How to Use LinkedIn: invite with interaction

Social Networking is a seriously growing media on the web that catches the attention of both civil and business users and makes a totally new approach to how we interact with friends and colleagues. Previously, I wrote about my recent rediscovery of 2 sites: twitter and linkedin. I found both useful and I would like to tell you how I started to interact for my business needs on LinkedIn. FULL ARTICLE +

My Twitter trial – the “I like social media” tool

Twitter the microblogging site got my attention recently because I digged and mixxed more and more stories about how good it is for finding new friends and as a business tool. It was not my first time on posting tweets, no, but simply I did not get what on earth is good in twitter.

I’m not the kind of man to tell the world what time I go to poop. Don’t get me wrong, there are people really updating their twitter site with such nonsenses. From this you can see that the public usues twitter as social uniform to tell the world “what are they doing”. As I said I’m not that kind of a guy and I find irritating making “friends” digital. I think life is real and people trend replacing that real with virtually real AKA Virtual Reality (VR).

Not agreed. Social Media or Social Networking is a good tool for businesses to harness, even for organizations, and of course for social interactions as well. But first of all not as a replacement of the reality and getting into the “social trance”.

So I did not send an “I go to poop” tweet as a test but “I liked your post about…” That’s the way I learnt to do it and it worked and still works. I’m not saying that you can’t add any private non-business related post – I also added recently “I eat orange” for my wife’s sake – but if you are business oriented you should focus on that part of the twitter myth that makes sense.

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LinkedIn rechecked: a good Business Social Media site

I found my profile again on LinkedIn work well to be expanded for a broader Business Venture tool. After my Twitter trial I got some invitations so therefore I got caught on LinkedIn and on my for-months-not-updated profile to update…

So overall, I liked what I saw, I found some new tools they implemented on the site like WordPress blog badge, Poll, Twitter Buzz etc – great tools. I joined some groups as well for the expectatinon to extend my business realtions.

Next to this I was keen on finding this little LinkedIn badge that I saw on several sites but have not found among the LinkedIn tool library. Bad on them! They should harness a bit more the Open Source internet. So after a short search I googled on this:  http://wp.gdragon.info/plugins/gd-linkedin-badge/ – and now you can will see on my site that tiny shiny icon on the right.

Are you Linked In? Let’s connect, here is my profile: link

A Future for JPG Magazine

I got an email some days ago titled: “A Future for JPG Magazine” and was wondering what it contains. You know I wrote about the marketing tactic of JPG Mag saying they are closing. Such cheaters! And now of course the good team of photographers saved the entire magazine and we can all enjoy JPG mag. I really wonder how much minus JPG was was for 8020 Media… I think they would not bag for food. The marketing and surviving technique worked out, but I’m not sure it is the right way to do it. FULL ARTICLE +

Ebay seller cheated me and now it cannot be solved

Back to June 2008 I bought on ebay a wonderful Chinese, noname 16GB pendrive because that was what I was longing for. You know, backup and so on. So I got the product quite late, though I got it. There was a little defect that the metal cover was not fitting onto the drive and it would whirl around… So I contacted the seller and he offered me replacement. I went into it, he got the pendrive quite late, but at last he got it. Then he said he sent it, and I still wait for it…. Yes, since august. I contacted ebay several times, but I was too late, I was over the 60 day protected period. So what they offered is to contact the seller. Well, sure, I contacted him thousand times on email what is going on, where’s my pendrive. No answer. Silence. So with this I did not become more clever but I got his phone number. And guess what? The phone number does not work, it speaks me some Chinese blah blah and then it says to me in English that this number is not … I don’t know the word. Anyway, this makes me angry. I lost by this some $ 30 and it’s not fun with my budget.

And yeah, I get know from ebay that the seller cancelled his account in the meantime so they can’t do much. Great.

So here is the guilty one, if someone knows about him, catch him:

E-mail:      wellcomeshop@gmail.com
User ID:     wellcome08
Name:        Man Fai Hui
City:        Lai Chi Kok
State:       Kowloon
Country:     HK
Phone:       (9)3325930

Belgian government choses Open Document as standard

The government of Belgium ahead of any nation chose to have Open Office their standard and official software instead of Microsoft’s Office Suit. This decision came after the Open Document format was ratified by the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) ahead of Microsoft’s XML format that probably needs to wait still some years to get the same rate as OD.

This is a great news for freebee lovers, as I am. I don’t really buy softwares because usually all paying software has a free alternative. I pay only for Windows operating system because I don’t get along with Linux. And I paid for Vegas Video software because there was no really good free alternative for video editing and production. The rest is all freeware. I have a bunch of them and with most of them I am very satisfied. They served me well thoughout the years.

In US, the Obama administration also asked about the benefits of open source software in governmental institutes, but I don’t know if they adopted it as Belgium did. Anyway, Belgian people shook down the mess from the freeware and through a cake into the face of the old age Microsoft Office standard. And that’s great news. I also use Open Office myself for years and I’m just satisfied with it. The software had some lacks of features and their look was not as Word or Excel. This changed over the year as they partnered up with Sun Microsystems and  their latest version is not far from Microsoft Office’s usability and look.

Delete 10 friends to eat Burger King Whopper

For sure you’ve heard about the big action of Burger King that tried to get some more clients and sell their whoppers. But what the hack is this? At the financial crisis you can eat only if you delete some friends? Is that normal?

