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Quick Summary: Here’s an opportunity for you to get featured in a Best Kept Marketing Secrets e-book along with some of the world’s top marketers, small business experts and bloggers.

Anita Campbell of Small Business Trends asked some of the world’s top marketers, small business experts and bloggers — including Seth Godin, Guy Kawasaki and John Battelle — to share one of their best kept marketing secrets. I’m totally amazed by the range of good advise contained in her compilation of best kept marketing secrets and the 100+ comments.

Now, Anita is planning to compile 100 of the best tips received till the end of February into a downloadable e-book.

If you are a marketer, I strongly suggest that you read Anita’s compilation of tips and then share your own tip in the comments section today itself.

Here are three reasons why you should contribute to the collaborative e-book –

1. Collaborative e-books are a brilliant way of networking and building visibility in your niche. I know many marketing bloggers because we were co-contributors for the Age of Conversation e-book.

Quick Summary: Attend the first Mumbai Bloggers Meet-up for 2008, and discuss the state of Latin American blogosphere or the nuances of video-blogging with Global Voices editor Juliana Rincon Parra, over pizza & wine.

Invite designed by Melody

When: Saturday, February 16, 2008 at 8:00pm
Where: A/65, Sea Lord, Opp Taj President, Cuffe Parade, Bombay, India

Peruvian-Colombian blogger Juliana Rincon Parra is the Latin America and Video-Blogging editor on Global Voices. She is also great fun to spend an evening with (based on first hand recent experience).

Here’s an opportunity for you to meet up with her and discuss the state of Latina American blogosphere, the nuances of video-blogging, or just hang out.

You can find out more about Juliana at her Global Voices profile or her Facebook profile.

What’s more, here’s a bonus for the regulars at my parties. Unlike the usual party at my place, where I spend most of the time cooking dishes or mixing drinks, I’ll not enter the kitchen at all. So, not only can you spend time with Juliana, you can also (finally) spend time with me.

Quick Summary: How will Google’s Social Graph API tie up with the earlier released Open Social API to enable social data portability across social networks?

Google’s just released Social Graph API promises to make public information about the social relationships between people on the web easily available and useful.

The API lets developers of social apps discover the social relationship data (”me links” and “friend links”) for their users embedded in links, blogrolls and social profile pages based on the the XFN (XHTML Friends Network) and FOAF (Friend of a Friend) labeling systems.

Watch Google’s Brad Fitzpatrick explain the Social Graph API in the video below –

Given Google’s terrible track record on the Open Social API, it’s probably wise to not go gaga over the Social Graph API, but here are my top of the mind thoughts on it –