Man was this a whirlwind of a week for me. For starters, my orthopedic surgeon gave me some bad news – my shoulder needs surgery, but we set a date and well, next month I will be looking for some guest posters so if you are interested ping me and we can set something up. Other than that it was pretty uneventful round these parts, how about you? Hope you have a great weekend, here’s this week’s edition of Five for Friday.

Kenneth Cole’s Social Media Marketing Lesson – In case you didn’t know, the fashion designer made a major snafu last week. He also set  an example of a company doing social media wrong. I have plenty of objections to people hashtag spamming, but it is pretty commonplace, hopefully his distasteful Tweet on the Egypt thread will have companies think hard about strategy after the backlash.

Twitter Starts Selling Its Data By The Tweet – This is pretty cool for the developer community or folks looking to scrape certain data from Twitter. Instead of an overwhelming fire hose it looks like people can now get niche info from the 140 character platform.

Why Some Twitter Posts Catch On, and Some Don’t – Ever wondered why your awesome Tweet didn’t catch on? Well you aren’t alone. This piece from the New York Times has some interesting research on Tweet sharing and influence and should definitely get a read.

Banned Super Bowl Commercials – I always love when the banned commercials come up following the Super Bowl.  These are definitely worth watching for a laugh and would have definitely made the Super Bowl that much better. Below is one of my favorites from the piece.

Wannabe Cool Kids Aim to Game the Web’s New Social Scorekeepers – On one hand I see a ton of potential with Klout and similar services. On the other I see the sad part of our society both IRL & online – seriously Brittney Spears did you really whine to see why you weren’t important? Moving forward I can see this going either horribly awesome with hyper-targeting or just another case of the “rich” getting rich, gamers gaming the system and marketing spam. What do you think?

Man was this a whirlwind of a week for me. For starters, my orthopedic surgeon gave me some bad news – my shoulder needs surgery, but we set a date and well, next month I will be looking for some guest posters so if you are interested ping me and we can set something up. Other than that it was pretty uneventful round these parts, how about you? Hope you have a great weekend, here’s this week’s edition of Five for Friday.

Kenneth Cole’s Social Media Marketing Lesson – In case you didn’t know, the fashion designer made a major snafu last week. He also set  an example of a company doing social media wrong. I have plenty of objections to people hashtag spamming, but it is pretty commonplace, hopefully his distasteful Tweet on the Egypt thread will have companies think hard about strategy after the backlash.

Twitter Starts Selling Its Data By The Tweet – This is pretty cool for the developer community or folks looking to scrape certain data from Twitter. Instead of an overwhelming fire hose it looks like people can now get niche info from the 140 character platform.

Why Some Twitter Posts Catch On, and Some Don’t – Ever wondered why your awesome Tweet didn’t catch on? Well you aren’t alone. This piece from the New York Times has some interesting research on Tweet sharing and influence and should definitely get a read.

Banned Super Bowl Commercials – I always love when the banned commercials come up following the Super Bowl.  These are definitely worth watching for a laugh and would have definitely made the Super Bowl that much better. Below is one of my favorites from the piece.

Wannabe Cool Kids Aim to Game the Web’s New Social Scorekeepers – On one hand I see a ton of potential with Klout and similar services. On the other I see the sad part of our society both IRL & online – seriously Brittney Spears did you really whine to see why you weren’t important? Moving forward I can see this going either horribly awesome with hyper-targeting or just another case of the “rich” getting rich, gamers gaming the system and marketing spam. What do you think?

Man was this a whirlwind of a week for me. For starters, my orthopedic surgeon gave me some bad news – my shoulder needs surgery, but we set a date and well, next month I will be looking for some guest posters so if you are interested ping me and we can set something up. Other than that it was pretty uneventful round these parts, how about you? Hope you have a great weekend, here’s this week’s edition of Five for Friday.

Kenneth Cole’s Social Media Marketing Lesson – In case you didn’t know, the fashion designer made a major snafu last week. He also set  an example of a company doing social media wrong. I have plenty of objections to people hashtag spamming, but it is pretty commonplace, hopefully his distasteful Tweet on the Egypt thread will have companies think hard about strategy after the backlash.

Twitter Starts Selling Its Data By The Tweet – This is pretty cool for the developer community or folks looking to scrape certain data from Twitter. Instead of an overwhelming fire hose it looks like people can now get niche info from the 140 character platform.

Why Some Twitter Posts Catch On, and Some Don’t – Ever wondered why your awesome Tweet didn’t catch on? Well you aren’t alone. This piece from the New York Times has some interesting research on Tweet sharing and influence and should definitely get a read.

Banned Super Bowl Commercials – I always love when the banned commercials come up following the Super Bowl.  These are definitely worth watching for a laugh and would have definitely made the Super Bowl that much better. Below is one of my favorites from the piece.

Wannabe Cool Kids Aim to Game the Web’s New Social Scorekeepers – On one hand I see a ton of potential with Klout and similar services. On the other I see the sad part of our society both IRL & online – seriously Brittney Spears did you really whine to see why you weren’t important? Moving forward I can see this going either horribly awesome with hyper-targeting or just another case of the “rich” getting rich, gamers gaming the system and marketing spam. What do you think?

Man was this a whirlwind of a week for me. For starters, my orthopedic surgeon gave me some bad news – my shoulder needs surgery, but we set a date and well, next month I will be looking for some guest posters so if you are interested ping me and we can set something up. Other than that it was pretty uneventful round these parts, how about you? Hope you have a great weekend, here’s this week’s edition of Five for Friday.

Kenneth Cole’s Social Media Marketing Lesson – In case you didn’t know, the fashion designer made a major snafu last week. He also set  an example of a company doing social media wrong. I have plenty of objections to people hashtag spamming, but it is pretty commonplace, hopefully his distasteful Tweet on the Egypt thread will have companies think hard about strategy after the backlash.

Twitter Starts Selling Its Data By The Tweet – This is pretty cool for the developer community or folks looking to scrape certain data from Twitter. Instead of an overwhelming fire hose it looks like people can now get niche info from the 140 character platform.

Why Some Twitter Posts Catch On, and Some Don’t – Ever wondered why your awesome Tweet didn’t catch on? Well you aren’t alone. This piece from the New York Times has some interesting research on Tweet sharing and influence and should definitely get a read.

Banned Super Bowl Commercials – I always love when the banned commercials come up following the Super Bowl.  These are definitely worth watching for a laugh and would have definitely made the Super Bowl that much better. Below is one of my favorites from the piece.

Wannabe Cool Kids Aim to Game the Web’s New Social Scorekeepers – On one hand I see a ton of potential with Klout and similar services. On the other I see the sad part of our society both IRL & online – seriously Brittney Spears did you really whine to see why you weren’t important? Moving forward I can see this going either horribly awesome with hyper-targeting or just another case of the “rich” getting rich, gamers gaming the system and marketing spam. What do you think?