December 2008
links for 2008-12-31
Large Form iPod Touch To Launch in Fall ‘09
Seems like the predictions about iPodish netbook thingie are hotting up.
(tags: ipod ibook)
10 Predictions For 2009
Sure. Why not? I’ll take the plunge at some predictions for 2009. (Despite Brad Feld.)
Steve Jobs will step down as Apple CEO. What has he got to prove? His health is not great even if he is not suffering from a relapse of pancreatic cancer. The company’s stock has absorbed all the bad news and fear, so it’s time to turn things around. Get someone else in as CEO, and let...
Symmetric Follow and Second Twitter Accounts
A short twitter conversation:
Meg Fowler (megfowler) Dec 30, 11:59 AM @mknell many I know who follow thousands have other accounts for the few tweeters they *actually* read — they auto follow as a pretense. Stowe Boyd (stoweboyd) Dec 30, 12:52 PM @megfowler The autofollow thing is the dirty little secret of the 1K+ following crowd. They either do 2nd account or other filters.
Meg...
Tweetree: A Better UX For Twitter
I was twigged to Tweetree, which is a minimal web app that replaces some of Twitter’s functionality. It lacks support for direct messaging, the history of your own posts, and other things. So, it isn’t intended — at least at this point — as a complete client app replacement. But what it does is worth looking at.
In particular, it allows you to look at the ‘full...
links for 2008-12-30
PressThink: If Bloggers Had No Ethics Blogging Would Have Failed, But it Didn’t. So Let’s Get a Clue. Jay Rosen clarifies the tension between journalism and blogging (tags: blogging journalism jay+rosen)
A Blog Around The Clock : Bloggers vs. Journalists Redux, part N Coturnix rounds up great comments on Mulshine’s WSJ anti-blogging screed (tags: ...
Dave Johnston on Saying Nothing in Stereo
Yes.
[from Saying Nothing in Stereo. Tools as Novella. | Dave Johnston - One Man Lab]
Try to imagine right now an entire blog, updated 24/7, with ten authors dedicated soley to your (or your parents, since you don’t have one) home phone. Yeah, that one. The one with the cord going to the wall. Post after post every day about how you can get a dial tone when you pick up the receiver,...
links for 2008-12-25
Tom Friedman says we need a reboot, not a bailout — betting our kid’s future on Obama getting it right —(tags: econolypse tweetmarks)
links for 2008-12-24
Tom Friedman says we need a reboot, not a bailout — betting our kid’s future on Obama getting it right —(tags: econolypse tweetmarks)
JD Lasica’s comprehensive conference calendar 2009(tags: events tweetmarks)
Dan Frommer thinks trend to notebooks will help Apple $AAPL, sees netbook w iPhone itouch and biz model coming(tags: netbook tweetmarks)
The State Of The Twittersphere: Don't Look For A...
What annoys me about the State Of The Twittersphere post by Erick Schonfeld and the original data offered up by Hubspot is that it doesn’t actually do any meaningful analysis on a bunch of simplistic raw data:
[from The State Of The Twittersphere (HubSpot Edition)]
How many followers do most people really have on Twitter? The average number of both followers and other members people...
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Arrington on Scoble, FriendFeed, And The Web Of...
Arrington has staged a mock intervention for Scoble, whose ‘addiction’ to Friendfeed (and to a lesser extent, Twitter) has led to a serious diminution of his blogging, and for what?
[from I’m Sorry Robert, But It’s Time For A Friendfeed Intervention]
[…]
I asked Robert how much time he actually spends on those services. He monitors them all day, he said, hitting refresh over...
links for 2008-12-23
Jarvis, as usual, gets it.(tags: hyperlocal tweetmarks)
Word Of The Day: Squick [via @cascio](tags: wotd tweetmarks)
636 comments excoriating Jennifer Palmieri for posting on Yglesia’s blog —(tags: censorship tweetmarks)
Here’s those ribs I made last week,(tags: foodporn tweetmarks)
Werner Vogels Is Informationweek CTO Of The Year(tags: vogels tweetmarks)
Newsweek Isn't Digging Deep Enough Into Twitter
Newsweek’s ‘Web Exclusive’ is called The Web Masters and profiles Tina Brown (Daily Beast), Julius Genachowski (Web Wonk), Jason Kilar (Hulu), Sheryl Sandberg (Facebook), and Ev Williams (Twitter).
Once again, web heads like me have to show the old media types how to dig into the web to get deeper into their stories.
Regarding Twitter’s pushing into making money:
...
Typealyzer: /Message Is INTJ
I Typealzed /Message, courtesy of Typealyzer. And guess what?
