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Web 2.0

Internet OS – an Update

April 7, 2010 Identity

Long post by Tim O’Reilly on the current state of the Internet as an Operating System. Many key developments that see this idea coming together and Tim connects the dots in a compelling way to complete the picture. The key piece for me is Social. The Internet OS still does not usefully recognize that we [...]

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

October 24, 2009 Events

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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If you can’t share it, it doesn’t count

September 4, 2009 Web 2.0

I heard this line somewhere but can’t attribute it to anyone. Did a search on Google, Yahoo, and even Bing and didn’t find any mention of it either. In an increasingly interconnected world, when one social network is connected with another, if you can’t share something, does it count?

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Can you embed your social network onto a chip?

November 4, 2008 Web 2.0

So I’m really excited because I scored a free pass to this week’s Web 2.0 Summit based on a comment I left on John Battelle’s blog where he asked his readers for questions for executives he is going to interview on stage. My question was for Paul Otellini, CEO of Intel:
Do you forsee a time [...]

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You Kids Never Had it so Good!

October 23, 2008 Nokia

Getting up to speed here at Nokia after joining three days ago – lots of institutional knowledge tucked away across the intranet which features a bewildering array of internal blogs, wikis, and video archives. One thing I immediately notice is that the average age of people who work here in the Mountain View office is [...]

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Raw vs. Polished

May 2, 2008 Social Media

Eric Berlin writes about the differences between Friendfeed and TechMeme.
Therefore, perhaps we can say that Techmeme aggregates what’s important about tech and Internet news and easily provides links to surrounding conversations. It’s really a new kind of online newspaper, and a pretty terrific one. And Friendfeed is an aggregator of lots of stuff, of what [...]

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Cognitive Surplus will free up time to

May 1, 2008 Events

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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Over-clocking your friendships

March 9, 2008 MyBlogLog

A common complaint overheard at the recent Graphing Social Patterns, ETech, and South By Southwest conferences has been that increased friend invites on social networks such as Facebook and Twitter has devalued the word friend. Today, this condition is unique to the the early-adopter, hyper-connected crowd at tech conferences but as social networks replace our [...]

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Mary Meeker Tidbits from Web 2.0 Summit

October 18, 2007 Events

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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The Web as a loose federation of contractors

August 17, 2007 Web 2.0

Matt McAllister has a great post about the dangers of taking taking the label of Web OS too literally. He writes that an operating system is about “command and control” while the loose collection of services that make up the internet is more like the network of vendors that a contractor might call in to [...]

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