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Happy Mother's Day to everyone who is celebrating Mother's Day today.

I wonder how many Mother's Day phone calls will originate from someone's desktop computer and/or laptop. "More than last year" would be my answer as well, but it would be great if one could properly estimate the numbers and track the growth year after year.

I wonder how many Moms will be receiving messages via social media networks for the first time in 2008.

And I would like to know how many of the communication sessions will include a video element. Specially I'd like to know how many more people are using Video on Skype and/or decided to take advantage of iChat in the US and Canada on May 11, 2008. And while we are at it, I wonder how many people sent a video message to Mom asynchronously using Facebook today.

Tags: voip, Mother's Day, Social Media, Jeff Pulver

This show provided a recap of recent breakfasts in both Washington DC and Chicago and a discussion of Life 3.0. Both Amit Shafrir and Geo Geller were my in-studio guests.

Special “shout outs” to a number of people including: @PurpleCar, @AnnOhio, Kfir Pravda, Ken Camp, Sheryl Breuke, Dave Troy, Ann Benard and to everyone who joined us in the chat room. This show was produced by Andy “Tricaster” Lipson. You can follow the chat room chat by clicking here.

If you would like to be an in-studio guest on a future next show, please drop me an email or send me a message on Facebook.

Archives of past shows are available at: pulver.tv.

Friends of pulverTV can now join the pulverTV group on Facebook.

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Tags: Internet TV, facebook, Social Communications, Social Media, Life 3.0, pulverTV, Andrew Lipson, Jeff Pulver

TechCrunch: Facebook To Lift 5,000 Friends Limit

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During the past year as I became consumed by Facebook, Facebook has become my portal for business communication. An increasing number of my business conversations have been taking place inside of Facebook. A cornerstone of this strategy has been my ability to continue to add new contacts as they join the Facebook community.

On March 14, 2008 my strategy of using Facebook for business became challenged when I first reached the 5,001 friends limit. And while I thought it was cool to be at 5,001 friends, that feeling lasted only a few minutes when someone told me they tried to add me as a friend and they got a message that in effect “Jeff has too many friends.” (Humm...How could any ever really have too many friends?)

Back in March I reached out to my contacts at Facebook for help since I was told by Mark Zuckerberg back in November that “5,000 was only a number” and I was lead to believe it was easy to get past this limit.

And then I received the following message from Facebook:

“So it turns out that we're not able to increase your friend limit past 5,000 :( We won't always have this limit, but it is that way for technical reasons now.

One of the goals with launching Facebook Pages was to address this type of need for people who have a large fan base, such as politicians, celebrities...and you! We figure most people don't have more than 5,000 real friends, so Pages is an alternative option for people and businesses who use the site for commercial purposes. This could be an option for you until we address the Profile Page friend limit. There is a mechanism that helps convert a Profile to a Page. Let me know if you want to do that.”

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Since the middle of March, when I had the time, I spent time reviewing my friends and removed some so I could make room for new contacts. This continues to be an ackward and time consuming process. And to date, I haven’t been able to find the time to remove more than 400-500 people. At the moment I have 422 outstanding friend requests and I’m not able to add anyone new until I start removing people again and this is something I just don’t want to be doing.

I’m glad I resisted the offer to convert my profile into a Facebook page since I would have given up some of the personal nature of my profile. I just hope that the 5,000 person limit is removed sooner rather than later.

Tags: Facebook, Social Media, Michael Arrington,Jeff Pulver

Chicago’s NBC5 Street Team attended the breakfast I hosted this week at Duffy’s Tavern in Chicago. I enjoyed meeting both Blagica Bottigliero and LeeAnn Trotter and catching up with both of them. LeeAnn interviewed a number of the people who attended the breakfast and her segment covering the breakfast will be airing in the near future.

Friends can follow Chicago’s NBC5 Street Team on twitter over at - http://www.twitter.com/nbc5street.

Blagica Bottigliero: From Facebook to ‘Real Life’

“LeeAnn and I attended ‘Breakfast with Jeff Pulver and Friends’...Using Facebook and word-of-mouth as the means to invite people, Jeff gets likeminded folks together to eat breakfast, chat, and tag one another. Did I say tag? Yup.

Jeff uses social media methods to communicate in ‘real life’. Each of us wore a main sticker with our ‘tag line’ (mine was Mixing Business with Activism). From there, we met fellow breakfast goers, networked and wrote on their ‘wall’.

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Tags: breakfast, Personal Social Media Toolkit, Chicago, Blagica Bottigliero, NBC5, social media, facebook, Social Media Breakfast, Jeff Pulver

On Wednesday, May 21st I will be in Tel Aviv and hosting my third Breakfast with Jeff Pulver (and Friends) in Tel Aviv from 0900-1100. Readers of my blog are invited to join me.

To RSVP, please visit this event on Facebook. If you are not on Facebook and would like to RSVP, please send email to: jeffp@pulver.com.

Everyone attending this breakfast will receive a "Personal Social Networking Toolkit."

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Readers of my blog are invited to join me on both twitter and Facebook.

Tags: breakfast, Personal Social Media Toolkit, Chicago, social media, facebook, Social Media Breakfast, Jeff Pulver