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Twitter Maturation Continues As They Embrace Developers
As Twitter grows from early adopter curiosity to full-fledged mainstream phenomenon, the company is undergoing a much-anticipated and much-welcomed maturation process, one that comes following the company's highly-visible raise of a significant ventu...
Video: LeWeb Twitter Apps Panel via UStream
This morning, I moderated a panel on Twitter Applications, at LeWeb, featuring:Iain Dodsworth, TweetDeckLaura Fitton oneforty Barak Hachamov, My6sense Marco Kaiser, Seesmic Sean McCullough, Ping.fmDaryll McDade, Microsoft Mario Menti, TwitterfeedThe ...
Talking With TweetDeck and Tweetmeme at LeWeb
At LeWeb 2009 here in Paris, France, I participated in a panel on Twitter applications and the Twitter platform, featuring TweetDeck, Seesmic, TwitterFeed, OneForty.com, my6sense, Ping.fm and Microsoft. Following the panel, I sat down with Iain Dodsw...
Attacking the Web\'s Beverly Hills and Schenectady Problem
Not too long ago, every new site you joined on the Web forced you to provide a daunting array of details about you in order to join. Full pages of pull-down menus asking about your date of birth, your marital status, your home address and other infor...
Attacking the Web\'s Beverly Hills and Schenectady Problem
Not too long ago, every new site you joined on the Web forced you to provide a daunting array of details about you in order to join. Full pages of pull-down menus asking about your date of birth, your marital status, your home address and other infor...
Search: Less Useful Due to Massive Info Growth, the Flow?
In a forward-looking presentation at the Defrag Conference this morning, Stowe Boyd pushed attendees to think about how the Web would look by the year 2019, with the aid of seeing the massive amounts of change that has taken place over the previous d...
Search: Less Useful Due to Massive Info Growth, the Flow?
In a forward-looking presentation at the Defrag Conference this morning, Stowe Boyd pushed attendees to think about how the Web would look by the year 2019, with the aid of seeing the massive amounts of change that has taken place over the previous d...
Skepticism Over Current State of Social Web at Defrag
At the Defrag conference in Denver this morning, there was an acknowledgement that social elements are infiltrating practically every aspect of businesses and interpersonal engagement online, but unlike other events, which have seen a practical hugfe...
Skepticism Over Current State of Social Web at Defrag
At the Defrag conference in Denver this morning, there was an acknowledgement that social elements are infiltrating practically every aspect of businesses and interpersonal engagement online, but unlike other events, which have seen a practical hugfe...
Blog World Expo Presentation: Technology and the Real-Time Web
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The Blog\'s Place In A World of Microblogging: Not Dead Yet!
Even as the microblogging space seems to be white hot these days, the world of longer-form blogging is still seeing impressive growth, with all major blogging platforms showing greater than 20 to 40 percent growth year over year, and record users, bl...
Cheezburger Network Scales Company By Focusing On Happy
The Web simply can't get enough funny cat pictures. Or dog pictures. Or sleeping cat pictures. Or pictures of people failing. Or creative approaches to fix things. The Cheezburger Network has grown dramatically, racing to the point where they are see...
Hey Bloggers, Step Away from the Twitter for a Second... and Blog
There are a few shiny things here in Vegas that have bloggers' attention. No question about it. There are shows and clothes, lookers and hookers, drinks and winks. But it could be a shiny blue bird, and the light of mobile phones that has many blogge...
BlogWorld Expo 2009: The State of Technology & the Real Time Web
For the third time this year, I am back in Las Vegas. And per usual, I'm not here for anything resembling a vacation, as it's conference time. But instead of attending an event on behalf of a specific company, as I have done many different times, I a...
Social Media Is Infrastructure: PR, Marketing, Ads Safe
Practically the only thing guaranteed that social media will kill is your free time. Maybe it will kill your real-world social life too, but that's only if you choose to have an intimate relationship with your computer, at the pure neglect of the wor...
Do PR, Advertising & Marketing Suck? Find Out In a Week.
Criticism of public relations, advertising and marketing is everywhere. Seesmic's Loic Le Meur has been giving a presentation over the last few months saying that they "suck". And agencies need to adapt quickly to be ready for the changes that are se...
Lunch 2.0 Highlights Video: Mozilla, FriendFeed and Kosmix
Lunch 2.0 with Kosmix, Mozilla and FriendFeedAs mentioned yesterday, I had the opportunity to moderate a panel featuring representatives from three forward-looking Web companies looking to push change and compete with established market leaders. You ...
Lunch 2.0 Panel With Mozilla, FriendFeed, Kosmix on UStream Today
Around 12:30 p.m. this afternoon, I will be sitting down with Anand Rajaraman, Co-Founder of Kosmix, Bret Taylor, Co-Founder of Friendfeed and Chris Beard, Mozilla's Chief Innovation Officer to talk about how these three small companies are driving c...
AustinLifestyles SXSW 2009 Video: Blogging, Apps and Tech Trends
While at the South by Southwest conference in Austin, Texas this spring, I tried to make myself available to not only attend as many panels as I could, but also to participate in video interviews for those who wanted to talk about blogging, tech, soc...
Join Mozilla, FriendFeed and Kosmix for Lunch 2.0 on August 6th
On Thursday, August 6th, from 12:00PM - 2:00PM, I have the opportunity to sit down with Anand Rajaraman, Co-Founder of Kosmix, Bret Taylor, Co-Founder of Friendfeed and Chris Beard, Mozilla's Chief Innovation Officer, for a lunchtime panel on how the...
The Marketing 2.0 Revolution: Who Is Driving?
This evening, the San Francisco American Marketing Association put on a panel featuring the just departed from Google Kevin Marks, Jeremiah Owyang, Mark Silva and Robert Scoble. I took notes on the panel and posted them to FriendFeed. These notes are...
Audio: SXSW 2009 Panel on Beyond Aggregation
Although it has been a few months since SXSW 2009 came and went, rich media from the event is continuing to trickle forth. The major reason I even attended the annual tech shindig was to participate on a panel discussing the issue of going "Beyond Ag...
