Thought For The Day: "Traditional advertising is inherently selfish. It interrupts in order to generate money (part of which pays for more interruptions). That approach doesn’t work at a cocktail party, or at a funeral or in a social network." – Seth Godin

• Brands, social, clutter and the sundae
  Seth Godin’s article is sharp and to the point: Traditional Advertising is worse than irrelevant in the emerging networked economy.
   
• 10 Top New Web Services of 2008 and Their 2009 Forecast
  Year end lists like this one are a great place to find new tools. Prediction: Lots of Recruiters using TweetDeck by mid 2009.
   
• Designing a Reputation Management System
  All social networks encounter problems with varying levels of credibility for various players. This presentation describes an approach (like the one used by socialmedian) for building system-wide reputation management (who are the community’s best and most consistent contributors). In the long haul, what really matters is your credibility with me and mine with you and not how some systems frames us.
   
• socialmedian acquired by Xing
  I heard about it on Twitter. Big congrats to Jason Goldberg
   
• Digging Into RecruitingBlogs.com v1.30
  That Sumser dude offers 2009 forecasts.