Collective Wanderings 5

Of all the great news and views from this past week

Enjoy your weekend!!

Brian’s picks

• Brazilian hackers stalk Twitter, try to wax the unwary – Arstechnica – yikes!
  
• Upcoming Friends & Fans Changes – elaboration on lifting the 200 friend limit, straight from the StumbleUpon horse’s mouth

Thought for the week; there is a lot of noise in social media. It’s also tough to stay abreast in the latest and greatest sites while keeping up in the ones you already know and enjoy. How do you keep up? More to come in a future post..

Andy’s pick

• Alexa Now Discounts Almost All Social Media Traffic – Is This A Good Thing?
• Is Perfectionism Keeping You From Success?

Thought for the week; Do you go to a party, social gathering or business event with a specific plan that gets implemented to perfection and has amazing results? If you do, you are the rare exception. Sure you might have an idea who you want to meet, but ultimately the best results come from being there, right place at the right time, and casual meetings at the drinks cabinet, food bar or outside the WC.

Tim’s picks

• Google Stopwords Patent
• Tracking YoutTube Videos with Google Analytics

Thought for the week: For every action there is a reaction, it doesn’t matter if its asking for a thumbs up on StumbleUpon or a car hitting the wall it’s how we cope with reaction that determines where the chain ends

Shana’s picks

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• The Plight of the Social Media Eskimo
• Upcoming Friends and Fans Changes
• Marketing by Color: Don’t Try To Sell Blue Potatoes

Thought for the week; Just like in a community in reality your success in a social networking community relies heavily on an even amount of give or take. Do too much of one or the other and I can guarantee that you won’t get the full effect of community.

Dave’s picks

• coming soon?

Thought for the week; Is coming soon to a browser near you!

Brendan’s picks

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• Keep your eyes OFF the search engine rankings
• The Viral Video Guy Gets $1 Million In Funding
• Alexa Now Discounts Almost All Social Media Traffic – Is This A Good Thing?
• Populism to Kill the US Economy?
• The Possible Google Penalties Associated With Bad 301 Redirects

Thought for the week; There’s a good chance that the search industry will be much different five, three, even one year from now. Be sure to make some investments on your future by learning new software, methods, joining new social sites, playing with apps, and reading your feed reader daily. If you find your peers throwing tech slang and mentioning apps that you don’t recognize, chances are you’ve missed the boat or at least a kayak. Stay on top of your game you’ll find it can be leveraged to your benefit and that of your client’s.

Mark’s Picks

• The Rise and Fall of Twitter
• Social Media Stepping Up As Source For Connecting B2B Networks
• Intel to provide Facebook with hardware, Jedi secrets
• 5 Ways to Plugin to Your Identity
• Facebook to let employees sell some stock — at internal $4 billion valuation
• Delicious finally upgrades bookmarks site, now cupcake-powered

Thought for the week; It was great meeting those of you that attended Social Media Camp and the SummerMash in Miami. Wish I could have spent more time with you while there.

This week my thoughts are on introducing your real world peers to your social graph online. Look at how you are incorporating your offline friends into your online world and how it could benefit everyone. When introducing both peer groups, you may also be enriching their view of who you are, so everyone you know can enjoy parts of what you do. But you don’t really want to go this deep into thought do you, so let’s go find some friends to poke on Facebook!