BlogHer 2008 Update (2)
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Here is a quick note about BlogHer 2008 interviews that I will post in the next couple of days. I have two video interviews: the first is with Lisa Stone, CEO and co-founder of BlogHer and the second one is a short highlight on what is Open Source by Michelle Baker, CEO of Mozilla Foundation. This video snippet is from an interactive panel discussion on Open Source. I will also have a short write-up on ...
Weekly Recap 071808: Define ‘Frienderati’ (4)
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Literati means intelligentsia… Intelligentsia means…a social class of people engaged in complex mental and creative labor directed to the development and dissemination of culture, encompassing intellectuals and social groups close to them Guy Kawasaki’s at it again…he rolled out his latest list of the “Top” in a medium, this time FriendFeed…his Frienderati lists ~100 people on FriendFeed and their 5 most recent entries…I actually follow a number of the people on his list… But something’s ...
Five Things I Meant To Blog About (4)
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You know how this goes – you mark it for later and then don’t get around to it. Maybe these wouldn’t have filled out an entire blog post or maybe there’s not that much to say about them, but they’re worth a mention nonetheless. They’re kind of awesome. This is no spliced in del.icio.us link list – I killed that long ago, please go do the same. This is a list of worthy links. I’ve ...
Kevin Kelly: The Three Tails (4)
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If I wait long enough, all the smart things about the Long Tail will be said by other people and I can just quote them here. Today's installment is by none other than Kevin Kelly. If he will forgive me reprinting his post in its entirety below, I will forgive him the cringe-making term "long tail of the Dragon of Love" ;-) Over to Kevin: "Seth Godin recently posted a dissection of the three "profit ...
FriendFeed Friday Tips #7: Who Are These People, Anyway? (9)
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By popular demand, I've been asked by other FriendFeed users to highlight how I use the popular social lifestreaming site. So far the series has covered the "Hide" function, the bookmarklet, advanced search, how to integrate with Google Talk, how you can incorporate comments and determine an item's original source. Today, figuring out who you're engaging with on the service.So far, unlike most social networks out there, FriendFeed doesn't utilize a person's profile as the ...
Wagging the Long Tail of Love (6)
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Seth Godin has been exploring Chris Anderson's idea of the The Long Tail. As usual Seth brings clarity and illumination to this often misunderstood notion. He recently posted a dissection of the three "profit pockets" within the Long Tail, which he illustrated like this: There's a blatant switcheroo that Seth (and almost everyone else) makes when explaining the Long Tail. In pocket #1 of the curve, Seth talks in terms of a creator of a ...
BlogHer: Who Are Your Favorite Women Bloggers? - ReadWriteWeb (11)
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The Blogher conference for and about women bloggers kicks off today in San Francisco and in honor of this important event, we decided to share some links to some of our favorite women bloggers here at RWW. Gender is an important lens through which people communicate and that's still the case online. Below are links to some of our favorite women bloggers and some favorites from some web celebs you may or may not know. ...
Gnip CEO's Goal: Make Twitter's Data Flow Suck Less (5)
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Data publishers and data consumers can be both friends and enemies, when it comes to the seemingly infinite demand for and growth of real-time data from Web services. Services like Digg, Flickr, Del.icio.us and Twitter are happy to see their user bases expand, and to see developer communities be built around their products. But with each new application hitting their API, and each new user, comes new demand that can put strain on their infrastructure, ...
Robert Scoble's Rules for Successfully Scaling Startups (8)
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Robert Scoble in an often poignant FriendFeed thread commiserating PodTech's unfortunate end, shared what he learned about creating a successful startup. Here's a summary of a Robert's rules and why Machiavelli just may agree with them: Have a story. Have everyone on board with that story. If anyone goes off of that story, make sure they get on board immediately or fire them. Make sure people are judged by the revenues they bring in. Those ...
