Lastly, everything I am saying about music could be extended to the other sorts of media that iTunes markets: TV shows, movies, books, whatever. But it hasn’t been at this point.

This is a great first-look review of Ping.

I’m honored to that my proposal to give a talk on “Promotion & Privacy (or lack thereof): Working with the new Facebook APIs” has been selected for NoVA Code Camp 2010.1 on June 12, 2010.

You can register here - it’s FREE!

I’ll be showing some examples of searching the Facebook Graph API using JSON.NET, how it can be useful for business, and will also be demonstrating how to integrate the Open Graph Protocol into an ASP.NET website.

“An image exhibiting the Droste effect depicts a smaller version of itself in a place where a similar picture would realistically be expected to appear. This smaller version then depicts an even smaller version of itself in the same place, and so on.”

-Wikipedia

I’m starting to get the feeling…

Over the next few months I’m going to be doing some writing on this blog about the relationship between online & offline contacts, interactions, personal relationships, etc. The “social” in “social media” as it relates to the In Real Life part of people’s lives.

I’m very curious at the moment about what tools people use to track their personal & professional contacts, and how those tools interact with various online services and digital devices, as well as how well they facilitate offline interaction.

I’m not talking about big enterprise CRM systems, but the smaller systems that an individual (or perhaps very small group) might use, ex:

• BatchBook
• Highrise
• Apple Address book / iPhone
• ACT
• Skype contacts
• non-iPhone phone address books
• Outlook Contacts
• Google (Gmail Contacts)
• a spreadsheet
• a Day Runner or other paper-based system like a Moleskine

I’d appreciate any thoughts or comments below about what you use, how it works for you, and what sort of interactions your contact tracking system helps you facilitate among your personal contacts… Also you can email me at chrisbusse (at) gmail (dot) com if you prefer.

Thanks!

thedailywhat:

Job Hunter of the Day: Alec Brownstein cleverly purchased $6 worth of Google AdWord ads specifically targeting top NYC creative directors with whom he sought a job interview.

Watch the video above to find out how well the Job Hunting 2.0 experiment turned out for him. (Spoiler alert: That’s Mister Alec Brownstein to you!)

[laughingsquid.]

BBSs: Deprecated post-dialup.

MUDs: Deprecated post-driver’s license.

AIM: Deprecated post-nuptial.

MySpace: Deprecated post-nuptial.

Flickr: I have an on-again/off-again relationship with Flickr but I seem to have connected with a few people who’s visual style and subject matter are inspirational for the kind of images I like to capture.

LinkedIn: I’ll connect if we’ve at least emailed each other in a professional capacity, or met and exchanged cards.

Facebook: I’ll connect if we went to school together, are family, or we know each other in-person socially and are likely to continue to do so.

Twitter: I’ll connect with anyone genuine, though mostly I’m looking for people with similar personal, professional, or local community interests.

Tumblr: I have no idea who most of these people are, but I seem to be connecting with people who have a good eye for visual art, photography, and design.

qthrul:

I made a comment. That’s usually how it starts. This time is it is my take on another take on two other takes on location-based services (LBS).

I’m still thinking that …

This is the link to @qthrul’s post…

KIN: The smartphone for stalkers!

…and I swear if that’s a Facebook ad targeting option it must be a mistake that it was served in my sidebar!

The Tumblr Iconic Promotional Unit I wrote about yesterday has disappeared from my dashboard — I wondered if it was a one time test to see it’s effectiveness.

I think it’s a great idea, if only to highlight another way to explore some other people’s blogs. I saw some people blogging and reblogging a “Reblog this if you vow to never follow someone who uses the Iconic Promotional Unit”, and other negative sentiment. Whatever.

I imagine Tumblr needs to charge for things to keep the lights on and the server running, so in addition to Premium Themes, this seems to really make sense — I look forward to seeing what comes next…

Tumblr is doing a promotion (new feature?) where you can pay $5 and get your icon on a the dashboard sidebar, until 25 people pay $5 and you get bumped off. 

I shelled out my $5, here I am, fourth row, second from the left:

Within 12 minutes I was bumped off, but not before gaining two tumbr followers on my little blog here. Thanks bhezmih and tiffanyhoran!

I really enjoy the tumblr platform, which is free, so I was happy to give them $5 just because. However, I didn’t get any sort of email receipt for my transaction, nor any printable confirmation screen. What’s up with that?