Channeling Brian Solis

TechCrunch20 becomes TechCrunch40: bub.blicio.us (via Photos...

Aug 31st

TechCrunch20 Doubles to TechCrunch40

by Brian Solis OK, I’ve been sitting on this for a little while, just waiting for them to...

Aug 31st

TechCrunch20 Doubles to TechCrunch40

Aug 31st

briansolis: Lifestreams Channel Online...

briansolis: Lifestreams Channel Online Activity, Creating Rivers of Relevance -...

Aug 31st

Lifestreams Channel Online Activity,...

Lifestreams are back in the spotlight again thanks to the most recent meme started by Steve Rubel,...

Aug 31st

briansolis: Lifestreams Channel Online Activity, Creating Rivers of Relevance -...

Aug 31st

briansolis: On a train heading up to SF (via Twitter / briansolis)

Aug 31st

briansolis: Looking for 2 companies to present at Silicon Valley Newtech Meetup next Tuesday. DM me...

Aug 30th

Jaiku Adds Instant Messaging

Jaiku is rolling out Jabber-based instant messaging capabilities to interact with the service and...

Aug 30th

briansolis: Jaiku Adds Instant Messaging - http://bub.blicio.us/?p=361 (via Twitter / briansolis)

Aug 30th

Jeremiah Owyang shares the Dow Jones...

(via del.icio.us/briansolis)

Aug 30th

SpaceLift Gives Myspace a Facelift

by Brian Solis Software developer Jess Martin rolled out a new Facebook app that lets MySpace...

Aug 29th

Jeremiah Owyang Leaves Podtech, Joins...

by Brian Solis Jeremiah at the Dow Jones/Factiva Social Media Roundtable event in 2006 Mr. Web...

Aug 28th

Hyve Up is Bub.blicio.us

by Alison McNeill Recently, our very own Brian Solis was interviewed by the site Hyve Up about...

Aug 28th

Brian Solis: Social Media is About Sociology Not Technology - http://tinyurl.com/2xtbnd (via Twitter...

Aug 28th

Social Media is About Sociology Not...

The future of communications introduces sociology into the marketing strategy. Technology is just...

Aug 28th

Lunch at CNET

By Alex Ho Lunch 2.0 at CNet left many people wanting more…food that is. Similiar to good...

Aug 27th

Brian Solis: Tracking convo by @factoryjoe: and @stoweboyd: re:#hashtags #twitter -...

Aug 27th

Targeted Ad System in Facebook looks to...

by Victor Karamalis Facebook quietly said on Wednesday that it is working on implementing a...

Aug 27th

Channels Will Improve the Twitter...

I’ve been following Chris Messina’s and Stowe Boyd’s discussion on creating...

Aug 27th

Brian Solis: Pinger, Twittergram = cool voice apps (1 for SMS, 1 for twitter)...

Aug 26th

Pinger Brings Voice to Mobile Text...

Text messaging has many business advantages, and unlike Trix, texting is not just for kids. The...

Aug 26th

Brian Solis: Now is Gone Set to Publish in Late October - http://tinyurl.com/23by23 (via Twitter /...

Aug 25th

Now is Gone Set to Publish in Late...

Several months ago, good friend Geoff Livingston asked me to work with him to develop a book that...

Aug 25th

Brian Solis: @steverubel: take a look at a few posts I’ve done on lifestreams…I...

Aug 25th

Jaiku as a Lifestream Platform

Twitter asks, “What are you doing?” Twitter is simple and it’s beautiful that...

Aug 24th

Brian Solis: @steverubel: i think jaiku and tumblr are perfect vehicles for open, aggregated...

Aug 24th

BubCast Episode 8

The bub.blicio.us crew had a busy week as we stopped by the Google Dance Party and Lunch 2.0 at...

Aug 24th

Brian Solis: Bubcast - http://bub.blicio.us/?p=355 (via Twitter / Brian Solis)

Aug 24th

Brian Solis: New Yelp events - http://bub.blicio.us/?p=354 (via Twitter / Brian Solis)

Aug 24th

Yelp Improves Your Social Life with New...

by Brian Solis I’ve been pretty dependent on Upcoming.org for a majority of professional and...

Aug 24th

Search Engine Strategies 2007 in San...

words and photos by Lorna Li OK, I know that the big search engines are located down yonder, and...

Aug 24th

Spock it out at Lunch 2.0

By Alex Ho  Spock’s Lunch 2.0 had a late pizza arrival but when the pizza did arrive, there was...

