I started linkrolling my bookmarks during during this weekend’s U.S. Open but soon became obsessed by Rocco and Tiger. So here’s my marketing, SEO, and social media links for last week.

The Marketing of Fear - “The challenge of marketing with fear isn’t efficacy. Of course fear marketing works. The challenge is ethics and brand.” My [...]

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Today I am attending Blog Carolinas a social media conference being held in North Carolina’s Research Triangle Park (that’s halfway between Raleigh and Durham). I am particularly interesting on hearing Andy Beal’s session on Online Reputation Management. Andy recently launched Trackur, an online reputation monitoring service (which I am interested in using for Zenoss).
Here’s what [...]

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My favorite social network is LinkedIn. It seems to have the most practical use of any of the social networks because I use it for business to network and keep in touch with colleagues. Today VentureBeat is speculating that LinkedIn might be close to being acquired:
Last fall, reliable sources said that News Corp was negotiating [...]

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This is the funniest video on Social Networking ever. Thanks to Roebot for sharing.

{Updated: For some reason the Adobe file doesn’t render right, the picture is now linked to the original video.}
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Technorati Tags: Facebook, Humor, MySpace, parody, Social Media

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This month’s Fast Company cover story is Ning’s Infinite Ambition. Ning is a social networking company founded by Marc Andreessen. The article discusses the concept of viral loops (The image on the right is a graphical representation of a compound viral loop).
Viral loops have emerged as perhaps the most significant business accelerant to hit Silicon [...]

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