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Netsquared Mashup Challenge

March 18, 2008

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.
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Panel Discussion on Activity Streams

March 6, 2008

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

March 4, 2008

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 [...]

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Graphing Social & ETech

March 3, 2008

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 [...]

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Tuesday is MyBlogLog night

February 10, 2008

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 [...]

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Werewolves infect Webmasters

December 6, 2007

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 [...]

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Widget Summit, a conference done right

October 19, 2007

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 [...]

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Mary Meeker Tidbits from Web 2.0 Summit

October 18, 2007

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 [...]

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BarCampBlock and the Great Beyond

August 21, 2007

I had a great time at BarCampBlock this past weekend. Regretfully, I could only attend on Saturday but got to soak in the scene and definitely will chip in and help out in future BarCamp events when I can. The excitement surrounding the sessions reminded me of the early BloggerCon events that got me into [...]

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SXSW Panel Picker – Pick Me!

August 20, 2007

South-by-Southwest Interactive was probably the best conference I’ve been to this year in terms of bang for buck. Each of the panels was engaging and I was always learning something new. Part of this is because the panels are chosen by those planning on attending.
Out of the 680+ topics proposed, only 80 will be chosen. [...]

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