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The Increasing Social Deficit .... Offline

2008-06-24T00:44:18Z

The core theme of this blog is social behavior offline, online. I have written a few posts in the past comparing the online and offline social behavior with The Cat, The Dog and Web2.0, The Online and Offline Social Disconnect, Gordon Gekko's Soci...

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LinkedIn raises $53M At $1B Valuation

2008-06-18T04:51:35Z

[Update]: Some cool media coverage of this funding today by Becky Buckman in The Wall Street Journal and Brad Stone at The New York Times I could not be more excited for the team at LinkedIn. If there is any social network that delivers a no-bra...

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Bill Detwiler Demonstrates CrossLoop

2008-06-17T21:53:21Z

For some quick context - Bill is the Head Technology Editor of Techrepublic, a CNET company, a CBS company... phew...and here is his demonstration of CrossLoop personally. Its the first online video I have seen with bloopers - a very neat creative...

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I.M.Possible

2008-04-30T09:25:35Z

I have had a few posts on charactertics around facing adversity, challenges and playing David like 300, I Like It Rough and then my last post recently on (Pride), Determination and Resilience. You can imagine how excited I was to read an article ...

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Do You Have the PDR Gene?

2008-04-28T08:21:15Z

I recently saw another Terrence Howard movie called Pride and the swimming team he coached was PDR - The Philadelphia Department of Recreation. He goes on to coach a bunch of kids playing basketball on the street to win a major league but only af...

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Imazine

2008-04-14T07:35:59Z

Needless to say, having a wee bit of imagination is a good thing. Unlearning to learn some visual tools and skills seemed appropriate so here is what I have just picked up and reading currently. More on it when I get through it but I can tell you...

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My LinkedIn Journey

2008-04-14T06:32:25Z

LinkedIn always had a tradition of celebrating its milestones when a significant number of users had signed up. They just celebrated 20M users and a HUGE CONGRATULATIONS to the much newer and larger team. See all the fun pictures on their blog po...

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The Caterpillar, The Fish and Now - The Horse

2008-04-09T00:14:54Z

I have talked about caterpillars Stripe and Yellow, then the fish Swimmy so I thought a horse would be a nice addition.Here is a great Sufi legend about a Horse I picked up from Paulo Coelho's (If you have not read The Alchemist - drop everythin...

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Bloggers, Ask Stripe - What's at the Top?

2008-04-06T05:22:50Z

Matt Richtel has a very neat article in the New York Times here called "In Web World of 24/7 Stress, Writers Blog Till They Drop" Some quotes from his article: "Two weeks ago in North Lauderdale, Fla., funeral services were held for Russell Shaw,...

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You Are the New Media

2008-04-02T07:58:13Z

The latest special print issue of MIT's Technology Review has an article on visualizing "Better Friends" by Erica Naone. Apart from the visuals of the blogosphere, Twitter and others, the one that caught my eye was the visual on viral marketing -...

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