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Entries for the ‘Social Bookmarking’ Category

Either the new StumbleUpon web-bar is busted, or everyone is misreporting a simple advertisement as the new hot feature…

Oct.01, 2008 in Blogging, Media, Online Media, Social Bookmarking, web two point oh

So, I saw this post this morning, noting that StumbleUpon is doing this new thing where you don’t need the toolbar. Except, I cannot find any evidence of this anywhere on StumbleUpon’s actual site, which still prominently says “Get the StumbleUpon Toolbar” and still says “Join and Download Now” when you are signing up for [...]

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New York, Mahalo, and the future…

Aug.06, 2008 in Blogging, Consultant, Mahalo, Online Media, Personal, Social Bookmarking, Writing, web two point oh

Well over a year ago, I found myself leaving Netscape (now become Propeller) to look for new opportunities. Today, I find myself in a similar situation.
After a lot of thought and tough conversation, Kristin and I have decided to head back to New York. This certainly wasn’t the way we wanted things to play out [...]

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May.02, 2007 in DRM, Politics, Social Bookmarking

Wow. Check this out. I first spotted this here and here (although for some reason those posts don’t show up on Eliot’s main page, just in his feed).
In any case, I just want to reiterate my thoughts on this. The title of this post is the code key needed to unlock HD-DVDs and Blu-ray DVDs [...]

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#2!!!

Mar.22, 2007 in Netscape, Online Media, Social Bookmarking, web two point oh

Top 10 Social Bookmarking Sites March 2007
NETSCAPE FTW!!!

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Reading feeds again…

Feb.12, 2007 in Blogging, Netscape, Online Media, Personal, Reading, Social Bookmarking

One of the problems for me when I was working at Netscape was information overload. Netscape was all about breaking news and staying on top of the breaking news, and since I was the editorial director there for so long, I woke up each morning, checked the news, checked to see if top stories were [...]

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Awesome

Feb.02, 2007 in Social Bookmarking

Ha ha ha. Perfect.

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Censorship vs. Choosing to Air: Video of Saddam’s Execution

Dec.31, 2006 in Media, Netscape, Politics, Social Bookmarking

Last night, one of our members uploaded footage of Saddam Hussein’s execution. The story was reported by another member as needing a warning attached to it. I then had to decide whether to censor the video or let it run. Here’s my decision: WARNING GRAPHIC CONTENT: Saddam Execution Video ..full including the drop » Netscape.com
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Who’s copying who?

Dec.18, 2006 in Netscape, Social Bookmarking, Tech

So, the Navigators on Netscape brought this to my attention today and this could be entirely coincidental, and most likely is, but considering how many times since our launch we’ve been accused of copying Digg, it is pretty amusing.
Check it out. Here’s My Member Profile Page on Netscape that we launched a redesign of on [...]

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Dear Jet Numbers (and any other corporations looking to buy votes):

Dec.12, 2006 in Blogging, Netscape, Social Bookmarking, Writing

You’ve clearly made a mistake in your recent decision to promote Nathan Schorr to be your Business Development Manager. He would appear to be proposing unethical practices to promote your company. This is already turning into bad buzz for you, as my friend and former co-worker, Jason Calacanis, has already launched a bit of an [...]

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BlackJack

Dec.10, 2006 in Blogging, Gadgets, Reading, Social Bookmarking, Tech, Writing

It is decided. The Samsung BlackJack is officially my favorite mobile ever. It even trumps my beloved old 3650, despite the lack of hackability that I enjoyed with that device.
I can blog with it (I’m doing so now); via setting up all my Gmail to forward to an Outlook account for $7 a month, [...]

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Interviewed by PR Week…

Aug.15, 2006 in Blogging, Media, Netscape, Personal, Social Bookmarking, Tech

Check out this interview with yours truly that popped up today on PR Week: “The lead anchor and managing editor of the new Netscape, which relaunched in 2006 as a social news site where users submit stories and vote on their importance, talked to PRWeek.com about his interest in blogging, how the Netscape anchors follow [...]

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Did Digg change their algo to punish their most popular users?

Aug.09, 2006 in Blogging, Netscape, Social Bookmarking, Tech

I have been chatting with a few of our new Netscape Navigators today after one of them mentioned that ever since Jason posted about 30% of the content appearing on Digg’s front page being posted by the top 10 Digg users (3% per top user) that there has been some sort of change in the [...]

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Welcome to C.K. Sample III's Sample the Web. I am the Director of Content Marketing at Crowd Fusion, an online media consultant, and the author of PSP Hacks. You may know me as: the former lead blogger for The Unofficial Apple Weblog; the former General Manager of the new Netscape (later relaunched as Propeller); the former Editorial Director of Mahalo.com; a contributing editor at Obsessable.

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