SocialRiots: February 2008 Archives

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Feb29	Online Dating Idenity Theft Marshall Sponder February 29, 2008 Know More: Identity Theft According to MarketingVox Online Dating Conceives New Type of Identity Theft...Online Dating Conceives New Type of Identity Theft where your philosophy of life, online profile and even your artwork can be used by others without your permission or awareness: "...Online daters increasingly feel as though they must sell themselves like a product. The heavy personal promotion that results from this mindset turns people into prime prey for identity thieves of all shades. Over 50 online daters reportedly stole lines from a witty college entrance exam that writer Hugh Gallagher wrote 20 years ago. The paper later appeared in Harpers." In the Wall Street Journal a few weeks ago an article appeared titled The Cut-and-Paste Personality provides examples of identity theft happening on online dating sites: "...Hugh Gallagher, a 36-year-old writer in New York, is one of the copied. Match.com has more than 50 profiles with parts of Mr. Gallagher's college entrance essay, which he penned nearly two decades ago and later appeared in Harper's Magazine. "I translate ethnic slurs for Cuban refugees" and "I write award-winning operas" are among Mr. Gallagher's most popular lines." Here's the video of Gallagher's profile being robbed from him: Posted at 12:06 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
Feb28	SQUEEGEES - a real Social Riot Marshall Sponder February 28, 2008 You know, a cheesy, online video that's being plugged by ABC invoked TechCrunch's wrath (ABC Kicks Off Made-For-Web Video Strategy with “Squeegees.” Maybe It Should Stick To Regular TV.)But it's not half bad - if your not expecting anything much. Funny... Continue Reading Posted at 9:10 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
Feb27	Social Network Race Marshall Sponder February 27, 2008 Reading The Global Race Among Social Networks Heats Up. Keep an Eye on Hi5, Friendster, and Imeem in TechCrunch today where it's mentioned how the global race to be the top social network, MySpace and Facebook are now neck and... Continue Reading Posted at 4:18 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
Feb26	Social Network World Map Marshall Sponder February 26, 2008 Hay, you know what, the United States is claimed by MySpace, but all of Canada is owned by Facebook - if you can believe the Social networking world map below: The post came from SocialMediaToday and brings up a few... Continue Reading Posted at 7:44 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
Feb25	Social Media as a online recruitment tool Marshall Sponder February 25, 2008 Turns out a new study showing that Social Media promising as a job recruitment tool - Classified Intelligence, LLC is creating a firestorm on online recruitment portals like Monster.com and Yahoo HotJobs where it was shown Social Nets and Niche Employment... Continue Reading Posted at 9:59 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Steve Rubel and Social Media Marshall Sponder February 25, 2008 Now you can get Steve Rubel's thoughts about Social Media right from the horse's mouth - so to speak; information is present at The Analytics Guru in a post titled Download Steve Rubel’s thoughts about Blogging and Social Media.And if you... Continue Reading Posted at 9:18 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
Feb24	Meet people with Twitter Marshall Sponder February 24, 2008 You know what, Tony Hung knows some thing (which I think I know too) that Twitter Is Good For Meeting People and here's why - he's "met" people who'd he never meet any other way like:Tony Stubblebine, (twitter) CEO of... Continue Reading Posted at 10:07 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Feb23	Micky Mouse's Gray Hair Marshall Sponder February 23, 2008 The title got me .... The greying of Mickey Mouse from the 50-Plus Marketing blog. "...Disney has accepted the stark economics of the new market: the largest group of customers with the money and the time to spend a day on... Continue Reading Posted at 11:52 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Feb22	Social Network Burnout - saturated at home but use Social Networks more at work Marshall Sponder February 22, 2008 Dugg up some posts today suggesting people are getting tired of using Social Networks and looking for the next big thing, at least, when they get off of work - they are wanting to do something else (than connect on... Continue Reading Posted at 4:00 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
