(Disclaimer: I went to business school with founder of this company and I think she’s awesome. This is in no way an unbiased review). I installed the chirpscreen screen saver application yesterday and I think it’s pretty neat. The basic idea is that chripscreen will replace your boring screensaver with information about the people in […]
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Eight Predictions for 2008
If you want to read my predictions for 2005, 2006, and 2007, click on the hyperlinks in this intro sentence. I’ll spare you the pain of recapping what I predicted in 2007 – feel free to make comments on that post if you have something to say. I have a handful of predictions (8 actually) […]
Google Shared Items – Make It Better So I Can Use It
When I first heard about the Google Shared Stuff application, I was definitely intrigued. I’ve always used del.icio.us to keep track of random pages I find across the web, but I’ve never really loved the interface. The main drawback I have is that I read all of my feeds in Google Reader and it’s so […]
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Best Article I’ve Read on Facebook Beacon Thus Far – Charlene Li at Forrester
I’ve been reading a bunch of posts on the Facebook Beacon launch. Most of them either say it will end up being a privacy nightmare, highly annoying, or extremely useful. I hadn’t read anything that I felt was both personal and balanced. Well, I really enjoyed Charlene Li’s piece on her recent experiences encountering Facebook […]
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Observations from the MIT/Stanford VLAB Event on Web 3.0
I was able to attend the first half of the MIT/Stanford VLAB’s event on Web 3.0 and it was a good overview, in my opinion. I wasn’t able to stay for the entire thing, but here are a few thoughts and observations I had during my time at the event. Market-driven innovation as a pre-cursor […]
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Are Smart People Wasting Time on Bad Ideas?
About 2-3 times per year I’ll happen upon a conversation thread that makes me uncomfortable. If I hear it from one person whose opinion I respect, I tend to file it away. If I hear it from two people whose opinion I respect, I make note of it. If I hear it from 3 people […]
Inbox 2.0 – I Think it’s Too Late to Matter for Social Networking (but fix them anyway)
I’ve been reading a few of these posts about Inbox 2.0 and the “Biggest Social Graphs” and they line up with some things I’ve been thinking as well. I’ve posted two blurbs recently on email and social networking – you can read them here and here. Overall, I do agree that email inboxes do contain […]
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Facebook Invites – Underestimated?
I’ve been playing around with a lot of invitation systems lately and I did my first large scale test on Facebook this past month. Overall, I’d have to say that the web 2.0 event planning / invitation universe is severely underestimating the potential threat that Facebook events represent. Overall, Facebook events are a great way […]
OpenSocial – Is Opening Up the Answer?
I’ve been reading a bunch of posts about Google and friends launching the Open Social. So far, my favorite posts are this one, this one, and this one. Overall, I am skeptical (are you surprised?) that simply “opening up” is the recipe for victory. A few thoughts arranged in some rough form. At the end […]
Xobni and the Future of Social Networking Data
Earlier this week a friend of mine updated his IM status message asking his friends for thoughts on the future of social networking as he was getting ready to speak at an event on that very topic. I think that what the Xobni guys are working on is the future of where social networking is […]