[from Typealyzer] INTJ - The Scientists
The long-range thinking and individualistic type. They are especially good at looking at almost anything and figuring out a way of improving it - often with a highly creative and imaginative touch. They are intellectually curious and daring, but might be pshysically hesitant to try new...
links for 2008-12-22
Going Back To Remember The Milk, Turning Off Gmail Tasks — I admit it, I was wrong —(tags: tasklists tweetmarks)
Brian Solis says Fear Kills Businesses, Dead — you still have to keep marketing, mere survival is not enough(tags: econolypse tweetmarks)
Going Back To Remember The Milk, Turning Off Gmail...
I admit it: I was wrong.
I recently wrote about Google’s introduction of Tasks for Gmail (see Hello Gmail Tasks, Bye Bye Remember The Milk) in which I said the Gmail implementation was good enough to get me to switch from Remember the Milk. I was wrong. I am switching back after several weeks of fooling with Gmail’s tasks.
Why?
Gmail’s tasks show up in a tombstone style...
links for 2008-12-21
Liew’s simplistic “Will the Recession Kill Web 2.0?” never answers the question it asks, even obliquely -(tags: w2 tweetmarks)
Looks like HuffPo has institutionalized content theft —(tags: huffpo tweetmarks)
“Washington will bail out those who shower before work, but not those who shower afterwards.” - Leo Gerard(tags: econolypse tweetmarks)
The ...
links for 2008-12-20
The economics of moving from print to online: lose one hundred, get back eight | Monday Note
“In the world’s biggest market (the US), if the goal is the online equivalent of a daily newspaper, no independent, pure player, general news website is able to achieve even half of the break-even revenue required to just stay afloat.” Filloux’s assertion is that old style news...
Present.ly: An 'Enterprise Twitter' Worthy Of The...
I decided to take a close hands-on look at Present.ly, another of the legion of would-be ‘Twitter for the Enterprise’ competitors that have emerged in recent months.
The bottom line: Present.ly appears to be ready to meet the challenges of a streaming application for the enterprise.
A Deep Dive
As my recent report on QikCom demonstrates, assessing a would-be enterprise...
Xing Acquires Social|Median
Xing announced today the acquisition of The NY-based Social|Median, and that its founder and CEO, Jason Goldberg will be assuming the new role of VP Xing Applications Platform. Jason was the founder and CEO of Jobster, back in the day.
Lar Hinrich, Xing’s CEO, made the blog post on the company site, but he will be stepping down in the next few weeks (see Lars Hinrich Stepping Down At...
QikCom: Not Ready For Enterprise Microstreaming...
I have been looking at the various ‘enterprise twitter’ apps that are coming out, and I haven’t found the perfect solution for me yet, for a lightweight workstreaming tool.
I took a look at QikCom this week, and it falls short of my needs, I think.
QikCom doesn’t look much like Twitter, with the exception of the reverse chronolocial posting of the messages, and the...
links for 2008-12-18
Management churn at LinkedIn; Dan Nye leaving, Reid Hoffman back as CEO, Jeff Weiner testing the waters.(tags: linkedin tweetmarks)
Mac Netbook: Maybe The Wrong Name?
The rumor mills are working overtime about the possibility of a Mac Netbook, possibly to be announced at MacWorld:
[from Apple will unveil netbooks next month, says analyst]
Apple Inc. will introduce two netbooks at the MacWorld Conference and Expo next month that will be tied to the company’s App Store, as is its iPhone, an analyst said today.
“I don’t have any inside...
links for 2008-12-16
Are CIOs Getting Sacked In The Econolypse? The answer seems to be yes.(tags: econolypse tweetmarks)
Very active comments over at my post on IZEA and pay-for-say(tags: ethics tweetmarks)
Goldstein “Advertisers distract users; users ignore advertisers; advertisers distract better; users ignore better.”(tags: ads tweetmarks)
IZEA: Where Is That Line Again? - I weigh in on the...
Scott Rosenberg on Kumar/Rhoads Net Neutrality...
Scott Rosenberg neatly clarifies the missteps involved in the messy WSJ piece about the Obama administration’s ‘softening’ on net neutrality:
[from Scott Rosenberg’s Wordyard » Blog Archive » Journal steps in Net neutrality hornet’s nest]
[…]
Admittedly, the Net neutrality issue is complex, both technically and as a legal/policy matter. But it’s...
Izea: Where Is That Line Again?
The recent flap over Chris brogan’s involvement in a Kmart social marketing campaign is bringing the payola word back into vogue. At issue is the core question of blogger ethics: should bloggers be paid to write about some product?
