The Starpointe Marketing Blog » social network http://starpointemarketing.com/blog market like you mean it Mon, 30 Mar 2009 04:34:05 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 LinkedIn Adds Applications http://starpointemarketing.com/blog/2008/11/linkedin-adds-applications/ http://starpointemarketing.com/blog/2008/11/linkedin-adds-applications/#comments Mon, 03 Nov 2008 14:38:56 +0000 Ryan http://starpointemarketing.com/blog/?p=155 LinkedIn has long been called Facebook for Business. Well it just stepped a little bit closer. On October 28, 2008 LinkedIn added applications. Fortunately, these aren’t useless time wasters like most of Facebook’s applications. Most of them actually add some interesting functionality. For example, one application connects your LinkedIn profile to your WordPress Blog. Another lets you embed presentations into your profile. 

(I wonder how long it will be until we hear about someone getting fired because they posted a company presentation that was only meant for internal use.)

]]> http://starpointemarketing.com/blog/2008/11/linkedin-adds-applications/feed/ 2 MyLoki Scared the Crap Out of Me http://starpointemarketing.com/blog/2008/03/myloki-scared-the-crap-out-of-me/ http://starpointemarketing.com/blog/2008/03/myloki-scared-the-crap-out-of-me/#comments Sat, 15 Mar 2008 05:04:28 +0000 Ryan http://starpointe.wordpress.com/?p=76 Ok, I was officially weirded out a few minutes ago. First a little background.

Since I’m in Boston on business and had some time to waste, I decided to try to get caught up in my blog reader. In a post by UX Magazine, I read about a service called MyLoki. The concept is that you can share your location with friends through an RSS feed. So I got curious and bopped over to their site to learn more about it.

Here’s where it got freaky, when I landed on their homepage, here’s what I saw.

MyLoki image

Okay, that’s too weird. No that’s not a Google map (at least not a live one). It’s just an image of a map. I’m pretty sure it’s just an amazing coincidence…but I’m still not positive.

]]> http://starpointemarketing.com/blog/2008/03/myloki-scared-the-crap-out-of-me/feed/ 0 Hey NotchUp – Don’t Copy Other Websites! http://starpointemarketing.com/blog/2008/01/dont-copy-other-websites/ http://starpointemarketing.com/blog/2008/01/dont-copy-other-websites/#comments Mon, 28 Jan 2008 17:45:48 +0000 Ryan http://starpointe.wordpress.com/?p=64 Just a quick thought. If you’re starting a business and want to be thought of as “new and innovative”, don’t copy your website design from someone else. A friend just invited me to try NotchUp, a new career networking site. When I arrived, I instantly though that it looked strikingly similar to the page layout of GrandCentral. After browsing over to GrandCentral to do a comparison, I realized it was way more similar that I had anticipated. In fact, it’s almost a carbon copy. Take a look.

NotchUp Screenshot
NotchUp’s Website

GrandCentral Screenshot
GrandCentral’s Website

Come on people, I don’t know how many millions you spent in VC funding to come up with the latest “Web 2.0″ “social networking” service. Now just fork over the other $5k and get your own site design.

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NotchUp Screenshot
NotchUp’s Website

GrandCentral Screenshot
GrandCentral’s Website

Come on people, I don’t know how many millions you spent in VC funding to come up with the latest “Web 2.0″ “social networking” service. Now just fork over the other $5k and get your own site design.

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