Digital Vacuum.

iRecently met with a web media strategist for a position i hold. iWas quite interested to meet him, but out the gate I sound his coyness to be quite condescending. He kept pushing ideas such as social networking, mobile communication, and all these eventual norms in the present day. Clearly they are useful to marketers, iHave had success using myspace, facebook, jaiku, whatever – but this man was insinuating us to drop our business model – I could feel his seething contempt for our 20th century ways. It was as if he wasn’t interested in anything we were doing and what made us a national powerhouse, it was as what he could do better than us, like… right now.

So can a DeVry graduate with a good head on his shoulders. So big whoop. Fact is: hard work, homework, and seeing right through people will get you further along in business the latest greatest destination of the digital bandwagon. Sure, we are all going social/mobile, but what then? Where is the advantage if everyone is doing it… I ask you this.

Google, Sex, & Elliot Spitzer

Yikes. Not your typical headline but… that is exactly what the American public got this morning in newspapers & media outlets across the country. The governor has left the building. How does such a righteous pundit of all good and clear smear such an ascending career? Easy, the man was human. Find out more about the woman, Ashley Alexandra Dupre, on her Myspace page.

The man likely curious after his attorney general investigations unveiled, the now infamous, “Emperors club” What was it? Could I take a peek? Use a little blackmail? Fight evil for my family & state and then take a sip of the nectar? That’s not so bad is it? No, not really, unless your the attorney general that fights for the moral cause. Or a senator from Florida that saves youth and pages interns to come over, or a pastor that call homosexuality tha bain of existence and engages in it, then lies about it, or a mediocre business blue blood that decides late in a human’s life he wants to go into politics and do things his way no matter how many die, or nations are scored.

Ahhh to be human. To be human is to fuck up and move on. pick up the pieces, pull yourself together, what it maybe and anything it takes, we gotta keep this thing turing ’round for us and if we are to survive, forgive, and keep having sex.

MySpace, Sex, and Pandora’s box: 12.6.2007

MySpace is becoming MyProblem. Why? Too many people “adding me” and for the wrong reasons. Here are a few reason people ad me and what they post shortly after they have infiltrated myspace added me as a ‘friend.”

1. Gucci Purse

2. Local show in San Diego Dude

3. Sex solicitation

4. New Album that didn’t make it to stores

5. New Single that didn’t make it to the radio

6. Fresh Party at their house

7. A really great opportunity that insists that i click somewhere

8. A great place to meet singles, ukraine is out of the way

9. Massive flash/bandwidth hungry “thanks for the add” glitter ad.

10. Tom writes like he knows me, he pretends to be my friend

>>>AUDIO PODCAST FOR 12.6.2007

Top 10 2009 Macworld Keynote Speaker Replacements.

Alright Steve-O! That’s right. Steve Jobs will be the keynote speaker at this year’s upcoming Macworld event. And while this is good news, it is not unexpected. But what if Steve didn’t head Macworld? iSuspect that he may choose not to in 2009, but that is far, far away. Here is a top 10 replacements list for him in 2009.

Top 10 people to replace Steve Jobs @ macworld 2009.

Google, Sex, and Pandora’s box: 11-28-2007

This segment has moved to, Googleverything.com in the 2.0weblogs family. 

Oh Google, how I use thee.

Do we all, what do you use Google for/ Search? Adsense, adwords, maps, email… The list goes on and on. Remember Froogle, that was never so good. One time I bought a battery for my Nokia 3650 and it never came, i wrote the company a few times, and once they wrote back saying it would come, which was strange, but no they used me and my $24 to buy something noice to wear that day. perhaps it is the person on the right, yet the only thing frugle about her seems to be her lack of clothes.

So what do you use Google for? mySpace, Facebook, eharmony, jdate, singles, classifieds, job search,to find yahoo?

Hulu vs. You Tube.

 

Hulu is a big time backed on-line tv service that is like a joost/you tube hybrid, with commercials… and no dvr.

However, the Video is far superior & cleaner. Like a MySpace clutter, to a streamlined facebook, that is sort of how hulu vs. youtube works out. The content is a million time less, yet 100 times better quality if not more.
It has much higher video quality than you tube, and in a way a little less than joost. There are other on-line services such as blip.tv, and babel, but those really don’t compare to the likes of hulu.

It is very good, full Simpson’s, in high quality, the office, airwolf… all sorts of goodies. And no copyright infringement that I know of.So it is still in beta, but worth checking out. It’s good service, and yet so different from you tube, which is user content controlled, hulu is studio content controlled, check it out today.

www.hulu.com

MySpace + Google = LinkedIness. Is Facebook Ready to Rumble?

 

Google & MySpace are taking on the growing (threatening) Facebook crowd and the ENTIRE developing community.
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Why? Bling & because they can. How? Search baby. Lots & Lots of search.

That means more that simply “Rachel Ray Gum care” it means, when you are looking for people on MySpace, your eyes are gazing over tonns of ads, which Google wants to promote through its adwords system (adsense not so much.)

