Google launched Social Graph API. Using publicly available information, Google will begin to connect people and relationships/friendships from blogs and public social networks. As an example, let’s say you have a MySpace profile with friends. You would like to join Twitter and one of the pains of joining a new social network is building friendships [...]
Continuing from the last entry about not being a copycat, let’s talk about the second problem with being a copycat: misinterpretation.
Since Mike Arrington came up in the comments of the previous discussion, let’s use Mike as an example. He is considered “big” in the Web 2.0 arena so it is very natural that someone wanting [...]
The internet is one large place where many conversations are happening. People join social sites like MySpace, Virb, Flickr, or even 9rules for social interaction. With sites like Twitter, Jaiku, etc. the conversation can become very disjointed, meaning that the people trying to follow what you are saying has to look in many places to [...]
Yesterday I read about Rebekka’s copyright issues. To make a long story short she uploaded some images to Flickr (beautiful photography), a company saw her images, downloaded them and resold them…making thousands of dollars. Rebekka attempted to protect herself by uploading images in a lesser resolution but the company was still able to achieve enough [...]
Lately there have been so many things I wanted to write about but felt it would be taken as a rant, so I left it alone. For example, the discussion on how many people are listening to podcasts. I would link to it but the actual report is subscription only ($249.00) and without the report, [...]
Movable Type released a tag plug-in. In this post Anil referred to a post by Jeffrey Zeldman about tags which I agree with 100%. Here is an excerpt:
The less brainy and more pressing problem is that with tag clouds, topics either gain immediate, widespread traction with the public, or they disappear from the cloud. Once [...]
With the rise of Business a corporate policy the topic of employee blogging always comes up. What are their rights? Should companies allow employees to blog about their work? If they don’t should people think negatively of them? I always stated that the blogging policy should be very clear but I understand 100% if a [...]
From Anil Dash:
Now, someone will fire back a comment or email to me that says “if you don’t like it, opt out”. And that’s a valid option. But I want to participate in the loosely-connected information ecosystem. I just want to know that people building platforms on this stuff are thinking about the cultural implications [...]
