Technology Mashup

I was reading through a list of Drupal modules and spotted one that supported tipjoy integration. This brought me back to thinking about tipjoy and its potential.

The service launched in Feb 2008, so is a relatively new venture. The simple idea is that a virtual tip jar is added to your site / blog to help monetise the content. A tip is added by a happy consumer that wants to reward the author with 10 cents (for example) made as a micro-payment.

Bizreport have a recent article indicating that 3 new social ad formats are coming to Facebook. I was writing not so long ago about the need to do more in inline interactive advertising, to treat ads as more natural social content than some of those dreadful interruptive techniques.

Widgets, comments and fan pages will be utilised in an attempt to virally distribute the brand messages.

It will be an interesting one to check out, I hope it is not just more petrol on the fire of 'capitalist spam'.

I was thinking a while back (before I started the site upgrade) about why the Social Media love-in on Problogger had been so successful. In time honoured tradition I thought I would list the 5 key reasons as I see them.

1. Topical - Social Media is certainly on the hype wave, and timing is everything
2. Centralised credibility - By this I mean Problogger was an established hub for those with an active interest
3. Success breeds success - As the popularity grew and the word went out on other platforms this pulled more contributers into the 'perfect storm'
4. People followed through - contributors actually hooked up with others and the Problogger folks produced consolidated lists of people on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn etc. for simple reference
5. The activity was 'time boxed' which created a sense of urgency

By Steve Nimmons

Social Networking in the Enterprise Survey - (cross posted from Circumference of a Moose)

As Simon is being modest, and in his own words :-)

New Blog from a coooool dude

Dudes,

Here is a great new blog from the cooolest of dudes
http://www.simondelliott.com

Self professed 'cool dude'! ???

One for the Enterprise 2.0 diary for August...

Web 2.0 Meets Enterprise Content Management - Part One -

“Woefully inadequate” Web 2.0 quality costing firms dear - Increased software complexity from multicore, Web 2.0 and SOA driving up costs for companies

[SOA News from Computer Weekly]

More cat fighting with Facebook...

Facebook challenges German rival - Germany's Studivz says the intellectual property dispute that Facebook has brought against it is without merit.

[BBC UK Technology News]

Crying wolf on Facebook security - Facebook is today's version of the conversation by the water cooler.Why are we so hung-up on the security issues of social networking sites? asks Cliff Saran

[Cliff Saran's Blog]