• Tell-a-Friend: Leverage Word of Mouth Marketing – Tell-a-Friend makes it possible for your site visitors to share your content with their friends without directing them away from your site. Tell-a-Friend synchs with their IM, email in the context of the content they're sharing without those tedious pop-up forms that require manual input.
• Open Source Intel Rocks — Sorry, It’s Classified – So-called "open source" intelligence — spook-speak for tidbits taken from newspapers, internet postings, and TV shows — is starting to play a major role in the nation's spy agencies. That's a major change, in a world that's used to relying on secret satellites and clandestine agents. But old habits die hard. Open source intelligence may come from unclassified material that's available to anyone with a TV or an internet connection.
• Leave Wall Street and Join A Startup – For years, one of the biggest challenges facing New York city based startup companies has been the competition for technical talent. It was very difficult for a venture-backed startup to compete with the compensation packages offered by the big investment banks. Stock options had a hard-time overcoming oversized cash bonuses.
• It’s Time To Open Up The Feeds To Marketers – So it's time to start allowing marketers into these feeds on a highly targeted/highly relevant basis. FeedBurner did that with this blog's feed and many other feeds with ok results a few years back. But honestly, the ads were not targeted enough or relevant enough to work really well. Facebook has probably done the most of anyone to allow marketers entry into the feed. Here's a screenshot of facebook news feed this morning. You can see the sponsored feed entry for the vista business network in there at the bottom.

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