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Tis the season for Top 10 lists…

by Dave Gehring on December 18, 2009

About now, the media and blogosphere start publishing lists of the most important things that happened during the course of the year.  I’ll be referencing here some of the Top 10 lists I find and think are most interesting. Top 10 Biggest Social Media Stories of 2009 This post in Vator.tv by Ronny Kerr lists [...]

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First Sidewiki; now real time spam

by Dave Gehring on December 10, 2009

I just finished reading Rae Hoffman’s post in the Outspoken Media blog about Google’s new real time search inclusion of Tweets.  Now tweets deemed relevant to a keyword search appear at the top of the SERP evidently assigning huge value to recency in the algorithm.  Hoffman does an excellent job of outlining why this is [...]

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Book Review: Googled, The End of the World as We Know It

by Dave Gehring on December 4, 2009

I just finished reading Ken Auletta’s new book: Googled, The End of the World as We Know It. Auletta delivers on many levels with this book.  As a general corporate biography, Auletta was given the kind of access required to compose a compelling story about the development of the business as well as the role [...]

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Executive, Legislative, Judicial…and News?

by Dave Gehring on November 20, 2009

These are economic times when you need to be either creating something, selling something or maybe establishing new channels for something to be sold.  In my industry, that means you’re either writing software, selling software or building a new channel for more software to be sold.  Everything else is a bit expendable. I think this [...]

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Droid born on date: 102909

by Dave Gehring on October 28, 2009

Today Verizon and Motorola launched the first Android phone.  Here’s news from a guy who was there, Saul Hansell. The sure-to-follow-marketing effort will leave us all wondering when Android will become self aware and decide to enslave the human race. Regardless, I’m pretty darn excited about the launch actually.  Granted, not being a gadget guy, [...]

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Sidewikify me please

by Dave Gehring on October 27, 2009

So, the new thing seems to be Google’s Sidewiki service.  Actually, I’m not sure it’s a service, in fact, I’m not sure what it is, so maybe they have a team putting together a new nomenclature for Sidewiki which will finally steal some momentum from the Twitter vocabularly….which interestingly enough got us all to stop [...]

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