Stowe Boyd on: Action Streams And The Next Cycle In The Social Revolution
Alex tipped me off to Stowe’s post on Action Streams (link below). I’ve heard these streams be called many things, but the concept is that as we go ...
Category: Strategy
IDC is forecasting single-digit handset market growth in ’08
Wow, that’s harsh. The last few years’ growth has been over 10%, mostly above 20%, per year. But, we’ve known that it couldn’t last. I m...
Venter’s team takes the next step toward custom-built organisms
The biology maverick, Craig Venter, has rapidly taken the next step in creating custom organisms (link below to news article). Recently, his team managed to tes...
Paul Saffo on the Rules of Forecasting
Saffo to me was always some sort of weird wizard who thought and saw differently than others. I’ve met folks who channel the future, and it’s always...
The Coral Reef is sick: Twitter is now Stumblr.
Shel Israel is a long time veteran, on the leading edge of internet services. As a big Twitter user, he’s written an open letter to the Twitter team, spea...
Facebook is a persistent Julie McCoy
I was trying to figure out why I can’t seem to get into Facebook. Now I think I know why. I don’t like how Facebook is an annoying persistent overly...
Aggregating your social network – a list of services
Ah, a nice day browsing ideas on the Web, taking me forward and backwards. I found this nice list (below) from last summer on a bunch of services (many I knew a...
It’s not infoglut on my mind, but infoswim (or something like that)
After a deep conversation with my dad on semantic web stuff, he pointed me to a site (of some guys he works with) that had this quote (below, pulled from anothe...
Karma – it’s a circle of social networking life kinda thing
Twitter Karma allows you to get a view as to the reciprocity of the following and who is has posted recently, providing a tool to see who is participating or lu...
David Byrne on the Music Business
I’ve been thoroughly enjoying the spasms of change the music industry is suffering these past few years. To me, it’s a proxy for so many other media...