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That's Entertainment: Gillmor Group

The Gillmor Gang is back, now just called The Gang. After a one-year hiatus it is time to spread some Gillmor-love again. To listen to it, you need to join the Facebook Gillmor Group first, you'll find the RSS-feed there. Bert van Wasshove is as excited as I am.

And with show #3 they are really back on track, delivering one of the best episodes at all, scratching even at Attention Deficit Theater. While the first part is all about the strutting and Jason, part two goes deeply into the Facebook Ad spiel and VRM. Anybody interested in Doc Searls' thoughts on VRM in combination with Facebook should give this a listen. To tell the truth, you should listen to it anyway when people like Dan Farber, Mike Vizard, Jason Calacanis, Dana Gardner, Mike Arrington, Robert Anderson and of course Steve Gillmor share the mike.

So Steve, while still waiting "anything" from the Attention Trust business, this is a simple thank you.


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Writing ads you have to decide about life and death

Via Edelman's German PR 2.0 blog I found this great spoof of "A Few Good Men".



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del.icio.us Bookmarks and how to deal with your customers

Ryan Holiday is a very happy camper because Jason Calacanis responded personally to his question. And really, that is how you make people happy, keeping them as customers (assuming that Maholo is a product and users of the site are customers). I know how he feels, because Jason reached out to answer my post as well. The whole team is doing that, Sara who created the "How to learn French"-site, commented as well. Even when the going gets tough, Jason is in the middle. And, dear readers, dear Jason, I am sorry of he is mentioned on this blog so often, but he is doing some stuff right. To quote Joseph Jaffe, "put your money where your mouth is", walk the talk.

Anyway, to keep you updated, nobody from del.icio.us contacted me after my complaint about missing bookmarks, nobody from del.icio.us resonded to my help ticket. And to be fair, nobody from flock contacted me neither. And to be really fair, it seems the problem resulted from a user's mistake (ah, and the user would be me). Apperantly, while using flock loads of bookmarks were stored locally, therefore, now not available online. On the other hand, I am 100% certain, that I was able to access these bookmarks with the del.icio.us toolbar for Firefox. Only after installing Flock 1.0 they were gone on Firefox which is still my main browser. Alas, withough feedback from either del.ico.us or flock, this will remain a mistery and I will just call-up every single fucking bookmark and save it to the web. Such is life I guess.


Technorati Tags: delicious, flock, mahalo, calacanis, customerservice

Recommended listening: Six pixels of Separation with David Maister

Everybody in consulting and marketing, please check out Mitch Joel's recent episode of Six Pixels of Separation during which he gets to talk with David Maister. Even if you'd skip the rest (which you shouldn't), the interview is well done and very insightful. Thanks, Mitch.


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I don't want to be your Facebook friend anymore?

So what. Ute and I tried that yesterday. Nothing happened. I get a notification for every fart one of my friends lets go, but if someone decides he does not want to be my friend anymore I get nothing? That's like Chandler not telling Joey and Ross why he wouldn't go to the Knicks game and could lead to some serious freezing out.
Seriously, although I am yearning for editable group notifications per group more, this has got to be a missing feature.


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Maholo Daily - What is it?

Last week Mahalo Daily launched, another daily video podcast. I checked out three of the five episodes and even re-subcribed to Rocketboom and Webb Alert to compare. I like the focus on one topic which is what Mahalo tries to do with the search results. However, the once caveat I have so far is the topic selection. Two of the shows obviously involve companies or products which profit immensely from being on the show. Tesla Motorcars (which Mahalo founder Calacanis later ptiched again on his blog) and Dopplr. While I don't mind them getting traffic, from the view of a PR-guy I'd like to know if there was money involved or if these are just Jason's or Veronica's preferred topics? Where is the topical connection to Mahalo, cause after all, I thought Jason's goal with the video podcast is to drive traffic to the site. Enlighten us, Jason.

UPDATE: Both Veronica and Jason clear it in the comments. Nobody pays to get on the show. Good news, makes me enjoy the show even more. Thanks for the feedback, guys.


Technorati Tags: mahalo, video, podcast, rocketboom, webbalert, calacanis

Dear del.icio.us, what's up? Who's eating my bookmarks?

Friday afternoon I tried to access my del.icio.us-bundle "chords", looking for some James Taylor chords I had bookmarked. To my amazement, none were there. Upon further inspection I found that as of Friday I  only had 31 bookmarks on del.icio.us. First I thought that can't be, but the web site showed the same answer. I asked on Twitter if anyone had the same problem which didn't seem the case, so I wrote an email to the del.icio.us help team. Since I have not answer, I'll try the next best thing and blog about it.

So, anybody at del.icio.us, where are my bookmarks, and when am I getting them back – I kind of hoped you would take care of them when I signed up for your service.

Oh, anybody wondering what I might have done? Nothing significant I can think of. No upgrade to Leopard, no deleting. The only change on my machine is I upgrade Flock from 0.9. to 1.0, but I didn't even set up the del.icio.us account for that until after I discovered the missing bookmarks. So, I am just running a MacBook with FF 2.0.0.8 and some extension, the del.icio.us bookmarks add-on among them.

HELP HELP HELP


Technorati Tags: delicious, firefox, bookmarks, problems, flock

A learning experience with Mahalo

There is no Maholo page for "How to learn English". I think there should be one, and of course I think that the Speaking English Podcast should be on it. ;-)

And I told Jason that using Loic LeMeur's new platform Seesmic.


Anyhow, good stuff needs to be proven right, therefore I will prove Jason right. As I say in the video I will attempt to learn French via the Maholo How to Speak French site. I have a client event in France in May and my French is non-existent, sort of. Even more, I will chronicle my progress on my tumblr-site which also features my recent fatblogging efforts. If Jason lets me we can do a short video chat in May to see how I fared.


Technorati Tags: mahalo, fatblogging, seesmic, speakingenglishpodcast, tumblr, calacanis