Just so we can have a bit of historical backdrop here, it’s important to remember that IZEA and Pay For Post (the former name of the company) are not...
links for 2008-12-15
Pollan is dead on: Food is at the heart of health, energy, and the economy(tags: michaelpollan tweetmarks)
“You are a Romantic Healthy Tree Hugger. 0% of the 821 people who have taken this quiz are like you.”(tags: 43things tweetmarks)
Wired and Swissnex are hosting an interview w Jan Zalasiewicz, author of The Earth After Us in SF(tags: deephistory tweetmarks)
Working On The Streamflow: A Microstreaming...
Ok, I know I am a bit compulsive about trying to get the workflow straightened out where Twittering, blogging, and bookmarking all intersect, but it’s important for a thought vendor like me.
Here’s the problem: I have been using Delicious for years as a repository of shared ‘bookmarks’. I put the bookmarks term in quotes, because they are not really bookmarks: they...
Email and Youth: Reading The Tea Leaves
I am immediately skeptical of a firm conducting research on email use that states “Staying on top of constantly evolving trends is the key to gaining trust and staying relevant to the student market, but another challenge in reaching them is knowing which channel will carry and present your message most effectively.” Uh, excuse me. We are deep into the social marketing era, and...
links for 2008-12-14
TwitSnip is a simple tool for easily posting to Twitter. Shortens long words by using a twitabulary.(tags: twitsnip tweetmarks)
RT: @blackrimglasses With so much other shit going on in the world, we actually care about this?(tags: leweb tweetmarks)
The Le Meur/Arrington LeWeb catfight: Egos or culture clash? Arrogance or inferiority complex? All, I think.(tags: leweb tweetmarks)
Check...
links for 2008-12-13
Basics - Solid-State Computing, Without a Whirring Drive - NYTimes.com Solid state drives can increase performance of PCs fivefold, reduce power consumption, and boot in seconds. (tags: netbooks data+in+the+cloud solid+state+drives)
Loic Le Meur Blog: Apologies for organizational issues at LeWeb Yikes. Sounds like wifi never worked at all, and to have bad food in Paris? Mon dieu! (tags:...
AwardWallet: Truth In Advertising?
I got an email from AwardWallet, a service that helps you track your loyalty programs. I logged in for the first time in a while, and noticed that my United mileage expiration date was missing, and in its place a “please upgrade” link. I clicked th elink and discovered that AwardWallet would like me (was coercing me) to upgrade to a paid service. However, it seemed that they were...
Jay Rosen : @cshirky 1996
Wed 10 Dec 2008
@cshirky 1996: I told journalists they had the separations right. But survival would require “getting the connections right.” They scoffed.
links for 2008-12-10
5 Uses For BrightKite | Andrew Hyde - Humble Yet Bold Smart uses for brightkite. (tags: andrew+hyde brightkite)
Mumbai Terrorists Relied on New Technology for Attacks - NYTimes.com VOIP communication is slower to trace and harder to tap, but may yield more information about users than traditional phones. (tags: voip terrorism)
links for 2008-12-09
Deborah Schultz: Snackbyte: Are we all just being rude? Deb wonders if we are becoming more rude, or is it just etiquette 2.0? (tags: deb+schultz etiquette+2.0)
Hello Gmail Tasks, Bye Bye Remember The Milk
Since Remember The Milk came out with their Gmail integration, I have used it, even when their were blackouts when various features didn’t work (in particular, the ‘starring’ of emails to create RTM tasks linked to the emails seemed to break every other week). I had thought that Google would be smart to scoop up Remember The Milk and integrate it more tightly to Gmail.
...
JP Rangaswami on Continuous Partial Asymmetry
JP is having a little fun with us as he coins the term “continuous partial asymmetry” to explain some interesting behaviors that grow from asymmetry in social networks. (They aren’t ‘partially’ asymmetric, though, they are just asymmetric. He’s playing off the “continuous partial attention” meme that Linda Stone coined eons ago.)
His central...
Dopplr Launches Q&A, Appoints Marko Ahtisaari As...
Dopplr has been moving toward becoming a comprehensive social travel site (see Social Network Subscription At Dopplr, Dopplr: Building A Social Atlas), and this morning I received the first email from Dopplr that had requests for information from other Dopplrites planning to visit San Francisco and London, cities I have visited quite a lot. Here’s what the UI looks like for the...
links for 2008-12-08
James Governor’s Monkchips » Asymmetrical Follow: A Core Web 2.0 Pattern “Asymmetric Follow is a core pattern for Web 2.0, in which a social network user can have many people following them without a need for reciprocity. … If you see a social network where someone has 5000 followers and only follows 150 back - that’s Asymmetric Follow.” (tags: james+governor...
