Thought for the day

I couldn't wait to share this information. Next Monday's #journchat will be AMAZING (yes, I'm bias). I'm doing a live-stream video interview with CNN from SXSW. The promotion for this will go out shortly, but wanted to share with #Commentz crew first. We'll have the head of CNN PR, CNN iReport, a CNN journalist and more. This is going to be a "first-of-its-kind" event, literally. All participants will be in one room and allow me to interview them live in front of the #journchat audience. I'll share more later this week (including the live-stream site). ONLY CHANGE: The time for next week's chat is 8:30 to 10:30p EST (30 minutes later than usual.)

Bring. It. On.

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  1. Harris Interactive: Adults in largest European countries, U.S. and China concerned over online security - "Three in five Americans (61%), majorities of French adults (56%), Spaniards (55%), Chinese (54%) and Britons (52%) as well as 46% of Germans and 40% of Italians are concerned about the amount and security of personal online data that can be accessed by search engines people use, such as Google or Bing."

  2. Helge Tenno: Future Media: No more middle men [Power Point] - MUST VIEW! An insightful look at the development of online communications and what it means for media. Credit goes to Jason Kintzler (@jasonkintzler) for this find.

  3. Fast Company: Foursquare offers analytics to Businesses, Enables Easy Customer Stalking - This is pretty freaky stuff! "Tristan Walker, director of Foursquare business development, tells Mashable that big innovations like weather tracking could allows business owners to offer specials based on real-time events. Imagine "It's snowing, so come into Joe's for a free small coffee with purchase!" popping up on your iPhone when you're outside freezing and just a block or two away. Hello Joe."

  4.  All Facebook: Facebook prepares to release location service at f8 - "At f8, the company is expected to announced new location-based APIs. At this point the location product will become the center of an immense amount of speculation. Will this service be a complete replacement for Foursquare and Gowalla? The New York Times suggests it won’t. Will it integrate mapping functionality (in which you can view where your friends are on a map)? Will it be launched through the company’s mobile applications? With more than 100 million mobile users, Facebook is making a hard push in the mobile space and is being forced to quickly eliminate the threat of competitors, who are beginning to gain significant traction."

  5. Boing Boing: Most adulterous professions: There's a dark side to everything. Yes, there's a social network for those who want to cheat on their spouses. This is a breakdown of the demographics. I'd save this as market research.

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