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Blogworld Expo exceeded all of my expectations this year and it already has scores of bloggers planning their 2009 trip to Las Vegas - including me.
Stephanie Agresta and I were asked to host a Techset event in honor of attending bloggers to celebrate their achievements, connect each other, place names to faces, and also meet new contacts to place on our radar and in our feed readers.
Because of you and your accomplishments, we were inspired to organize something very special, something that truly captured the spirit of the blogsphere and the relationships we’ve built, while injecting a bit of Las Vegas style into the mix.
Hosted at the Bare outdoor adult pool lounge at the Mirage, some of the most renown, innovative, vocal, and creative bloggers descended upon the venue en masse. The doors opened at 9:00 p.m. and by 9:05, the place was already packed. By the end of the evening, we were 500 strong.
It wasn’t t...
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This bling’s for the ladies. (Via myspace.com/usher)
Usher is going to feel love in this club … amphitheater … whatever, when he hits the stage tonight at The Pearl inside the Palms at 9 p.m. If you’re lucky, maybe he’ll bring Moesha to the show. You really can never get enough Moesha.
Day 26 of Making the Band 4 is at Jet inside The Mirage.
Blush at Wynn Las Vegas does an afterparty for David Alan Greer’s Comedy Festival show.
Nick Cannon sp... more
Those of us trekking to Las Vegas for the annual Consumer Electronics Show in January of 2009 will have a smaller show floor to explore. On this Daily Debrief, CNET’s Kara Tsuboi and Erica Ogg discuss why companies are scaling down their exhibit space and if we can expect the same hoopla as in years [...]... more
by Brian Solis
To be a top ranked blog at Technorati, as of right now, requires an authority of 23,177 with 182,107 blog reactions.
The top spot goes to a new number one placeholder, TechCrunch . Congratulations Michael, Heather, Duncan, Mark, Erick, and team.
Let’s also take a moment to acknowledge the top twenty list, who all surely deserve congratulations as it’s no easy feat to break the top 10,000 let alone the top 20.
2. Huffington Post
3. Engadget
4. G... more
by Brian Solis
Facebook has quietly rolled out an interesting feature that’s tucked away on the lower right-hand side of your “home” page.
It’s simply called “People You May Know” and is a way of reminding us that we may have friends or associates on Facebook that we may have forgotten or assumed were not online. And you know what, it works!
The new feature leverages social proximity across your social graph, as well as the graph of friends of frien... more
by Brian Solis
Wikipedia , the Interweb’s eight most popular Web site, was granted a $3 million donation from Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
According to the press release, the money will support Wikimedia’s organizational development and help to increase the quality of its content and the reach of its services.
According to me, I’d like to see the money hone right in on the quality and accuracy of the content and its contributors. So much of what I read is wrong. And... more
by Brian Solis
Just in case you were going through FriendFeed withdrawals, Bret Taylor over at FF introduced a new update. And, it’s not insignificant. With FF, you now have the ability to reply to a friend’s Twitter update within the FriendFeed stream and have it appear as an “@” reply in Twitter.
Thank you Bret for listening. It’s something that we’ve asked for across the board.
Here’s an example. I responded to a Twitter update posted b... more
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