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WhyYouShould Facebook Application


After navigating my way through the developer docs for the new Facebook platform and a couple days of coding .NET (WhyYouShould) against a PHP5 application (Facebook) *groan*, the beta of the WhyYouShould Facebook Application (you have to be logged into Facebook before you can get to this link) is ready!

As well as showing the most [...]

Craig and his wacky list @ mesh07


Building a Web Business
Mark Evans talks to Craigslist CEO Jim Buckmaster

Highlights: Craigslist operates with “no business people in the chain of command” and “We don’t market and we never really have”. They focus on building what people are asking for and a site that they like. They only monetize enough to cover their [...]

Highlights of Day 1 @ mesh07


So far, the mesh conference has been very much like you would expect. Social networks and the blogosphere are being toted as the answer to everything from news to media, but just like the greater web is struggling to figure out how to navigate the “noise” inherent to those mediums (i.e. trying to figure [...]

Did the interweb kill Sam ‘The Record Man’? @ mesh07


From mesh07:

The Future of Entertainment - “The People Formerly Known as the Audience”
Jian Ghomeshi talks with Ethan Kaplan (Record-label-dude), McLean Mashingaidze-Greaves (RapSpace TV), and Amber MacArthur (CityNews).

- Jian (moderating): News this morning: Sam Cooke (the artist) and Sam ‘The Record Man’ (iconic store in Toronto is going to close down)
- 20 years ago: getting signed [...]

Pros vs. Amateurs…in media I assume…not pr0n @ mesh07


From mesh07:
Pros vs. Amateurs - the War for Attention
Jon Dube talks with Tony Hung (blogger), Paul Sullivan (Orato), Steve Herrmann (editor BBC news website).

- Paul: help “citizen correspondents” if they ask for help, but the “citizens” have the last cuts, lots of comments on stories, trying to “get ppl to tell their story, from their [...]

MaRS courtyard @ mesh07


Sitting outside on the street is suckers bet. Check out the sweet-assed courtyard inside the MaRS building (Toronto)

Old Media is in big trouble…but you already knew that @ mesh07


Barbarians at the Gate - Should Old Media Be Afraid of New Media?
Mark Evans talks with Loren Feldman (he’s a dude, 1938media.com), Cynthia Brumfield (Emerging Dynamics) and Rachel Sklar (Huffington Post)

- Rachel: newspapers lament growing new media, grand change = opportunity, “Old world that stubbornly refuses to change will be wiped out”, citizen journalism = [...]

MaRS building @ mesh07


Where’s The Terminator?
UPDATE: Andre told me I just missed him upstairs. Laaaame

Philanthropy? On the web? I guess that could work @ mesh07


Rob Hyndman talks to charity 2.0 entrepreneurs Tom Williams and Austin Hill

- Tom Williams: Was “Apple’s youngest employee”
- Tom: “Being a bum is cheaper in Canada then on LA’s beaches”, “Aspire to still be a bum”
- Inspired by case of a father killing his son in Canada, wanted to facilitate connection between ppl that want [...]

Techcrunch dude keynote @ mesh07


Keynote with Michael Arrington (TechCrunch)

- re: comments: only traditional media (newspaper, TV) thinks you should be able to say what you want without feedback
- he just starts the topic and gets the first word, after that it’s up to the community
- let’s flame threads go to see how they go before deleting them
- do you [...]