Archive for June, 2006
Digg 3.0 - stats and cool visualization
I missed the Digg 3.0 launch party earlier this week where they previewed a cool new visualization tool that will be launching later this month. I was alerted to it because of the Diggnation podcast and am thankful to the infosthetics.com site for pointing me to a video which shows this new visualization.
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Media Consumption in Middle America. TV still king but web not far behind.
I attended the presentation of the Online Publisher’s Association latest research report on media consumption at the Four Seasons in San Francisco this morning. Details on the report can be found within the OPA press release. The research was interesting in that it was unlike most reports which (a) are limited to what participants report [...]
Alexander Vraciu
Today I met a World War II flying ace. I posted about it on my Vox blog, Six Apart’s new blogging product. I think I’ll be posting here for a while so please bookmark this site for future updates.
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Ergo Sum in the Digital Age
Steve Rubel calls it Picture-in-a-Picture marketing, Fergus calls it widget marketing. As the traditional walled garden web blows apart, more and more small, loosely joined pieces are made available to re-configure themselves into new combinations.
Call it mashups for the rest of us - your blog or MySpace profile is a platform where you mix [...]
Tyler gets a Yellow Belt
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Aikido Yellow Belt Test, originally uploaded by inky.
On Saturday, Tyler passed his test for a Yellow belt in Aikido. He was nervous at first but did just fine. More photos here.
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Izumi
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Izumi, originally uploaded by dav.
Went to Mie & Dav’s celebration/baby shower for their baby due out anytime in the next few weeks. Mie literally looks like she ate an entire basketball - she’s [...]
Yahoo Hack Day - a crash course in Product Management
Nice write up over on TechCrunch on a hack that I worked on with a team of seven other Yahoo’s spread out across the US.
Every couple of months groups of Yahoo’s band together to work on simple prototypes to work out a new concept or feature. Most are simple extensions of existing Yahoo products that [...]
Nokia delivers a podcatcher
I see that Nokia’s shipping a piece of software that in hindsight is so obvious, it’s amazing no one thought of it earlier. As onboard storage gets larger and larger (the new Nokia’s have 4GB!), the viability for the phone to double as an iPod substitute makes more and more sense. Sony played around with [...]
eBay completes social media troika, message boards, blogs, now a wiki
EBay recently launched blogs for it’s members as a supplement to its very active forum community. While message boards are useful for loosely classified conversations where anyone can start a thread, blogs are better suited for individuals who want to project a voice around an area of expertise. We’re already seeing examples of this as [...]
Found with Davy Rothbart
While my normal commute hour is filled with podcasts from the usual tech talk shows and NPR highlights, every now and then I dip into the vast archive of talks over on itconversations.com and pick a few interesting lectures.
Today I found a gem! Davy Rothbart runs Found magazine and speaks at Pop Tech about the [...]