Feb21	iLike Artist News Stream for iPhones and iPod Touch Marshall Sponder February 21, 2008 I was kinda thinking about the business of "fandom" being brought to a new level using Social Networks and that seems to be typified by a post about iLike in TechCrunch today titled iLike Launches Artist News Stream - Users... Continue Reading Posted at 9:22 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
Feb20	Doing Social Network Marketing Right Marshall Sponder February 20, 2008 Recently I read a post on by Jeremiah Owyang on What makes a Successful Marketing Campaign on Social Networks - here's what Jeremiah has to say: "...Meets a business objective: First and foremost, any marketing campaign or activity should match with... Continue Reading Posted at 9:21 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
Feb18	Get rich quick with Social Media Marketing - what a SocialRiot! Marshall Sponder February 18, 2008 Ha, Ha, Ha - not surprizing we'd get to this - Get Rich Quick with Social Media MarketingAnd look at this:How To Use Blogs, Podcasts, Wikis & Other Social Media Tools To Find Clients, Make Money & Create the Lifestyle... Continue Reading Posted at 4:27 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Journalists Objectivity is in question when it comes to Political Campaign Reporting Marshall Sponder February 18, 2008 I think it's fair to say that Journalists are influencers and when they report on Political Campaigns, they should, according to Jeff Jarvis, report their own views and affiliations - which Journalists rarely do:"...Media have an Obama problem they’re going... Continue Reading Posted at 4:13 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Social Media Fatigue Diagrams Marshall Sponder February 18, 2008 Two good posts I read over the weekend on Social Media Fatigue. Too much out there? where the following diagram was shown that profiled someones typical social activity and posed the question - is social networking getting so complicated that... Continue Reading Posted at 7:38 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Feb16	Google and the Republican's - Google sells out and is now supporting the RNC Marshall Sponder February 16, 2008 Wait a second.... wait a Second .... doesn't it sound totally messed up to have Google side with the Republicans? Boy, Google is sure is getting Evil fast .... all the way to the quick path to Hell.Read this from... Continue Reading Posted at 12:27 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
Feb15	Does Yahoo! Search attract a younger audience than Google? Useful for Social Networking? Marshall Sponder February 15, 2008 I guess it must be some trend that I'm focusing on Behavior Match by Compete.com along with comScore's MyMetrix and now HitWise (don't things come in "three's"?).Anyway, HitWise's offerings are beginning to look more attractive to me because they're doing... Continue Reading Posted at 11:36 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
Feb14	Finding Influencers online Marshall Sponder February 14, 2008 I found this neat podcast on How to find influencers using vertical search engines, social networks like Facebook, Advanced Search in Google (using advanced search will narrow the result set).You can even narrow your search by when it was found... Continue Reading Posted at 9:58 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Feb13	Layoffs go Social Media at Yahoo Marshall Sponder February 13, 2008 I've read a couple of posts tonight about how quickly news of the Yahoo layoffs today spread over the Internet and Blogosphere due to Twitter and Facebook, mainly.In Layoff 3.0: How the social graph changes everything the "suddenly" former Yahoo... Continue Reading Posted at 11:35 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
Feb12	Monster.com's "Analytics Artist - written uo in SearchEngineWatch.com Marshall Sponder February 12, 2008 I'm proud to call myself Monster.com's "Analytics Artist - but that's not what I called myself - it's what Kevin Heisler, over at Search Engine Watch, called me, today:"....Connie is "Chief HitTail Angel"; Avinash Kaushik is Google's "Analytics Evangelist"; and... Continue Reading Posted at 10:12 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
Feb11	The ClueTrain Manfestio Revisited at - There's a New Conversation - NYC, Feb 13th, 2008 Marshall Sponder February 11, 2008 I won't be there, in fact, I won't even be in New York City on Wednesday, Feb 13th, 2008 when There's a New Conversation is taking place - but if I were in Manhattan, I'd probably try to attend this... Continue Reading Posted at 10:41 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