Aug 23rd

Lending Club Rakes It In

by Alison McNeill Congrats! Lending Club just announced they have secured $10.26 million in...

Aug 23rd

Brian Solis: DiVX Connected Event Pix -...

Aug 23rd

MetaCafe Hears ‘ChaChing’ Thanks to...

By Victor Karamalis Yesterday, Metacafe, one of the largest video broadcasters with a global...

Aug 23rd

Google Dance Party - A Different...

It’s that time of year again. San Jose plays hosts to the Search Engine Strategies (SES)...

Aug 22nd

Brian Solis: Google Dance Party, a different view - http://bub.blicio.us/?p=348 (via Twitter / Brian...

Aug 22nd

Google Dance 2007

By Alex Ho  Last night was the annual Google Dance held at the Google Campus in Mountain View where...

Aug 22nd

Twitter Rocks the MTV VMAs

by Brian Solis CNET reports that MTV has set up a Twitter account for the VMA Moon Man - you can...

Aug 22nd

Brian Solis: Pictures from the Google Dance Party -...

Aug 22nd

Brian Solis: Twitter Rocks the MTV VMAs - http://bub.blicio.us/?p=346 (via Twitter / Brian Solis)

Aug 22nd

Brian Solis: @genuine: thank you! (via Twitter / Brian Solis)

Aug 22nd

Crisis Communications 2.0 - The Skype is...

Take a deep breath. On August 16th, the unthinkable happened for the millions of Skype...

Aug 21st

Brian Solis: The Skype is Falling, Crises Communications Redux - http://tinyurl.com/22gxr7 (via...

Aug 21st

PRWeek Interviews PR Pros on the...

PRWeek recently interviewed me, along with a few other PR pros including, Gerald Kimber White, John...

Aug 20th

Brian Solis: Pic infront of the HP Garage. Please add notes if you recognize people -...

Aug 20th

Brian Solis: Pics from the HP Garage, The Birthplace of Silicon Valley - http://bub.blicio.us/?p=345...

Aug 20th

Touring the HP Garage, The Birthplace of...

words and pictures by Brian Solis Picture courtesy of HP History The garage today I received...

Aug 19th

Brian Solis: Touring the HP Garage, The Birthplace of Silicon Valley - http://bub.blicio.us/?p=345...

Aug 19th

Brian Solis: BarcampBlock Party pictures -...

Aug 19th

Brian Solis: At HP garage in Palo Alto - the birthplace of Silicon Valley (via Twitter / Brian...

Aug 19th

Brian Solis: BarcampBlock Day 1 on bub.blicio.us - http://bub.blicio.us/?p=344 (via Twitter / Brian...

Aug 19th

Brian Solis: Pictures from BarcampBlock day 1 -...

Aug 19th

BarcampBlock Shows the True Promise of...

by Brian Solis The second anniversary of Barcamp was nothing short of extraordinary. Dubbed...

Aug 18th

Brian Solis: At barcamp block waiting to post a session (via Twitter / Brian Solis)

Aug 18th

Brian Solis: @ross @missrogue we dropped off the wine for saturday night at the socialtext office ....

Aug 17th

VMWare Brings Home the Bacon for...

By Victor Karamalis For those of you that have been caught up in the credit crunch crisis with...

Aug 17th

Executive Shuffling at Facebook,...

by Brian Solis Interesting times indeed in Silicon Valley. And if you’re a geek and follow tech,...

Aug 16th

LendingClub Contest Winners

by Alison McNeill LendingClub is a site that offers person to person lending so people can pay...

Aug 16th

Building a Bridge Between Your Story,...

To all of you advanced new media PR professionals, this post may seem a bit remedial in comparison...

Aug 16th

Brian Solis: Demo thew a party in silicon valley, it was pretty cool - http://bub.blicio.us/?p=340...

Aug 16th

Demo Alumni Gather in Palo Alto

words and pictures by Brian Solis Palo Alto was host to the first ever Demo Summer event which...

Aug 16th

Rick Mahn Names PR 2.0 in His Top 10...

Rick Mahn is calling attention to the fact that we have a lack of it - attention that is, and...

Aug 15th

Social Media Manifesto Makes Junta42's...

The Future of Communications – A Manifesto for Integrating Social Media into Marketing is still...

Aug 15th

Brian Solis: Reading “BigMedia.Inc, Don’t whip out the checkbook quite so fast.”...

