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This sweet little twitter app allows you to rate twitter avatars. Find out who has the Best. Avatar. Ever.

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AuthorityLabs.com a new Search Engine Rankings monitoring tool came to me and asked for some marketing help. What else could I do then leverage the photo voting tool I wrote a few months back to ask the poignant question: Who is the BEST SEO EVER?

In this one and only case, rankings don’t matter, it is all about the photo skills.  The best seo ever is determined by photog awesomness. Are you an SEO? Are you the best SEO ever? Upload your mug today and challenge the best. And check out Authoritylabs.com for easy search engine monitoring.

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Had some fun at the Arizona Entrepreneur Conference on Sean’s behalf.  He was deep in a mind meld session with Matt Mullenweg (whom later CRUSHED gary vee in wii tennis.. future blog post) and had a few pwns coming his way after his epic Effin Loser boarding pass special delivery to yours truly.  Enjoy.

Love the pink shirt, Gray chest hair, and uber awesome hemp choker.. PEACE!

Photos by Acme

See more and rate the best  seanpwn photos at Pix.ly

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What does community mean to you?

That word is thrown around a lot in our industry, building communities and all that. I think sometimes it is used as an empty buzzword, and other times as an accurate description of a gathering of like minded people.

The community, any community is made of disparate souls with their own self serving interests, but those interests more or less align themselves in some fashion that provides the glue to keep the community together and hopefully growing. As long as the community means something, and I dare say stands for something “bigger”, a higher purpose if you will, it will flourish. The nay-sayers, dividers, and ignorant take the stupid with them as they leave.

Within a broader community like business, there are subsets like the web crowd, the retailers, and the bean counters. At Social Media Club tonight, (after Sally’s awesome preso), Francine Hardaway brought up an issue that faces all communities: how to outreach from the subset to influence, educate, and embrace the broader community that shares common edges with the subset. What is the answer here?

At Gangplank, the focus is community. Nurturing a new one into life.  People there are looking to do something bigger, better, awesomer, with more collaboration, more outreach, more education, and less bullshit. The form of community outreach there involves an open door that invites everyone to participate. There are photographers, web marketers, muscians, and the occasional mortgage meltdown refugee sharing the free co-working space. How do we take it to the next level? How does a group of smart, driven people break down the walls that from our side seem paper thin, but from others; appears as thick and unyielding as a brick. Does one build a ladder over the wall, a bridge around it, or do you quietly infiltrate the headquarters of the old guard establishment and drop a few percussion grenades to snap them out of their idea and energy deprived coma?

At what level does community leadership become a hindrance? Is taking a hands off approach akin to letting the insane run the asylum? Or is it necessary for some form of leadership, to establish a clear mission and objective that everyone can rally behind. You need the detail minded and big thinkers,  as well as the disruptors and technicians. What is that happy medium between input and mutiny?

One advocate shouting from the soapbox touches few, an army marching in the streets stops traffic. A coordinated campaign of education makes communities grow.

Welcome to the knowledge economy.  Participate, collaborate, and grow.. or die tryin.

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Check out these sweet will.i.am hologram T’s

“Help me Obama, your’re my only hope” - will.i.am

Buy these supa fly American Apparel will.i.am hologram T’s now.

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Pix.ly Little side project I have been working on that allows you to pull in flickr photos by tag, photoset, group, or user and rate them in a vs. style head to head matchup.  The photo competition Winners and losers are logged so one can see what is the best user rated photo from any particular battle.  Hot photo vs photo action.  I would love your feedback and ideas on how to make it better.

And get your will.i.am hologram tshirt.

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So Startup Weekend Phoenix is this weekend at Gangplank HQ, and it promises to be a frenzy of startup energy.

Last night about 6pm I was going through some domains I own and an idea for what to do with some of them came to me. So about 11 hours later I launched Best Costume Ever, which is like a  CommandShift3 or Hot or Not, but in this case for Halloween Costumes and other cosplay type stuff (which I have zero interest in).

Why? It is a strategy to build juice for our main property bestpartyever.com. I own many dozen best___ever.com’s and many of them can be photo vs. sites like I just made.  If a few of them get some traction, it funnels people and juice back to bpe.

So after 11 hours coding I couldn’t sleep, and it was about time to wake up anyways.. so at 7:00am I went for a 45 minute jog, then shower.. now this blog post.  Sally will drive as we pick up @penguin from the airport on our way to gangplank to do what else: launch more startups.

UPDATE: Do you have the best mustache ever? Or are you ready for Mullet wars?

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