This Week in Social Media #3 with Ryan Born

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This Week in Social Media #3 with Ryan Born

Thursdays at 11am PDT Ryan Born, CEO of Audioo

This week we have Ryan Born, CEO of Audioo. Sean Percival and Judalina Neira host This Week in Social Media airs Thursdays at 11am PT.

Sean: “Welcome to another episode of This Week in Social Media, a show you can’t unfollow no matter how hard you try.”

Welcome to Judalina Neira.

00:46 SPONSOR BREAK

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02:10 The winner of last week’s strangest product is Benjamin Lopez, he submitted and won the tiniest wood sumo wrestler ever.

03:00 A new contest this week, send a tweet to Sean with a link of the weirdest baby related item on picclick. Include #TWiSM in your tweet.

03:46 TOPICS

Discussion about the Noncompete Violation on LinkedIn. The article was sent in by one of our viewers Jason Proznitz. Is a noncompete legal?

Judalina tweeted this story, OK Cupid separating the hotties from the uglies. A handful of users are picked as the most attractive on the site. See where Judalina ranks and what the chatroulette analogy is all about .

10:45 INTERVIEW

Ryan Born, CEO of Audioo

Ryan discusses how he went from Art History to becoming an accountant. Working for PricewaterhouseCoopers, Wired Image (later acquired by Getty Images) and his evil twin Ryan Block. Find out why Audioo is referred to as the Blippy for voicemail or Texts from last night for voicemail.

A sample of the voicemails are played on the show. A discussion on voicemail legality and how states have different laws. Gary Vaynerchuk’s Prank Call. What is next for Audioo?

38:28 NEWS

Story 1

Disney/Pixar Buys The First Twitter Trending Topic Ad

Discussion on artificially creating trends.

Story 2

Klout’s BirdBrain Measures Influence Based On Data From Twitter And Facebook

More holistic approach by involving all social networks. Discussion on Celebrities’ Klout. Judalina on Astrological style profile from Klout.

Story 3

AOL Sells bebo

Where do social media sites go when they die? Sean wants to look at “The Life Cycle of a Social Network.”

Story 4

Plancast Announces Widgets and API

Funding round frenzy where investors were trying to contact anyone close to the founders.

54:06 SPONSOR BREAK

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http://kirstenwinkler.com KirstenWinkler

Overall a nice episode, maybe too many recorded calls :). Judalina did a great job looking forward to see her more often on the show.
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Kirsten:

Thank you for watching and your insightful input.
http://twitter.com/althejandro Alejandro Vasquez

I thought this episode was great but I would love it if the guest stayed during the news because they could always have very useful insights. By the way, Toy Story 3 was amazing.
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Alejandro:

thank you for your feedback.
http://www.ryanborn.net ryanborn

thanks Alejandro! Maybe next time.