Socialmediaworx

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6IQ_FOCE6I] Sure, you've probably already seen it, but it's just too good.

We live in an information-saturated world. No surprise there. But I'm always intrigued when any kind of aggregation tool hits the market with the potential to help me better collect and analyze heavy streams of information. Be it my Netvibes start page, imperative reads like Techmeme and Digg, or even using Basecamp at work to easily compile and manage projects, I'm increasingly grateful for tools that help me collect, ...

Good article in AdWeek on the value of social connectivity. Money quotes: Many observers see social connections as a credible alternative to search in how we find information, consume media and make product decisions—all premised on the power of peer recommendation. "Social networking is as significant a behavioral shift as search," says Sarah Fay, CEO of Carat, part of Aegis Group. "The way search has infiltrated our lives, social ...

Where roadblocks exist, opportunities abound. See here, from the LA Times: Dozens of striking film and TV writers are negotiating with venture capitalists to set up companies that would bypass the Hollywood studio system and reach consumers with video entertainment on the Web. At least seven groups, composed of members of the striking Writers Guild of America, are planning to form Internet-based businesses that, if successful, could create an alternative ...

Class dismissed.

Just how much is Facebook worth? Depends on what day you ask. Somewhere between $10-60 billion? Who knows!? Only FSJ can accurately capture this level of absurdity: No guff. This baby-faced kid has balls like a friggin gorilla. Few days ago he was turning away Microsoft, saying their offer to buy a piece of Facebook at a $10 billion valuation wasn't high enough because his profitless company was worth $15 billion. ...

The new social networking platform of tomorrow will be the internet itself. Both Yahoo and Google are working on strategies to overlay their own social networks over their web services - email, IM, photosharing and others. Check out this Wired article about Yahoo's efforts: Yahoo's ambition isn't to make a stand-alone social network to compete with the Facebooks and MySpaces of the online world. Photo management, blogging and private communication are ...

On the heals of last night's Refresh-DC meetup about widgets, International Herald Tribune posted this article about newspaper's adoption of delivering content through widgets. Traditionally, newspapers and other Web sites have first and foremost tried to drive traffic back the main destination so they can sell more advertising, the way a TV network or magazine or newspaper might do. But as people spend more time within networks of their own ...

It seems like these online lists seem to pop up every now and then, bigger and badder than ever before, but here is the latest Web 2.0 list of goodness.