Wow, I’m sensing another TechMeme Storm rising (and a certain analyst would call it a circle j***, but that’s another matter). Robert Scoble says he was wrong when he said In 2006 he wouldn’t use any news aggregator or feeds that aren’t full text . I think the Scobleizer is wrong now that he says he was wrong. :-) His key argument is that his reading habits changed, he relies...
I’m generally not tracking the “post ads to your social networks” movement, be it sponsored blog posts or tweeting ads to your followers on Twitter. There is one aspect to it that I think is most important: disclosure. Robert Scoble has a post up, More thoughts on in-Tweet advertising , where he notes that he unfollowed people on Twitter who were running ads: So, I unfollowed and...
As part of the latest trend in online advertising, ad companies are paying normal people to pimp companies or products to their online friends or followers. According to the New York Times , companies think that consumers will be more likely to trust the opinions of their Facebook friends than they are a faceless commercial -- even if those "opinions" are formed with the promise of financial...
Just saw this IKEA campaign using Facebook. It's certainly different. Robert Scoble posted it on Friendfeed. Which happens to have been bought by Facebook.
The topic of whether in-stream advertising has heated up. I just read well written pieces on the topic by Ross Kimbarovsky , Robert Scoble , Paul Carr and the NY Times . I myself recently covered the topic when I spoke about why GRP Partners invested in Ad.ly . Let me lay out my defense of In-Stream Advertising because I believe the topic is really important. 1. People feel angst about advertising...
Robert Scoble has posted some thoughts on how Twitter's promised monetisation tools could work (worth reading the comment thread on that too).Targeted advertising is at the heart of it, but the execution is non-interruptive and doesn't mess with the 140-character message format that we all know and many of us love.I'm interested to hear from business owners and marketers on this. Do you see the value...
Keith Teare was hanging around the Real-Time CrunchUp today showing off his newest project - Speedi.ly . What does Speedi.ly do? One thing, very well and at scale. Speedi.ly takes a piece of content, or grabs the content from a URL, and analyzes it. It does this very fast and it outputs some key data. Speedi.ly tells you the language of the content, categorizes it (topics, keywords), and additional...
RT @Scobleizer: Blog Post: All about my Twitter lists: http://bit.ly/3Kriej < Good ideas for getting best from lists # @rfenwick Good thing I didn't pick that other night... in reply to rfenwick # Reminder how long old tech lingers for - 30k in UK still have black and white TV licenses http://bit.ly/4kVEds [...]
RT @Scobleizer: Blog Post: All about my Twitter lists: http://bit.ly/3Kriej < Good ideas for getting best from lists # @rfenwick Good thing I didn't pick that other night... in reply to rfenwick # Reminder how long old tech lingers for - 30k in UK still have black and white TV licenses http://bit.ly/4kVEds [...]
Twitter Lists, a feature designed to let you organize the people whom you follow into groups that are shareable with others, has picked up steam since rolling out publicly a few weeks ago. In fact, nearly 9 million lists have already been created. The Twitter List function helps cut down on the noise in your Twitter feed and can lead to new discoveries of people worth following. Searching for lists...
“I read thousands of news sources for tech industry information and the Next Web is on my short list of “must read” Robert Scoble Yes, it’s worth the double exclamation mark in the title. :) Last month we announced the launch of a number of international blogs, these include a selection of continent blogs (in English) [...]
By Chris Maxcer, MacNewsWorld So Facebook developer Joe Hewitt tweets that he's ditching the super-popular Facebook iPhone app , and TechCrunch, clearly sensing there's more to the story here, reaches out to learn why. "My decision to stop iPhone development has had everything to do with Apple's policies," Hewitt told TechCrunch. "I respect their right to manage their platform however...
It's one of the social networking revolution's more unpleasant elements – that awkward moment of realization that a separation needs to (or has) occur(ed). The reasons for one are legion: There's the "it's not you, I just can't keep up with everyone" (Robert Scoble, we're looking at you). Or "I added ...
Chippy / UMPCPortal: Sponsorship-supported Crunchpad is alive. ‘Steamrolling’ says Arrington. — I should have been in bed but I got hooked into an excellent Gillmor Gang videocast (below) this evening. Robert Scoble, Mike Arrington, P Rangaswami, Kevin Marks, and Saul Hansell talk a lot about the iPhone and Driod war …