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How does Marie Arana decide which books to review?
This question must get a lot of attention at the Washington Post. I asked myself this question pondering this morning's Washington Post Book World. I was thinking of Rohit Bha…
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Gmail Activity Limits
Stephen Shankland of CNET news posted this http://news.cnet.com/8301-10784_3-9979697-7.html • Ever wonder what the limits on Gmail activity are? Well, here's the answer, accordi…
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I got scooped By Shel Israel
I say this in a lighter vein ;) as I was glad to see that Shel Israel posted the news of Connie Bensen joining the Network Solutions blogging team . Connie is a great person to ha…
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Lunch Time Karma - KidDesktop.com
Today at the Digital Media Conference I randomly chose a table and had great company. Melissa Clark from Siteworx and Dan Werbel. of http://www.kiddesktop.com . As we ate lunch Dan…
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Digital Media Wire 2008 :Ron Berryman
Fox interactive 186 million unique visitors per month to Fox interactive properties ppl spend 3 hrs and 22 min online ppl spend 3 hrs and 45 min watching TV Media moved from print to…
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Digital Media Conference Analyst Presentations
Shawn DuBravac, Chief Economist, CEA 11 phenomenon Alive and Well moving to a 2nd generation devices analog to digital cameras digital DVDs 360 deg solutions emerging Companies providin…
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Why Do I Blog ?
Liana Evans Interviewed people at Blog Potomac on “Why I Love Blogging”. See the completed masterpiece here: SMG Post on Why I Love Blogging Videos: http://www.searchmarketingguru…
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Meeting Saul Colt - Freshbooks Dinner
I have met Saul Colt - Head if Magic at Fresh Books twice before and he is always so full of ideas and experiences. Did you know he worked for ZipCar before? I am also excited tha…
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Congressmen using Social Media
Here is a Qik video made by a Member of Congress John Culberson who is also on Twitter http://twitter.com/johnculberson . I am really impressed about how tech savvy this Congressma…
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Local phone search heats up In Hyderabad
I just saw a couple of blogs mention that Google has started Voice search in Hyderabad ( I am going to be there in July). The Economic Times has a story where Microsoft is introdu…
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Gary Vanyerchuk Book signing in Rockville MD on 26th June
Washington Post Literary calendar has listed this book signing event with @GaryVee 26th june 2008 7:30 P.M. Gary Vaynerchuk, director of operations at the Wine Library and creator o…
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Jeremiah Owyang's Community Managers and Swamis list of Enterprise Companies
Jeremiah Owyang has a list on his blog W eb-Strategist of Social Media Strategists and Community managers of Enterprise companies (His definition is 1000 employees or more) The diff…
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Listening and acting - Good news from ICANN next week
In advance of next week’s ICANN conference, Network Solutions is putting pressure on the entire industry to place penalty fees on Domain Testing, in hopes of front running forever…
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Small Business Networking Event - Rohit bhargava speaks at Network Solutions
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Hospitality to Social Media on the Adam Zand show today
I enjoyed being on the Adam Zand's Really Big Shoe today Tuesday June 17th. We discussed a lot of things about my career, my background and how I got my present job as the Soc…
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Listen to Adam Zand's Really Big Shoe today with the Swami
I am honored to be invited to the Adam Zand's Really Big Shoe today Tuesday June 17th at 2 p.m. I met Adam Zand at Blog Potomac last week and we had a great corridor conversat…
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GSPEAST - Meeting Patrick Chanezon Open Social API Evangelist- Google
On the 3rd day the first session at GSPEast was a technical overview of "OpenSocial + Google App Engine" by Patrick Chanezon , Paul McDonald of Google. I met Patrick af…
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BlogPotomac - Wish I had met Angelina Jolie
I know a lot of celebrities were there at BlogPotomac at the State Theater in Falls Church but I did not meet Angelina Jolie . We all love Flickr and I use it a lot . Well accordin…
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AP vs. ZDnet
I read the TechCrunch post about their new policy on AP stories http://tinyurl.com/464xu8 and then remembered how different the ZDNet blogs were. On the ZDNet blogs you actually h…
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How to become a PITA Blogger?
I interviewed Technosailor at BlogPotomac and he mentioned that a project is keeping him awake at night (By his own admission he slept at 3.30 a.m the previous day). The project i…
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BlogPotomac - Give your feedback
BlogPotomac on Friday the 13th was educational. I got to talk to a lot of the attendees and speakers and share my thoughts. The conference had the right mix of topics and networki…
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Network with other Entrepreneurs and Rohit Bhargava - Author of Personality Not Included
Monday, June 30, 2008 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM Small Business Networking Event With Rohit Bhargava Author "Personality Not Included" Herndon VA Powerful Solutions for Small Busin…
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Listen to Chris Brogan on your phone thanks to Jott
I follow Chris on Utterz so I already listen to him on my phone. Now there is another way I can listen to his Twsitter feed and for that matter to any of my 1971 friends. The way …
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LiveBlogging Tools
At GSPEast there are several people who were live blogging and the two tools that I saw were. Scribblelive being used by Jimmy Gardner coveritlive used by Technosailor Do you know ot…
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GSPEAST08 - How to keep everyone awake
Not that anyone was sleeping ! Between sessions there was always a funny video on the screen that helped bring a smile to the attendees. Dave McClure spent a lot of time selecting…
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GSPEAST 2008 - My Flickr feed
l pictures tagged : gspeast08 http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=gspeast08&w=all Shashi Bellamkonda feed: http://tinyurl.com/4v87cm
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GSPEAST08 - Frank Gruber moderates panel on White Label Social Networks
From Zero to Community in 60 Seconds: White-Label Social Networks Frank Gruber (Somewhat Frank / TECH cocktail / AOL), Alex Blum (KickApps), Michael Jones (Userplane / AOL), Kerry…
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GSPEAST08 - Dave McClure
5 things that fail on social networks too many friends too many apps virality is dead - go back to working in coal mines ain't no money - bargain rates for women drive…
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Using a .name for your blog like www.shashi.name
Ages ago I had a Blog post Can .Name be the default for Blogs and Social Media? .I was inspired to do this post when I checked out Jill Foster 's new name for her blog http://…
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Kalidas to Kamalesh - Bringing epics back to earth with Google Earth
I spent the weekend reading Kamalesh Dwivedi's book - a translation of "Kalidas' Meghadutam" The book title translates to " Megha " means cloud and &quo…
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One must not marry a blogger.- !8 Reasons Why
This is courtesy of my wife who saw this article here and decided to share what she was reading :) http://sunshinenjoy.blogspot.com/2008/06/18-reasons-why.html . Interesting article …
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The Cost of Acquiring a Customer - A Thomas Tank Engine
Companies have to think of new ways to engage the customer interest in their products in the light of customers being bombarded by ads and marketing all day. According to a PRSA c…
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Social Media Club : Geoff Livingston & Brian Solis : Now is Gone Book
Geoff Livingston & Brian Solis : Now is Gone Book Signing Originally uploaded by shashiBellamkonda This week has been a week of meeting, greeting and eating with authors. The So…
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Meeting Jay Berkowitz in DC
I met Jay Berkowitz when he came to DC recently for the SIPA conference. Jay is the CEO of Ten Golden Rules and an expert in Internet Marketing. We had been following each other …
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