Shawn Cheatham

taken on the street…passed via blackberry…IM follow-up

shawn 12:08
where’s the pic from?
you saw him?!

rina 12:21
yeah, from outside our office

shawn 12:21
awesome!

rina 12:21
we were going to grab lunch and there was a crowd of people

shawn 12:21
did you get an autograph?
very cool

rina 12:21
he’s so handsome and his demeanor….so hot.

shawn 12:21
LOL
smooth operator

rina 12:22
no, he was running late so he had to run

Check out my new page www.shawncheatham.com/blog/stickam

I’ll be in and out for the morning so stop by and say hello!

So here’s a little diddy, SweetSpot is a sort of fee-based social network for diabetics and their friends/family. Since I have several family diabetic family members SweetSpot hit the spot. It’s sort of light on features/functionality but I think that’s the point, especially if they’re target market is babyboomers, their kids and small groups. Case in point, I found the site and immediately dropped my mom an email and ask her to check it out.

That said, I have to wonder whether the subscription market will backlash because let’s be real, how many $10-$40 subscriptions can your bank account handle? Personally, I tend to try to keep my subscriptions to a minimum because I tend to forget what I’ve subscribed to and could see myself ending up with more monthly fee’s than really necessary. On the other hand, I’m take full advantage of the low barrier to buying when it comes to breaking off bits of services that I deem ‘critical’…but what’s critical? Is SweetSpot or BizNik critical? Do I really need NetFlix, NYT Online, DirectTV or the rest? Perhaps not…I draw the line somewhere between personal and business by trying to keep personal stuff to a bare minimum and only subscribe to business stuff when I don’t like the alternative.

…hmph…i wonder… 

Michael Corleone said it best, “Just when I thought I was out…they pull me back in”.

Ok, so I must admit, over the past 3 months I’ve registered for nearly every new application that floats by…most of which have been ’social networking’ in some way shape or form. My justification is that it’s been ‘research’ and 95% of the time I mess around for a few hours and then bounce off to another site.

Enter Biznick. Stop the press.

If I were to categorize it…think Facebook+LinkedIn+MeetUp for small business types.

I only registered today but I’ve already spent more time trolling the user-generated articles (very smart people) than several of the other gems I’ve found in the past few weeks.

Interesting play…I’m still debating W.I.I.F.M.