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Month: March 2008

  • MyBlogLog as an Interest Engine

    I’ve been doing a lot of posting on the MyBlogLog blog lately because the boys have been busy shipping a number of enhancements to the service that have really changed the nature of the product. What started out as a lightweight stats package and later a social network that connected people to sites and bloggers…

  • 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.…

  • First Annual Day of Awesomeness

    In celebration of the International Day of Awesomeness

  • Over-clocking your friendships

    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…

  • Panel on Activity Streams

    Panel on Activity Streams

    A panel discussion at O’Reilly’s Graphing Social Patterns conference 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. Photo by Pinar Ozger

  • 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…

  • 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…