Aug 15th

Brian Solis: Pictures from Demo Alumni party last night in Palo Alto -...

Aug 15th

Brian Solis: @rickmahn - I really like ustream and veodia, depending on how you want to stream and...

Aug 15th

Allofmp3.com Owner Found Not Guilty

by Brian Solis   Sure Russia is commited to fighting piracy, after all it only took years to...

Aug 15th

Brian Solis: Agree with @brianoberkirch. CrowdVine is cool. (via Twitter / Brian Solis)

Aug 14th

Brian Solis: @philgomes - tell more :) (via Twitter / Brian Solis)

Aug 14th

Classmates Files for $125 Million IPO

by Brian Solis So far the stock market is attracting dotcom activity again, but it is giving new...

Aug 14th

Brian Solis: Crazy day ahead. Anyone going to the Demo party in Palo Alto tonight? (via Twitter /...

Aug 14th

TwiistUp 2 Spotlights Web 2.0 in...

Tech Geeks Love Fakes, Why I Love Social Learning, and Can We Get a Mini-Cheeseburger? words by...

Aug 14th

Brian Solis: @ross - done deal. I’ll bring more than that,and it will be more than reasonable....

Aug 14th

Brian Solis: @davewiner apologizes to @jasoncalacanis - very commendable -...

Aug 13th

Dave Winer Apologizes to Jason Calacanis

words and pictures by Brian Solis Dave Winer officially apologized to Jason Calacanis for his...

Aug 13th

Facebook Lunch 2.0

By Julie Blaustein It was yet another Lunch 2.0 but this one had quite the buzz to it as, after...

Aug 13th

Brian Solis: Classic pic of deb schultz, guy kawasaki and me - http://tinyurl.com/278bax (via...

Aug 13th

August Silicon Valley Newtech Meetup

words and pictures by Brian Solis The Silicon Valley Newtech Meetup is riding the wave of geek...

Aug 13th

Brian Solis: Deleting Users, Audience, and Messages from PR and Social Media -...

Aug 13th

Deleting Users, Audience, and Messages...

Attention PR and practicing Social Media professionals, step away from using “messages”...

Aug 13th

Brian Solis: @ross, I could bring wine to the Saturday party b/c I can charge that donation ;) - How...

Aug 12th

Brian Solis: @missrogue, is there anything I can do to help? (via Twitter / Brian Solis)

Aug 12th

Brian Solis: Gnomedex day one highlights, including winer vs. calacanis (and pics) -...

Aug 12th

Gnomedex 7.0 Day One Highlights

words and pictures by Brian Solis The bloggers conference started with some roses, a sense of...

Aug 12th

BarCamp to Celebrate Second Anniversary...

by Brian Solis BarCamp is now BarCamp Block due to overwhelming demand and popularity! Almost...

Aug 11th

Brian Solis: Powerset hosted Lunch 2.0 - http://bub.blicio.us/?p=330 (via Twitter / Brian Solis)

Aug 11th

Brian Solis: @ijustine, I took this for you - http://tinyurl.com/2g3f8q (via Twitter / Brian Solis)

Aug 11th

Brian Solis: @davidgeller, it’s in this pic http://tinyurl.com/24lwxb (via Twitter / Brian...

Aug 11th

Self portrait at the Edgewater Hotel during Gnomedex 7.0 aka...

Aug 11th

Brian Solis: Gnomedex Day One Pictures -...

Aug 11th

Brian Solis: Bubcast 7 online - http://bub.blicio.us/?p=329 (via Twitter / Brian Solis)

Aug 11th

Brian Solis: @trishussey, you’re welcome! (via Twitter / Brian Solis)

Aug 11th

Brian Solis: @hyku, killer pics from yesterday! (via Twitter / Brian Solis)

Aug 11th

Brian Solis: At home with Dylan catching up on feeds and emails (via Twitter / Brian Solis)

Aug 11th

Brian Solis: @hyku, had to fly home last night, needed to get my son this a.m. thanks though. take...

Aug 11th

Powerset Demo at Lunch 2.0

By Alex Ho Yesterday’s Lunch 2.0 was held at Powerset in San Francisco. This was actually my first...

Aug 11th

Brian Solis: @kk you’re right about that. I left out the end “…for twitter.”...

Aug 10th

BubCast Episode 7

We’re back from our week-long hiatus! We know you missed us so we’ve got some news on Vonage, Spock,...

Aug 10th

Brian Solis: Edgeio Intros Distributed Commerce 2.0 - http://bub.blicio.us/?p=328 (via Twitter /...

