March 2008
Beyond blogs: the conversation has moved into the...
Loic Le Meur is only the most recent person to notice that the conversation online has moved away from the blogs that once seemed the nexus:
[from Loic Le Meur Blog: My social map is totally decentralized but I want it back on my blog]
[…]
The challenge for Friendfeed and the like is that while I really like all my services gathered in one place, I would rather that these would be ...
Jeff Jarvis on The Worst Newspaper Ad Decline...
[from Do I smell smoke? Is that a fiddle I hear? by Jeff Jarvis]
[…]
we are at a full-blown, slippery-slope, accelerating-fall, watch-out-below crisis for the newspaper industry and professional journalism with it. It’s time for drastic thinking.
And not the soft focus, vaseline on the lens kind of bilge that David Carr wrote in the NY Times a week ago based on equally dismal news...
Next Web Wifi Disciplinarians: You *Will* Pay...
[Update: 11:01 am ET —
Seems that the Next Web folks have posted their new info about wifi a bit earlier than planned.
[from TheNextWeb2008 Update: Love, Internet Access and Attention]
A lot of people have been asking us if we would provide Internet access and Wi-Fi during The Next Web Conference 2008. We sort of avoided the question and sometimes even said ‘No’. This has caused...
Twittergram: What Do Executives Need To Know About...
Patty Anklam:
what do executives need to know about networks?
Stowe Boyd:
@panklam That #social #networks aren’t democratic, and they aren’t hierachical, they aren’t manageable, and they amplify both good and bad.
Twittergram, originally uploaded by Stowe Boyd.
Particls UI Headaches
I am trying the Particls plugin for Firefox, but I can’t understand it. I get the stream concept, but I have really problems with the UI.
Particls, originally uploaded by Stowe Boyd.
In the screenshot above, you can see a stream of elements, including a ‘Say’ that I posted to Twitter through the client. But I can’t seem to figure the UI out.
My natural tendency is...
Going Solo: The Three Skills Of Soloing
Stephanie Booth and I skyped this morning about the upcoming Going Solo (remember the early bird discount ends on Monday with the close of the month). Stephanie caught me making a face:
Skype - Stowe stuck making a face, originally uploaded by Stephanie Booth.
Looks like I will be talking about The Three Skills Of Soloing which is based on a post I made awhile ago:
[from Going Solo: A Few...
Personal Application Update: Tweetburner,...
I have been so crazy busy in recent weeks — principally with Workstreamr, but also with other projects and travels — that I have not done a very good job of relating my recent investigations of web appliances. Here’s the skinny, a foretaste of longing postings to come (I hope), from tactical to strategic:
Tweetburner — I am switching from using TinyURL to Tweetburner,...
Jeff Jarvis on Trust
Before the public can learn to trust the powerful, the powerful must learn to trust the public.
[pointer Deb Schultz]
3 tags
links for 2008-03-25
YouTube - New Media Douchebags Explained Hilarious
Twitter Virginity
I saw this go by, and it was my first Twitter virgin:
This guy, przemekk, signs up to Twitter, and follows me as his first Twitter gesture, before even posting anything.
Scoble and The Twitterized Conversational Index
Scoble is suggesting there is a secret to Twitter, kind of ju jitsu that works against the momentum in the system:
[from The Secret To Twitter]
I’ve gone through stages with Twitter. At some point I thought it was important to get lots of followers. But lately I’ve been telling people that the secret to Twitter isn’t how many followers you have, but how many people you are following.
...
David Carr Is Lost In A Dream Of Yesterday
David Carr details the dismay and pessimism that is moving through the ranks of new owners of newspapers like Sam Zell, who is trying to sell Newsday to gain some much needed cash for the Tribune Company, and Brian Tierney, who has announced that expenses at his conglomerate of newspapers must be cut by at least 10% immediately. In a piece that has nothing but bad news for newspapers in it,...
Top 100 > Tweeterboard : Conversation Analytics...
I made the top 100 on Tweeterboard. Actually #21. Is that good or bad? I guess good.
Top 100 > Tweeterboard : Conversation Analytics for Twitter, originally uploaded by Stowe Boyd.
