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SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

While the erosion of the MySpace user base has been ongoing for years, the fact that it was purchased for $580 million just five years ago says all you need to know about the vagaries of online leadership. Approximately 10 years after having 67% of the search market, Yahoo! Coincidental timing too, as Yahoo ! But back to MySpace.

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JUNE 11, 2010

We have some other craziness planned, too, and we’ll want to bounce ideas off of you, solicit your genius for marketing the book, and all that stuff. Turns out, I’m totally non-musical, so that guitar thing is going to be tough. But, I’m as excited as Eddie Vedder in a flannel factory about #5. One last thing. is my vote.

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AUGUST 31, 2010

The increasing prevalence of social media is creating a lock step increase in uni-directional social media chest thumping. August 31st, 2010 |Written By: Jay Baer | View Comments Tweet Mitch Joel , whose blog and work I greatly admire, wrote a very interesting blog post recently that bemoaned the lack of conversation in social media.

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AUGUST 4, 2010

But, one of greatest benefits of social media is that it puts the shortcomings of your operations department in marketing’s lap, and vice-versa. It is much easier to market things that inspire passion then items with nonchalant users. It is much easier to market things that inspire passion then items with nonchalant users.

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AUGUST 3, 2010

Here, the objective is to change the way we think about information exchange online. But, for all its foibles and fairytales, its growth and groan-inducing missteps, Facebook and its leadership have known for a long time that websites are yesterday’s technology – they are just now getting around to twisting the knife.

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AUGUST 3, 2010

Here, the objective is to change the way we think about information exchange online. But, for all its foibles and fairytales, its growth and groan-inducing missteps, Facebook and its leadership have known for a long time that websites are yesterday’s technology – they are just now getting around to twisting the knife.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

There is More Than One SXSW As the conference continues to grow (interactive registrations up 40% over 2009, to more than 15,000 total), attendee segmentation follows apace. But, I absorbed many smaller lessons that will help guide my thinking about the conference, technology, and social business in the coming months.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Many large companies see social media great for B2C, but the B2B companies find it hard to think that it can fit for them as well. Many large companies see social media great for B2C, but the B2B companies find it hard to think that it can fit for them as well. And that’s the problem. They're not comfortable with it; 2.

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