Awakened Voice

Meebo + IM + Twitter = Busy.

I’m surprisingly productive though![tags]Social Media, Twitter, Meebo, Productivity[/tags]

I’ve always thought that instant messaging (IM) could be a very powerful social catalyst. Likewise I think that it can be a more effective business tool. One reason that many businesses shy away from using IM more is the lack of security. Another problem with IM as a communication tool has been the difficulty integrating [...]

Neville Hobson has done an analysis of his RSS feed subscriber stats since Google started reporting statistics on subscribers via Google’s Reader and Home Page services.
He concludes that Google Reader, ” is making its mark as an RSS aggregator.” He sees a larger percentage of subscribers now using Google tools as opposed to other popular [...]

Odeo is for sale.
The folks at Obvious Corp. are selling, “…odeo.com and studio.odeo.com, including all code, the domain, brand, database of three million MP3s, etc. Not a company, but a site and platform that could be ramped up to something much bigger.”
They built something good looking and functional. And they still get quite a bit [...]

Two years ago today I made a very bold statement about podcasting and how it would affect satellite radio.
Yesterday the news came across that XM and Sirius satellite radio announced plans for a merger.
So what’s the deal here? It’s the same deal that I said it would be.
“Both players in the game, Sirius and XM, [...]

Has it been that long? Damn!
I started podcasting in February 2005. I’ve been lucky enough to meet a lot of great folks via podcasting.
I’ve connected with lots of musicians who wanted their songs played and were glad to get a new chance for exposure. Tons of people have expressed their love (or extreme hate) [...]

So far I’ve found two excellent uses of the Yahoo Pipes service.

Aggregate a group of feeds into a single feed. I did that here.
Create a tool to search for a term across multiple sites. I did that here.

One of the coolest things about Yahoo Pipes is the fact that you can view and edit the [...]

Over the last few months I’ve come in contact with a number of organizations that are struggling with social media. Some are struggling with understanding the ideas behind social media. Others are struggling with the implementation of blogs, podcasts and RSS feeds.
On a few occasions I’ve been directed to work with or review the work [...]

Today I had the pleasure of lunching with some heavy hitters in the world of Social Media. I sat down at the Bryant Park Grill with Shel Holtz (pictured left) and Neville Hobson. Shel and Neville are VPs at the marketing firm Crayon. And they are also hosts of the For Immediate Release podcast. [...]

Randy Morin’s R-Mail service is catching on. He just announced that R-Mail is at the 50,000 user mark.
R-Mail is a free service that delivers RSS content to your email inbox. Any person can subscribe to any RSS feed by entering a feed address and their email on the R-Mail home page. New RSS content gets [...]