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LINKEDIN CAN BE ADDICTIVE! :-pAlthough I’ve been a member on LinkedIn since August 2006, I’ve not published my LinkedIn profile to the Web NOR tried to connect with anyone there. That is, until Lunar New Year’s eve three days ago, However, now that I’m running a business, professional networking has become important. Further, my ...
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WHAT IMPACT DO YOUTUBE and other social media have on human behavior today? Check out this 55-min video presentation at the Library of Congress, June 23rd 2008, produced by Dr Michael Wesc …
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JOHN EDWARDS, presidential candidate in the USA, added me as a friend on Twitter last night. Something like this in Singapore — say, PM Lee did this — would definitely make headline news. I presume it’s nothing in the States by now? So now, on my Followers page, I have the honor ...
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I’VE BEEN BLOGGING CASUALLY since 2003, that is, until four months ago. Now that I’m offering training workshops on blogs, I decided to revamp my blog towards the end of last year. Recently, it occured to me that the pagerank of my blog is quite important. However, I’ve been quite mystified ever since I tried ...
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FOUND THIS INTERESTING LINK ON a Facebook friend’s profile when I was about to post a birthday greeting to her. I agree with the author, Dan York, who wrote:The only reason I visit a web site these days is generally if either:The website turns up in a search result.I get notified that there’s something interesting ...
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GLOBAL WHITE POPULATION are expected to plummet from a high water mark of 27.86% in 1950 to a single digit (9.76%) by 2060, according to this video (3:56 mins) by the National Policy Institute (NPI), a think tank based in Augusta, Georgia in the United States. Blacks or sub-saharan Africans, on the other hand, will ...
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The software linking the world is fundamentally American, said BG Yeo in a speech at the Global Governance Conference at the Four Seasons Hotel, Singapore on 5 December 2008.“If we look at globalisation today, it is really an American construct, the hyperlink - the HTML language, the XML language - is basically an American language. ...
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JAPANESE ARE READING BLOGS more than Americans, Koreans, British, and French, according to survey results announced by Japan’s premier international PR consultancy Edelman and reported in …
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ALEXA RANKINGS ARE BIASED, reported Loren Baker in Search Engine Journal last week. Apparently, Google Director of Research Peter Norvig recently compared his site’s Alexa score with those …
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A summarized list of 2007 Web predictions made by Richard MacManus, Ebrahim Ezzy, Emre Sokullu, Alex Iskold and Rudy De Waele on the Read/Write Web blog:Structured Data: RSS integrated into Microsoft’s new Vista OS, Yahoo Mail, Google Base. Interesting RSS services. More e-commerce and multimedia widgets expected. Google forging ahead with its own standards, largely ...
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“…SOCIAL MEDIA IS FREE, until the community manager headcount came in.” - Brian Wallace of BlackberryDavid Armano observed in his blog at Harvard Business Today “a …
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FINALLY, I CAN CLAIM MY BLOG ON TECHNORATI.Just received an email message from a support guy. He wrote:Please accept my sincerest apologies for the delay in getting back to you. We’ve been experiencing a backlog in support and are working hard to address everyone. I’ve taken a look to see why you are ...
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“OH NO! Not another social network!” Do you get this feeling nowadays? Social networks seem to sprout out like wild grass every week, don’t they? Perhaps you even get tired looking at the numerous unfamiliar icons in the GoToWeb20 website (screenshot below, right), or simply reading news summaries? Are you like me, wishing that these ...
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FIRST, Vatican website editorial director Sister Judith Zoebelein was interviewed by Robert Scoble at the recent LIFT conference. They discussed the challenges of building and running a site for a 2000-ish-year-old organization.SECOND, the Podcast Awards for 2006 are out (don’t know when… does it matter?). Among the winners were:
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Noteworthy news over the past week or so:FIREFOX 3 will go beyond HTML rendering to provide Information Broking services based on microformats (which add semantics to markup). For example, “the contact information you see on a Web site will be associated with your favorite contacts application, events will be associated with your favorite calendar application, ...
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SOME 93% OF TEENS USE THE INTERNET in 2007 (compared to 87% in 2005), and more than ever are treating it as a venue for social interaction – sharing creations, telling stories, and interac …
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IN 2008, the growth rates in Internet users among the top 10 emerging markets in the world (China, India, Russia, Brazil, Mexico, Turkey, Indonesia, Iran, Poland, and Saudi Arabia) will su …
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IN NOVEMBER LAST YEAR (2008), my blog was supposed to be “ESTJ - The Guardians”:AND NOW (JANUARY 2009), my blog is supposed to be “INTJ - The Scientists”:
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From BEYOND SG, a blog shared with Harold Fock, Singapore’s Minister of Foreign Affairs BG George Yeo wrote:I was reminded by Ephraim that today is the second anniversary of my first …
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THE BRANDS MOST ENGAGED IN SOCIAL MEDIA are also experiencing higher financial success rates than those of their non-engaged peers, according to a new study released by enterprise wiki pro …
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