Marc Canter – one of the most consistent critics of walled gardens/closed systems and the ghost towns they become hits it again with a post about subscribing to people
Well one clear way is to just ’subscribe’ to someone and then find out what they’re doing – wherever they are. This can only be done [...]
http://thew0rd.com/
the first post I find dives into another aggregator/platform Ziki
http://thew0rd.com/2007/06/25/zikicom-releases-v2-of-their-digital-identity-management-suite/
these guys should check out the conversation Doc is leading in VRM
http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/vrm/
Great post from the personal blog of James Hong, founder of HotOrNot.com
For the first 3.5 years, it was Jim and I working about 10 hours a week each, with the company earning many millions of dollars per year.
Then 2 things changed, and we realized we had to change with them:
1) Startup economics improved, making it [...]
I love print. I love magazines that commit and pay for long articles and long fiction. The web rewards neither approach. It’s a packeted medium, a surf medium. Short bursts are the way to go. The web isn’t a replacement medium — it’s *another” medium.
(my bold)
From his blog
Turns out Digg may have banned a user for posting a hack.
Jay Adelson of Digg posts the reason here.
Best story title so far:
I’m thinking of a number… it’s not my credit score
Live by the community, get pwned by teh community
Awesome video telling/showing what Web2.0 is all about created by Anthropology Professior Michael Wesch. The video uses Web2.0 sites and technologies (like XML and RSS) to tell a short story using/embedded in the technologies that make it up.
Thanks to Somwhat Frank for the pointer.
13 out of 25 of the Web Celeb 25 are bloggers
Link to the article here
The Web Celeb 25
1. Jessica Lee Rose
2. Perez Hilton
3. Markos Moulitsas Zúniga
4. Matt Drudge
5. Seth Godin
6. Jeff Jarvis
7. Glenn Reynolds
8. Amanda Congdon
9. Robert Scoble
10. Michael Arrington
11. Hosea Frank [...]
http://majestic.typepad.com/seth/2007/01/audients.html
I have not written anything on this blog in over a month. It bothers me not to write for such long periods of time, since I know that my influence expands and contracts based on on how often I post. Relationships require frequency of contact to flourish, whether they be personal or business oriented; and [...]
Found thanks to the incredible Techmeme and Fortune.com, an article about Second Life opening up its desktop application (not the server) to the Open Source community. As a sometime resident (I dont visit nearly enough – my first life is keeping me away) this is a killer event for the developer community and the user.
Rosedale [...]
From Nicholas Reville’s post from Sept 14, where he writes an essay that started as an email to BlipTV about why they need RSS:
http://www.getdemocracy.com/articles/future_of_video.php Nicholas Reville
Putting viewers at the center means giving everyone who wants to watch video a homebase where they can access videos from any hosting service or website. For miscellaneous videos, [...]