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@Jacqui Chew: Jacqui: Yes, I too greatly enjoyed meeting you after OMS. The "business dinner" turned out to be great fun too!
@Mike Schinkel: Mike:
It was great meeting you the other day and was very glad that you were sporting enough to join a group of strangers for a "business meeting." Best of luck on the upcoming event and let me know how I can assist with others as well as the web project.
jacqui
@Tony Stubblebine: Hi Tony,
Crowdvine is looking great!
I use IE, since 998% of my customers do (refererence to discussion at SoCon!) so it's a noticable difference to me.
I am about to start a group of QNNtv.com insiders/evangelists and am looking for a home. Jeff suggested Crownvine, which I'd love to use. I like the idea that members can have profiles and get to know one another. But I need a feature where we can have threaded conversations. Would that be in the offing?
Many thanks,
Jodie
@Leonard Witt: Have you recovered from the conference? Great job! I just posted the video.
Robert:
I really appreciate your feedback. I'll definitely build a way to see an overview of all your social networks. Managing membership in multiple networks has been the most requested feature.
I'm not sure how, but I'll find a way to make it easier to browse members. I'd wanted next buttons so that I could page through every profile but I also like your idea of getting enough information in the list of profiles to decide if you're interested in the person or not.
@Robert Joseph: You'll be at PodCamp? Cool! Looks like it will be somewhat of a SoCon07 reunion.
@J. Brotherlove: Hey Brotherlove, Sorry I missed you at the conference but got a chance to meet Karsh. Will definitely connect with you at PodCamp. Like your site.
@Timothy Moenk: I had the best time talking and getting to know you this weekend. Keep in touch as will I.
@Ken Grisnak: Hi Ken!
Thank you for adding me as a contact. It was great to meet the man behind the brew! Give a scritch to Bucky for me.
@Tony Stubblebine: It was great to meet you at SoCon07 this weekend. Just wanted to let you know that I do not have a "show all contacts" feature on my profile page.
@jon gos: Hey Jon,
It was great fun meeting you at SoCon. I'll share pizza and a beer with you any day!
Jodie
@Emmanuel: Hey Emmanuel, Sorry we did not get to talk at the SoCon conference but really like what you are doing with your web site. Keep up the good work.
@Tony Stubblebine: Hey Tony, Great meeting you yesterday. I also wanted to get your opinion about sales force. On a different note love CrowdVine. 2 suggestions:
1) I would like to have a central home page where it is a overview of all my social networks that I am involved in with CrowdVine. Not sure what that looks like but it would allow me to see all the people that are my contacts, some condense information about the different networks, etc.
2) I would like to be able to go through people's profile that are part of the Social Network in a page by page fashion without having to go in to a profile then out of a profile to the all members page. Better yet I would like to have a list or profiles on the screen that I can read through very quickly then page to another list.
Again great meeting you at the conference and looking forward to more conversations.
@kathy shields: Hi Kathy:
See our Blog2Learn project at www.blog2learn.org. It will give you background. We made the mistake of using moveable type, so the stuff at the site is not very active. We are moving the teachers onto Wordpress. You have to come up to Kennesaw to meet the rest of our team -- Dr. Earl Holliday and Mike Keleher. Send me an email at lwitt@kennesaw.edu. Let's keep in touch.
@jon gos: Hi Jon:
Nice meeting you. Did you meet with Amani Channel? If not, I should put you in contact with him. I think you could help each other via what each of you is doing.
@Amber Rhea: Hi Amber -- And Rusty too:
Nice talking to you at SoCon07. Am looking forward to the Podcast. Put me on the Podcamp mailing list. Thanks.
@kathy shields: I was a pleasure to finally catch up with you and I look forward to a real conversation. Kindergarten is a fine laboratory for someone who thinks about the future the way you do. I enjoyed your quick wit.
@kathy shields: Hi Kathy,
Thank you for the kind words. It was awesome being around a group of smart and motivated people with passion for enhancing the human network.
@Leonard Witt: You've got great ideas and I was very inspired listening to you. I'm glad we could 'save journalism' as part of your class!
@jon gos: It was nice to meet you as well. Please keep in touch and I will definitely take a look at Soul Press. What was the other organization that you were with?
@Jonas M Luster: Couldn't find your email address, so leaving a note here instead. Can do coffee tomorrow anytime after 2. And Sherry wants to come 2(too)! Shoot us an email . :)
@R. Mark Moore: Great meeting you today, Mark. Let's grab some lunch. Tell me a day when the construction crew doesn't have Webb Bridge in war-zone-status (next year maybe?) and we'll do it.
-Chris
@Sherry Heyl: I enjoyed the conference even more than I'd anticipated. Everyone I met was open and candid. I think the feel of the conference had a lot to do with you, setting the tone. Thank you for you dedication.
@Barbara Vining: Thanks for pointing the way to lunch! And for everything else you did for the conference.
