

 

Thanks to Tony Christopher for sending me this info.

 

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From today's San Jose Mercury, indications of the growing momentum for investment in and corporate use of Wiki capabilities. 

http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/business/columnists/matt_marshall/10671792.htm

 

1/18/05

 

Wiki war born out of Walt Disney deal

By Matt Marshall

Mercury News

 

The battle between the two Silicon Valley wiki companies began in earnest this week. The outcome could say something about Silicon Valley's model of turbo-charged venture capital, and when it's a good time to take money and grow quickly -- or hold off.

 

A wiki, in its simplest form, is a single Web page that can be written upon, and edited, by multiple users at once. Companies are beginning to use wiki software to help their employees coordinate on team projects.

 

For complete article go here:

http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/business/columnists/matt_marshall/10671792.htm

article: The Rise of a New News Network By Om Malik, January 04, 2005 Business 2.0

The traditional news media is going to need to reposition itself.  Yes, I’m a Luddite, but I couldn’t live without a daily fix of the NYTimes.  I also can’t see bloggers doing real in depth analysis or covering well events that span time e.g. global warming, invasive non-native plant threats to the environment, etc. 

 

It seems to me the Social Network Analysis (not the social networking websites, those are just implementations) could be invaluable in vetting the information that is created by individuals.  There has to be some kind of verification as anyone, anywhere can report anything.

 

Cynthia

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http://www.business2.com/b2/web/articles/0,17863,1013980,00.html

The Rise of a New News Network
By Om Malik,  January 04, 2005

 

The 1990s proved to be the decade when cable news networks replaced network television as the primary source of breaking news for many Americans, just as the 1960s saw newspapers supplanted. In the new millennium, a broadband-enabled, always-on Internet threatens to usurp those cable news networks.

 

For the rest of the article go here:

http://www.business2.com/b2/web/articles/0,17863,1013980,00.html

 

 

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blog/net articles by David Kirkpatrick at Fortune

Good summary articles.

 

http://www.fortune.com/fortune/fastforward/0,15704,1014511,00.html

DAVID KIRKPATRICK
The Tsunami and the Net: Global Awareness, Global Response
The web not only gave us real-time news of the gigantic waves' destruction, but also pushed us to help the survivors.
FORTUNE
Wednesday, January 5, 2005
By David Kirkpatrick

 

http://www.fortune.com/fortune/fastforward/0,15704,1012909,00.html

FAST FORWARD
Going Blog Wild!
Personal Internet postings are not only changing how we communicate with each other, but also how business markets to consumers.
FORTUNE
Wednesday, December 29, 2004
By David Kirkpatrick

 

http://www.fortune.com/fortune/technology/articles/0,15114,1011763,00.html

Why There's No Escaping the Blog
Freewheeling bloggers can boost your product—or destroy it. Either way, they've become a force business can't afford to ignore.
By David Kirkpatrick and Daniel Roth

 

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cynthia@typaldos.com  | 408 867-8875 office | 408 828-1370 cell

 

 

2004 Social Media - Best and Worst

I thought it might be interesting if people posted their thoughts on the best and worst of social media (online communities, social software, social networking, etc.) for 2004.  Kind of like the best and worst movie lists.

 

Feel free to push your own site/stuff but just be explicit when you are doing so.

 

Here’s my off-the-top-of-my-head list (but remember, my nickname is “Cynthia the Social Networking Luddite”).

 

BEST:

 

Dogster

Amazon.com’s Listmania: the best way to find what you really want even when you don’t know what it is

www.paidcontent.org by great newsletter/blog about the content industry

The Social Software Weblog by Judith Meskill

All of Robin Good’s stuff (MasterNewMedia)

Dogs that Blog and the dog blogroll there are now 6 dogs in the dog blogroll (which I maintain), 3 of which are written from the dog’s point of you.  Yes, laugh all you like, but a major newspaper will soon be publishing a story on blogging pets.  This could be the hot social networking topic of 2005

 

WORST:

 

Social Networking website business models (are there any?)