Feb10	Do you think SEO or SEM can be taught by Rap Music - listen to The Notorious BIG Lives... as an SEM Expert! Marshall Sponder February 10, 2008 I wrote about this in my blogs SEO-SEM Rap Music by Notorious BIG! and Super-fly Rap Paid Search Marketing by The Notorious BIG - now I've seen it all!! but I think we're getting a whole new population of followers of... Continue Reading Posted at 3:17 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Bad Karma and Good Karma Series of Facebook Marshall Sponder February 10, 2008 Giving Good and Bad Karma using the I Karma YoU (mostly Good Karma) has been one of the hottest applications of Facebook lately - I've been giving Good Karma almost every day -and getting something back to.One of the interesting... Continue Reading Posted at 9:31 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Feb 9	Fast Company starts a Social Network - but will it work? Marshall Sponder February 9, 2008 Fast Company started a Social Network Portal at beta.fastcompany.com. TechCrunch writes about it in Fast Company Goes Social I'm logged in right now and was invited last week by Lee Odden, so I took a quick look around when I was... Continue Reading Posted at 9:55 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Feb 8	Columbia Business School - BRITE - Marketing Unplugged -Valeria Maltoni Marshall Sponder February 8, 2008 Blogger Valeria Maltoni attended BRITE - Marketing Unplugged yesterday and wrote a pretty good post about it - it happened at Colombia University. I was reading Valeria's Twitter Feed as she was live tweeting the event but the post she... Continue Reading Posted at 3:48 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Guy Kawasaki on Alltop.com Marshall Sponder February 8, 2008 Guy Kawasaki launched a new Social Media service at Alltop.com today. According to Guy:"..The concept of the site is deceptively simple. Therein lies its Zen power. What does Alltop do? It is a one-stop aggregation of the most recent stories... Continue Reading Posted at 1:26 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Social Media Club Boston Marshall Sponder February 8, 2008 There's been many Social Media Clubs, Social Media Breakfast Clubs, especially propagating from Facebook - where I've received invites (and fail to hear about others).An event like this happened in Boston last night (I missed it but will be in... Continue Reading Posted at 10:23 AM \| Permalink \| Comments

« July 2007 | Main | March 2008 »

Feb29	Online Dating Idenity Theft Marshall Sponder February 29, 2008 Know More: Identity Theft According to MarketingVox Online Dating Conceives New Type of Identity Theft...Online Dating Conceives New Type of Identity Theft where your philosophy of life, online profile and even your artwork can be used by others without your permission or awareness: "...Online daters increasingly feel as though they must sell themselves like a product. The heavy personal promotion that results from this mindset turns people into prime prey for identity thieves of all shades. Over 50 online daters reportedly stole lines from a witty college entrance exam that writer Hugh Gallagher wrote 20 years ago. The paper later appeared in Harpers." In the Wall Street Journal a few weeks ago an article appeared titled The Cut-and-Paste Personality provides examples of identity theft happening on online dating sites: "...Hugh Gallagher, a 36-year-old writer in New York, is one of the copied. Match.com has more than 50 profiles with parts of Mr. Gallagher's college entrance essay, which he penned nearly two decades ago and later appeared in Harper's Magazine. "I translate ethnic slurs for Cuban refugees" and "I write award-winning operas" are among Mr. Gallagher's most popular lines." Here's the video of Gallagher's profile being robbed from him: Posted at 12:06 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
Feb28	SQUEEGEES - a real Social Riot Marshall Sponder February 28, 2008 You know, a cheesy, online video that's being plugged by ABC invoked TechCrunch's wrath (ABC Kicks Off Made-For-Web Video Strategy with “Squeegees.” Maybe It Should Stick To Regular TV.)But it's not half bad - if your not expecting anything much. Funny... Continue Reading Posted at 9:10 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
Feb27	Social Network Race Marshall Sponder February 27, 2008 Reading The Global Race Among Social Networks Heats Up. Keep an Eye on Hi5, Friendster, and Imeem in TechCrunch today where it's mentioned how the global race to be the top social network, MySpace and Facebook are now neck and... Continue Reading Posted at 4:18 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
