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Noise Aggregators

Posted by Thomas Purves on March 24, 2008 | Comments (3) | Trackbacks (0)

Jevon has a great post up today on how the new trend towards social aggregators is missing the point.
I’ve called these things underpants business models. Collecting a lot of people’s seemingly-useless personal stuff in one place, but then, through some magical step 2, everyone profits. I, like Jevon, and everyone else, are still waiting for [...]

Tags: aggregators, barf, social, streaming
Categories: socialgraft, socialgraph, socialmedia

Facebook Fatigue, it’s Spreading

Posted by Thomas Purves on November 9, 2007 | Comments (3) | Trackbacks (0)

Do you feel like the applications are killing Facebook? For all the gold rush and hoopla surrounding the Facebook platformitization, is it living up to expectations?
I don’t think it is. The world could use a great social operating system. But the best applications on facebook are still the original ones: pictures, events, the basic poke.
The [...]

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Categories: Attention Viruses, facebook, memes, socialgraft, socialmedia

Social Network Optimization is the new SEO/SEM

Posted by Thomas Purves on October 26, 2007 | Comments (2) | Trackbacks (0)

Or, how to buy friends and influence people:

“need someone with knowledge on how to post and title youtube videos and digg articles in a compelling manner… will be paid bonuses for results (ie getting on the first page of Digg, getting lots of viewers, comments, channel subscribers etc) in Youtube” -NYCraigslist Posting

“We need someone [...]

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Categories: facebook, marketing, myspace, sno, socialgraft, socialmedia

What you need to know about FaceBook

Posted by Thomas Purves on October 11, 2007 | Comments (2) | Trackbacks (0)

fbcamp crowd My home town Toronto held FacebookCamp to another near-soldout crowd. I’d say approaching 250. You really can’t swing a cat in this town without someone tagging the cat on facebook.