Scoble Is With Me On Twitter Pro Email Integration
A reader, Laura, sort of misunderstood Scoble’s dislike of direct messaging in Twitter (see Scoble Doesn’t Like Twitter’s Direct Messages):
[Originally posted as a comment by Laura on /Message]
If Scoble doesn’t like getting dms, he should unfollow the people he doesn’t want to hear from. You can only send a dm to someone if they are following you - the...
links for 2008-12-06
Scobleizer — Tech geek blogger » Blog Archive 10 reasons why Twitter Direct Messages suck (and so do Facebook’s) « Scoble hates the implementation of direct messages in Twitter, but seems to suggest making it into email. Uh, no thanks. (tags: robert+scoble twitter)
Pro PR Tips Rafe Needleman’s Pro PR Tips is hilarious, and should be tattoed to the inside of PR flacks’...
Scoble Doesn't Like Twitter's Direct Messages
Robert Scoble doesn’t like Twitter’s direct messages:
[from Scobleizer — Tech geek blogger » Blog Archive 10 reasons why Twitter Direct Messages suck (and so do Facebook’s) «]
OK, over on Twitter they have this feature. It’s called “Direct Messages.” It means you can send me a Tweet that no one else can see. A LOT of people try to use this feature with me and I really,...
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Happiness Is An Emergent Property Of Social...
I was twigged by the NY Times to some research on happiness undertaken by Nicholas Christakis and James Fowler, in which they conclude that an individual’s happiness is strongly influenced by the happiness of friends, and their friends, and so on:
Nicholas A. Christakis and James Fowler, SOCIAL NETWORKS AND HAPPINESS
We studied 4,739 people followed from 1983 to 2003 as part of the...
links for 2008-12-05
Netflix Headed For Boxee Boxee seems to becoming the nexus for video (tags: boxee, netflix)
links for 2008-12-03
Pasta&Vinegar » Blog Archive » Doctorow as a “presentist” Doctorow positions himself as a ‘presentist.’ I thought I was coining a new term when I used that at the Future of The Browser workshop that Mozilla held in early 2008. (tags: cory+doctorow)
How Municipalities Should Integrate Social Media Into Disaster Planning Mumbai got Jeremiah thinking about...
Bluenity: It Only Gets Better
Received via email tonight:
Hello Stowe Boyd
We have successfully received your photo. Unfortunately our site moderators* have been unable to validate it for one of the following reasons:
Visibly, it isn’t you
It might be you… but the photo doesn’t show your face
There are several people and we cannot identify you
You are wearing sunglasses
Your photo is important...
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Bluenity: Air France Gets Social Travel All Wrong
In principle, a company like Air France might figure out an interesting angle in the social travel space, competing with Dopplr and TripIt. Consider the value that Sabre has provided to American Airlines. However, they make a big toestub that suggests they just don’t get it.
Here’s the screen for adding a trip to the new social travel site that Air France and KLM have developed,...
links for 2008-12-02
Seth’s Blog: Gravity is just a theory “When in doubt, market gravity.” Not evolution. Good metaphor. (tags: marketing seth+godin)
Social Net Aimed At The Rich Gets $1 Million In Funding, New CEO | paidContent.org Out jetsetting ASmallWorld, Total Prestige is for the true glitterati (tags: total+prestige social+networks)
Fujitsu Siemens Computers -...
Doodle: Solving A Little Problem Well
One of the most consistently annoying and time-consuming tasks for the average business person is scheduling meeting times. Whether face-to-face or via phone, the slippery problem of pinning down a time for a meeting is painful, even if only two people are involved, and when a large group is involved days may pass — and dozens of emails sent — before a quorum emerges.
In my case...
Facebook and MySpace, No! Social Web, Maybe.
Link: MediaPost Publications - Facebook, MySpace Aren’t Making the Marketing Cut - 11/26/2008.
More than one-quarter (27%) of consumer and B-to-B chief marketing executives surveyed online in late October by GfK Roper Public Relations and Media for marketing services firm Epsilon identified social networking and word-of-mouth as the tools they would most like to introduce to their...
Deadpool: Pownce
Stephanie Booth mentioned the Pownce acquisition and shut-down today:
[from The Pownce Blog » Blog Archive » Goodbye Pownce, Hello Six Apart by Leah Culver]
We have some very big news today at Pownce. We will be closing the service and Mike and I, along with the Pownce technology, have joined Six Apart, the company behind such great blogging software as Movable Type, TypePad and...