Feb26	Social Network World Map Marshall Sponder February 26, 2008 Hay, you know what, the United States is claimed by MySpace, but all of Canada is owned by Facebook - if you can believe the Social networking world map below: The post came from SocialMediaToday and brings up a few... Continue Reading Posted at 7:44 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
Feb25	Social Media as a online recruitment tool Marshall Sponder February 25, 2008 Turns out a new study showing that Social Media promising as a job recruitment tool - Classified Intelligence, LLC is creating a firestorm on online recruitment portals like Monster.com and Yahoo HotJobs where it was shown Social Nets and Niche Employment... Continue Reading Posted at 9:59 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Steve Rubel and Social Media Marshall Sponder February 25, 2008 Now you can get Steve Rubel's thoughts about Social Media right from the horse's mouth - so to speak; information is present at The Analytics Guru in a post titled Download Steve Rubel’s thoughts about Blogging and Social Media.And if you... Continue Reading Posted at 9:18 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
Feb24	Meet people with Twitter Marshall Sponder February 24, 2008 You know what, Tony Hung knows some thing (which I think I know too) that Twitter Is Good For Meeting People and here's why - he's "met" people who'd he never meet any other way like:Tony Stubblebine, (twitter) CEO of... Continue Reading Posted at 10:07 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Feb23	Micky Mouse's Gray Hair Marshall Sponder February 23, 2008 The title got me .... The greying of Mickey Mouse from the 50-Plus Marketing blog. "...Disney has accepted the stark economics of the new market: the largest group of customers with the money and the time to spend a day on... Continue Reading Posted at 11:52 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Feb22	Social Network Burnout - saturated at home but use Social Networks more at work Marshall Sponder February 22, 2008 Dugg up some posts today suggesting people are getting tired of using Social Networks and looking for the next big thing, at least, when they get off of work - they are wanting to do something else (than connect on... Continue Reading Posted at 4:00 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
Feb21	iLike Artist News Stream for iPhones and iPod Touch Marshall Sponder February 21, 2008 I was kinda thinking about the business of "fandom" being brought to a new level using Social Networks and that seems to be typified by a post about iLike in TechCrunch today titled iLike Launches Artist News Stream - Users... Continue Reading Posted at 9:22 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
Feb20	Doing Social Network Marketing Right Marshall Sponder February 20, 2008 Recently I read a post on by Jeremiah Owyang on What makes a Successful Marketing Campaign on Social Networks - here's what Jeremiah has to say: "...Meets a business objective: First and foremost, any marketing campaign or activity should match with... Continue Reading Posted at 9:21 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
Feb18	Get rich quick with Social Media Marketing - what a SocialRiot! Marshall Sponder February 18, 2008 Ha, Ha, Ha - not surprizing we'd get to this - Get Rich Quick with Social Media MarketingAnd look at this:How To Use Blogs, Podcasts, Wikis & Other Social Media Tools To Find Clients, Make Money & Create the Lifestyle... Continue Reading Posted at 4:27 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Journalists Objectivity is in question when it comes to Political Campaign Reporting Marshall Sponder February 18, 2008 I think it's fair to say that Journalists are influencers and when they report on Political Campaigns, they should, according to Jeff Jarvis, report their own views and affiliations - which Journalists rarely do:"...Media have an Obama problem they’re going... Continue Reading Posted at 4:13 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Social Media Fatigue Diagrams Marshall Sponder February 18, 2008 Two good posts I read over the weekend on Social Media Fatigue. Too much out there? where the following diagram was shown that profiled someones typical social activity and posed the question - is social networking getting so complicated that... Continue Reading Posted at 7:38 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Feb16	Google and the Republican's - Google sells out and is now supporting the RNC Marshall Sponder February 16, 2008 Wait a second.... wait a Second .... doesn't it sound totally messed up to have Google side with the Republicans? Boy, Google is sure is getting Evil fast .... all the way to the quick path to Hell.Read this from... Continue Reading Posted at 12:27 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
