Bill Erickson sent me Kevin Kelly’s TED talk “Predicting the Next 5,000 Days of the Web”. Kelly discusses the semantic web, which uses relational data to make associations between site to site, profile to profile. The idea of a converging, thinking web is a fascinating concept. Kelly calls this thinking web “more […]
How Will the Semantic Web “Think”?
August 19th, 2008 · 5 Comments · Social Media and Society
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The Semantic Web Can Fix Social Media’s Data Portability Issue. See How.
August 3rd, 2008 · 1 Comment · Other Social Networks, Social Media and Society
I tend to like to be behind a camera instead of in front of it, but I felt that the issue of data portability was important enough to step up and lead a discussion at SocialMedia Camp.
The semantic web can fix the issue of data portability in social media. How? By using […]
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Yahoo’s Losing? Well then, So Are You
July 29th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Meet People in Austin
The Yahoo stock price hit $20.50 a share today. Last week, Microsoft CFO Christopher Liddell said Thursday that Yahoo is a “declining asset” and that the chances of a full-on acquisition are now “negligible.”
This sucks.
It doesn’t suck that Microsoft is choosing not to acquire Yahoo. It sucks because Yahoo has an open source […]
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Why Not Downloading TweetDeck Could Be Hazardous
July 24th, 2008 · 5 Comments · Twitter
Twitter users are as unique as they come. Sometimes you’ll follow someone only to find out that this person tweets any time he or she eats a brownie or goes for a walk outside. Other Twitter users are pseudo politicos out to change the world. What unifies them all?
When they see you […]
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No More Whuffie Please. Just the Kind That Pays My Bills
July 20th, 2008 · 22 Comments · Meet People in Austin
whuffie:
A slang term coined by Corey Doctorow in his book Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom to describe reputation-based capital.
This is also described by Tara Hunt as “social capital” (i.e. cred that isn’t money).
At Volusion, I never felt like I could use my talent. I wasn’t writing with my voice. It’s […]
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Set the Tone for How Washington Communicates. Email Congress an Invite to Twitter
July 18th, 2008 · 2 Comments · Twitter
This anti-Twitter stuff coming from House Democrats is absolutely ridiculous. This is a perfect example of politicians playing politics instead of actually acknowledging someone’s freedom of speech.
These politicians raise millions of dollars just to get a bunch of cheesy 30 second TV spots and conduct polls. Who the hell actually listens to […]
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Are We the Generation to Form the Next Renaissance?
July 14th, 2008 · No Comments · Social Media and Society
Jim Kukral recently wrote a rather entitled “The Death of the A-List”. The article by Jim Kukral, an online marketer, postulates that people are now seeing that Web 2.0 celebrities are just normal people who became very good at self-promotion. This will open the doors up to what Clay Shirky would call “everybody”. […]
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Quit Complaining About Society. Support Non-Profits and Volunteer.
July 13th, 2008 · 5 Comments · Social Media for Social Good
I am amazed at how many pats on the back I get for trying to support Elaine Allan’s efforts to help Burmese refugees here in town. All these people, all Obama supporters. All clamoring for change. Few choose to step up and actually help out.
Awareness is great. People willing […]
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The SEO Social Media Google Bomb: Social Media is Power in the Hands of Consumers
July 8th, 2008 · 7 Comments · Social Media and Society
Jason Calacanis catches a lot of flack because he thinks SEO as a trade is dead and that social media is en vogue. While it is important to factor in SEO when creating websites, social networks are 1.) taking the power out of Google by providing searchers with other user-generated means for information and […]
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Come to the Blood Drive Tweetup. I Promise You My Support 100%
July 1st, 2008 · 9 Comments · Events I've Attended
**Note: this is not a stock image. This is my sister Deb and my niece Zoe. I love them very much and want my sister to overcome host vs. graft disease.
38 people.
38 people are responsible for saving my sister Deb’s life. She underwent 23 blood transfusions and 15 bags of platelets […]
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