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Day November 23, 2005

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Business of Flirting

Nov 23, ’05 9:32 PM

Flirtomatic – Public Beta

Well well well. Two and a half years ago I commented on NowEurope.com rather tetchily about the various business networks that were the rage at the time. I noted that they were no better than “business flirting”, thinking in particular of Ryze and it’s “be my friend, leave a comment, tell me weekly how many doggies sniffed my lamp-post” brand of ‘networking’.

Curious and amusing therefore to see Flirtomatic.com
looking for all the world like Manga-meets-Ryze.

At least F-o-M has a business model: hardly any more than a text to flirt with Carrie, Playgirl, Stuart, Warren and Hammersmith… Good luck to them: could be enough of a laugh to get the teenies to part with the equivalent of a text or two a day.

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Google Base: guerilla zone for annoyed customers…

Nov 23, ’05 9:08 PM

Joho the Blog: It’s getting harder to hide from your customers

Go to Google Base and search for “gold’s gym” (no quotes required). (Clicking here will perform the search for you.) The first entry, at least today, is from Mark Dionne who provides Gold’s corporate address, information that Gold’s Gym doesn’t like to make public, perhaps to ignore letters from unhappy customers such as Mark.

Hadn’t thought of the “democratic” angle Google Base. I’d seen it simply as a promotional vehicle, but this is neat.

For good companies, yet another place to monitor for reputational attacks. For crap companies another way for activist, hacked off customers (ex-customers?) to promote their disgruntlement even higher than you promote the empty promises of services…

However you view this it’ll be interesting to see how Google plans to moderate this or offer redress…

http://www.hyperorg.com/movabletype/mt-tb.cgi/3807

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Web 2.0 Bingo

Nov 23, ’05 9:00 PM

Web 2.0 Bingo!

Heh – a variation of Buzzword Bingo for the ‘web2 age’.

Courtesy of Adam Kalsey’s posting.

Note to URL – that’s what I call prescient: ready for the web3 and web4… ;)

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BBC R4′s Peter Day on Peter Drucker

Nov 23, ’05 2:57 PM

BBC NEWS | Business | Remembering Peter Drucker

This is a lovely piece from Peter Day on the passing of Peter Drucker. You get a flavour of both men’s personalities from this piece.

It also served to introduce me to Day’s “Work in Progress” pieces, an:

exploration of the big trends upheaving the world of work as we steam further into the twenty-first century; and it is a work in progress, influenced and defined by my encounters as I report on trends in business and organisations all over the world

Peter Day covers a lot of ground at the BBC on business, but my favourite is “In Business”. When I think I know about a topic I always learn more, and when I know I know nothing (!) I find the presentation accessible.

Best of all the programme’s available to download (when it’s on air, that is. Check out the “Listen Again” page on the BBC when the new series begins).

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