Oh… well, strange bedfellows. Hardly.

iF you remember in internet dog years Google & Fox’s MySpace inked a 900 million dollar ad partnership. iRemember at the time how funny it seemed that Google would pay that much for a company, Rupert and his Aussie crew paid a nickle under 600 million USD for. Hmmm, what was going on back then?Well, iFigure Google tried to work the social networking thing with lobbiest and behind closed doors as it built up a plan b, back-up plan is hugely popular google services like, iGoogle & Gmail 2.0whatever didn’t take off… well they didn’t not at the rate Google is used to anyhow, y’know like how their stock have tripled twice and then some (about 8x since the initial IPO.) ay ay ay.So what now?

Watch the deals unfold. Google announed this Open Social Circle thing the other day, it sounds pretty bland actually, but if you read between the lines it get V-a-r-r-r-r-y interesting.Google wants to double the size of the internet. Like.. that. iThink they announced the open social to see what we (the public) thought, not much, so they waited a day and announced MySpace, Bling! Like Lassie’s ears when Timmy drops in a well, we are listening, and this is what they said…

“MySpace, the world’s largest social network, and Google, Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) today announced that they are joining forces to launch OpenSocial— a set of common APIs for building social applications across the web. The partnership spearheads an initiative to standardize and simplify the development of social applications. Today’s announcement underscores MySpace’s commitment to supporting standards that foster innovation in an increasingly social Web.

”That’s from the press release, here is what some of the key players said…

NYT Article, ” Jia Shen, the chief technology officer of RockYou, a top developer, said his company would still concentrate much of its efforts on Facebook. “Facebook is still the default social network you are going to go with right now,” he said.

MSNBC dice. “”In the short term, you could view it as Google and MySpace on the one hand, and Microsoft and Facebook on the other,” said Ray Valdes, an analyst at Gartner, pointing to Microsoft’s advertising partnership and recent investment in Facebook. “There are others yet to weigh in,” he added, including internet giants such as Yahoo!, Ebay and Amazon, all of which maintain a certain amount of “social” data on their users.

Facebook has become the focus of intense Silicon Valley buzz since it opened its site to outside developers in May. That move sparked a flurry of interest as professional and amateur developers raced to build new features that took advantage of the connections between users on the Facebook site.

However, Facebook uses its own proprietary technology for this purpose, meaning that applications written for its site cannot be used elsewhere on the Web. That contrasts with Google’s new OpenSocial technology, which seeks to establish a standard that can be applied across any network that uses it.”

And on and on… Everyone wants to make is MSFT & Facebook vs. Google & Everyone else… Well that isn’t a fair fight, especially when you throw myspace & google together with linked in, orkut, bebo, and god know who else.

The most intersting thing about this is WILL the google devloping source for open social become, an open source social? The quote from the FT/MSNBC article is right, history is betting against “forced Devlopement” crap, the Open Development Association cancelled its support of the Open Document today (why, i know now) yet, that was being pushed by one association… microsoft pushed .asp over .php javascript lives and java dies… its all very interesting and makes me want to think about italy for while where the us vs. them isn’t so important, its betting on the right horse, and making sure that the horse you picked it the one that will win, and lord knows fox has tricks up its sleeve, salude!

PS check the new firefox open source plug in for a great italian song that came on and inspired me… anyway, what r ur thoughts?

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Leopard is all hype.

 

Yup, iSaid it….and its true. Here it is Halloween weekend in 2007 and the best dressed costume of the year came from Cupertino. Leopard (OS X) is nothing special. At. All. iBlogged some digg crap calling it a “tipping point” dang, i’ve seen Malcolm Gladwell speak live, even met the man and i am willing to bet he IS NOT considering this marginal OS upgrade a “tipping point.” Or even gives a crap at all. iF Anything it gives MSFT time to kick the sh*t out of Apple again. Sure they got the momentum, SJ (Steve Jobs) will retire within this time frame. He came, he saw, he kicked f”ning ass. But Bill Gates did well too, they both did, and after Leopard, iPhone, iPod and the 45 nm paradigm shift has occured… iPredict Steve will retire. He should in my opinion, obviously he can do whatever he wants forever, he started Apple, he revived it, he made the keypad on my MBP glow, i owe him a foot massage and as awkward as that would be, more awkward still would for Steve to keep, “innovating.” Zaxxon high score reached. Time up. Not “game over…” Anything goes in bidness, but really, for this round, “time up.” Aside from a Ben & Jerry’s ice cream, endorsed motor oil, or personal Hallmark division i don’t know what else the man can do, b/c he HAS DONE EVERYTHING.

Should iStart a Facebook blog or MySpace Blog? Start a WordPress blog.

Where to start your blog? Facebook? MySpace? A YouTube Video Blog? Hells no. WordPress baby. There is much more functionality on having a wordpress.org self hosted blog, but WordPress.com is truly a great system. AND, unlike blogger, vox, typepad, etc. WordPress is open source. Just like parts of Leopard. So get wth the program and lets make the EFF, W3c, and that important committee that sets internet standards happy and keep it fresh, clean, and open source. Self-less WordPress plug, go go godzilla!

How tall is Godzilla?

Where does he go after a fight?

Why does he fight?

Has he been to France?

Is Godzilla really a male, can a god be male?

All this and more, beginning here. Godzilla’s favorite weblog, just follow the rabbit.