Portland Social Media

Twitter Updates for 2007-05-23

• Hey, thanks for those that hung out last night at our Social Media Workshop. Awesome # of people there…how about a beer & meet next month? #

Google Gets Fed FeedBurner

It’s a done deal. Google buys the much-loved company FeedBurner for $100 million - good on them. Hey, I’m a fan of FeedBurner, it’s easy to use and the company has been rock-solid in adding new features and supporting things like podcasting. Others are not-so-much-fans of FeedBurner, as they are RSS ninjas that hold their feeds close to their chest. To each their own.

Is this purchase by Google a sign that Google is serious about RSS? Is this much, much bigger news than Microsoft including RSS support in silly IE 7? I guess it’s now in short order that will have easy-to-integrate AdSense ads in all the RSS feeds we read. Oh yippee…sarcasm, sarcasm.

Wallstripped

Read all about it! Wallstrip, an indie video blog covering the action on Wall Street, was snatched up by CBS. Lindsay Campbell, the host of the show, reminds us that talent, though seemingly a dime a dozen these days, is still hot, hot, hot. What do others make of this move buy CBS? Is CBS flush with too much cash, or did they see a good thing on the cheap and decide, what the heck, it’s better then most of the stuff on our network anyway?

I’ve only watched Wallstrip for a combined total of a couple of minutes, but it sure was nice to watch a show about Wall Street without having to shower afterwards because you feel dirty - CNBC, I’m looking at you on this one.

May event follow up

Thanks for coming to last night’s session of the Portland Social Media Club, everyone. Attendance was truly awesome! Live video was an on-again-off-again experience, but so goes life on the cutting edge!

The interviewees again, in case you are wondering, were: Tim Germer, Northwest Noise, Renny Gleason, W+K and Ourboros, Audrey Eschright, Dyepot-Teapot and Benjamin Diggles, DB Clay and EvilBackwards.

If you’d like to join the Portland Social Media Google Group it’s low traffic and at this URL. That’s a good way to stay up to date on future sessions, or subscribe to the RSS feed for this blog.

Thanks again for all your support. Good luck with your social media over the next month!

Room Change for Tonight

Just got an email from Renny; we’re now meeting on the 2nd floor in The Bunker.  So head there once you enter W+K, or just ask someone to point you in the right direction.