As mentioned previously, I’ll be at SIC 2011 in Seattle in November. SIC, like many conferences is putting out an app specifically for the attendees themselves. One of the features I’m digging from a networking perspective, despite the fact it slightly reeks of stalker:

SIC and Unsocial will also provide a new social networking tool that will enable conference attendees to find key business professionals within their proximity and generate targeted conversations and meetings in real-time. Features include the ability to connect with people via integrated messaging, exchange information, and to even call each other directly if they choose to make their contact information available.

I actually like the feature. Sonar does something similar, though cannot filter specifically within the group of attendees itself.

Here’s hoping I’m stalked.*

Holler if you’ve attended a conference whose app had a similar feature.

*Knows he’s not that important.

[via Gizmodo]

I love LinkedIn. Love it. Having been in business development roles for for years it’s one of my first stops in the morning and I probably visit the site 20+ times a day.

However, someone over there needs to get their act together.

Background: I’m headed to the first Seattle Interactive Conference (aka: SIC) in November. We’re (we = Doozer) in the midst of launching our new online tool Mittix, and this conference is important for a slew of networking reason.

So I head to the events page for SIC and see that I have 2 connections attending. Two out of ~80? Meh… at lest I’ll have 2 friends there.

I then select the drop-down menu to see that I am one of those connections. The other being a former coworker at ChemPoint who has since launched his own venture.

How the heck and I connected to myself?

This bug has been present on LinkedIn for quite some time and it’s annoying as any bug in the social media tools I use. If LinkedIn can get Obama to visit their Palo Alto campus for a townhall, they should be able to fix an obvious bug.

So, my question is quite ironic: Who has a LinkedIn connection at LinkedIn to whom I can petition the removal of this bug?

Yes, one can refer to it as a “feature gap” or what have you, but it’s obvious that a feature isn’t performing in the manner it should; that’s a bug and I want to report it because I’ve had too much coffee and feeling a little judgmental.

Contact me if you have a LinkedIn contact.

PS – If we’re not connected already, holler.

31 yard gain and completely shifted the momentum.

I posted the original Facebook homepage in March. Kottke posted the original Twitter homepage, later posting a link to a collection of old and original homepages.

Amazon’s similarity to their page as of August 2011 simply boggles my mind. They have only recently working on a redesign due in part to the increased usage of tablet computers.

Amazon

Google

The New York Times

Wikipedia

Apple

Twitter

Third straight year defeating a BCS-AQ team during the regular season.

…especially when you know the story behind the two players.

Mighty small… and for such an epic* win.

*This is left to my personal, misguided interpretations.

Despite the fact that Android devices are significantly outpacing iPhones, and ad impressions are higher than the iPhone, somehow the iPhone leads mobile search:

While Google continues to crow about Android market share, it’s got to be pretty embarrassing for them to testify under oath that iOS owns their mobile search traffic.

Nothing just happens.

Jack Dorsey invented Twitter, founded and co-created Square, and co-created my favorite early podcasting site Odeo. In short, he’s full of ideas and, from the look of it, incredibly humble.

Here’s an interview from early 2011 where Jack talks with Kevin Rose, Digg founder.

More great interviews at Foundation.

I have to admit… it’s pretty awesome.

Facebook has officially crossed over from “social network” to “online life center”. Dramatic term to use? Maybe. Still… this new change is legit, and I really can’t make you love it until you play with it yourself.

I didn’t receive a special invite or anything. I actually used the hack suggested by Mashable (who did something right for a change) and it worked.

Elements of it are still quite clunky (it’s beta bro) but the ability to easily/swiftly scroll back in time to see events from even just a few months ago causes one to realize just how quickly the new becomes old in Internet time.

Just wait, you’ll appreciate soon enough. Use the hack and start browsing ASAP.

This week we’re finalizing our logo for our new online software. All people will never agree on anything, much less a logo. That’s just business. That’s just life.

However, I’m reminded of Google’s godawful first logo, and the changes since.

You can always change down the road.

Google’s first logo (1998 – May 30, 1999)

Google’s second logo (May 31, 1999 – May 5, 2010)

Google’s third logo (May 6, 2010 – Present)

[via BuzzFeed]

Bing is losing money hand over fist despite seeing its market share nearly double in its first two years of existence. Why?

“…more than half of Microsoft’s share growth has come from cannibalizing its search partner.”

That would be Yahoo!

Southern Miss went to a flat black helmet this year and is using three sets of decals throughout the season. Today they released the second design, and it’s not half bad. [Here's the first version.]

I’m preaching to the choir for most of you, but I’ve been sick all day therefore I’m behind on the office water cooler scuttlebutt.

The New York Times did an amazing (though contraversial because they indicated that Bama has more fans than Auburn, now the Bammers are searching for their pitchforks and torches) job of compiling the numbers surrounding college football’s markets and team fanbase’s.

I take great pride in both of the following images. The first image is self explanatory, but the second indicates the online searches for “college football”; the blue the area, the greater the amount of searches.

Playing the role of homer, I’ll post a nugget that was most interesting to me:

In theory — but possibly not in practice — the most appealing targets here might not be those schools like Memphis or Houston that play second or third fiddle in a major market, but instead those like the University of Central Florida, East Carolina or Southern Mississippi that have built up decent fan bases in rural and exurban areas.

SEC v2.0? [/laughs]