@Mark David Anthony: Mark, enjoyed swapping ideas with you. Thanks for the family network site link.
@Jodie Davis: Jodie, my quilting friend is forever in my debt. She can't understand how she's been buying fabric online, patterns and google mapping store locations but remained in the dark about your quilter's paradise! Very nice chatting with you.
@Jonathan Freedman: Thank you for tracking me down. I enjoy meeting social networking pioneers like yourself who continue to carry the torch while illuminating others along the way.
@Amani Channel: Hey, sorry, I must have posted the 1st comment when you were signed in on my laptop. Looking forward to your journalistic take on soConn.
@Tony Stubblebine: Hey, I just shot you an email. I couldn't make it down to the conference, but let's connect soon.
@Dawn C. Hayes: Dawn, Sarah and I are NYC lovers. I'd love to chat but I don't know what you look like. If you get a chance could you grab me? I look just like my picture =)
@kathy shields: I have been trying to locate you. I see we aare both in the 2PM breakout. I'll meet you then if not before.
@Jeff Haynie: Jeff, glad we're twitter friends. You should also add iheartquotes (my quotes bot). Twitter is the poster child for conversations that don't seem to have any informational value but still some some purpose: connecting people.
@Amber Rhea: Amber, I want to meet you... I look exactly like my profile photo. Blue shirt and black vest today.
@kathy shields: Hey Kathy, thanks for the feedback. If you get a chance let's chat at the conference.
@Will Powell: Hey Will, Congratulations with being around for 4 years and expanding your business. Keep it up!!!
@kathy shields: I look forward to meeting you. I am planning to arrive by 8AM Sat and will try and find you.
@Tony Stubblebine: Tony I thought of one thing I'd like to see, an option to view a 'list' rather than thumbnails of participants. This way, if I was looking for a particular name I'd be able to find it more rapidly.
@Leonard Witt: Do you miss Lake Wobegon? Looking forward to getting your take on new trends in communication and journalism.
@Jonathan Freedman: I look forward to meeting you and getting your take on the future of education.
@Craig S. Kiessling: I was reading about your new workplace. Sound like you'll need to brush up on 'office golf' and foozball or you won't be taken seriously! Lucky.
@Rob Ciampa: Don't know if you'll remember but we met at the DIDW Financial Services Summit in New York little over a year ago. Hope we can reconnect. Perhaps pull together a breakout on digital identity.
From what I've seen lately, they're not amateurs. Just google for "wow gold" and look at the number of multi-game exchanges. Many of them are run almost exactly like a real world currency exchange: you can go from USD to WoW to SGD. There are professional WoW gold farmers in several developing countries. They do nothing but continually farm gold and buy/sell items. I was reading recently about a former stock broker who now does nothing but buy retired characters and sell their bits off for cash.
It makes you think about getting into derivatives a little: imagine funding a new WoW guild for the Burning Crusades with enough gold to leap frog over the sub-20 levels, they run the quests and in the end they agree to farm gold for X number of weeks for you. After that they give the retired characters back to you, you sell all of the characters and gold and split the profits with them.
@Michael Mealling: I noticed your tag for break-out sessions "MMORPG monetary systems".
Although not directly related to what I do (SEO), I must say that this is definitely big business in certain areas. Having just moved back to the states after living in Singapore for the past 6 years, and being a MMORPG fan myself, I've seen amateurs making big bucks in this area. It's definitely big out there.
And it of course begs the question of possibilities - what if those involved were not amateurs?
Here's required reading, from Strumpette, as we head to the conference tomorrow: Is PR Too Stupid for Conversational Marketing?
@Sherry Heyl: Hey Sherry! Thanks for the blog post about nine online. Sorry about the quiz:-) and just so you know we had a fun time with the interview as well!
Hey Robert, I responded over at your page. But then again... I'm sure you already knew that.
@Robert Joseph: Hi Robert. I hate the term firstly because it is purely marketing fluff with no real substance and two I feel like it displays ignorance of the nature of the web and its evolution from a social and technological standpoint. I wrote about the social part a while back.
From a technical perspective, I would argue that if we're going to put version numbers on the Web, then there are many other developments that would mark 2.0 better than now. The implementation of forms processing which made the web interactive, the introduction of Javascript and the DOM (DHTML) making the client more active in rendering the page and delivering "thick client" functionality just to name a couple. SOAP / XMLRPC is a big leap forward insofar as making A Good Thing easy to execute, but it and the things lumped into the Web 2.0 basket are hardly the first major revision of web technology.
So I guess if I were to sum up my problem with the term Web 2.0, it's that the version number is waaaay too low technically and probably too high socially where - if anything - the Web is just getting out of beta.
@Timothy Moenk: "grokked"? You can explain tomorrow night! Wish my mom would grok more. Or do I?!
@Robert Joseph: Hi Robert! Yup, it continues to be an interesting journey.
