You can expect me to post about these topics as well as anything else I think is interesting.
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"Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victim may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated, but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience." ~ CS Lewis
Very cute. I would make one change, though. Next to You Tube, I would have written “Watch me eating a donut.” With the way it’s written now, the writer could be describing a still photograph as much as a video.
I know, I know it’s so minor, but it makes the description more accurate. :)
Social Media EXPLAINED
Tumblr: F—KYEAHDONUTS
Union Square Ventures recently posted an opening for an investment analyst.
Instead of asking for résumés, the New York venture-capital firm—which has invested in Twitter, Foursquare, Zynga and other technology companies—asked applicants to send links representing their “Web presence,” such as a Twitter account or Tumblr blog. Applicants also had to submit short videos demonstrating their interest in the position.
I found this article at Ann Althouse and I find it very interesting because what it says is that Union Square Ventures, in addition to wanting to know what a candidate’s knowledge of social media may be, does not differentiate between their employees’ work life and behavior and their online life and behavior.
Think about that for a moment.
If I were a soon-to-be college graduate looking forward to getting my first job or someone who has been out of work for a while and decided to hangout on the internet to pass the time until the job prospects looked up or until my unemployment ran out, I would be thinking about how I have presented myself on the Internet. And don’t assume potential employers - even those that still request only résumés - won’t Google, Bing, and/or Yahoo! your name so they can learn about your online presence. It is becoming more and more expensive to keep current employees, let alone hire new ones, so employers want to make sure they are spending their money wisely by trying to find the highest quality and most well-rounded candidates as possible.
So, what is the moral of this story? If you thought you were free to say anything online no matter how outrageous, ridiculous, or vapid because you assumed the online world and the real world were separate and would never co-mingle or overlap, think again. Words mean things, and the words you have used on the internet are not going away. Ever.
The Brilliant "Don't Be Evil" Bookmarklet 
Kudos to Facebook (with some help from Twitter and MySpace) for having the balls to do this. It’s a bookmarklet that replaces Google’s new “People and Pages” area, the hardcoded social search area, and the search completion drop-down, with organic results.
In other words, it makes the new Google behave more like the old Google.
There has been a lot of back and forth in recent weeks over Google’s new Search+ functionality — about how “fair” it is, and whether or not it should lead to antitrust inquiries. But the bottom line is this:
Search+ makes Google worse. It replaces relevancy with Google’s own agenda to pump up Google+.
I say kudos to Facebook because while this isn’t an official app they created, they let their key product manager, Blake Ross, work on it and deploy it knowing full well that everyone would immediately tie it to Facebook. That in turn will put some heat back on Facebook, which itself is far from fully open with regard to data — and is gearing up to IPO.
But again, the key issue here is that what Google is doing with Search+ is making Google worse. This bookmarklet illustrates that in a very effective way.
John Battelle and Danny Sullivan have more on this, as do others. And be sure to watch the Focus On The User walk-through video, narrated by Ross himself.
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