Cameron Olthuis

We took the wraps off Serph yesterday which means we gone from private beta to a more open beta. You still need to signup but once you do we’ll send the invite shortly after.

Serph is a web application we built to help people track buzz across the web as it’s happening. The full writeup is over at Pronet so check it out. Now lets go Serphing!

I’m sure you’re all getting as sick of these memes as I am but I don’t want to let the people down who tagged me, unlike Neil. I got trusted by default from Andy who tried to tag Neil but he refused to play. Anyways, on with the trust meme.

Greg Niland
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Rae Hoffman
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Michael Gray
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Todd Malicoat
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Andy Hagans
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I just saw that my little brother posted a video of himself skiing on his MySpace page. It’s been a couple years since I’ve had the chance to ride with him and I didn’t realize how good he is now. The switch 720 he does at the start of the video is slick. I’m also diggin’ the big mountain stuff too.

Derek Olthuis

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I’m proud of you bro!

PS - If any sponsors see this, he’d be a great addition to your team.

PPS - If you wondering who the heck Tanner Hall is…

Happy New Year to everyone and be safe wherever your partying travels take you. See you in 2007!

Tagged again, by Pete from Mashable and he’s asking what my predictions are for 2007. So I’m going to look into my crystal ball and see what it’s in store for the coming year.

1. Social Media. It will continue to grow as people waste more and more time watching people do stupid things on YouTube. The majors like Digg, Delicious, and YouTube will keep growing. Most others will fade into oblivion, although we’ll see a couple of brand new startups with unique angles come out of nowhere and make some big noise.

2. Niche. As more people get comfortable with social media, social sites for every little niche will popup. They’ll gain enough adoption to sustain themselves and we’ll all live happily ever after.

3. Mobile Web. It won’t go anywhere because staring at a 1″ screen is annoying and not very practical. It will continue to be used only for email, checking RSS feeds, and wasting time with Twitter.

4. Vertical Search. We’ll see some good vertical search engines created because it makes sense to only search one site instead of ten. Most won’t execute properly though and there is only room for 1-2 winners in each vertical.

5. Social Media Marketing. It will be a strong year for SMM and we’ll see companies start putting a lot more resources towards it. The agencies who don’t get it will still take money from their clients but since they won’t be able to produce results they will resort to social media spam that will do more harm than good. Oh wait, that’s already happening *cough*Edelman*cough*. Social media spam will become an epidemic and the sites that can’t control it will die by the wayside.

6. Ignore SEO. The startups that continue to ignore SEO will fail because they don’t realize that’s the only way the masses will ever find them. The founders will continue to think SEO is spam as they scratch their heads trying to figure out why their companies bombed.

7. YouTube on TV. Someone, somewhere will figure out a way to seamlessly bring YouTube directly to the TV. They will be acquired by Google only if they can manage to beat them to the punch.

8. Politics 2.0. I already predicted this earlier in the year. We’ll all be so overwhelmed by all the flame wars and dirt that cover social media sites that no one will even show up to vote. A lot of money will be spent on reputation management this coming election.

I tag Neil Patel, Britney Spears, and You.

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Just a quick post to wish all my friends, family, and readers a Merry Christmas and/or Happy Holidays. Be safe, have fun, and most of all enjoy the company of those closest to you.

For those of you wondering what I’m getting Amy for Christmas this year watch this clip. But if the word “dick” offends you, don’t watch it. Mom (both of you), you’ve been warned.

Merry Christmas!

Andy Hagans is asking anyone and everyone to post this picture of Neil “The Princess” Patel on their blog. They also have some kind of bet going where Neil doesn’t think Andy can rank for his name within 30 days. Being the nice guy that I am, I’m going to do my best to help Neil lose the bet. All in good fun.