Mashable.com hosted their MashMeet December 18th and had Ask Franco do the interviews. Jason and I did another pitch for Dank App’s The Lotto & Be Santa. I have included the video even with the really crappy voice dubbing. 

Just like to remind anyone interested in Social Media, Web 2.0, Social Networking Sites, or the Future of Social Media to attend the MashMeet in NYC this Tuesday, Dec 18, from 7-9 pm at the Village Pourhouse (64 Third Ave). Several members of the Carrot Crew attended last month’s MashMeet and had such a great time that Robert, Kyle, ABB (Steve), Christian (Shaboo), Jason, Mike (Radparvar) and I will all be in attendance tomorrow. Hope to see everyone there.

Seattle was great. The conferance was great. The people were great, and this makes me feel great. Speaking on the panel was fun and I think I added more humor then facts since Dave McClure at the end said to me “We didn’t learn anything but it was fucking fun”. We did have some laughs but I felt that we touched on some interesting points on friending habits, news source, marketing, and professionalism on Facebook. The conference had some really great panels, and had some boring Facebook 101 presentations. I sometimes take for granted I have been growing up with these websites and some people are using them for the first time. The one thing I really enjoy about these conference unlike in many other industries is that Internet Social Network  people are there to help others. ( This will be a post in the future) Anyway back to Seattle, the city has such a positive energy and artistic vibe that you can feel. It is obvious why people want to work and live in Seattle, regardless how bad their Baseball team is.  

Jason Beckerman (Dank Apps CEO) and I will be out in Seattle this week to meet with clients and attend the Web Community Forum. We are both looking forward to speaking engagements at the Forum as well as getting to know the Seattle Tech Culture. We both feel honored to be in the land of Microsoft and Starbucks. (Although Starbucks is becoming ever more important to the Tech scene and Carrot Crew than Microsoft). If you happen to be attending the Forum, shoot me an email. By the way, does anyone know of some great places to eat in Seattle?

Today I will be part of a speaking panel at Web Community Forum. The panel will comprised of Teresa Valdez Klein and Dave McClure, and we will be discussing Facebook as a professional tool. Notes will be provided later on in the week, as it will be a collaborative effort of the entire Carrot Crew to summarize the events of this week’s forum for all of you. Web Community Forum Topic & Description.

Facebook for Professionals: A Session for the Community Building in the Age of Facebook Conference.December 5, 2007 • 11:30 amPresented by Mike Germano, Dave McClure, Teresa Valdez Klein

Now that Facebook has announced that it plans to include granular permissioning for different types of friends, the question on everyone’s minds is, “What does this mean for Linkedin?” Linkedin has long been the social network of choice for professionals. But its dominance in this space has been under attack as more professionals spend their time networking on Facebook. This growth has been limited somewhat by the fact that Facebook does not currently have a system for designating how well a “friend” is known to you, or by what means. This limitation has meant that some content — photos of a Saturday evening spent singing semi-inebriated karoke, for example — might be better suited to an e-mail among friends than a dedicated Facebook album. The restoration of the personal-professional barrier on Facebook is a boon to twenty-somethings like me —who have been on the site since college. With this type of content permissioning firmly in place, all kinds of people are free to start using Facebook as a professional network as well as a place for friends to congregate. This imbues a number of old questions with new importance:

• How do I manage my professional relationships on Facebook?
• What is the proper etiquette for a friend request?
• What are the special concerns for professional women on Facebook?
• How will these granular permissions play out?
• What features would make Facebook an even better place for professionals to network in the future?

We’ll be asking and discussing these questions and more in a session at the upcoming Web Community Forum conference in a session entitled “Facebook for Professionals.” What do you guys think? How are you using the site to network professionally? Personally? Where does the divide create conflict?