Aug 10th

Edgeio Intros Distributed Commerce 2.0

by Brian Solis Live from Gnomedex. Edgeio is announcing a new way of integrating paid content...

Aug 10th

Brian Solis: Gnomedex is the new SXSW (via Twitter / Brian Solis)

Aug 10th

Brian Solis: Very little tweets during Guy Kawasaki’s speech. Has he got everyone engaged? Or...

Aug 10th

Brian Solis: Social Media and PR are Oil and Water on WebProNews - http://tinyurl.com/2x9db3 (via...

Aug 10th

Brian Solis: @jasoncalacanis - get your ass over here! (via Twitter / Brian Solis)

Aug 10th

Gnomedex 7.0 Now Open for Conversations

by Brian Solis Photo by Robert Scoble Gnomedex 7.0 is now underway and blogosphere is either...

Aug 10th

Gnomedex 7.0

by Brian Solis Gnomedex 7 kicked off last night, well the party did any way, and let’s just...

Aug 10th

Brian Solis: Gnomedex Pre-party on bub.blicio.us - http://bub.blicio.us/?p=325 (via Twitter / Brian...

Aug 10th

Brian Solis: Gnomedex pre-party pictures -...

Aug 10th

Brian Solis: STIRR Founder Hacks video - http://bub.blicio.us/?p=317 (via Twitter / Brian Solis)

Aug 9th

STIRR Founder Hacks - The Interviews

  Valleywag’s Megan McCarthy Sanford Barr of STIRR and Nick Gonzales of TechCrunch (Lawrence...

Aug 9th

Brian Solis: Girls in Tech - http://bub.blicio.us/?p=324 (via Twitter / Brian Solis)

Aug 9th

Brian Solis: @chrisbrogan - I’m at 408-393-9808 (via Twitter / Brian Solis)

Aug 9th

Brian Solis: @jspepper - I did…but only for day 1 (via Twitter / Brian Solis)

Aug 9th

Brian Solis: @chrisbrogan, chilling at the airport waiting for heuer… (via Twitter / Brian...

Aug 9th

Brian Solis: @chrisbrogan. I am! (via Twitter / Brian Solis)

Aug 9th

Brian Solis: @laughingsquid, where on the waterfront? I’m kicking ass with some evdo rev a...

Aug 9th

Brian Solis: @chrisheuer does that mean I should bail the aiport? (via Twitter / Brian Solis)

Aug 9th

Girls in Tech: Women of Venture Capital

Words by T.J. DeGroat, photos by Alex Ho Porter Novelli’s stylish South Park office hosted last...

Aug 9th

Brian Solis: PR and Social Media are still oil and water - http://tinyurl.com/24vj4a (via Twitter /...

Aug 9th

PR and Social Media are Still Oil and...

In many ways, the recent discussion of Marketwire’s acquisition of PRNN and how it was...

Aug 9th

Brian Solis: Shifting attention to the video crew I sent to l.a. to cover twiistup -...

Aug 8th

Brian Solis: @mckeay Tonight 6:30 Fleishman Hillard on 3rd, between brannen and townsend (via...

Aug 8th

Brian Solis: @danielabarbosa - Tonight 6:30 Fleishman Hillard on 3rd, between brannen and townsend,...

Aug 8th

Brian Solis: Girls in Tech tonight in SF - www.girlsintech.net (via Twitter / Brian Solis)

Aug 8th

Brian Solis: In web 2.0, it seems as through money really does grow on trees -...

Aug 8th

Twiistup Tech Event in Los Angeles...

Following the sold-out inaugural event, Twiistup 2 will showcase some of the best and brightest...

Aug 8th

Brian Solis: Pictures from Silicon Valley Newtech Meetup -...

Aug 8th

Look, It’s Raining Money in the Web 2.0...

by Brian Solis In what some will more than likely use as fuel to prove that we’re officially in...

Aug 8th

Discovery Buys Treehugger for $10M

by Lorna Li TreeHugger moves one step closer to its mission of greening the mainstream. Last...

Aug 8th

Brian Solis: Bub visits Monster HQ - http://bub.blicio.us/?p=318 (via Twitter / Brian Solis)

Aug 7th

Brian Solis: @scottkarp @laughingsquid, Exactly! They will win my love too! (via Twitter / Brian...

