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Month: January 2011

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Two ways to watch the SOTU

Ian KennedyJanuary 31, 2011Leave a Comment on Two ways to watch the SOTU

Last night I watched the 2011 State of the Union address, conveniently streaming it via YouTube in 720p over the home wifi and out to my flatscreen Samsung TV here in Finland. I found the archive easily enough and noticed…

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politics, social media

Foursquare 2010 Infographic

Ian KennedyJanuary 30, 20111 Comment on Foursquare 2010 Infographic

Foursquare has published a beautiful infographic highlighting tidbits gleened from the collective check-in activity of their global audience of over 5 million.

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Foursquare, LBS, mobile

Skeuonyms and Collapsitarians

Ian KennedyJanuary 29, 2011January 29, 20113 Comments on Skeuonyms and Collapsitarians

Just finished Kevin Kelly’s latest book, What Technology Wants, and learned two new words/phrases. Skeuonym – an expression left over from an older technology, no longer used. Examples include, “rewinding the tape,” “dialing the phone, “filming a movie,” or “cranking…

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books
Office

More LinkedIn Visualizations

Ian KennedyJanuary 25, 2011June 21, 2019Leave a Comment on More LinkedIn Visualizations

A couple more visualizations that use the LinkedIn API that I missed on the previous post. LinkedIn Maps announced yesterday creates a poster-ready view of your LinkedIn network complete with color-coding showing how everyone is related. This type of visualization…

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cool links, linkedin

Smart LinkedIn Integration

Ian KennedyJanuary 24, 2011January 24, 20115 Comments on Smart LinkedIn Integration

Congratulations to whomever is turning up the heat over at LinkedIn. It’s been just over a year since they opened up their API and now we’re really starting to see the fruits of this effort.  The latest integration with Fortune…

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linkedin, media, social media, web 2.0
Current Events

Celebrity Sellouts in Japan

Ian KennedyJanuary 21, 2011January 21, 2011Leave a Comment on Celebrity Sellouts in Japan

Here’s a bit of Friday fun for you. Way back when the internet was limited to newsgroups and those with access to a university network, I put up a bunch of scans I made of celebrities shilling for Japanese products.…

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advertising, Japan

Facebook and your Contact Info, a Proposal

Ian KennedyJanuary 18, 2011January 21, 20113 Comments on Facebook and your Contact Info, a Proposal

Facebook just announced that they are suspending a previously announced expansion of their API allowing third party developers to request access to a user’s address and phone number. Some history and a modest suggestion follow. When Facebook announced Facebook Connect…

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Facebook, identity
Office

Raindrops and Private Clouds

Ian KennedyJanuary 14, 2011June 22, 20192 Comments on Raindrops and Private Clouds

Before Christmas I posted about the possible break-up of clouds.  For the past 5 years or so, the usual suspects such as Yahoo, and Google, and more recently Facebook and a re-vitalized AOL have been sucking up smaller collectives of socially active…

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hosting, identity, web 2.0

Social Cruft

Ian KennedyJanuary 13, 20111 Comment on Social Cruft

First I read through a longish piece outlining how Forbes is re-inventing itself into a hub that harvests it’s audience and transform them into content producers in a new media factory.  Then I read about how Gawker is embracing the…

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media, social media
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Japan Shatters Tweets Per Second Record

Ian KennedyJanuary 12, 2011July 2, 2011Leave a Comment on Japan Shatters Tweets Per Second Record

I spent the year end holidays in Tokyo with family and friends. As with every visit I was blown away by the pace and energy of the city and came away re-charged with optimism. I am especially happy when I…

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Japan, twitter

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