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Facebook is little more than “….a directory. They’ve not monetized as well as us…. they’ve done a great job of being the flavor of the month the last six months of last year.”

wow. thanks for the newsflash rupert. is that fair and balanced reporting? or just a little lesson learned from your past purchases?

big media’s obsession with the next big thing.. bright and shiny objects can get a bit old. credit to rupert, he ’s calling it like-it-is to an extent. facebook aint the end-all-be-all and something new will come along to kick it off it’s throne any minute now. though media buyers are lining up the hot new properties for a time, history proves that all (like netscape, aol, second life, myspace and joost,) will eventually give em the boot after giving them a long nite in the vip section.

facebook, twitter, hulu… finish your drinks and enjoy the after hours. tomorrow its back of the line please.

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..a new kind of political town hall:

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amazing , stunning, frightening, disgusting. welcome to our sci-fi reality folks. as hunter used to say:

“When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro. “

more here, here, and here.  and proof that the bionic trend is upon us check out a cover story from The Week here:

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..just when you thought Evil Stevie and friends might lose their marketing mojo, they create Apple Camp. I joke about the evil part (a reference to an earlier post), in fact I’d send my daughter if she was old enough. Sure beats sending her here or here.

a great experiential branding case study, even if its a bit borderline in marketing to the youngins. but i’m guessing the cultofmac peeps and other various fanboys won’t be shy in getting their kids in black turtlenecks and rimless glasses for their first day of camp..

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Would you like to adopt a Dolphin? I bet you would?

Whether working on your own website, or discussing one for clients the conversation at some point will point quickly to social media applications, or community platforms. Most clients however won’t go down this road because of development costs, or complexities. Sole users, tinkerers like me that want more than templates that web based platforms provide are in a bind too. We can’t customize, not knowing how to mess with all the coding mess to do your own community sites unless we go the road of something like ning. All this leading me to wonder: when will someone create the Wordpress for Social Community websites?

Well it’s here. And apparently it’s not that new… But its hot. Adopt your Dolphin today, courtesy of Boonex.

…now “open source” is something of an overstatement in the fact that you’re going to have to pay for Dolphin Software. But the fees are low, and would seem worth it vs. other platform that are more close ended, leaving you unable to implement meaningful custom design, self host, hack and monetize on your own.

I also wont oversell Dolphin since I don’t know how easy it is to use, but from the online demo it looks intuitive wordpress style with an easy to navigate management user interface and content management system. Even if it ain’t the end-all one thing is for sure, Flickr, YouTube, Myspace and Facebook beware. You’re unique platforms are about to be commoditized real quick. And micro-social media sites won’t just continue to grow, they will soon explode. And if your ning.com, squidoo or wetpaint you may continue to capture a large amount of everyday folks of the like the web-based blogger platforms do (e.g. wordpress online, blogger), but your competitive set is going to get crowded and you’ll lose the small business folks developing web platforms, tech tinkerers like me and other b2b builders real quick-like.

Who knew that Dolphins could stir up so much trouble? ;)

More about BoonEX via this interesting mission video.

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<drools>

multi-touch os for mac? well..sort of. it ain’t evil stevie, or the master of interactive pixels jeff han. but it shows that mainstream multi-touch is comin soon.

more from Gizmodo.

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…an interesting move by Google, but feels a tad bit Targete mmmkay?

Jeff Koons….

Michael Graves….

Anne Geddes?!

NIGO?!!!!! (wtf)

and from what facebook tells me, there’s a beastie boys theme in the works

..so the new “death star” of marketing get’s its brand on. but is this really a good move? not only does it feel a little forced, it feels a bit unGoogle.

what do you think?

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.. another random tangent in anticipation of tomorrow’s Indiana Jones release: Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. Fanboy’s get their geek on:

courtesy of Geekologie.

Note: The initial reviews are pretty brutal, but this movie could be a straight-to-video disaster and I’d still be grinning in anticipation.

Disclaimer: Don’t let the fact that Harrison’s lady Calista and I went to high school together convince you I’m flogging, I’ve got the Atari Indiana Jones game and a close-to Ernie Kline obsession with the film. Besides.. she needs to eat a sandwich.

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as Hunter S. once said, when the going gets weird, the weird go pro.  This is a little weird.. Hammer, Diablo, and now…

Hi, Andy

Zappos.com CEO -Tony (zappos) is now following your updates on Twitter.

Check out Zappos.com CEO -Tony’s profile here:

http://twitter.com/zappos

Best,
Twitter

Don’t get me wrong, it’s cool to follow Tony.  What’s weird is that its cause he’s friend’s with  Hammer and that my friends is why I’m now being followed ;)

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