The end of the summer - blog links
Dare Obasanjo is on a roll. Not only does he have a few key posts on Windows Live Contacts and OpenID and how this all fits into our meshed web of distributed social networks, but he’s also perfectly analyzed and critiqued Robert Scoble’s post on social graph search and Google. Right on to Dare! I’ll be using many of his posts in my upcoming analysis of Brad Fitzpatrick’s vision. Dare is now my favorite blogger to read.
Robert Scoble in FastCompany on the next email.
Yes Michael - there really is a web outside the U.S. and not everyone is on Facebook.
James Seng points to a YouTube video of some old AT&T campaigns - called ‘You Will’. I hope this puts to rest any notion that Web 2.0 is new or that the web was really the web - before video. Video, kiosks, open standards and human oriented solutions - are the cornerstone of our future. Not geeky, sci-fi, geewhiz, flip it quick mentality.
Congrats to Orb on breaking 1M users.
Congrats to Scott Heiferman, Adam Seifer and John Borthwick - on selling Fotolog. Fotolog was the original original social photo sharing site - before Flickr, delicious, Facebook, anything - there was Fotolog. It’s over five years old. They were wildly accepted in Brazil, Japan and elsewhere - but typical of the Arrington 50,000 - no one else had a clue what was going on. I was interviewed by 3i when they invested. Adam was the heart behind Fotolog while Scott ran MeetUp. They brought in Borthwick (apparently to ‘flip it.) And he did!
dapper is continuing to make strides - this time with a Facebook AppMaker. Congrats to Jon Aizen et al. Mazel Tov!
Friendster has trouble keeping up - no! REALLY! 
Women in Art - via Rory Sutherland - yup, YouTube is still there. Then there’s also Women in Film.
Masala, Jooce, HeyNeilsen, MyNYTimes (kind of sad - really), Yelp events,
Valleywag is guessing that just because an AOL job listing is looking for someone to head up a large company’s efforts in social networking - that it must be AOL. Dude - believe it or not - almost EVERY large company is looking for create a social network!
August 28th, 2007 at 1:27 pm
Fotolog is one of the most interesting sites on the net to see what people are doing in virtually every country on earth. Flickr is a great app but I don’t believe its uptake is anywhere as high in non-US locations. Its amazing to look at fotologs for countries in Africa and realized that only the local white people have access to these tools yet.