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The annual Edelman Trust Barometer always yields some interesting results. The tenth survey consisted of 4,875 interviews (25 years to 64 years): The finding that jumped out at me was this one (buried in the report): - Trust in information from friends and peers, "people like me," dropped by 20 points, from 47 to 27 percent. - Trust in ...
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Foremski
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Silicon Valley Watcher
Does More Media Lead To Less Total Media Trust?
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In my recent post about the 2010 Edelman Trust Barometer , social media fared badly. But ALL media fared nearly as badly. Why is that? - Is it because we now have more media now than ever before, both social and traditional sources of media? - Is it because more of any thing, devalues that thing? We have more media in more forms, at more times, ...
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Foremski
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Silicon Valley Watcher
Social Media Week Notes..."Real-Time Data Is Like A Fish Finder"
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There are lot of events this week around various topics in social media. Yesterday I caught part of the Social Media Camp in the Presidio. It was organized by Chris Heuer, Kristie Wells with help from Rebecca Reeve and many others. I caught an interesting panel moderated by Jolie O'Dell, Read/Write Web , that included Brian Zisk, from Collecta . ...
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Om Malik
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GigaOM
Evernote, a Mountain View, Calif.-based start-up that says that Nokia has developed a version of its web service that allows users to capture and store information using the built-in sharing functionality of the device. It is made possible using a plug-in using the Evernote API.
 
Dave Pell
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Davenetics
You ask someone: “What state is Boise in?” And they answer: “Idaho.” And you say: “You are? Really?” Get it? I da hoe
Starting today, Nexus One users will begin to receive an over-the-air software update on their phones. This update provides some great new features, and fixes a few problems that some users might have experienced, including:
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Google Adding Direct Phone Support for Nexus One Customers
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The initial reviews of the Nexus One device were largely positive but one area where Google certainly faced issues was customer support. Unlike most other companies in the hardware business, Google doesn’t offer any phone support for Android / Nexus One. Customers can either report problems on public forums or, for more specific issues, ...
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As you’ve probably realized, local news is undergoing a massive transformation. The rapid demise of “old media” has resulted in fewer local publications, and it’s likely that in a few months your local paper may no longer exist. As “new media” takes over, users will be faced with a plethora of choices to ...
 
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I am immersed in Social Media Week New York, and wanted to share some of the highlights of my travels today. The theme of the day: Shift happens. Tweet Chatting with Borders Free WiFi Since there was no wifi at the new media conference I was covering today, (!?) I ended up at Borders, where the coffee was great, and the wifi was free, (thank you ...
 
Jason Kincaid
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TechCrunch
3Crowd , the new startup from BitGravity co-founder Barrett Lyon, is ready for its close-up. Until now little was known about the company, other than that its backers include Jay Adelson, Kevin Rose, Storm Ventures, and Greenwich Technology Associates. Now the company is talking: 3Crowd is looking to change the way people use content delivery ...
Rick Edmonds, over on Poynter Online, notes that the classified ads sector dropped to $6 billion in 2009 . This compares with $10 billion in 2008, and $19.6 billion in 2000. Much of that drop can be attributed to Craigslist, which doesn't charge any money for most of its classified ads listings. With about 30 staff, Craigslist has managed to ...
Today I will teach you how to write funny. I will be referring to my earlier post about the world’s tallest man. Read that one first, two posts below, if you haven’t already.
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Earlier this month I was invited to conduct an on stage interview with Jason Kilar, chief executive officer of Huluthe DLD conference in Munich. It gave me a chance to visit the city, walk around in bitter cold and look around what is arguably one of the cleanest and quietest cities in the world.
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In 2008, scientists at the Georgia Institute of Technology and the Ovarian Cancer Institute developed a potential treatment to fight cancer using magnetic nanoparticles designed to attach themselves to cancer cells. They found in their groundbreaking tests on mice that the particles not only attached to cancer cells, but they also moved those ...
MG Siegler
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TechCrunch
Early this morning, Twitter began alerting certain users to reset their passwords because of a possible phishing attack. They later elaborated on it a bit but it still wasn't clear exactly what was going on. Now they've felt the need to fully go into exactly what went down — and it's fairly interesting. On their Twitter Status blog ( ...
 
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Seth
The Lemonade movie is so professional, engaging and inspiring that you've probably already seen it. If not, here it is. Todd Sattersten has written a free ebook about pricing that's well worth the time it takes to review. It will change the way you think about pricing. And if you can, take a look at this poetry video from Gabrielle Bouliane. She ...
It's called Fixed to Flexible. This ebook collects the commercial aspects of cost, price, and margin and presents a variety of alternatives about how to make your way in the world of infinite of choice.
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Tags: E-reader, Smart Phone, Rupert Murdoch, News Corp., Tablets, Sales Strategy, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Sales All the buzz these days may be about new tablet PCs, the growing list of e-readers and the constant change coming to smartphones.
Many of you will recognize the title - borrowed from " Enterprise 2.0 a Crock " Dennis Howlett. Needless to say I was quite interested in his discussion with David Terrar, who is more of an E20 fan. f Hm...hard to watch. Dennis is too loud while David is barely audible. I kept on turning the volume up and down, until I quit after a few minutes. ...
Liz Gannes
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GigaOM
Adchemy has figured out a way to tweak web ads to make them dramatically more effective. The company performs a crazy real-time technical dance to optimize the ads and landing pages shown to searchers. We visited its new office this week to learn more.
I missed the live Grammy Awards telecast this year, but Monday at the office, one of my colleagues remarked about Pink's Cirque du Soleil-style performance, wondering if she'd been trained as a circus performer. Then, I saw several of my Facebook friends commenting that Taylor Swift should have learned how to sing before sharing the stage with ...
Broadband service provider ntl:Telewest terminated my account today moments after its customer service lines closed for the day, leaving my no way to resolve the issue for SIXTEEN crucial hours. How inane is that?
According to the announcement, HipHop is a code transformer that turns PHP code into “highly optimized C++.” By using HipHop on their servers, Facebook has been able to reduce CPU usage by over 50%, and substantially increase the speed of their pages. All without giving up the “rapid pace of development that PHP offers.” ...
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