First the Gang ends, now it seems like Weblogs Inc founder and Netscape Czar J Calacanis is leaving AOL. When he sold his company to AOL (one of my former clients) I was psyched – someone who really got it was joining the largest online community out there. Now it seems that with the exit [...]
Found this while surfing at work today (yes, thanks to J O B, I will be working all weekends from now through early November) thanks to Adrants: Welcome to C-Ville – Where Choices Define You C-Ville is an all-Flash site that teaches kids/teens about the risks of smoking, why making good choices are important, and [...]
Great article in AdAge about Second Life. http://adage.com/digital/article?article_id=110404 What’s special here is us participating in a new phase of the social-networking evolution,” said Mr. Schionning.
I will be posting a consolidated wrap-up of Gnomedex 2006 later (as soon as I can get links to the mp3 and video files for the conference) but for now… 2 things have happened post-gnomedex that need to be pointed out above all the news (how big Second Life is getting) and non-news (the discussion [...]
Awesome – beth from SL has been participating at gnomedex this weekend and today gave a group of us a short tour in second life. Discussed: Avatars Construction Land Cool spaces (art gallery, fan-built MYST game, record label online with lounge for listening to artists) Quick primer on buildinf objects in 2L AWESOME – easily [...]
Chris Messina and Tara Hunt (founders of Citzen Agency) kicked off their discussion with a silent keynote presentation for the Gnomedex crowd. The slides were great (and can be found here) and really seemed to set the tone for the discussion. What is a non-zero sum game? building out infrastructure for what we want to [...]
Open Standards how do we evolve – what is a standard – how do we acknowledge super geek – innercore nerds influence early adopters have something to do with the software – build influence RSS day ackn the fact that RSS was open standard that is why we are here so with rss what we [...]
http://chris.pirillo.com/2006/06/30/techmeme-hacked
All in all this was a great unconference. The crowd was fun and engaged, the wifi was fast and the conversations were great. The overall take-away was that with Bloggercon, like blogging or participating in any event, you get out of it what you put into it. Unlike conferences where you veg out and then [...]
vlogging – more of a time requirement same growing pains as podcasting and blogging what is bloggin doing to push the medium forward? not just podcasting what do you want to do? really have the world open to you what do you want to see happen what does video add – whats exciting, whats the [...]