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Tuesday, November 27th, 2007Got my invite into Seesmic and finally did my first one … backstage at In the Lab with Leo Laporte–
Yeah loads of fun backstage. Can’t wait to chat with Loic next week on Mediasphere Radio…hmm wonder if we can get some seesmic invites to give away.
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When Chris Pirillo calls … you’re going to be live
Friday, August 17th, 2007Just in case you’re wondering, if Chris Pirillo calls you, on Skype for example, and says: “Hey I just want to test something…” That’s code for: You’re going to be live on the air.
Yeah, he was testing a strange mashup with Skype for audio and video.
My son had a friend over and they were wondering [...]
Chris Brogan’s thoughts on social networks are thoughtful and bang on
Wednesday, August 15th, 2007How kind of Chris to provide me with such awesome material to start with…
Social media. Social networks. If you add these to your venture capital pitch, you’ll get an extra ten minutes to propose your “next big thing.” Why, though? Why is it suddenly hot to be social? Being that I’m often surrounded by the [...]
Education, New Media, and the future — Gnomedex 2007
Saturday, August 11th, 2007Kathy Gill and a few of her students, friends, and co-workers are beginning the discussion on new media/web 2.0 and education.
After a little intro from a current student, Colleen Horne is talking about her eye-opening experience using WordPress for class and assignments.
While Colleen was preaching to the choir about how easy blogs are, how the new [...]
Will Plaxo’s approach to a more open social network be a real alternative to Facebook?
Monday, August 6th, 2007Last week C|Net was one of many folks hinting, or out right saying, that Plaxo was going to announce/launch a social networking site today. As you know by now, Plaxo’s Pulse is out today:
Pulse will likely give a considerable advantage to Plaxo in that it puts a friendlier face to a networking site that, as [...]
Eric Rice–deep thinking blogger
Tuesday, July 31st, 2007Ever hung out with Eric Rice? Had a chance to listen to him for a while? Away from the crowds, away from noise. I have and this bit below is classic Eric and it’s why I make sure I read his stuff:
So now, I have to be clever. I have to figure out, in a [...]
Facebook pulls in Parakey–the new face of the web is born
Saturday, July 21st, 2007TechCrunch broke the story that Facebook was acquiring WebOS startup Parakey (see also Inside Facebook and for Read/Write Web’s background on Parakey). Since I’m sitting here in Salt Lake International airport and rather offline (I’d rather not pay for WiFi, but I might break down later), I’m taking some time to reflect on this very interesting, if not [...]
Might be too early for mainstream RSS, but has e-mail become passe too?
Saturday, July 21st, 2007Yeah I live in an RSS-centric world. If I don’t read my feeds every day not only is the task that much harder the next day, I feel disconnected from my friends, the news, pretty much my world. I get a lot of info via RSS, but not all. E-mail, in spite of its shortcomings, [...]
Will Pownce mine the influencer data it has on us?
Thursday, July 19th, 2007Andy Wibbels made this interesting point about Pownce (and perhaps many other “invite only” betas):
Pownce now has a map of the influence of hundreds of early adopters in their grubby little hands. Since they can track invitations, they can see their real buzz builders and whom they influence.
How long before influentials are being paid to [...]
All you are belong to Facebook
Wednesday, July 18th, 2007This might be considered bludgeoning a deceased equine, but as a follow up to my previous rant post on Facebook, I got this post today from Dan York (via the PacificIT uber-chat, of course):
…And much, much, MUCH more… basically at this point I can pull pretty much anything in and display it on my Facebook [...]
Listen to Alan Levy, CEO BlogTalkRadio live on Mediasphere Radio
Monday, July 16th, 2007On the next Mediasphere Radio show (Tuesday noon PDT), Jim Turner and I will have Alan Levy, CEO of BlogTalkRadio, on the show to talk about the upcoming upgrades to the service.
From what I’ve been told, and I won’t spoil it for tomorrow’s show, there are some great improvements coming.
After Jim and I find out [...]
Walking the walk and talking the talk about technologies and communities
Friday, July 13th, 2007I followed a mention of Jeremy Pepper on Eric Rice’s blog on Jeremy’s genuine interest in technology. Jeremy isn’t your typical PR person. As you can tell from his post, he gets the new technologies because he uses them. Like a true geek, he checks new stuff out because he thinks they sound interesting or cool:
You [...]
The dark side of Facebook is The Dark Side of Government and Privacy
Wednesday, July 11th, 2007In case you missed Mediasphere Radio yesterday, Jim and I started chatting about the iPhone then got into Facebook and other related social media networks.
The larger, bigger question is: What is Facebook going to do with our information? How, and who, will this information will be used.
So this isn’t our best show. We [...]
The social network connector is the new person to seek out
Sunday, July 8th, 2007We’re swamped with social networks now. Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Pownce, Jaiku just to name a few. Hugh and I (and many others I’m sure) commented on the demise of the “A-list”. Many folks noted that it was the social network that is re-organizing the hierarchy (Ben did make a great argument for [...]
Social Networks free us from the A-List phenomenon
Thursday, July 5th, 2007 Last night Hugh MacLeod posted the link to this cartoon-post on Twitter and Pownce:
In the past, say, from the late ‘nineties until the last twelve months or so, Bloggers’ readership grew IN PROPORTION to the social networks that were built up around them. Hence the phenomenon of the “A-List”.
Then suddenly, along comes stuff [...]