This is like guerilla marketing like the one that happened in hungary last year. MTV hungary to launch their service put guitars into the neck of historic statues around the country making an indignation. I don’t know what is it good for but I don’t think that’s a good marketing strategy or advertisement. There are other ways than such a low profile ad.

I hate Burger King! And I think facebook does as well.

Can someone make me understand this article?

I have been watching people use various networks for years and for the average user their contributions and participations have multiple motivation factors. For the power user, the marketer, the brand, or the promoter it seems clear to me that their goal, even though they don’t actually know it or define it as such, is to get to the broadcast position.

Clay Shirky talks about the broadcast position in his book “Here Comes Everybody”. In his breakdown of the power law distribution and the impact it has on communication Shirky talks about how conversations shift. FULL ARTICLE +

Carol Bartz to replace Jerry Yang Yahoo! CEO

I just read this on wired and I wanted to promptly makes some not about the possible transformation. Jerry Yang’s Yahoo! did not make me and I think other to be enjoy any flavour of the search eangine. There was the Microsoft issue to give over the company, the Google deal and so on.

Well, enough for me Yahoo is enough bitter all the time I hear or meet it. Not only their design makes me mad but their stupid emoticons, wide-mouth-smile messenger, their widget, email account with tons of ads. It’s just makes me crazy. Why on earth would anyone use any of Yahoo’s services while there are many and much better services to be found elsewhere, like at Google (Gmail, Google search, Gtalk etc.)

If it is true what the rumours say that Carol Bartz will replace the current CEO I think it will drive Yahoo! to total bankcrupcy. Yang kept the yahoo-smile profile while being a man, so what can we expect from a woman?! A woman would be sitting on Yahoo throne, that’s the horror.

Ok, I’ll write something else, or I rather go to retirement…

Marketing trends for 2009 from CES

I wanted so much to write about my marketing and advertising ideas and now I heard some from Greg Douglas. So here I’m to say aspirational and boundle marketing is key factor in this year and the years to come.

How about buying an 8mbs internet service and getting 300 minutes for free for inland phone calls if you buy a phone from the ISP? Sound great, we have such. Shortly after I heard the company selling the same 8mbs service for half price and with an additional printer. I’m bad we didn’t wait a bit longer that would have been a better choice. We needed internet connection ASAP so we FULL ARTICLE +

How to obtain a better blog?

I’m wondering around my projects and finally has no idea which is better. I don’t know where to start and how. It’s craze but it is still like this. Gas stopped from Russia – bad news. I want to blog and earn – good news. How to combine the 2 I don’t have an idea but it obviosly does not fit. We need gas to heat otherwise my blogging fingers will freeze!

Ok here are some recent projects I work on:

http://mediawared.info

http://newst.info

tell me what is better.

MTV plays me Britney Spears!

My apologies Mr MTV CEO I went to mtvmusic.com and it played me successfully Britney Spears – Circus Music Video. But, at that music video you did restricted me on Current! You probably give some content to everyone and some to the only race “American”. It was not funny, but Briney played well fullscreen.

The other thing I wanted to share with you guys, if there is one who reads me… that this despite the really good quality of the video Britney made me mad. Is that something like music? But really I’m musician – so called – check out lookingdoor.net What Britney does only is really Circus not more, have you heard of that “song” (they call it song) in what I don’t find and musical whatever melody or.. ok, I know sex sell well and that’s it. Right? Right? Pls be kind and answer me. Halo? Hey there!

MTV’s big socially free movement for music videos – hack inside

I was really pleased reading on Current that MTV puts every videos online. Yep, so I voted it up and got to play the music in the comment section. Hey, but none!!! Restricted to US users!!! Losers. We are here in EU and just because we live somewhere else than obama we are the sick youtubers and illegal downloaders. I’d stop the world for a second and take some minute finding to figure out who is the CEO chair in MTV, I could actually google it out within a sec but I don’t care. But I would tell him some words, I’m a polite guy so just like a polite guy.

So I assume that I’m not the only hack who finds this hack in the whole story and still sticks you youtube and joost rather than FULL ARTICLE +

JPG Magazine is said to be closed till today

I  have a trial today with this post. I have a blog called MediaWared, it’s kinda  “media” stuff would-be project. But somehow it does not want to function. Sure I did not posted there for a long time, I’m off… that’s it. I partnered up with Daniel Demian a 14 ! year old succesful blogger from Romania, he is a tech guy! So he will work with me. How  young he is it’s almost not seen in his works and in his professionalism. Anyway, so I posted about the same story on that blog, I liked it on mixx, digg, reddit etc etc. I hate it really. Social Cardigan or how they say it makes me mad. People go meet online rather than in real. Craze. I tell you it’s madness. Human madness. So The thing is that JPG Magazine sent me an email FULL ARTICLE +

I truly missed writing in

It’s been a while I did not post anything here and odiogo went on silent. No more! I’m still struglling with my own self how should I do the thing that is called blogging. I do have projects, opened, half-opened, closed ones, have no time, been tired, sick and so on. And the best of all is that I have many ideas. They sometimes bug me. But really. Imagine that you go to sleep and you are still thinking of the next domain you want to purchase for the sake of a boom project. Kinda mad stuff, insane. No trouble, I live though the years and am still here trying to do the right thing. There is an open web design project, I finished the demo but no answer yet… What’s the hack? Someone?

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