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After waiting and hoping that bookshelf service will eventually get better I decided to switch books to new service. Even there is some export / import option I spend few hours to settle it. New service, Goodreads.com, gives much more than the old one, Anobii and hope to get the best out of it.

1. China: 1,333,010,000
2. India: 1,169,050,000
3. United States: 307,411,000
4. Facebook: 300,000,000
5. Indonesia: 229,965,000

Reference:

List of countries by population
300 Million and On

aNobii is simple and useful book tracking system. I don’t think there is any imaginable feature they have left out.

After a quick registration you select your book shelf language. Add the books you own, either by title or ISBN. It is possible to import book list from other services, but you can also use an excel spreadsheet or a list from anywhere.

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In 2009 marketers will find their accidental spokespeople (employees & customers) and give them ways to amplify their voices. – Rohit Bhargava

Live conversations with consumers, empathetically executed, can have far bigger payout and viral word of mouth impact than most social media tools. – Pete Blackshaw.

We’ll need to do more dot-connecting between existing processes and social media output. We’ll see a flatlining of references to “my Twitter programme” and more references to my offline/online “conversational ecosystem”. – Pete Blackshaw.

Shopping goes social. Using Facebook Connect & Open Social Platform, shoppers will be able to see what friends are recommending, buying and rating integrated into the shopping experience.

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I agree. Do you?

“Ker je nerazumnost bolj čustveno nabita in zahteva manj znanja, ljudem več pove in jo je lažje požreti. Teorije zarote so kot mamilo, ki gre naravnost v kri in vas “razvestli”. Zdaj se priključite na internet. Ne vbrizgate si, pač pa naložite. Naložite si točno tisto, kar ustreza vsem vašim pristranskim stališčem.” (Yaron Ezrahi).

Facebook je odličen pripomoček.

Facebook reaches over 45 million (U.S.) monthly people.

Did you know there were 6.6 billion people and 3.3 billion cellphone subscribers in October 2007? 60% take mobile phone to bed every night.

I agree with Tomi saying: “I’ve been saying for a long time now, that mobile is to the internet, like TV was to radio, a far more compelling and soon-to-be dominating mass media platform.”

Do you want to know why today is not the same as yesterday? Get a new book from Tomi T Ahonen called Mobile as 7th of the Mass Media.

If you blast your message out to anyone who will listen, aiming for a quick profit, the Internet won’t bring you any more business than standing on a street corner with a megaphone.

If your activities contribute to building long-term, trusting relationships with prospective clients and referral sources, you’ll get business on the web.

Microblog
When you’re too lazy or important to write more than one sentence.

Podcast
Bet Apples wishes it could earn royalties off this dog-eared term.

Crowdsourcing
The wisdom — and the tyranny — of the masses.

Mashup
An application that’s still just an application.

Monetize
Plain old “making money” is so 2007.

Tweet
Not just something birds do anymore, unfortunately.

Poke
There was a reason your mom told you not to do this.

Vlog
As if ‘blog’ didn’t already offend the ear enough.

Cloud-computing
The nimbus vs. cumulus debate can’t be far off.

Friending
Another odious gerund from the social networking realm.

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Web 2.0 Consulting story

“I can’t get WEB 2.0 working on my Windows Vista. Damn”

I decided to upgrade my Firefox browser to new version. One very good option is to have Delicious bookmarks inside your favorite browser classic way. Good work!

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Today I went to see a presentation by Neel Sundaresan, the director of eBay Research Labs and a distinguished research scientist. He held an interesting lecture beginning with an “Ultimate reject letter“.

Next, he expressed Ebay’s business standpoint in a very amusing way, with a funny example. His message was simple and clear – national philosophy doesn’t work in global economy.

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Mnogi servis že uporabljate kot svoje primarno orodje, v glavnem veste zakaj, ali pa ga uporabljate zato, ker ga uporabljajo vaši poslovni partnerji. Servis ima trenutno okoli 12 milijonov uporabnikov in pokriva okoli 150 panog. LinkedIN je vodilni servis na svojem področju.

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Z dodajanjem povezav si povečujete krog sorodnih duš in povečujete verjetnost, da boste opaženi pri iskanju, ko bo nekdo želel zaposlovati, ali iskati ljudi za nov posel. Več povezav imate, večja je stopnja zaupanja.

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War for control of technology could be seen as a war between machines and people, it’s not nationally or religiously based any more.

Technology has made our lives better, easier, but on the other hand it is hard to control. Revolution two zero is in a way a revolution to get more control over machines, they have to be our slaves and not vice versa. Revolution two zero is probably a hard-won game against technology but attaching the planet to more ecological power has become less risky. This energy is clean, in comparison to oil and nuclear power, and will never expire.

If people sustain control over technology, we cannot be scared of the future. We pollute our planet with dirty information. People’s minds produce Spam all the time. It’s in our nature. What about technology? Can it produce worse, even dirtier information? Sure. Can technology help us clean the planetary mess? Sure. Is technology capable of loving and feeling?

I believe only people are capable of recycling information junk, of turning shit into sunshine.

That is human power!

Globalisation and revolution two zero are opening the world, access to information is bigger and faster, the gap between the developed and the third world countries is growing, but there are fewer undiscovered ways to change future lives. We have the ability to change the future, we have religion, our beliefs and we all want to live in a healthier world.

Live simple.

Komuniciranje preko elektronskih pisem je stara tema, katero skušam prilagoditi na razmišljanje dva nula, prenesti v današnji čas. Komunikacijski principi se spreminjajo hitro, potrebno je stalno prilagajanje.

Napišite bistvo v naslov, uporabljajte tage

Prejemnik mora v naslovu dobiti potrebne informacije, da se lahko takoj odloči, če bo pošto odprl, poslal dalje ali zbrisal. Vaš mail ni edini!

• “Pomembno, preberi takoj!” (Nikakor). Kaj je pomembno in kaj ni, ne odločate vi. Če je vsebina pomembna, jo enostavno dajte v naslov.
• “Sestanek” (Nikakor). Premalo informacij – brez odpiranja pošte ni mogoče izvedeti za podrobnosti, zato je naslov precej neuporaben.
• “Follow-up glede sestanka” (Pogojno). Prejemnik najde povezavo med vašim imenom in potrebo po sestanku.
• “Ali potrebujemo večji prostor za sestanek prihodnji petek?” (Odlično) Informacija odpira takojšno razmišljanje o velikosti sobe, možni relokaciji in pošte ni potrebno odpreti.
• “Hotel Slon, Petek 10.3., oglaševanje, web dizajn, wordpress” (Super) Podajanje ključnih informacij v naslovu samem bo pospešilo odgovor. Z uporabo tagov strnete v naslov še več ali celo vse informacije in tako še bolje opišete, za kaj gre.

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The interest in mobile advertising is growing and today there is much more interest and development around mobile advertising. Very first basic rule is – all mobile advertising has to be permission based.

Now on interactive media we are learning about interactive marketing campaigns. They can be designed purely for that media – say like Adwords on Google on the internet – or they can be done in conjunction with an old media and a new media – like voting on TV shows through the mobile phone SMS text messaging function.

On mobile we have the only mass media platform which is truly personal, permanently carried, always on, has a built-in payment system, is available at the point of creative inspiration, and accurately measures its audience.

In Japan today, 44% of Japanese mobile phone owners click on the links on their ads – that means these Japanese are not avoiding the ads! 44% of Japanese mobile phone owners like their mobile ads so much that they actually do click on the links !

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