I think it’s interesting that the karma calculations here show some of the big-time twitterers — Calacanis, Brogan, Jeremiah Owywang dropping. But they may jiggle all the time: this was my...
Tweets From Under The Radar
Yesterday afternoon, I became worn out by blogging on my nokia 810 (a cool device, courtesy of the Nokia blogging program, but those tiny little keys on its keyboard, while usable, are tiring after a few hours). I switched over to a lackadaisical twittering, which I here reprise:
Under the radar is boring so far. #utr — about 21 hours ago from txt
#twibble is broken just when i...
Ray Valdes Is Following Me On Twitter
I see that Ray Valdes, a Gartner research director, started following me today on Twitter. I bet it’s related to the recent Sam Lawrence kerfuffle about Gartner.
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His most recent tweet is about social tools:
[from...
Under The Radar: Virtual Worker
Slide Rocket
Mitch
A no-compromise web slideware application. Flex Air UI, looks great.
Built an integration to Salesforce.com, pulls data,from SF, track viewing stats.
In private beta, deal with Weather Channel.
I vote yes.
The panelists rave.
These guys started the company two desks away from me t the Looksmart building,so I have seen the earliest versions.
Have offline player, will...
Under The Radar: Graduate Circle
Rafe Needleman moderating, Robert Scoble, Jas Dhillon,
Blogtronics
Vassily Mladjov, CEO
Growing fast, last year’s big secret deal was Reuters. Very grand plans, seems to be displacing Sharepoint mostly.
Clarizen
Avinoam Nowogrodski Is giving a start up pitch rather than a status update. ‘First collaborative project execution environment.’ Ouch! Makes my jaws ache to...
Under The Radar: Manage Up
Moderated by Jeremy Toeman, with Kara Swisher, Stephen Stribley, and Prashad Shah.
Act-on
Raghu Raghavan
SaaS
An inductive business plan, decided to build a webinar service around Webex.Handles workflow,follow up, and analysis. Integrates into sales.
Backed by Cisco. Integrates into Salesforce and Outlook.
‘It’s just an aggregation of other stuff. Is it defensible?’...
Under The Radar: Business Calls
At UTR for the day, and it looks like the down economy is hitting tech: the room is one third empty.
Ellen Girt of Fast Company is moderating the Business Calls session, with Ryan Floyd, Brad Stone, and Dave McAllister as judges.
Eyejot
David Geller, CEO.
Video email… yawn. ‘There is nothing wrong with email.’ Huh?
Competing wih services like Userplane on one hand and...
Upton Sinclair
It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it.
Apropos of my recent comments on Sam Lawrence’s report card on analysts?
[pointer Dan Ariely, Predictably Irrational]
links for 2008-03-20
Micro Persuasion: Using Friendfeed’s Imaginary Friends as a Master Aggregator Steve Rubel is using Friendfeed as an RSS aggregator, like me. (tags: steve+rubel friendfeed rss aggregator feeds)
Pistachio Consulting Inc. » Twitter is my Village Pistachio on the twecology. (tags: twecology pistachio laura+fitton twitter)
CorporateBloggingBlog: Policies compared: Today’s...
Marshall McLuhan
A pervasive medium is always beyond perception.
[pointer Analogue]
links for 2008-03-19
mothergoosemouse » No babies allowed at Camp Baby Looks like a PR diaster in the works for J&J who are disinviting women who wanted to bring their babies to Camp Baby. (tags: mothergoosmouse johnson&johnson camp+baby)
Goodbye, Enterprise - Hello, Socialprise - ReadWriteWeb Sarah Perez coins “Socialprise” — a term destined to *not* catch on, but does a good...
Disqus And Typepad
San Francisco: Reading that Fred Wilson and Union Square Ventures have invested in Discus, led me to create an account and try to fool with this richer commenting system.
I logged in, said I was using Typepad, and immediately discovered that I would have to convert my templates to the ‘advanced’ flavor if I want to go there.
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Sam Lawrence Bitchslaps Gartner, But Still Likes...
San Francisco: Sam Lawrence of Jive Software disses Gartner for truly bad performance, but has qualified but largely positive things to say about Forrester. I think he’s generous in giving Gartner a C-; sounds like it should have been a D.
