I’m playing around with widgets… just testing to see if this one works… (if you don’t see anything, it doesn’t work :p)
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Plaxo must have fixed their SMTP server
or, all of my friends invited me to their social network on the same day. It seems like in the last 24 hours I’ve received about 15 invitations for friends in Plaxo. So which is it? Did they let a ton of invites out yesterday, or did all of my friends (yes, all 15 of them) invite me at once??
Uh, yeah, I’d say that’s an understatement.
I don’t like Blogger BUT…..
I may just have to get an account there, here is the most compelling argument I’ve seen, ever, about going to Blogger (blogspot):
The broad hippo
Yesterday I was reading a book to my kids and came across “the broad hippopotamus.” I asked my 6 year old son what a broad hippo is. It went something like this:
Me: What is a broad hippo?
6 year old boy: A hippo with bras?
after a few seconds for us to digest it, we all laughed for a while. I grew up with all boys (my sisters are quite a bit younger, and were still very young when I moved out of the house), so I would have never thought about a hippo with bras! Alas, my son is with mom and three sisters all day – he’s growing up quite a bit different than I did!
Plaxo is…
a “networked address book” and a precursor to social networks. As per an interview with John McCrea, VP of Marketing for Plaxo. Thanks to Thom Singer for the interview, you can check it out here.
McCrea says that Plaxo did indeed ask itself (or themselves) if the world really did need another social network. I’m surprised that their conclusion was yes… except that they did have an amazing foundation to start Pulse.
Says that next few months will be really exciting (because of the open social web – I’m guessing this is the API stuff that we’re seeing from Facebook). Sounds exciting but (a) it’s social networking, and I’m social networked out, and (b) aren’t marketing directors supposed to be excited about the next few months?
It’s a really interesting 30 minutes, worth your time. Â I would like to hear what McCrea’s position is on LinkedIn, Facebook, MySpace, Salesforce, etc. as competition.
Hi, my name is Jake Malba
me: I’m calling for so-and-so
the guy: Who’s this?
me: Jason Alba
the guy: (slowly) Jake Malba??
me: … no, J-A-S-O-N A-L-B-A …
……….. maybe I should have just stuck with Jake Malba.
Dear Skype, You Failed Me :(
Today I had a very cool radio interview. Well, it was a recording and essentially a podcast… it was being recorded, and it will be linked to from a newspaper in central California.
But about 10 minutes into it Skype hung up the call.
DUDE. Seriously, what the freak?
I love Skype, and I use it all the time. But for “mission critical” stuff, like live or recorded interviews, I’m gun shy. Make that, skype shy 🙁
I have an elevator crush on…
See, Pete Johnson has the “nerd crush” market cornered. This is like asking Michael Jordan who he thinks are awesome basketball players… so if Pete has a nerd crush on someone, then I do too.
But I can’t really follow Pete in declaring who I have a nerd crush on. And being the junkie blogger that I am, I figured I needed to have some kind of crush on something. So, after my recent trip to Savannah, I figured out what that was. I have elevator crushes.
The best, funnest, coolest elevator that I had a crush on was at the Caribe Hilton. This elevator went up about 22 floors… and it was fast… and fun. For an eleven year old chump, this was one of the thrills of living in temporary quarters (we would go sneak in the resort, ride the elevator, go to the tidal pools, etc.). I will never forget this elevator.
But in Savannah, I experienced an elevator that trumps this one. It only went up six floors. And I can’t say that it was speedy fast. But it had something that no other elevator has (at least, no elevator that I’ve every stepped into). The “door close” button actually closes the doors – immediately!
Don’t you hate pushing the door close and then waiting seconds for it to begin shutting? It’s like it never really did anything, just made you feel like you were doing something.
But in Savannah, as soon as you push the door close button, it started to close. Yes, I have an elevator crush on that elevator.
The world would be a better place if all elevators had this neat little feature.
(yes, I really am this weird. I just had to blog about it. If you aren’t a blogger, you wouldn’t understand :p)
MarketingProfs.com rocks
I knew about MarketingProfs.com… but didn’t really know how powerful they were. My first introduction was when Kirsten and William wrote an article about personal branding and included a link to JibberJobber. I can’t remember how many dozens of people signed up for JibberJobber that day, and the trickle of signups in the next couple of weeks… it was definitely enough to turn my head.
Recently, I was invited to write an article related to my book, I’m on LinkedIn — Now What??? Today I learned that the article is being cycled on their front page of main articles. HUGE thanks to MarketingProfs for the opportunity and visibility!
File under “great ways to describe…”
On an e-mail list, talking about job search tools, I wrote something about JibberJobber, this is one snippet that I wanted to store for later use:
“It’s not a job board (although you can search jobs), it’s not an advice/article repository (although the blog has been mentioned by the Wall Street Journal’s Career Journal), it’s not a social network (although you can take your contacts from various social networks and manage the relationships in JibberJobber) …. it’s just … JibberJobber!”