Thursday, April 14, 2005

Bolt.com. Right now there are 17, 827 people online over at the Bolt.com ‘hang out’. Where categories range from Movies & TV to Sex & Dating, Gaming, Music, Style, Sports, American Idol, AIM Icons, Quotes, Ringtones, Game Revolution, Quizzes, Horoscopes, and TAG. According to their about: ”... Bolt is the #1 youth hangout on the Web, bringing together 4.5 million young people each month to exchange ideas about everything from final exams to the war in Iraq. Bolt is the basement, park, college dorm, sidewalk café or the 7-11 parking lot – it’s a place where young people come to meet others and talk about everything. Authenticity is at the core of all that we do…” Bolt is located in Soho, NYC and is led by Aaron Cohen, CEO. They recently released a study on ‘Youth Happiness’ (pdf file link) with the subtext that it “Turns out High School and College Kids Are Actually Pretty Happy” with 67% of 15-22 year olds counting themselves as happy to very happy. Who knew? Be scared, be very scared if you don't know anything about this group.  Demographics is NOT about the oldsters... we know them - - hell, we are them.  It is about what is coming our way... a very interesting but quite different new breed. RSS feeds brought to you by Userplane Apps: Live communication applications powering the world's leading online communities. [The Social Software Weblog] 9:20:53 PM    comment [] Brian Russell: "Open Space conferences have no keynote speakers, no pre-announced schedules of workshops, no panel discussions, no organizational booths. Instead, sitting in a large circle, participants learn in the first hour how they are going to create their own conference. Almost before they realize it, they become each other's teachers and leaders." [Scripting News] 8:16:11 PM    comment [] Emotion vs. Reason?. The next time you structure your communication, is it more important to appeal to emotion or to reason? It turns out that question may be a false dichotomy, because according to neuroscientists people need both emotion and reason in order... [beyond bullets] 5:42:48 PM    comment [] The Slide of Things to Come. When you experience a storyboard breakthrough, you're only one step away from unlocking the visual power of your persuasive story. The other day I described how far along Kim had been progressing on her PowerPoint makeover, and today she sent... [beyond bullets] 5:42:19 PM    comment [] AIM Connects with Enterprise IM Vendors. Four enterprise instant messaging systems gain the ability to communicate with AOL's market-leading IM service, in another sign of growing support for messaging interoperability. [eWEEK.com Messaging and Collaboration] has a link to an article on the connection between Sametime and AOL 5:34:18 PM    comment []

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