This is so cool. Look at how much email is sent out everyday. 900, 000 blog posts are published everyday. Amazing.

So well done! I love this.

You’re Zucked!
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Yes, that’s the new catch phrase for when someone either steals your
business idea or screws you as a business partner.

Who’s been Zucked and how? Let’s take a look back:

1. FourSquare was Zucked when Facebook stole their check-in feature.
2. Twitter was Zucked when Facebook stole their public facing profiles.
3. Facebook users got Zucked when the site flipped their privacy
setting–three different times!
4. The co-founder of Facebook was allegedly Zucked when he was kicked
out of the company he helped found.
5. The founders of ConnectU got Zucked when he allegedly screwed them
over by not delivering their social network and then launching
Facebook at the same time–and joked about it!
6. Harvard reporters reportedly got Zucked when Mark hacked their
accounts to try and stop a negative story/investigation about him.

You can only screw people for so long before it catches up to you. The
entire industry went from rooting for Zuckerberg to hating him and
Facebook–in under 18 months.

Peter Rojas and Matt Cutts have turned off their Facebook pages, and
more intelligent people everywhere are talking about doing so.

Zuckerberg represents the best and worst aspects of entrepreneurship.
His drive, skill and fearlessness are only matched by his long
record–recorded in lawsuit after lawsuit–of backstabbing, stealing
and cheating.

This is just a small piece of an excellent article. Go read every word twice.

It is amazing that Zuckerberg has gotten away with so much. I am happy that the truth is out and he is exposed for what he is.

Facebook's behavior makes Twitter's look angelic. That is no easy feat.

We've all been Zucked!

"Stop Facebook and save the world" indeed!

P.S- I suppose it is OK to curate. Jason did post it himself. :)

Updated version of the epic video Erik Qualman put out last year for his book, Socialnomics.

Great work!

I broke down and use the word "iPad" do I really have to say "Twannotations"?

I kinda want Conan O'Brien to come to BlissDom now. :)

I love me some Conan. That is all.

Twitter is becoming a more robust and extensible platform, but they seem married to their limitations in terms of content. Facebook has added many FriendFeed-like features, but they have also acted in a way that makes me uncomfortable in terms of changing the rules of privacy in the middle of the game, while also locking away other pieces of content that should, in my mind, be public. In my position as somebody who manages Facebook pages for multiple clients, I could never delete my account (and leave them rudderless), but simply expect that all my data there will be discoverable and public and searchable, despite their promises to the contrary.

 

The world of social networking is not a zero-sum game. For Buzz to succeed does not mean that either of the other networks have to fail. In fact, it doesn't even mean that Buzz has to be the biggest network on the planet. But it does mean that it should have the potential to be the best. I need a powerful aggregation tool that watches my activity on Google Reader and native blogs, but also offers the option to share photos and videos in a public way. Buzz does that. I need a powerful tool that lets me find friends' updates from around the Web and engage with them in a central location. Buzz does that.

 

Louis makes great points as usual. He explains why Twitter is a fantastic tool, Facebook is a necessary evil (I agree) and how it is such a shame that Facebook bought Friendfeed and let it wither.

Bit Rebels has a great post up about Illustrated Tweets from http://twaggles.com. Funny!

This video is flat out fantastic. Great animation and excellent metrics. Well done!

You will be shocked at the percentage of email that is spam. Take a guess what do you think it would be?

I can't say enough good things about this article in Mashable. While bloggers and publishers are trying to build their sites, the Social Web is quickly changing the whole game. Neilsen data shows that because of Social Media's impact on how we engage online, more and more people want to get their content in a news feed style or stream. Your content has to go everywhere, and this article helps you spread content in a smart way.

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Once you have identified your digital center, connect it to all your other social networks. Think of your digital center as the hub and the other networks as the spokes of a wheel. The idea is to create the content once. In today’s world of the siteless web, your customers are choosing their own digital centers, and chances are, they’re not the same as yours. You need spokes to make sure you’re reaching everyone you need to and, more importantly, everyone who wants information from you. And, since we’re all short on time, making this process automated and intelligent is key. Here’s how you can do this:

• Filter: The expectations on each social network are different. Understand your audiences on each and tailor your content accordingly. Twitter has a different vocabulary (hashtags, RT) than Facebook (). Your readers on Facebook may find it odd to see a hashtag in their stream.
• Control the flow: If you are creating multiple pieces of content per day, it is important to not send it out all at once. The half-life of a piece of content in social media is measured in hours. Things are flowing through your audience’s stream all day long. To keep their attention and increase the opportunity for them to see your content, regulate the flow, just like a dam. Hold some things back. Track the time of day you are seeing the most engagement and adjust your flow accordingly.
• Customize: With the amount of content your audience is seeing in a day, yours may go unnoticed as they scan their stream. The headline is now more than ever, the most important sentence you write. Add in some branding elements –- it doesn’t need to be over the top. Just let your audience know where it is coming from, especially if you are cross-posting.

I hope this article will stop all the people who import all their Twitter updates to their Facebook stream. Filter for the individual networks people!