So, embedding Kina’s Digg song last week got me thinking about other songs I’ve heard that are about websites.

Not to brag or anything, but I’m KIND of the Queen of the Theme mixtape. For instance, I have managed to collect 27 songs that are all either called “Melanie” or feature a major character named “Melanie” - I call that one “Narcissism.” My masterpiece to date, though, is “Rockin’ While Stalkin’” - songs about stalking or being stalked.

This mix I’ve put together here, I have to say, is pretty cool and I’m kinda proud of it, even though it only features 6 songs.

Enjoy!

Kina Grannis - Gotta Digg Here’s the song that gave me the idea in the first place.

Alana Taylor - The Twitter Song It talks about Twitter AND Facebook, and even mentions Mahalo Daily Triple Threat

IM Love - Raining Jane This song doesn’t talk about a specific website, but…how can you not include Raning Jane? IMPOSSIBLE! God, I hope you’re not my Dad. That’s all I’m sayin’.

The Myspace Song - Good Clean Fun They know how Emo kids feel.

I’m a Warrior - Steven Wagenheim Only song on the list dedicated to an IM forum. Come on eWealthers - catch up! Nebula/Jamie? Nothing?

YouTube (A Love Song) - David Choi A lot of people claim they see a little smile at the end. I don’t.

Ebay - Weird Al Yankovic (contributed by xmx)

Facebook Anthem - LLP81 (I don’t think this is a band, just people that make funny videos, but it’s DAMN funny! ) (contributed by Ian Wilcox)

Coming Soon, hopefully, will be The Internet Killed Bookmobile by ColinSick.

Did I Forget Any? Leave Them In The Comments, I’ll Amend the List!

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Check out these really cool videos from Jeff Johnson - he talks about Social Media. One of my favorite topics!

This is a seminar presentation from the 2008 Secret Society of Traffic and Conversion Seminar, presented in 18 parts. It’s worth it.

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And that’s probably exactly how she’d express it, too.

And when I say she kicks our asses, it’s a helluva beat-down, too. She takes in well over $70,000 a month, and Whateverlife’s traffic level requires seven dedicated servers. SEVEN DEDICATED SERVERS!

*sigh*

I dream of the day that I will require seven dedicated servers.

The awesome thing, though, is that I think we IMers can learn a thing or two from young Ms. Qualls.

First of all, she never went into it to make money. She simply wanted to share her designs. Therefore, she didn’ t create her site with the “How can I set this up to sell something? Where can i put the adsense to get the best CTR?” mentality. She just created a place she loved and people ended up loving to go there.

Secondly, she never got stuck in a label for herself or her site. She created a brand and evolved it, far past myspace layouts now. She has html website builder tutorials, an online magazine, and is soon launching a cell phone wallpaper service (a stroke of absolute freaking genius, IMO).

Way to go, Ashley Qualls! You may not have set out to be an “Internet Marketing Chick”, but you became an FLIPPING AMAZING one!

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So, ever since the episode of the “Amazing Disappearing and Reappearing Myspace Account“, InternetMarketingChick.com’s myspace account has been acting all wonky.

It would sometimes let me message and comment, sometimes not.  Sometimes let me log in, sometimes not (error messages).  Giving me ghost notifications (new message, new comment, etc.)

Weirdest of all, it keeps sending me email notifications (even though I have them turned off!) that my own profile was requesting to be my friend…that I was, in essence, friend requesting myself.

Well,  my experience and the experience of others I have spoken with is that once a myspace account starts freaking out, there’s no real bringing it back.  Therefore, I have deleted it and am going to start from scratch.

I have a new account…however, I can’t tell you where it is yet because every time I try to set the URL, I get the “Sorry, an unexpected error occurred.” 

*sigh*

GOTTA LOVE THAT MYSPACE! :D 

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My myspace profile has reappeared as mysteriously as it disappeared.

GO FIGURE!

Whatever, I’m just glad it’s back.

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Not sure what happened, but Myspace just deleted a bunch of accounts - including mine.

I got a message earlier today saying I’d been phished (which I am VERY sure I hadn’t, I’m uber-careful!) and then about an hour ago, it’s gone.

I can still log in but I get a ton of error messages and I can’t do anything.  Also, when I go to my account’s public profile, it says “invalid ID”. I noticed that a lot of musicians’ accounts are gone, too - even musicians on the Myspace Top Artists List. Maybe they were targeting big profiles? :/

*sigh*

Very depressing.

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This isn’t really cutting edge current news, as it happened last week, but I thought that it was an interesting commentary to point out about social networking.

For you marketers out there who poo-poo utilizing social networking or Web 2.0 sites as a viable traffic/visibility strategy, consider that -

- Newscorp bought Myspace for $585 million (amid industry speculation that the number was too low!)
- Google bought YouTube for 1.6 billion
- Now Microsoft has offered Facebook 6 billion…and they’ve turned it down!

Hmmmmm…think these big corporations might be seeing value where you’re not?

*melanie

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So, I’ve started a myspace profile for InternetMarketingChick.com - and I must say, I am having a BLAST!

I have already messaged with some very cool people and gotten some great feedback on the site (Hi, Richard! ).

The URL is http://www.myspace.com/InternetMarketingChick.

Add me as a friend, why don’tcha?

*melanie

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The latest widget that Myspace has added to the user backend is a fun little thing called “Status and Mood.”

It allows a user to choose from a drop-down menu of pre-filled in “Status” text or fill in their own. You then get to choose a “Mood” and accompanying Smilie.

It populates just above your Mailbox Notifications, as you can see in this screenshot of my admin panel, so it will be getting maximum exposure!

Here’s where it really gets interesting, though…and useful for us marketers! See that text that says, “View my Friends Status Updates”?

Here’s what you see when you click that:

It’s a list, complete with profile icons, of all your Status Updates of all of your friends. This is a great way to remind people that you are on their friends lists! Particularly now that bulletins are largely ignored by most users, this has the potential to be a REALLY useful tool.

Another benefit is that because you can’t put a link or a long message that would be conducive to spamming, these will likely be more genuinely used by true members of the site who are interested in keeping up with their friends list, therefore much more likely to be taken seriously by users.

This doesn’t, however, mean that you can’t use it to build buzz or generate traffic back to your page from your friends list. Myspace populates the “{Your Username} is” part and you fill in the rest.

So how about messages like: Melanie is…

- excited about her latest blog post!
- missing her friends…leave me a comment, guys!
- stoked because she just put a new video on her page!

The possibilities abound! I love this tool because it’s so “Networking Friendly” and so “Spamming UN-friendly.” Myspace has HUGE profit potential when you use it for what it’s intended for - to network - and this is a great tool.

Lastly, the myspace crowd is fickle and likely will be bored with this in a couple of months…if I were you, I’d jump on this widget while it’s the hot new thing!

*melanie

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