BzzAgent (NYTimes article)

Too many social networking sites

 

Dilbert develops a social networking site

http://www.dilbert.com/comics/dilbert/archive/dilbert-20041223.html

 

Great concept but I think it has already been done J

Tribe.net ?

 

Cynthia “the social networking Luddite”

Dog Blogs

more on buzz marketing...

http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article/1105.cfm

What's the Buzz About Buzz Marketing?

“There's a new marketing catchphrase that's getting rave word-of-mouth reviews. From articles in the popular press to conversations in the classroom, huge companies to boutique marketing firms, suddenly it seems you can't talk about new products without addressing 'buzz marketing.' "People are buzzing about buzzing," says Wharton marketing professor Barbara Kahn. "People think it's cool. There is something almost empowering about the idea of being able to 'buzz' your way into the products people buy." “

 

Happy Holidays from Dogster

This is still my favorite social networking site.

-----Original Message-----
From: Dogster! Woof Woof! [mailto:dogsters@dogster.com]
Sent: Thursday, December 09, 2004 10:38 PM
To: Cynthia Typaldos
Subject: Happy Holidays from Dogster


Dear Dogster members,

Woof Woof Bark!

Have you seen the Holiday Picture Party yet? Over 1,550 pets have already
posted a seasonal pix. Is your fluffy part of the fun? Join and you could
win one of fifty free dog or cat books from HCI Publishing. To join the
party or take a stroll, just go to:

http://www.dogster.com/hpp/

By the way, did you know Dogster now has over 51,000 dogs and Catster more
than 15,500 cats! When Dogster launched in January I could barely imagine
10,000 doggies. Now we have two sites; 65,000 pets; 50,000 users from 130
countries; 900,000 friend-to-friend connections; 662,000 pet votes cast;
450,000 treats shared; 352,000 corralled favorites; 40,000 messages sent;
5,000 dairy writers and one really busy web server. I may have put my heart
and soul into this, but without your beautiful photos, colorful entries and
profound love for your furry family members it would be nothing but a bunch
of lonely web code! So, I sincerely thank you and offer virtual belly rubs
and head pats for a job well done.

Also we added more new features. If you want you can control who sends you
friend invites and you can optionally receive an email when you have new
Dogster private messages. We even added a holiday Gift Giving Guide to help
find something for even the pickiest pooches. What other new features would
you like to see in the site? Tell us:
http://www.dogster.com/contact.php

Thanks for loving the sites and know as the years roll by, you'll be able to
say, "I joined Dogster in the very first year!"

Safe holidays and a barktastic new year,

Ted Rheingold
Founder and local Top Dog
http://www.dogster.com

Ben Franklin on professional recommendations

This is an amazing document. It should be the warning label on the home
page of every social networking website. Franklin's so-called
"recommendation letter" is hysterically funny and reminds me of requests I
used to get thru Spoke, where I didn't know either person.

I am posting this to my blog at
http://typaldos.blogspot.com

Thanks to Victor S. Grishchenko for the link.
http://pages.plotinka.ru/~gritzko/recommendation-cite.png

The 'Blog' Revolution Sweeps Across China

The 'Blog' Revolution Sweeps Across China

December 2, 2004
By Xiao Qiang, New Scientist

Meet the bloggers who are keeping one step ahead of the censors

By Xiao Qiang, New Scientist
The "blog revolution" has a particularly revolutionary character in China,
where weblog technology is circumventing government censors by
decentralizing and popularizing the flow of information. By inviting the
Internet behind its "Great Firewall," the Chinese government has unwittingly
opened a Pandora's Box of free discourse that threatens its totalitarian
stranglehold on the media.

The entire story may be viewed at
http://www.utne.com/webwatch/2004_176/news/11478-1.html

Ohmynews - citizen journalism in South Korea

From paidcontent.org

 

--  Ohmynews Profits from Citizen Journalism :Ohmynews, the South Korean citizen's media site, is bringing in almost $500,000 a month in advertising and makes a monthly profit of about $27,000, Asia Times Online reports. (Via EditorsWeblog )The site, which broke even last year, has a full-time staff of 53, including 38 professional reporters and editors, and more than 43,000 citizen journalists paid for their contribitions. Roughly 80 percent of the content is citizen produced.

