Confessions of an eBiz Junkie

Alltop - All of the Top Stories

Friend and fellow blogger Adam Cohen turned me on to Guy Kawasaki's latest project, Alltop. Alltop's tag line - "We've got all of the top stories covered all the time". I'd describe the service as a user friendly aggregator of relevant blogs organized around high level topics.

A screenshot of the main page:

Getting added as a source was as simple as drafting up an email with a brief description of who I am and what my blog's all about. The folks @ Alltop are very much open to feedback as they look to evolve existing categories and build out news ones. Once identifying a category that's of interest, you can jump right to it by going to (subject).alltop.com - In my case, Socialmedia.alltop.com.

An interesting approach on aggregation. Guy has a long track record of delivering interesting and innovative thinking. Thanks to the folks @ Alltop for being so responsive and for being open to suggestions for other future categories... Alltop.com is definitely something to watch.

EMC World Bloggers Unite!

It looks like I'll be attending EMC World this year - along with fellow EMC bloggers Mark Twomey, Barry Burke, Bill Petro and Steve Todd.

I thought we'd try something a bit different this time... I'd like to round up all of the attendees who will be blogging, Twittering, Flickr'ing, Utter'ing or (insert your favorite trendy tool here) their way through the event...

I want to gauge interest from the community and will work out logistics based on how many folks sign up... If two of you sign up, Storagezilla and I will be hanging out in the parking lot of the Manadalay Bay with a six-pack of Schlitz for a meet & greet and a game of kick-the-can. Any more than that and we'll find a formal venue where we can get together and have some fun...

I've put together a Wiki for sign-ups. If you'll be @ World and want to get together for a blogger meet & greet - please sign up here (The password to update is community). We'll use this Wiki as main point of information sharing as we try to pull something together.

There's also the EMC World community for attendees. If you haven't already signed up - check it out. There's a cool 'people finder' like app that let you find peers with similar interests and get together for a chat. Discussion forums are also available to help you interact with the minds behind the event and other attendees to help shape the breakouts and talk about what you'd like to see @ the event.

Looking forward to seeing you there!

Edit - One more thing, Twiiter users, be sure to follow Twitter.com/EMCWorld for real time news & info during the conference...

Blogs Abound

EMC has had a presence in the blogosphere for well over a year now. We'd originally started out with a small handful of key voices, and the experience to date has been quite positive.

This week, we've extended our presence considerably by adding several new employee blogs. In the interest of full disclosure, most of these folks aren't new to blogging. Like myself, the majority have been doing it for some time. For others, our internal Social Media platform was a great way to test drive blogging and hone their voice before going public.

So what?

Good people, good conversation and muchos huevos

Staying on top of the latest and greatest technology / trend / site du jour while balancing the necessary daily tactical stuff can be a challenge. For me, one of the best ways to keep up is through social events with like minded folks.

I had the pleasure of sharing a more than healthy breakfast at Henrietta's Table this morning with just such a group. Thanks to John Wall for pulling the event together, and to C.C., Jenny, Lisa, Alyssa and Jeremiah for the conversations and laughs. Discussions were all over the place - from High speed internet propoganda, to a Facebook vs. LinkedIn debate, to Jenny's crazy little SLR lensey type thing that was getting attention from even the non-webby tables.

Coincidentally, Boston's Oktoberfest was taking place right outside of Henrietta's. After a larger than life breakfast, some of the group chose to check out the local museum scene, others to get home to the family while others walked the Oktoberfest event piling fried dough and Sam Adams into the same crowded space as the seven egg omelet... (Seriously, what's wrong with me??).

Thanks to all - Hope to see you at the big shindig on the 18th!

Cheers.
LD

The Internet Evolution

Just wanted to call your attention to a new site that launched this morning (10/1)... Described as the site for news, analysis & opinion about the future of the internet, Internet Evolution looks to be a site worthy of a closer look. The voices of the site are as impressive as their overarching theme... Jonathon C. Abbott, EVP and COO at WGBH, Dr. Ram Charan, Paul Mockapetris (the inventor of DNS) and our own Diane Green (President, CEO and co-founder of VMware) - just to name a few. Take some time to browse the site. Only the first day of launch (congrats, btw), and there's already days worth of interesting reading.

On an unrelated note, we still have space left for our Boston area community event. If you're in the area on 10/18, be sure to sign up! We've got an exciting list of attendees already... Looks to be an outstanding event.

Cheers,
LD