Feb15	Does Yahoo! Search attract a younger audience than Google? Useful for Social Networking? Marshall Sponder February 15, 2008 I guess it must be some trend that I'm focusing on Behavior Match by Compete.com along with comScore's MyMetrix and now HitWise (don't things come in "three's"?).Anyway, HitWise's offerings are beginning to look more attractive to me because they're doing... Continue Reading Posted at 11:36 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
Feb14	Finding Influencers online Marshall Sponder February 14, 2008 I found this neat podcast on How to find influencers using vertical search engines, social networks like Facebook, Advanced Search in Google (using advanced search will narrow the result set).You can even narrow your search by when it was found... Continue Reading Posted at 9:58 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Feb13	Layoffs go Social Media at Yahoo Marshall Sponder February 13, 2008 I've read a couple of posts tonight about how quickly news of the Yahoo layoffs today spread over the Internet and Blogosphere due to Twitter and Facebook, mainly.In Layoff 3.0: How the social graph changes everything the "suddenly" former Yahoo... Continue Reading Posted at 11:35 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
Feb12	Monster.com's "Analytics Artist - written uo in SearchEngineWatch.com Marshall Sponder February 12, 2008 I'm proud to call myself Monster.com's "Analytics Artist - but that's not what I called myself - it's what Kevin Heisler, over at Search Engine Watch, called me, today:"....Connie is "Chief HitTail Angel"; Avinash Kaushik is Google's "Analytics Evangelist"; and... Continue Reading Posted at 10:12 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
Feb11	The ClueTrain Manfestio Revisited at - There's a New Conversation - NYC, Feb 13th, 2008 Marshall Sponder February 11, 2008 I won't be there, in fact, I won't even be in New York City on Wednesday, Feb 13th, 2008 when There's a New Conversation is taking place - but if I were in Manhattan, I'd probably try to attend this... Continue Reading Posted at 10:41 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
Feb10	Do you think SEO or SEM can be taught by Rap Music - listen to The Notorious BIG Lives... as an SEM Expert! Marshall Sponder February 10, 2008 I wrote about this in my blogs SEO-SEM Rap Music by Notorious BIG! and Super-fly Rap Paid Search Marketing by The Notorious BIG - now I've seen it all!! but I think we're getting a whole new population of followers of... Continue Reading Posted at 3:17 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Bad Karma and Good Karma Series of Facebook Marshall Sponder February 10, 2008 Giving Good and Bad Karma using the I Karma YoU (mostly Good Karma) has been one of the hottest applications of Facebook lately - I've been giving Good Karma almost every day -and getting something back to.One of the interesting... Continue Reading Posted at 9:31 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Feb 9	Fast Company starts a Social Network - but will it work? Marshall Sponder February 9, 2008 Fast Company started a Social Network Portal at beta.fastcompany.com. TechCrunch writes about it in Fast Company Goes Social I'm logged in right now and was invited last week by Lee Odden, so I took a quick look around when I was... Continue Reading Posted at 9:55 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Feb 8	Columbia Business School - BRITE - Marketing Unplugged -Valeria Maltoni Marshall Sponder February 8, 2008 Blogger Valeria Maltoni attended BRITE - Marketing Unplugged yesterday and wrote a pretty good post about it - it happened at Colombia University. I was reading Valeria's Twitter Feed as she was live tweeting the event but the post she... Continue Reading Posted at 3:48 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Guy Kawasaki on Alltop.com Marshall Sponder February 8, 2008 Guy Kawasaki launched a new Social Media service at Alltop.com today. According to Guy:"..The concept of the site is deceptively simple. Therein lies its Zen power. What does Alltop do? It is a one-stop aggregation of the most recent stories... Continue Reading Posted at 1:26 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Social Media Club Boston Marshall Sponder February 8, 2008 There's been many Social Media Clubs, Social Media Breakfast Clubs, especially propagating from Facebook - where I've received invites (and fail to hear about others).An event like this happened in Boston last night (I missed it but will be in... Continue Reading Posted at 10:23 AM \| Permalink \| Comments

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