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...
Category: Strategy
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...
Response to Christian’s post: Fragility of Digital Life
Christian Lindholm has a rough end of year, electronics-wise (link below). Machines acting up, licenses expiring, and data at risk. It brings up an running disc...
Tweeps on the analyst couch
In the past week or two, a few of my tweeps, Alex, @alexdc, and Sue, @dswaters, both from different circles (indeed, one in Miami the other in Perth), did a bit...
Socialstream – a project on Unified Social Networks
One thing that has been bugging me for a while is that, while we discuss the demise of the Website due to the fragmentation of the Web, we don’t seem to b...