Wildcard Machine Tag URLs (5)
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Photo by cackhanded If you’re not already familiar with machine tags the easiest way to think of them is being like a plain old tag but with a special syntax that allows users to define additional structured data about that tag. In turn the magic space hamsters that run the site have been trained to recognize, index and allow for searches across multiple facets of a given machine tag. Machine tags have three parts : ...
Google's Services Converge in the New iGoogle (39)
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Is this Google Reader? It's actually an iGoogle feed in canvas view, which happens to borrow Google Reader's interface. If you click on the drop-down, you can access all your Google Reader subscriptions.Is this Gmail? It's the Gmail gadget in canvas view, but you get almost all the features available in Gmail's standard interface.Is this Gmail Chat? It's the chat feature from Gmail integrated in iGoogle's sidebar so that you can chat with your contacts ...
Is There A Way Back From Free? (11)
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Guest Post By Colin Walker (Blog/FriendFeed)On Wednesday, Matthew Ingram posted a reaction to Mike Arrington's interview with Twitter founder Evan Williams with regards to the way Twitter is just handing their data to potential competitors for nothing.It has seemed obvious to me for a while that an ideal aspect of a business plan for a social networking service such as Twitter would be to charge partners for premium access to the API, but once you ...
Inflection Point (12)
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I, Cringely . The Pulpit | PBS (65)
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Futurists, especially those who claim to have a methodology beyond psychic prediction, tend to rely primarily on Moore's Law for figuring out what technology will be like 5, 10, or 20 years from now. But Moore's Law, which predicts that computing power will drop in cost by 50 percent every 18 months, isn't some absolute speed limit and some measures of technical achievement are actually moving faster than Moore's Law predicts. It's not that they ...
Host Your Own Lifestream With Sweetcron (42)
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Not everyone loves FriendFeed - its social media firehouse qualities can lead to a lot of noise which can certainly be overwhelming to newcomers. However, even those who don't participate on the service may see the value of a lifestream. By hosting your own lifestream, you can easily share your current activities from across the social web with your web site's visitors. Once set up, it's somewhat like a passive form of a Tumblr blog. ...
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Will said:
Lifestream apps. This is really where its going on our buddy Yongfook here has a great jump on it. Open source and extensible, this app holds a lot of promise.
Matt Cutts on ranking, spam and the future of search (7)
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During a recent visit to the Mountain View Googleplex, I had the chance to interview Matt Cutts for our German Webmaster Blog. While enjoying the California sunshine we chatted about how to rank in Google, resources for webmasters and Matt's first encounter with spam. As these topics are not only interesting for a German audience, I want to share them with you as well. So watch the video and find out how difficult it can ...
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Seth G said:
Good questions good answers from Matt Cutts
JPG, PNG or GIF: How to Choose an Image Format for Screenshots (13)
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The quality of screenshot images and illustrations used on your website can make a difference. You may use the good-old Print Screen key or any of the professional screen capture tools to grab your desktop but the basic requirement remains same - the output image should be sharp and that the file size be well within a reasonable limit. Now PNG, JPG and GIF are the three most popular image formats for sharing screen captures ...
Barriers to Entry on the Techmeme Leaderboard increasing? - The StatBot (3)
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Sponsored by: Preemptive comment: No, I wasn’t dead. Just couldn’t do any real work because I was busy grinding through the system getting admitted into college. Grinding over now That was the question that turned up on my head some time back – and I investigated. The answer is – not much. As you can see, it’s been between 0.15% and 0.20% pretty much throughout. So, the “barriers to entry” aren’t really increasing. Update: I ...
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle…. your code (9)
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With a young son, I often listen to the “Reduce, Reuse, Recycle” song by Jack Johnson for the Curious George movie. Edgar Hassler has taken that axiom and applied it to code. Edgar goes into a lot of detail, including the following issue that he ran into: The problem I kept having was that I needed to pass information from PHP’s environment to JavaScript imported into an XHTML document, and in that JavaScript document, I ...
