So, AffSpot (the new affiliate marketing forum I’ve been working on) is live:
Shawn Collins also has coverage of the launch.
Come join us (lots of people signing up already)!
AffSpot Affiliate Marketing Forum
Year: 2008
Segeway Sam
Don’t think I ever posted this, but Shawn Collins put together this vid of me riding a Segway in February at the Affiliate Summit in Las Vegas:
Shawn is a master propagandist, so don’t be fooled… I rode that thing like a champ.
Are You Internet Famous?
I’m at 2019 fwiw:
via Inquisitr: “”
40
I was listening to U2 this morning and the song 40 came up.
Made me remember how moving Psalm 40 actually is:
Psalm 40;: “1: I waited patiently for the LORD; and he inclined unto me, and heard my cry. “
Good stuff.
Glory Days
I’m not a huge Bruce Springsteen fan, but I can’t look at this picture without smiling:
Thanks, Dad!
Vacation
I’ve been on “vacation” the last few weeks here (and in reality I’m at Lake Keowee with Anna’s family this week), but I’ll be blogging here more often starting next week.
Twitter Search and Summize Acquisition
Twitter has taken another step to finally put down the great FailWhale of ’08 by acquiring the real time search service Summize:
Twitter Search
We’re excited to announce that Twitter has acquired Summize—an extraordinary search tool and an amazing group of engineers. All five Summize engineers will move to San Francisco, CA and take jobs at Twitter, Inc. This is an important step forward in the evolution of Twitter as a service and as a company.
Since Twitter’s track functionality has been down, I’ve been a heavy user of Summize (and recommend you do the same through the new search.twitter.com interface).
Here’s to keeping things back on Track on Twitter…
Taking Mobile Pictures?
I’ve got a BlackBerry 8830 that I love. However, there’s no camera on the device.
Here’s what I really want… a device (not another mobile phone) that would allow me to take pictures on the fly and wirelessly get them onto the web via wifi.
Anything out there that would accomplish this?
I wish the Apple Touch had a camera!
TwitterFail
Really?
Who would call that?
Ugh.
A Group Is Its Own Worst Enemy
Thanks to Hugh McLeod for pointing this out:
Shirky: A Group Is Its Own Worst Enemy: “This is a lightly edited version of the keynote I gave on Social Software at the O’Reilly Emerging Technology conference in Santa Clara on April 24, 2003
Good morning, everybody. I want to talk this morning about social software …there’s a surprise. I want to talk about a pattern I’ve seen over and over again in social software that supports large and long-lived groups. And that pattern is the pattern described in the title of this talk: ‘A Group Is Its Own Worst Enemy.’ “
Something to think about as we trounce forward through the murky and undrained swamp of large scale social technologies (especially as marketers)…