Against a backdrop on media reform in South Korea, the lengthy article explores the site's reasons for success, including the country's overwhelming adoption of the Internet as a primary source for news and its emphasis on interaction. [Nov.29: Link] | Broadband | [by staci]

 

 

article about Wikipedia in NYTimes re: Bush/Kerry

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/10/arts/10wiki.html?oref=login’

(registration required)

 

Very funny article about the Bush/Kerry areas of Wikipedia.

November 10, 2004

CRITIC'S NOTEBOOK

Mudslinging Weasels Into Online History

By SARAH BOXER

20 reasons why you shouldn't post your picture on the internet

Thanks to SiliconValley.com for this link.
http://www.columbia.edu/~rhee/

article: online feuds a big headache

Online Feuds a Big Headache
Put a bunch of people in one place, give them some items and you're sure to start a fight. Online game companies are figuring out how to deal with it. Daniel Terdiman reports from New York.

 

 

Presidential Guidester - Choose wisely on Election Day!

Just in case you are still undecided re: voting for president.

 

What’s next? 

• “What to Eat for Breakfaster”?
• “Where to Go to Buy Groceriester?”
• “Whose Turn is it to Take out the Trashster?”
• “Should I Orderster a Ventester or Grandester or Tallster Lattester at Starbuckster?”

 

Pretty soon we will be able to use the collective opinions of our friends and colleagues, via the internetster, to make all of our decisions for us J

 

Cynthia

p.s. This is all a take-off on Friendster, which was a take-off on Napster.

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To: cynthia@typaldos.com
Subject: Presidential Guidester - Choose wisely on Election Day!

 

Hi, I want to recommend that you try out Presidential Guidester, which can help you decide how to vote in the upcoming election. Give it a try.

*** Presidential Guidester
http://www.PresidentialGuidester.com/?org=Decidia

 

good article on open access

Open for Business: Why Open Access is Good for Business and Science Publications

By Janice McCallum

From Shorelines newsletter

http://www.shore.com/commentary/newsanal/items/2004/20041025openaccess.html

 

25 October 2004

 

“Many B2B and STM publishers have been struggling to find the right model for distributing their content as they confront pressures that are pushing them towards opening their databases to Web and enterprise search engines. These publishers are seeking the right balance between maximizing the reach and influence of their publications while maintaining the ability to provide - and to be compensated for - premium features for their core readers. If anyone doubts if there are successful business models in an open access environment, they need only look at Google, whose share price has more than doubled since it went public. B2B and STM publishers cannot be Googles, but they can leverage the openness that user-empowering technologies provide to create richer revenue models.”

Read the full news analysis

http://www.shore.com/commentary/newsanal/items/2004/20041025openaccess.html

 

 

 

 

WSJ giving up on subscriptions?

Thanks to alert from www.paidcontent.org

http://www.paidcontent.org/pc/arch/cat_wsj.shtml

 

http://news.com.com/Extra!+Wall+Street+Journal+gives+away+Web+content/2100-1025_3-5423054.html

Extra! Wall Street Journal gives away Web content

By Stefanie Olsen
http://news.com.com/Extra+Wall+Street+Journal+gives+away+Web+content/2100-1025_3-5423054.html

Story last modified October 22, 2004, 1:31 PM PDT

The Wall Street Journal Online, a bastion of subscription-only news on the Web, has begun giving away some content.

In recent months, the business news outfit has been sending nightly e-mail to bloggers, or online diarists, to offer up several daily stories free so that they can point to or link to them from their Web pages. And on Nov. 8, the company plans to remove its paid wall altogether for five days, for the first time in 7 years, according to the company.

For complete story go here:
http://news.com.com/Extra!+Wall+Street+Journal+gives+away+Web+content/2100-1025_3-5423054.html