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Social Discovery, Social Filtering, and other Web-Squared Shapes

October 24, 2009

It’s hard to wrap up a major conference, especially when you didn’t attend, but viewing things from a distance sometimes helps because only the loudest messages make it all the way over.
Before the conference even started, Fred Wilson threw out a one-liner that got people thinking. He called it the Golden Triangle.
The three current big [...]

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Web 2.0 Summit Coverage

October 22, 2009

Now that I live in Finland I was not able to drop in on the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco. Here’s how I’ve been keeping up with the goings on:

Selected talks on YouTube. They have a channel so you can watch all the videos back-to-back.
Following the #w2e hashtag on twitter.
Coverage on ReadWriteWeb via event-specific [...]

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Silicon Valley visits Helsinki

August 26, 2009

If you’re interested in the Social Web and are in Southern Finland at the end of September here are two events that are very much worth catching.
Chris Messina and Jyri Engeström will be in Helsinki first for an all day crash course on the social web which will run from the basics in the morning [...]

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Big Mess of Wires

May 29, 2009

I’ll be taking my son to the Maker Faire for the third year in a row this weekend. It’s a great Father & Son festival where you see what happens when you throw together technology, imagination, dedication, and passion into a big pot and mix it up together.
On display will be Steve Chamberlin’s hand-built CPU [...]

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Web 2.0 Expo 2009

April 5, 2009

I knew this time would come. The talks about this thing called social media were great because they used to be in small groups, people passing around knowledge as if around a campfire. Now, in an attempt to codify this knowledge, package it for wider distribution, it’s become wooden – formulaic.
I like the fact that [...]

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The Startup Scene in Helsinki

March 3, 2009

I was lucky my trip to Helsinki overlapped with a meeting of Arctic Startup, an occasional meeting of high-tech entreprenuers. The event was held in the Dubrovnik Lounge, a cozy event space in downtown Helsinki which had room for about 100.
It reminded me of other Web 2.0 events that I’ve been to outside of silicon [...]

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Open ID Design Summit – Links to coverage

February 12, 2009

For various reasons I was unable to attend the Open ID Design Summit. Thankfully, the talks were very well covered so it’s possible for anyone see what happened and the current state of discussions around what’s being called the “open stack”
Live-blogging the openid design summit – John McCrea from Plaxo did a great job of [...]

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Track Me Panel at Web 2.0 Summit

November 9, 2008

Sharing location has become much easier but it brings up a lot of new questions. Who owns the data, what can you do with this data? Brady Forrest of O’Reilly Media has been exploring these issues with the Where 2.0 conference and brought together four people at this year’s Web 2.0 Summit to discuss [...]

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Cognitive Surplus will free up time to

May 1, 2008

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 [...]

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MyBlogLog and Web 2.0 Expo

April 25, 2008

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 [...]

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