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Blood from stone: Don't focus on ad revenue from social networking services | Charlie Schick

Charlie writes: "(...) Your core service drives the interaction with the customer, but the money can come from some other area.

But, be careful where you _think_ you can get the money. (...) Online social networking services thrive because they are a form of social lubrication. (...) Yes, social network is the concentrator, but what the folks end up doing is where the money's at. (...)"

Interesting comment from Stefan Constantinescu: "(...) recommendation engine may sound unsexy now, but they will LEAD the next generation of corporate buy outs and be the foundation for the services we use in the upcoming decade. (...)"

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Dugg: Turning loss and pain into success and gain | Christopher Evatt

One of Chris's most hands-on blog post that I've read, with practical advice on overcoming difficulty and on positive thinking.

"(...) attracting to yourself people and circumstances that fit your new mood. The Law Of Attraction in action! That ’s how it works: positive thoughts causing positive emotions, causing positive experiences, causing more positive thoughts and more positive emotions etc etc …a virtuous spiral building on itself. Keep feeding that spiral! (...)"

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Dugg: Poets of the Fall - unplugged at the Nokia HQ canteen | josschuurmans on Ovi

"Poets of the Fall" were playing live over lunch today in one of the canteens at Nokia House, the company's headquarters in Espoo, Finland. Recorded with a Nokia N95 and shared on Ovi.com.

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Dugg: Reuters' "mojo" experiments with Nokia | Jemima Kiss

"(...) Reuters' journalists are experimenting with the potential of mobile journalism through a project with Nokia's research centre. (...)"

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Can the Cellphone Help End Global Poverty? | New York Times

"(...) “Just in time” is a manufacturing concept that was popularized by the Japanese carmaker Toyota (...) Toyota became, in essence, lighter on its feet (...) There are a growing number of economists who maintain that cellphones can restructure developing countries in a similar way. Cellphones, after all, have an economizing effect. (...)"

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Dugg: Management By Blogging Around (MBBA) | Steve Crescenzo

"(...) Management By Blogging Around. What a wonderful concept. Now, maybe this isn't all that new. Maybe Shel Holtz will come out here and tell me that MBBA has been around for years. But it's the first I heard of it. Of course, it will only work if employees are allowed to blog in the first place . . . so it probably won’t catch on anytime soon. (...)

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Dugg: Lifeblog: Scobleized! | Charlie Schick

"(...) He then whipped up his phone and started recording live, with questions coming from his audience.* I basically told him what we were up to in Social Media Communications and such.

(...) *Heck, this was real interactive TV and no one is calling it that. Interactive TV dies and then was reborn and no one noticed. (...)"

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links for 2008-04-11

• josschuurmans's public channel on Share on Ovi
  Jos Schuurmans's public channel on Share on Ovi.
  (tags: Jos Schuurmans josschuurmans vanity Share Ovi Twango)

links for 2008-04-09

• FriendFeed
  "(...) get a customized feed made up of the content that your friends shared — from news articles to family photos to interesting links and videos. FriendFeed automatically imports shared stuff from sites across the web, so if your friend favorites a vi
  (tags: FriendFeed RSS aggregator social)
• FriendFeed - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  "(...) FriendFeed is a Social Network Aggregator (...) allows individuals who are using multiple social networks to provide themselves and others with a consolidated stream of details of all their activities on the all the different social networks that t
  (tags: FriendFeed RSS social network aggregator Wikipedia)
• Conversations's public channel on Share on Ovi
  Nokia Conversations' public channel on Ovi.
  (tags: Nokia Conversations Ovi Twango)

links for 2008-04-08

• Audio Network Production Music Library
  "(...) Audio Network cuts through the traditionally complex and costly processes of licensing music by pre-clearing all its tracks for worldwide use. (...)"
  (tags: Audio Network production music library licensing)
• WIKINOMICS | HOME
  "(...) Wikinomics explains how to prosper in a world where new communications technologies are democratizing the creation of value. (...)"
  (tags: Wikinomics Don Tapscott N-gen)