Aug 7th

Brian Solis: Looking at AdaptiveBlue’s new SmartLinks (via Twitter / Brian Solis)

Aug 7th

Field Trip to Monster Cable HQ

by Alison McNeill The Bub.blicio.us crew was invited to stop by Monster Cable’s headquarters to...

Aug 7th

Brian Solis: jeffpulver, throw me on the list for Dinner ;) (via Twitter / Brian Solis)

Aug 7th

Women in Tech

By Alex Ho The August SF New Tech Meetup was another successful event with a fully packed Metreon...

Aug 7th

Brian Solis: Scoble on PR through Twitter and not email - http://tinyurl.com/24zo3j (via Twitter /...

Aug 7th

PR is About Relationships, Just Ask...

The crossroads of traditional PR and Social Media is on an inevitable path to a very public boiling...

Aug 7th

Vator.tv Launches Video-based Contests...

by Brian Solis Vator.tv is a venue for innovators and innovation. It’s a utility for people who...

Aug 7th

PR 2.0 Makes the Advertising Age...

There are many blog rank lists out there, but this is one that only seems to gain greater relevance...

Aug 7th

Brian Solis: PR 2.0 makes the Top 150 Marketing Blogs. Woot. I think. http://tinyurl.com/2cvxxp (via...

Aug 7th

Brian Solis: @kbodnar32, thanks for the note about Kevin and Shannon. Appreciate it. Comment on the...

Aug 7th

Brian Solis: @ITSinsider, I loved that tweet! I’m saving it!!! (via Twitter / Brian Solis)

Aug 7th

Brian Solis: @duncanriley, Enjoy! (via Twitter / Brian Solis)

Aug 7th

Gnomedex is Sold Out, Wanna Go?

This Thursday, hundreds of the world’s leading bloggers, podcasters, and tech-savvy enthusiasts...

Aug 6th

Fake Steve Jobs is Daniel Lyons of...

by Brian Solis  It was an interesting ride, and for the most part, I really didn’t want to know...

Aug 6th

Brian Solis: Another look at Facebook - http://tinyurl.com/yt4aec (via Twitter / Brian Solis)

Aug 6th

FaceBook is the Online Hub for Connected...

As part of the new media regime, strategically participating in Social Media is not only critical...

Aug 6th

TechCrunch20 Now TechCrunch100

by Brian Solis OK, so not really. However, TechCrunch announced that it was overwhelmed with...

Aug 5th

Amazon Takes on Paypal

by Brian Solis Paypal has long dominated the online payment category thanks to the overwhelming...

Aug 3rd

Dead Herring, The Harbinger of Death for...

Hat tip to Owen Thomas at Valleywag on the latest chapter of the rise and fall, and fall again of...

Aug 2nd

Brian Solis: Marketwire Acquires PRNN - But is This Really Social Media? http://tinyurl.com/ywpl9e...

Aug 2nd

Surviving the “Hockey Stick” for Geeks

By Alex Ho The second of an ongoing series, this month’s GeekSessions featured a panel of people...

Aug 2nd

Marketwire Acquires PRNN - But is This...

Social Media is the new gold rush and traditional PR services are scrambling to stay relevant as...

Aug 2nd

Tangler Introduces Embeddable Forums to...

What if the comments section in important blogs or popular discussion forums were portable and...

Aug 2nd

Atlassian Acquires Cenqua

by Brian Solis Atlassian today announced the acquisition of Cenqua, makers of software...

Aug 2nd

Brian Solis: Atlassian Acquires Cenqua - http://bub.blicio.us/?p=309 (via Twitter / Brian Solis)

Aug 2nd

Brian Solis: Congrats to Jeremy Toeman on the launch of Apprate.com, which reviews all new Facebook...

Aug 2nd

What’s Hot, What’s Not on Facebook

by Brian Solis Good friend Jeremy Toeman of LiveDigitally recently launched AppRate, a new site...

Aug 2nd

Julia Allison, Gone But Not Forgotten

We met her at TechCrunch9. We were graced by her presence at the TC9 after party. She made new...

Aug 1st

Brian Solis: Julia Allison, Gone But Not Forgotten (Great pictures) - http://bub.blicio.us/?p=307...

Aug 1st

Social Media Manifesto Translated into...

The Future of Communications – A Manifesto for Integrating Social Media into Marketing is now...

Aug 1st

Brian Solis: Who’s going to AlwaysOn today? (via Twitter / Brian Solis)

Aug 1st

Brian Solis: Scoble on Telling video stories with “Your Truman Show” - http://tinyurl.com/2vbz53...

Aug 1st