Archive for July, 2007

Promiscuity / Diversity in Social Networks

Tuesday, July 31st, 2007

I have been toying with the concepts of promiscuity and diversity when applied to Social Networks for a while now. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diversity Promiscuity is the practice of making relatively unselective, casual and indiscriminate choices. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Promiscuity Diversity is the presence of a wide range of variation in the qualities or attributes under discussion. We ...

Amen Brother…

Tuesday, July 31st, 2007

Ahhhh Canter... the guy hits the road (HARD) and still gets time to posts, machine-gun style :) In this post Marc spends some time with shoutouts (Happy BDay Doc!), engagement notices, links he digs etc. He also includes this: Maybe Fred Wilson and Jason Calacanis see it from my POV right now. ...

Old School - Gold Rush In Cyberspace

Sunday, July 22nd, 2007

In 1995, while I was working in a bar and playing rounds of twilight, I came across this article which pretty much changed my life and got me into the business. Gold Rush in Cyberspace, a cover story written by Vic Sussman and Kenan Pollack in 1995 for US News ...

Loving this… Ringblender

Saturday, July 21st, 2007

Thanks to a Polyphonic Spree ad in Wired Magazine (who says advertising doesnt work) just found this: http://www.ringblender.com/blender.html This site allows fans of the band to take pre-selected tracks and samples and make their own ringtones, share them with friends and download to their phones. DIY? Check. Band that values its fans? ...

Genius - The Fuzzy Tail

Monday, July 16th, 2007

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Social Network Dev Camp - i wanna go

Sunday, July 15th, 2007

There is too much fun stuff happening on the west coast these days... SocialNetworkDevCamp will focus on API and Widget development from Facebook, Twitter, Pownce, Linked In and others. The camp will also start the process of identifying open APIs and data structures which would facilitate the creation of open standards ...

Social Network Ettiquette

Friday, July 13th, 2007

For the last couple of days, friends and I have been having running conversations about Social Networks, invites, randoms, personal/digital space with a dash of personal branding thrown in for flavor. Great post from Chris Brogan regarding how we behave (and misbehave) in the multiple social networks we ...

Generation Dobler

Thursday, July 12th, 2007

From a post on BoingBoing today is this little gem: Emotionally, I don't understand why so many people get so upset at being marketed to, or at gleefully acknowledging the good that comes from crafting a social world that is dominated by people willingly exchanging skills, services, and goods. These types ...

Gnomedex: Labor of Love as a business model

Thursday, July 12th, 2007

My favorite tech/social software/meeting cool people conference is HAPPENING. Gnomedex aims to be a tech zeitgeist - where today’s ideas and thinkers come together - although the direction of our conference may change in the following years. The conference industry certainly has affronted us several challenges, since we refuse to ...

Digital Supertasker Bill Cammack on NewTeeVee

Wednesday, July 11th, 2007

http://newteevee.com/2007/07/10/bill-cammack/ Most people who know Bill are unsure about how he gets it all done: Insomnia? An army of personal assistants who Twitter, Pownce, Videoblog, party, photograph, record and edit hundreds of hours of film for him? A clone? Interview with the man himself and how he started getting involved with videoblogging, and ...