Happy New Year everyone, we’re a little late but Talk Social News returns with an exciting interview with All Stern of CenterNetworks.com & CloudContacts. Allen was gracious enough to do a second interview with us and it’s just as good as the first one. Allen is an entrepreneur, blogger, consultant and his blog Centernetworks.com was recently listed as one of the top 6 blogs to read for information on social media. For more information about Allen & CenterNetworks.comhere.

The interview: Talk Social News Episode 18 - length 57:12 download or click to play:

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Other segments of the podcast:

The what to blog:

New tech news site: http://TechFuga.com

In the fail of the week:

Michael Arrington / TechCrunch on Death To The Embargo

News of the Week:
Steve Jobs Health and MacWorld rumors

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This week on Talk Social News we’re bringing you a special interview only podcast with Peter Shankman aka @Skydiver on twitter. If you don’t know who Peter Shankman is then just check out his blog at http://shankman.com . A hint, he’s a CEO, entrepreneur, adventurist and one of the funniest guys I know. Peter also started the email newsletter called Help A Reporter Out. For those of you who know Peter then, download and listen to the podcast and for those of you who don’t, listen to the podcast and then check out Peter’s blog.

I must say that Peter’s interview was one of the best and funniest we have done yet, take a listen and let us know what you think in the comments.

For our what the blog, the fail of the week and news of the week segments of the podcast be sure to check out the 1st ever Talk Social News live show in the post below. We also interviewed boxee.tv CEO, Avner Ronen during the live show.

The interview: Talk Social News Episode 16 - length 39:18 download or click to play:

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By now I’m sure you’re aware of how social media played a role in electing our new president and the online community is a buzz about the future of social media in government and politics. This week on Talk Social News, we explore the future of social media and politics as we talk with Thomas Cook, cofounder of Politics4All. Politics4All is a socially-networked platform that allows citizens, candidates, citizens, and groups to connect and collaborate on every level of the political spectrum. (from http://politics4all.com)

Take a listen as we discuss how President-Elect Barack Obama won the election using social media, the future of Change.gov and Politics4all.com, and what’s it’s like to be a TechCrunch50 demo company working on a business plan and raising capital. We also talked about the roll of citizen journalism reporting the news and the cool Politics4All t-shirts. For more about Politics4All you can read their blog or follow them on twitter at @Politics4All but first listen to the podcast.

The interview: Talk Social News Episode 13 - length 34:53 download or click to play:

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What the blog:

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The fail of the week:
John McCain and Sarah Palin, not that they lost the election but the nasty back and forth, finger pointing they are doing now.

Tech news of the week:

Linkedin gets events

Darren Rowse’s new Twitter Tips: Twitter Tips in 140 Characters or Mores

Everything Twitter by @idoNotes & @Corvida

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This week Talk Social News interviews Joel Longtine, engineer with SocialThing. Listen to what Joel has to say about social aggregation, life streaming and the what it was like to get purchased by AOL.

The interview: Talk Social News Episode 11 - length 29:33 download or click to play:

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SocialThing is in private beta but if you would like an invite let us know in the comments or send a tweet to @talksocialnews saying: I would like an invite to @socialthing

For our “What the Blog” section of the podcast, we review how to turn your blog into a book with Blurb.

The fail of the week is Wired.com post titled Twitter, Flickr, Facebook Make Blogs Look So 2004

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