http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2008/11/how-to-make-mon.html

Leave it to Seth G. to uncover small good ideas. He says don't start a web company but use the web as a tool to get paid. He mentions several ways in detail but here is the basic list:



* Connect advertisers to people who want to be advertised to.

* Connect job hunters with jobs.

* Connect information… Continue

Tonight I got turned onto Google Trends and started to have a look at 3 big SNSes for the Japanese region (obviously Mixi is the biggie but I wanted to see how Facebook and MySpace were fairing). The way Trends works is that you can see what sites people visited or searched next after the original search. From that we can get some idea of what specific site users are interested in the most and what sort of social media mix you could consider… Continue

Original article: http://www.participle.net/projects/view/5/101/

Photo: Participle



I was just turned onto this social design company in the UK by a write up in FastCompany.com. The company is called Participle and they "design" social programs to support seniors, youths and families. Their… Continue

"We are not seats or eyeballs or end-users or consumers. We are human beings - and our reach extends your grasp. Deal with it." - Excerpt from the Clue Train Manifesto



To answer the question "what's social branding?", I need to fall back on a personal experience. My wife and I are raising two kids in the suburbs of East Tokyo. Our son is 10 and our daughter is 5. The two fight like cats and dogs and my wife does… Continue