Events
Cognitive Surplus will free up time to
One of the best talks at this year’s Web 2.0 Expo was Clay Shirky on Cognitive Surplus. In it he suggests that modern television is a, “cognitive heat sink, dissipating thinking that might otherwise have built up and caused society to overheat.”
He concludes after describing how a child spent a few minutes looking for the mouse connected to [...]
MyBlogLog and Web 2.0 Expo
Todd and I have been busy hanging out over at this week’s Web 2.0 Expo (save one short visit to the nearby Blue Bottle Coffee, thanks Sam!) but the team has been back at MyBlogLog HQ cranking out some cool stuff regardless.
HCard & VCard support - very cool to see these come to light. Todd [...]
Netsquared Mashup Challenge
The Netsquared Mashup Challenge applications are in and now it’s time to vote on your favorite of the 122 that have been submitted. It’s all for a good cause and the projects listed here are good inspiration for those attending Mashup University where I’ll be doing a brief presentation tomorrow morning on the MyBlogLog API.
For [...]
Panel Discussion on Activity Streams
A panel discussion at GSP West with myself, Bret Taylor (FriendFeed), Kevin Marks (Google) and David Recordon (Six Apart) on the rollout of shared activity streams as part of the latest revolution in social network. Moderating was Sean Ammirati of ReadWriteWeb.
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Video of my Graphing Social Patterns talk on MyBlogLog API
I gave a talk today announcing the public launch of the MyBlogLog API. The is the only API that I know of that allows you to look-up a person’s identifier across social networks. Read the docs here.
Other URLs from the talk:
Blog Juice - a bookmarklet to look-up social activity of recent reader.
Raven SEO - a [...]
Graphing Social & ETech
I’m in San Diego for the next few days attending both the Graphing Social Patterns and ETech conferences. I’ll be talking about the MyBlogLog API at 1:15 on Monday and will be on a panel about lifestreams following that at 1:30.
Todd Sampson is here with me as well and we’ve got a couple of cool [...]
Tuesday is MyBlogLog night
There’s not enough MyBlogLog to go around! I’m speaking up in San Francisco at a NetSquared event about building non-profit communities on the cheap using on-line tools such as MyBlogLog. I’ll be joined by colleagues from Upcoming and Yahoo! Groups.
At the same time, there’s another edition of the silicon valley Search SIG. This time around [...]
Werewolves infect Webmasters
Werewolf (also known as Mafia) is a great parlor game in which players try and figure out the good guys from the bad guys relying on your ability to read the body language of other players to determine who is telling the truth and who is lying while keeping your role and identity hidden from [...]
Widget Summit, a conference done right
Earlier this week I moderated a panel at Niall Kennedy’s Widget Summit. It was the second year for this event which he co-hosted last year at the same time, right before the Web 2.0 Summit to take advantage of all the people in town. I want to give a public shout out to Niall for [...]
Mary Meeker Tidbits from Web 2.0 Summit
I always enjoy Morgan Stanley analyst, Mary Meeker’s view into the internet industry. Her presentations are chock full of facts and figures and it’s the closest thing to a Harper’s Index for the Internet that we have. Here are some highlights from her list:
91% of mobile users keep phone within 1 meter reach 24×7
Market Cap [...]
