If there is one effort taking place on the web that I wish much success in achieving it goals and desired results, it is the DataPortability group. I’m sure there are others but this is one that is top of mind, and absolutely NEEDS to happen. My friend, Daniela Barbosa, is a major proponent [...]
Posts under ‘web 2.0’
NYC Web History 101
Came across this video as I was reading Brad Feld’s blog. Wasn’t at the Web 2.0 Expo NY, I wonder how many web 2.0 conferences (or at least conferences covering the meme) there have been over the past couple of years.
Anyway, the keynote by Fred Wilson was an interesting one. If you didn’t [...]
Twitter Issues, Tissues for Short
Two facts are known through the web and tech community regarding Twitter: 1) It has quickly moved from a simple ‘what are you doing?’ tool to the poster-child of the micro-blogging phenomenon 2) It has been having huge scaling issues which has been causing service outages over the past several months. Both facts [...]
Participate Everywhere, Manage Centrally
Yesterday, a meme was started by Loic Le Meur where he discussed the de-centralization of his social media life and that he posits that he wants it all centralized back on his blog. I commented there and had no his post would spawn ironically a fully de-centralized conversation on the topic ranging from his [...]
You’re Out There, Now What?
Two posts in a row regarding thoughts from Gary Vaynerchuk (@garyvee over at Twitter). Yesterday, he had a passionate video post about the web’s impacts (or should I say disclosures) of people’s true selves on the web. I found it very relevant. Particularly because earlier in the day Jeremiah Owyang (@jowyang over [...]