Best of all, the Gartner ‘High Performance Workplace’ team hasn’t posted on their blog since February of 2007! There is no doubt in...
links for 2008-03-18
Transition time at ZDNet | Between the Lines | ZDNet.com Dan Fraber moving to CNet as Editor-in-Chief. Wow. (tags: dan+farber zdnet cnet)
The Death Of The Maitre'D?
San Francisco: I caught this post at Launchpad, and I hope it’s a trend:
[from LaunchSquad : Blogs : Exclamation by Jeremy Frank]
It’s only got 12 seats at a bar and the chefs are also your waiters, but Momofuku Ko, a new restaurant that opened last week in New York, is THE hottest restaurant in town. So you would expect to see those few highly desired seats taken by the...
Nokia CA-100 Charger
San Francisco:
Nokia CA-100 charger, originally uploaded by Stowe Boyd.
Why doesn’t Nokia make this an option when you buy a phone? I mean as opposed to a stand-along charger? This is going to change my life in a small but palpable way.
links for 2008-03-17
YouTube - MIT Media Lab: Siftables Bite sized screenlets, that sense each other, and their orientation in space. Wow. (tags: ui ux gizmos media+lab siftables innovation design)
Mary Frances Berry
If Rosa Parks had taken a poll before she sat down in the bus in Montgomery, she’d still be standing.
links for 2008-03-16
Why Is It So Hard To Say “I’m Sorry,” Sarah? | CenterNetworks “Brian Solis has posted a commentary on the situation including the following comment. “If you think she owes you an apology or needs to fall on the sword for her Q&A with Zuckerberg, don’t hold your breath. Sarah Lacy doesn’t need to apologize to any (tags: brian+solis mark+zuckerberg...
Push-ups Saved My Life
Source: Wikipedia
The other day, I came across this piece about push-ups being the most basic way to measure — and engender — overall fitness:
[from An Enduring Measure of Fitness: The Simple Push-Up - New York Times by Tara Parker-Pope]
As a symbol of health and wellness, nothing surpasses the simple push-up.
[…]
The push-up is the ultimate barometer of fitness. It tests...
links for 2008-03-15
I’ve Acquired ReadBurner: Attention Data is the Future of Social News Adam Ostrow along with some pals like Drew Olanoff) acquires ReadBurner, a social aggregation/memetracker that builds on (or from?) Google Reader. (tags: adam+ostrow drew+olanoff readburner google google+reader rss rss+reader memetracker)
Page 5 - Social Software`s Culture Clash “These tools are the cultural and...
Instant Messaging Barbie
San Francisco: I use this toy as an example in some of my presentations. Check out the tags that people associate with it: police state, orwellian, cavity search, and sheep all jump off the page. People will try to make the case that the new ways of interacting are illegitimate, and these tags shows that, I think.
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links for 2008-03-14
mental_floss Blog » How to Win at Rock-Paper-Scissors (and also how to cheat) Odd, but interesting. (tags: rock+paper+scissors)
Operation Toblerone: Yahoo Closing London Offices; Geneva Will Be Euro HQs; 70 Managers Told To Move | paidContent.org I love it. Operation Toblerone. (tags: yahoo switzerland toblerone)
AOL and Bebo: Missing The Beat On SNAs
San Francisco: AOL is floundering, and has whiffed on a number of attempts at building its AIM instant messaging community into something that can contend with the Web 2.0 social application explosion. AIM Pages bombed, and my own attempt at working with them — Nerdvana — has been lost in the sauce, never having gotten past second base (bra, but no panties).
Now, the new regime...
Yahoo Goes All Semantic On Us
San Francisco: Arrington thinks that Yahoo’s announced support for the Semantic Web standards — hCard and a bunch of other microformats standards, and other competitors’ efforts (Amazon OpenSearch) — is a really big deal.
[from Yahoo Embraces The Semantic Web - Expect The Internet To Organize Itself In A Hurry bu Michael Arrington]
What does all this mean? It means we...
links for 2008-03-13
I Can Has Happy: Voting For A Chimp “Tião, a chimpanzee, was nominated as mayoral candidate of Rio de Janeiro on behalf of the Brazilian Bananist Party; he received more than 400,000 votes.” (tags: Tião quadrennium)
Note to self: stop promoting, start thinking again (or “Scoble’s Law”) Jason wises up to Scoble’s Law: The less you talk about yourself, the...
