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The following is a Facebook chat I had with someone who just set up their Facebook account. Their co-workers had insisted they set up an account and they caved. Then the revelations set in:

5:31pm Joe
And you can even chat across Facebook. weeeeee

5:38pm xxxxx
what?
omg
this is weird

5:38pm Joe
kewl eh?

5:38pm xxxxx
interesting…

5:39pm xxxxx
so this whole time i’ve been actually working when i come to work, but everyone else has been playing around on facebook???

5:39pm Joe
pretty much, yeah
you’re probably solely responsible for keeping your company afloat

5:41pm xxxxx
crap

 

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Yahoo! just announced something that I think, if handled properly, may be a huge coup for online news and may also represent print media handing over the reins to their last cash cow to online media.

NEW YORK, Jun 04, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) — To help merchants drive footsteps and sales, Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq: YHOO) today announced the launch of the Yahoo! Circular Program, enabling retailers for the first time to deliver personalized newspaper circulars directly to consumers across the Yahoo! network based on their interests.

Tags:   advertising · news · online advertising · online media · print media · sales · Yahoo1 Comment

A new sandwich, ice cream, and coffee shop has sprung to life right across the street from our offices in Ferndale. Before there was a place 1/2 mile away that many PRWebbers would walk to en masse and take over their outside dining area. Maybe we’ve found a new lunch spot to camp at.

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Apparently someone at Comcast sees Plaxo as something other than a company that builds their business by spamming their users’ address books. I can’t count the times I received an apologetic email from a well-intentioned friend who had wandered into Plaxo-land only to discover they had just unleashed an undesired email barrage to their entire address book.

Comcast to acquire contact manager Plaxo - Yahoo! News

“Comcast is looking at Plaxo to become the social media backbone of its products.”

Maybe it will now just die and go away. I can only hope.

UPDATE: Sheesh, I forgot that Comcast doesn’t really understand what spam is. No wonder.

UPDATE 2: Marshall at ReadWriteWeb agrees and adds a good point about the lunacy of placing all your social media eggs in your ISP’s basket. About as silly as using your ISP for your primary email account.

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Lee Odden posted a new status on his Facebook profile recently that says he’s ignoring content coming via Facebook except for direct messages. His short explanation, “so much noise” says it all.

It’s got to be a challenge when you’re someone of Lee’s level of online popularity. A challenge to not blow off those who wish to associate themselves with you, while at the same time choking off the noise they bring to the party so that you can actually benefit from the platform. Heck dealing with social media noise is even a challenge at my meager level of participation.

Tags:   Internet · networking · online · social network · social networking1 Comment