We have something in common: electrical engineering in Boston only I was at Northeastern. Great city. But too cold right now. (Heard about the nor-easter of '78? I was stuck there and could have camped out on Mass Ave.) Looking forward to meeting you Friday night. This is a fantastic opportunity to immere ourselves this brave new world with like-minded souls!
@Sherry Heyl: Hey Sherry, Thanks for being one of the people that is pulling this conference all together. Got your email and joined the network.
@Jodie Davis: Cool about page. Interested in hearing your thoughts about this social network phenomenon.
@Dawn C. Hayes: Hey Dawn, Just thought I would say hi. Went to your site takingitlocal.org. Nice job love to hear more.
@Rob Ciampa: Rob! Good to see you here. I'll be there for dinner Friday night. Looking forward to seeing you there!
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@Amber Rhea: Doesn't look like you need any kind of advice from me! look forward to meeting you. A friend of grayson's is a fiend of mine.
@Josh Watts: I got your note about the Atlanta MIT Enterprise Forum. But I don't know, as a Ga Tech grad I don't know if I can go to an MIT branded event... Just kidding! :) I'll have to check it out.
@Mike Schinkel: Hi Mike,
I know what you mean about a lot of the networking events being full of people trying to sell to each other; I went to a TechLinks event in September where I felt like that. I joined the Atlanta MIT Enterprise Forum last year and have been pretty happy with the events and the people I meet while I'm there. It's at one of the MIT Enterprise Forum events that I met a couple of entrepreneurs who have pretty good connections in the business community.
@Tony Stubblebine: I guess we can do the URL stuff offline (unless you currently have a better online forum...)
@Tony Stubblebine: One of my first ventures into Web 2.0 was participating on the Microformats list. I came away rather disenchanted although Microformats may still be applicable to this use case. I have a goal to create an alternative to Microformats that address use cases they won't, but I can't do it alone and first looking for others who would be ready to roll up their sleeves and help. (OTOH, I'm currently immersed in launching Toolicious, so it will be a while. :)
@Amber Rhea: Good Lord, Amber. Even Alvear's gonna wanna "micro" something with you if you show up to "give panel" in that number!
You'll want it bad, hon... one day. 'Nother lifetime maybe? I'll take what I can get.
@Michael Alvear: For God's sake, Michael, the last thing SoCon07 needs is for you to show-up and tell all the Internet freaks and geeks there how to have mind-blowing sex... they'll just think it's something they can put on their blogs.
Thanks Kathy! I have tons of functionality in the works. Is there anything in particular that you're looking for?
@Tony Stubblebine: Tony, I really like what you've done with crowdvine. It feels very friendly and vibrant. Will you be adding any new funtionality in the future?
Mike:
Your group will get extended networking power -- you'll be able to reach more people than are planning to come to a meeting. You'll also get much better control over your identities -- there's a lot that you contribute to the community that people can't discover in person.
Re: too many social networks: I'm happy to be part of the solution. FOAF didn't go anywhere but the microformats community is planning on taking another stab. I already support hCard and XFN which is what I need to do for export. Will eventually support hCard import so that I could import your profile and network from someplace like your Flickr profile.
Re: URL structure. Yes! Let's do that.
@Grayson Daughters: I gotta travel all the way up here to see the likes of YOU!? oh, well. Lucky me. Seriously, sounds like you're working on stuff I can rip off, er, borrow from you....
@Tony Stubblebine: I see you use Saleforce. I have an interest in to as well: http://thoughtsonsalesforce.com
@Tony Stubblebine: Regarding the "Atlanta Web Entrepreneur", I actually have a Meetup group (see http://www.atlanta-web.org) and the only reason I created one here is was hopefully to encourage SoCon07 attendees to learn more about our group.
However, what can CrowdVine offer to our group so that we'd do use it beyond SoCon07? As you may know, a big problem these days is having too many places to go for your social networks.
@Tony Stubblebine: About your comment regarding URL Structure, if you need any analysis help I'd love to do a case study on the Well Designed URL's Blog...
@Mike Schinkel: Also, I think Atlanta Web Entrepreneurs is a great social network -- especially in light of all the recent blog posts about the challenges of entrepreneurial activity in Atlanta. The site creation and administration tools are still pretty rough. I'm here to help with anything you need. If it's broken, I'll fix it. If it doesn't exist yet, I'll build it. If it's unclear, I'll explain it. I want you to have a great experience hand build a valuable network.
@Mike Schinkel: I was already planning to improve the urls. Now I'm doubly inspired.
@Michael Alvear: Ewwww, Michael's comin'!!! You guys are in for a super-duper uber-yummy treat!
@Amber Rhea: Amber,
I'm looking forward to meeting you, the Atlanta podcamp coordinator. You have to podcast this event. Will you bring a portable recorder or a sound board?
@Sherry Heyl: Hi Sherry, of course I remember your son as Hansel! I'm sure he's thriving in MS by now. Looking forward to the conference and sharing ideas.
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