My still not that long career has taken me from very different roles. As an engineer, started in a technical area around content management, then moved to product/project management, followed by sales support for different (but related) businesses and now, starting on the 1st of January, will be doing e-marketing for specific services.
Since the area itself is so new, there is a lot to learn, but the reason that drove me to take this position is simply that this is where marketing is moving.
But having a profile in Hi5 or MySpace stuffed with animations or a Facebook one full to the brim of applications is the virtual equivalent of a 70's car decorated with purple felt, fake polarised windows and a non-working table tennis table in the trunk.
User Tomektore created a very interesting web app to measure how open mided a specific last.fm user is. His Open Mind Index is calculated from the number of different tags the music that a user listens to has. I checked it out and my results are quite obvious: if I listen to Arabic electronica, Japanese punk, Finnish melodic rock, Mexican indie and some other stuff in between it's kind of obvious that I'm more or less open minded.
I have been too busy to tell you guys about this application, now available in Beta labs. Basically, the support for posting to Vox and Flickr just got much better, with better tagging and the possibility to follow the photostreams of others straight from your mobile device. Darla Mack has a good review of the app.
Please give us your feedback (here or, faster, at Tommi's blog).
Was reading the Groundswell blog and found a series of different online communities for all sorts of different purposes. One that definitely caught my eye was Design your portion of the border fence, where people are invited to submit designs for graffitti that would be placed on the American or Mexican sides of the barrier the U.S. government is building between the U.S. and Mexico.
Definitely a creative way to raise awareness of a current issue.
It might be a good idea to use Dopplr. Interesting, simple concept: write down where are you going to be and share with people that need to know. They even have a Facebook app/plugin.
Even if I know you, if I don't know you well enough I might not add you.
I don't want my Facebook profile look like the worst MySpace nightmare, so I won't accept invitations to become a zombie or to get a stripper name.
If you're a friend I know through work, I'll add you if we're actually friends offline (or good friends online). For professional relationships please use LinkedIn instead. Adding me because you met me once is a no-no, unless we actually got along pretty well.
Use common sense with what you put there.
Ok, there it is now, I've been trying to post this for a while.