Notes from NYTimes “Ambient awareness” article
A recent NYTimes Magazine article on microblogging provides a great definition of the value of Facebook statuses, tweets, and other online “status” communication tools: Each little update — each...
View ArticleFiguring out social media optimization
This was initially an email, but I figured it’d be useful to repost it on my blog, in case I left anyone out of my mailing list who might like to reply. I’m sketching out a blog post on SMO (social...
View ArticleThe problems with tweets/micrcommunications
As tweets/txts/social feeds and other microcommunications take a larger share of the new media landscape, it’s hitting a utility wall. Some issues to solve: How do you make big decisions from...
View ArticleHow to game KickStarter
KickStarter‘s cool but I feel like I see too many projects hit their funding numbers at the last minute of the pledge window. Call me a cynic, but after thinking about this on the train one morning, I...
View ArticleModels for defining a social network user experiences
As we’re making OpenSky more social I’ve been spending a lot of time looking at social networks and recently realized that social interactions on social networking sites can be reduced to...
View ArticleHulu will go to audiences
A nice little summary of the forthcoming Hulu launch appeared on a PC World blog today. Simply offering editorial content isn’t necessarily enough to outdo YouTube, but I was very interested in this...
View ArticleFree Cat Le-Huy
Update: Cat has been freed. Last fall I spent a few days in London setting up a project with Endemol, a reality TV production company. I was surprised to meet some very cool people over there,...
View ArticleWhy SEO matters for user-generated content
Lately I’ve been surprised to hear people say something to the effect of “when it comes to social networking and UGC, SEO doesn’t matter” in a number of different conversations. Nothing could be...
View ArticleCat Le-Huy is free
Thanks to everyone who helped out, spread the word, dugg, petitioned, blogged, gave cash, etc. Cat’s free. More details here.
View ArticleNodes, connections, and context
For a user, the Internet is just a dynamic application. All of the websites and apps and everything else add up to the same abstract features that are present in any desktop app: Store/read data Query...
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