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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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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Collaborative Thinking: Microsoft Continues To Fill SharePoint Social Gaps - Microsoft fills in the gaps of Sharepoint with NewsGator and Atlassian Confluence but is that good enough?
Wired: How Apple Got Everything Right By Doing Everything Wrong - One Infinite Loop, Apple’s street address, is a programming in-joke — it refers to a routine that never [...]

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If you’re going to be crazy, you have to get paid for it or else you’re going to be locked up.
Hunter S. Thompson
Drupal recently made a deal with the devils (venture capitalists) by virtue of the a $7 million investment in Acquia. Acquia owns the Drupal brand (or at least legally they do). Drupal [...]

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Some good stuff for the marketeer… 
How To Move CMOs Out Of Harm’s Way 
Since I typically don’t like traditional marketing types, they tend to believe their own hype. Apparently after 26 months their CEOs tend to stop believing it though.  
In a study of 100 leading consumer companies in June 2007, executive search firm Spencer Stuart [...]

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