Just Your Standard Wiki Type Then, Eh

Ever wondered what it’s like being a man without a country, fighting for pure information? Well, apparently it involves having no social skills whatsoever. Here’s a very funny re-enactment video based on a discussion with two people who claim to have had Julian Assange as a houseguest.

I don’t know about you, but I’m not sure I’d want to give Julian Assange my WiFi password. Go implicate Starbucks, dude!

 

Article source: http://www.woot.com/Blog/ViewEntry.aspx?Id=16874

Why Most Facebook Marketing Doesn’t Work

For almost four years, since the Facebook Platform was launched, I have been involved in delivering Facebook apps for top brands such as CBS, NBC, Lifetime, Universal Music, Visa and more. Here’s what we have learned doesn’t work, and more importantly, what does work.

First, deep campaigns don’t work. Digital agencies love deep, expensive campaigns on Facebook, with tons of pages, interaction, and art. It fits in with how agencies build microsites and websites, and justifies the $100,000-plus price tag that they like to charge. Examples include lightweight games, prediction contests, treasure hunts where you include friends, and such. Unfortunately for agencies and the brands that drop a lot of cash, Facebook users decidedly don’t like deep campaigns.

Article source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/readwriteweb/~3/Y-c38LfUaY0/why_most_facebook_marketing_doesnt_work.php

Google Reader Notes – A new form of micro-blogging.

The micro-blogging space has had trouble picking a winner. Tumblr has shown great promise in its wide user base and social features, while Posterous has had a bit of a technical lead with more formatting options and a high level of geek cred (TweetDeck uses Posterous as their primary blog).

One service that may have been overlooked however is the Google Reader “notes” feature. By creating notes in Google Reader, users who follow you will have your note dropped into their feed. You’re also given the option to add the note to your shared items, so casual browsers looking at your profile will be able to see it. I could easily see industrious geeks piping their shared items or just their notes into a blog platform like WordPress, Posterous, or Tumblr using RSS and some plugins.

If you spend a lot of time in Google Reader (which I will be doing again very soon), this may be a frictionless way to jot down your thoughts and get it “out on the wire” as fast as possible once you have the feed / data plumbing finished. Thoughts? Are others taking advantage of Google Reader’s “notes” feature for content publishing?

http://google.com/reader
https://posterous.com/
http://www.tumblr.com/

Article source: http://www.google.com/reader/item/tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/4c9277974c5e7ccb