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November 1, 2007 – 1:17 pmI hope everyone had a happy Halloween yesterday! I just woke up after spending a long night being dressed as a pirate (pictures to come). It was quite enjoyable. Many didn’t recognize me, which lead to a lot of staring and attention. Sure, it was like buying attention, but who the hell cares?! Advertisers do it, so why can’t I? Anyhow, here are some thoughts through the day…
Read through a number of live blogging notes from SMX. You can see them on my del.icio.us so I don’t have to create a bunch of links and save post space to keep it somewhat pretty :) All the sessions are a great read but the two I want to point out specifically are Micro-Communities and Yahoo! Answers. Having just recently wrote about conversations actually being a facet of micro-communities, the session piqued my interest. It was nothing new and amazing, but it’s important because it tells the story of companies needing to take the time to understand the communities’ culture before anything else. Yahoo! Answers was a valuable one because I wasn’t aware the degree of success companies were having by using Yahoo! Answers in their social media marketing mix.
I’ve been thinking even more about Twitter and Facebook Status, too (terrible I know). Based on the kind of projection I did earlier this week on Twitter, I wonder if I was slightly behind in it. What I mean is, and while I’m not wholly sure, I feel like Twitter has already done a fair job to solidify itself as the micro-blogging platform where as Facebook’s Status is much more of the life streaming concept. While some use Twitter as a life streaming tool, it seems to me the majority are using it as more of micro-blogging.
Just got into the BookGlutton beta. I always like social things, and thus far their social book reader seems to be functioning pretty well. I’m reading Notes from the Underground and the ability to chat and comment on specific parts of the book is neat. About the only complaint is the lack of books, but meh, they’re in beta so their list will grow.
Google’s OpenSocial is set to be live sometime today (or a day or two after). For some great details on it, you can check out Marc Andreessen’s blog. OpenSocial is built around the “social graph” concept that a lot of people have been excited about. If you’re curious as to what that’s all about, you can read lots on it from Fitzpatrick who is leading this whole charge from inside Google.
I wore Mascara eye liner as a pirate. Getting it off is not so fun.
