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"Hi Taylor, thanks for linking to my building blocks of social media strategy. hopefully see you at sxsw at some point to discuss all of this stuff!" - Tom Nixon

"Agreed. It had never occurred to me that I would do one or the other. I might try closing down my RSS reader for a week and see if I miss it." - Tom Nixon

"Really surprised that you don't use a feed reader Fred. This made me think about how mainstream users will find their content in the future. According to Forrester's research, RSS and social bookmarking has very low adoption among internet users relative to other forms of social media use (they call this type of use 'collecting.') http://www.forrester.com/Grounds...... It makes me think that perhaps RSS will never actually hit the mainstream except as a protocol used by developers for syndication and that it will be the social web that notifies us of content worth reading. Or perhaps tools like http://fav.or.it could help to bridge the gap. I'm not sure if it's quite what you're looking for but it's worth a look." - Tom Nixon

Time, research, and ideation have historically been designers’ comfort zones. They suit our natural aptitude for vision and intuition, and allow us to carefully synthesize nebulous things like “brand” and “user behavior” into objects developers love: specifications, sitemaps, layouts, and graphics. - Tom Nixon

"Great investment Fred. I don't know about you, but I really see 2009 as being the year when things start coming together in terms of using capitalism to make the world a better place. As our friend My Haque wrote recently, redressing the balance away from purely financial capital and considering human, social and environmental capital as equal partners. We might be going through an economic downturn where financial capital is taking a hit, but capitalism is more necessary than ever before to address the world's other needs. Best of luck with the venture - I'll be a keen observer. P.S. I've told my friends over at The Carbon Disclosure Project (a not-for -profit also in London) to check out Amee and see if there are any partnership opportunities." - Tom Nixon

In its study, FairWinds researched the Web to identify gripe sites specifically containing "sucks.com." The study uncovered over 20,000 domains with only 2,000 ending in the phrase "stinks.com." Of the major consumer-facing companies surveyed, only 35% own the domain name for their brand followed by the word "sucks." - Tom Nixon

"Hi Fred, did you see Umair's note today? "Macropocalypse: Endgame I have a really, really feeling that today will be really bad. I'm pretty certain that yesterday was by no means the culmination of the collapse. If AIG goes down, we are in serious trouble of a systemic and catastrophic breakdown and unwinding." http://www.bubblegeneration.com/2008...... It's quite sickening to see this actually playing out now isn't it? And it's not like nobody saw it coming. At least those of use listening to Umair did. I sincerely hope that those of us in the social media world are a part of the solution to these systemic problems of the current capitalist system and so we'll be able to ride out the coming bad times for the global economy, and play a part in building a brighter future. Chin up and all that!" - Tom Nixon

Huge exhaustive list of corporate social media examples - Tom Nixon

why shitting yourself ? - Mark Ng from twhirl

just scared about how the hell to prioritise, not drown, but not miss out on any cool opportunities - Tom Nixon

I guess I just accept that I'll miss many cool opportunities, because one man can only do so many things. Does this not still apply when running an agency, or do you just end up expanding to meet the opportunity (and doesn't that way madness lie ?) - Mark Ng from twhirl

"Great stuff. Thanks :)" - Tom Nixon

"Hi Fred, sounds like it was an interesting session. was it videoed?" - Tom Nixon

How the Etsy founders burnt themselves out redeveloping the website. - Tom Nixon

How the Etsy founders burnt themselves out redeveloping the website. - Tom Nixon

Excellent proggy D&B from our very own Edd Parris - Tom Nixon

Excellent proggy D&B from our very own Edd Parris - Tom Nixon

Great video blogging example - Tom Nixon

Great video blogging example - Tom Nixon

"[apologies, I posted this before reading the full post :) Re. point 5 about video comments slowing things down, I think Fred meant that it takes a lot longer to get a sense of the conversation in video because you have to watch each response in real-time which takes a long time, whereas with text comments you can skim the page for the good stuff. Here's an idea for you: It would be cool if seesmic could use voice-to-text translation so that some keywords could be picked out of the video allowing you to skim through a list of clips to get a sense of what's being said, and then the user can decide which videos they want to watch." - Tom Nixon

"Find a Buddhist centre nearby and join them for a guided meditation session. You absolutely cannot fail to leave with such an enormous cheesy grin on your face that it's almost embarassing." - Tom Nixon

"Find a Buddhist centre nearby and join them for a guided meditation session. You absolutely cannot fail to leave with such an enormous cheesy grin on your face that it's almost embarassing." - Tom Nixon

"Companies will still have stock (although I think more and more of it will be private rather than public) so an exit is still possible - you just sell your shares. But perhaps the big paydays of large acquisitions and IPOs will become less and less common. This might put off the investors and entrepreneurs who are motivated purely by greed, but those people who want to build and invest in incredible products and services that make the world a better place could find this new 'ecosystem' approach to building companies to be highly appealing - it certainly is to me." - Tom Nixon

"Companies will still have stock (although I think more and more of it will be private rather than public) so an exit is still possible - you just sell your shares. But perhaps the big paydays of large acquisitions and IPOs will become less and less common. This might put off the investors and entrepreneurs who are motivated purely by greed, but those people who want to build and invest in incredible products and services that make the world a better place could find this new 'ecosystem' approach to building companies to be highly appealing - it certainly is to me." - Tom Nixon

"Don't worry Joseph, it's not just you. After a few weeks of reading his stuff you start to get the jist." - Tom Nixon

"Don't worry Joseph, it's not just you. After a few weeks of reading his stuff you start to get the jist." - Tom Nixon

"I've met Umair a few times and found him to be very open. And I'm certainly no genius." - Tom Nixon

"I've met Umair a few times and found him to be very open. And I'm certainly no genius." - Tom Nixon

"Great post Fred. It seems to me that the investment market today is designed to build companies that will either get swallowed up by a larger fish or to go public and become a big fish in their own right. The logic being that a big fish can do the job best. But this doesn't seem to hold true in the edge economy. I wonder if in the future, the model will be to quickly and efficiently create a long tail of niche specialist companies. Perhaps incubation and angel investing are where the action will be, ala Y-Combinator, SeedCamp etc, but with a view to keeping the companies small and going for larger portfolios. What do you think?" - Tom Nixon

"Great post Fred. It seems to me that the investment market today is designed to build companies that will either get swallowed up by a larger fish or to go public and become a big fish in their own right. The logic being that a big fish can do the job best. But this doesn't seem to hold true in the edge economy. I wonder if in the future, the model will be to quickly and efficiently create a long tail of niche specialist companies. Perhaps incubation and angel investing are where the action will be, ala Y-Combinator, SeedCamp etc, but with a view to keeping the companies small and going for larger portfolios. What do you think?" - Tom Nixon

Must do this on holiday!! - Tom Nixon

Some excellent analysis and ideas from Fred about what Yahoo! could do instead of being swallowed by Microsoft. - Tom Nixon