Caterina: Soon everybody will know everybody and social networks will be obsolete.
04:57:32 am on July 1, 2011 | [Twitter]

For me, marketing is obsolete!

Historically, February has been associated with Fever and Purification, and I’ve had some of that this month!
From Wikipedia:
Februa, also Februatio, was the Roman festival of ritual purification, later incorporated into Lupercalia. The festival, which is basically one of Spring washing or cleaning (associated also with the raininess of this time of year) is old, and possibly of Sabine origin. According to Ovid, Februare as a Latin word which refers to means of purification (particularly with washing or water) derives from an earlier Etruscan word referring to purging. The Roman month Februarius (“of Februa,” whence the English February) is named for the Februa/Februatio festival, which occurred on the 15th day of the Roman month. Some sources connect the Latin word for fever (febris) with the same idea of purification or purging, due to the sweating commonly seen in association with fevers.

My two desktop pc’s died recently, and I feel vulnerable without another computer to back up the functionality and storage of my HP laptop. I may be able to get one of them going again, or I could pay someone to fix one, but it looks more sensible to accelerate my technology upgrade road map by going to an upgrade of my iPhone, and getting an iPad and MacBook Air.

In any case, thanks to Robert Johnson for Come On In My Kitchen!

This is the third part of The Kudzu Strategy — Starfish — Vignettes — Flow.

The Mobile Social Networking Starfish is all about being Findable.

Vignettes is all about being Consumable.

Flow — sustainable quantity, improving quality, and engaging rhythm — is all about being Shareable.

Being always available at the point of inspiration seems to me to be the most important unique quality of mobile.

For more on the 8 unique qualities of mobile, download Tomi Ahonen’s book The Insider’s Guide to Mobile.

My version of a Mobile Social Networking Starfish. You should have one too. Ask me what I can do for you!

Check out Robert Scoble on the Social Media Starfish.

Over the past week I’ve been creating and revising sites in my online Mobile Social Networking infrastructure. Right now it looks like this:

Google Profile

Google Local Listings — Bill Olen — Angry Bud — Design Ninjas — microCHUNK.TV

YouTube Channels — microchunktv — billolen — angrybud1 — mtharr

Microblogging Sites — Bill Olen FourSquare — Bill Olen Twitter — Angry Bud Twitter

FaceBook — Bill Olen Profile — microCHUNK.TV Page

Websites — billolen.com — angrybud.com — microchunk.tv

Linked In — Bill Olen Profile

Search some sites out and comment, if you like!

UPDATE: Here it is as a Google Docs Spreadsheet.

I went down to Palo Alto a couple days ago to do a job interview for a Social Media, SEO, and IT Specialist position at a home care assistance company. The phone interview had gone well, but only dealt with generalities. I met with the CEO, Director of Operations, and Online Marketing Manager, who seemed nice enough and knowledgeable in their particular areas. Although they had success using Google AdWords, when I started talking about Social Media and SEO, they looked like not only was I talking a foreign language, but also they didn’t realize I was talking a language at all. Apparently they thought you could do Social Media and SEO without having an online presence, engaging in conversation, producing content, and asking people to take action. On the long drive home I realized I should be building my own business instead.

Today I reviewed my last six years of blog posts and videos. I was amazed at the volume of Attention, Intention, Emotion, and Effort in the posts. It was painful to go over them in compressed time, but I did rekindle my purpose to pursue the Big Ideas I’ve been exploring. So I want you to look forward to a new series of posts on Mobile Social Networking, and to not just plans for the future, but soon to take place Events.

In the six months or so that we’ve had our 3GS iPhones, we have experimented a few times with unedited realtime video broadcasting by way of USTREAM; shot, cropped, and shared many near realtime videos by way of Twitter; and shot, edited, and distributed several not realtime videos through TubeMogul. Realtime is ideal for the moment, near real time is ideal for the event, and not real time is ideal for a longer story. But all three can be shot and viewed on a mobile device, and have a place in Mobile Media Marketing.

Music: Kevin MacLeod

A pretty cool server room for an unusual reason.