Under the Radar's Where The Web Goes To Work:...
San Francisco: I am looking forward to next week’s Under the Radar, 20 May 2008. I just learned that Werner Vogels will be there:
Amazon CTO Werner Vogels confirmed as “fireside chat” speaker at Under the Radar! As a leader in this space, Werner will be joining us to discuss the future of apps in the cloud - where it’s heading, who will dominate and what you should be...
Fonolo Addresses A Real Headache
San Francisco: I personally find the phone interface for dealing with company’s customer support, billing, or sales operations as one of the greatest ills of modern civilization.
Fonolo formerly Foncloud, offers an end run around this headache: a good example of a highly focused solution to a serious pain point, perhaps?
[via email]
Fonolo’s “Deep Dialing” feature enables a caller...
LiveJournal 2008: Advisory Board Elections
San Francisco: I am following the activities at LiveJournal with real interest. The company — recently purchased from Six Apart — has recently announced a great advisory board (danah boyd, Esther Dyson, Brad Fitzpatrick and Lawrence Lessig), and the hiring of Jason Shelling (formerly of Google): a lot accomplished in 100 days. I met Andrew Paulson, the CEO of SUP, the owners of...
Basecamp Design Flaw #743: File Versioning Is...
San Francisco: I have been using Basecamp to manage all sorts of project information (while waiting for something better to come along, like Workstreamr), and I encountered yet another backwards design decision.
I attached an image to a Basecamp ‘message’ (which is really a post, but I will go with their nomenclature). Because Basecamp does not have the option to embed the image in the post,...
Sam Lawrence: Using Tag Clouds As Tea Leaves
San Francisco: Sam Lawrence continues his exploration into the divinatory qualities of Many Eyes tag clouds in a post where he is comparing Mix keynotes from 2007 and 2008:
The biggest shift?
[from Go Big Always - Past and Future: Two conference faces of Microsoft, same week by Sam Lawrence]
1. Enterprise search is now important. […]
2. Microsoft Online and Sharepoint Online....
Big Turnover At Twitter, Cutting Down To The...
San Francisco: I saw these old rugs piled up in front of Twitter’s offices at South Park, next door to my office. I guess they are getting new floor coverings. I wonder if that is part of the new server load balancing strategy?
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links for 2008-03-12
How to save money running a startup (17 really good tips) Fire the non-workaholics? Yikes. I really like Jason, but this is a bit over the top. (tags: startups workaholics jason+calacanis)
The Social Media Marketing Blog: The Suxorz: Worst Social Media of 2007 “It’s not hard to tell the truth; if you don’t, it’s just a matter of time before the public finds...
Woody Allen
Time is nature’s way of keeping everything from happening at once.
FriendFeedFeed
Austin: Perfect!
FriendFeedFeed, originally uploaded by Stowe Boyd.
Alltop.com: Social Media
Austin: Guy Kawasaki has launched a new start-up called Alltop.com, which is an aggregator of web media. Looks like another attempt to provide a sampling of the best writing on the web, so that people will have authoritative voices on various topics.
It was sort of surprising to see /Message there, in the social media news stand:
Alltop.com: Social Media, originally uploaded by Stowe Boyd.
...
links for 2008-03-11
Go Big Always - SXSWhat? “The Tao of Stowe” - Was one of those weird moments, I confess. (tags: sam+lawrence sxsw mixin particls chris+saad)
BBC NEWS | Technology | How Twitter makes it real “But as I sit here writing this I feel connected to a community of people, feel that we share a space that none of the social network sites can conjure up, a space that is both here...
What I Wrote On Cluetrain
Austin: Deb Schultz mentioned she was one of the original signatories to the cluetrain manifesto during a panel session today, so I went and looked. I am #14; here’s what I said:
[from the cluetrain manifesto - signatories
The business culture is retreating into a reactionary conservatism in the face of global connectedness of our emerging world society. Just like the ritualized...
