Archive for the ‘Web 2.0’ Category
Friday, March 7th, 2008
Today was the first of my 10 day visit to Austin, TX for the famed South by Southwest (SXSW) Interactive, Film, and Music Festival. I'm staying rather far out of the center of the city since I only decided to come here at the last minute, but my hotel room, ...
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Tuesday, February 19th, 2008
A huge number of posts I've been making are reposts selected from some of the feeds I read. I installed the wordpress plugin for reblog, an open source project by eyebeam. It didn't work straight off the bat, but I found this bugfix which tells you that there ...
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Friday, February 15th, 2008
For some, the term "dark web" simply means all the online data that search engine spiders can't reach, crawl, or index, but for the University of Arizona's AI Lab, the "Dark Web" refers to a research project where the social phenomena of terrorism is studied via various techniques including social ...
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Friday, February 15th, 2008
There's an old well-worn addage that says, "The customer is always right." On the surface, it means that you should always strive to provide good customer service. But on a deeper level, it means that if your customers do things with your service that you never intended, perhaps ...
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Friday, February 15th, 2008
Investing site The Motley Fool has an interesting debate today between three of their reporters, who all take different arguments in the debate over Facebook’s valuation. Of course, technically speaking, we already know the answer is $15 billion, since Microsoft and several other investors have purchased small percentages of ...
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Friday, February 15th, 2008
Ian Shaefer, CEO of Deep Focus Marketing Agency was invited out to the YouTube Videocracy Event in New York City last night, and aside from hanging out with Tay Zonday, he blogged a number of platform improvements on deck for the video sharing giant. The topics covered seemed to go ...
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Friday, February 15th, 2008
FriendFeed is a life streaming service, in the form of a social aggregator. You may have heard Mark “complain” about it in the same way Pete used to complain about Twitter, but as the beta testing progresses, folks seem to be adapting to FriendFeed…or maybe FriendFeed is adapting to ...
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Tuesday, February 5th, 2008
So, I'm adding this call me button from my freshly established GrandCentral account to the blog:
If you're reading this and you are not me (unlikely as this may be), try it! Leave me a voice comment! This button allows anyone to hit it and call my phone without being able ...
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