early Aug ‘08 blogging
Lifestreaming - blogging - feh! Who cares what it’s called. Chav funn, dat’s vat I say……. chav fun boobble-uhs, chav fun.
Tag Clouds R.I.P. I completely disagree with Rob Cottingham here. Paolo’s Nova100 site has an excellent two-level tag cloud. Tagging is a ball which our industry collectively dropped. Technorati and delicious made great strides early on, and Flickr has been inspiring people since then, but what else? What’s next? That doesn’t mean it’s dead - it means that VCs aren’t funding anyone you’ve heard of. When was the last time you were in Singapore or Dubai? I know of an innovative stickies platform right now - coming out of Singapore - that I’m an advisor to. And it’s competing with a stickies platform from Amsterdam. Nowhere in this equation does Silicon Valley enter - except they BOTH think they need to be here. Josh Lowensohn groks tags.
I strongly believe in the idea behind the mantra “Change the World or Go Home“.
Unlike anything that has come before it, the combination of software
and the World Wide Web has the potential to connect people and empower
them in more ways than humanity has never seen. And it is possible to
become immensely rich while moving humanity forward with the software
that you create.
News of LinkedIn limiting the number of groups someone can be a member of. I wonder what that means?
Now folks are starting to see how much power Apple and Facebook have. Its all about the apps and the stack/card system for dispensing those apps. Those who appear upfront and first - win.
Congrats to all those Facebookers - who are now officially rich - at a measly $4B valuation.
Coolio - we can store our recorded TV shows “in the cloud” - now we just need COMCAST to support this.
Dennis Haarsager continues to kick ass - using some of that NPR trust fund money to make strategic acquisitions. Thsi is teh guy who brought us APIs for NPR.
Dan Farber has a great post on Rearden Commerce’s plans for consumer assistance service. This is the mother load of web services. I’ve been involved in several startups who vied for this kind of consumer based service. Once everything is online, it’s all gonna be about integration, aggregation and customizaton. Good luck to Reardon Commerce!
Google sites to replace Google Page Creator
Loic discovers Social Engine. Sounds like our company.
Stanley Kubrick’s Boxes - thanks Brian for the pointer!
Om Malik interviewed Kevin Lynch. What he didn’t ask him was “how can you call it on-line Photoshop when there are no pencils or brushes and you can’t tweak bits?” Cause I don’t see that in the on-line version of Photoshop. Now maybe they only give you the brushes and pencils when you PAY FOR IT- now THAT would be coolio (and fairly visionary I may say) - but I suspect it was just too hard to do - so after waiting 10 years they gave us an on-line photoshop that gets rid of red eye, crops and changes sizes and resolution. That’s not Photoshop. Now Om COULD have asked him that question, maybe he did, I just don’t see it anywhere. :-) [NOTE: That's what's known as a "I'm so bored I'm getting pretty snarky today" post remark.] 
Arrington launches Teens in Tech - for a teen - who thinks he’s launching Teens in Tech (which is just a placeholder page) - but is really just a shill for - Arrington. But it makes for good copy on a boring summer day.
Jeremy Zawodny is starting to realize he has his work cut out for him
JPEG patent single claim rejected. The patent is under review.
Social dimensions of P2P and the semantic web
Marc,
I don’t think Rob is saying RIP tags. I believe he’s saying RIP tag clouds. As a visualization tool for tags, I think Rob is likely correct, they were interesting but provide very little value when compared to a more common visualization like ordering. Even the read/write site uses clouds redundantly. They order them from most popular to least and then apply a “cloud” (More popular tags being larger).
What’s the point?
Marc,
I don’t think Rob is saying RIP tags. I believe he’s saying RIP tag clouds. As a visualization tool for tags, I think Rob is likely correct, they were interesting but provide very little value when compared to a more common visualization like ordering. Even the read/write site uses clouds redundantly. They order them from most popular to least and then apply a “cloud” (More popular tags being larger).
What’s the point?
Marc,
I don’t think Rob is saying RIP tags. I believe he’s saying RIP tag clouds. As a visualization tool for tags, I think Rob is likely correct, they were interesting but provide very little value when compared to a more common visualization like ordering. Even the read/write site uses clouds redundantly. They order them from most popular to least and then apply a “cloud” (More popular tags being larger).
What’s the point?
OK rank newbie and non-techie here, looking for answer to question: how to feed my current music to a kind of personal podcast without simply pasting Youtube music video URLs into Twitter. Lifestreams link above yielded lots of info but not the simple answer to my question.
If I am listening to a series of Youtube clips, is there a simple way to post these in a kind of 2008 version of our old cassette mix tapes we made for each other? I am so out of it, I know, please be kind in your response.
For right now I could just make a blog post full of links, or tweet furiously. How about a personal podcast that I create and put on my blog for my friends to access? OK, I don’t use I-tunes so maybe I’m missing something really obvious. Again, please be kind to this housewife and late adapter.
OK rank newbie and non-techie here, looking for answer to question: how to feed my current music to a kind of personal podcast without simply pasting Youtube music video URLs into Twitter. Lifestreams link above yielded lots of info but not the simple answer to my question.
If I am listening to a series of Youtube clips, is there a simple way to post these in a kind of 2008 version of our old cassette mix tapes we made for each other? I am so out of it, I know, please be kind in your response.
For right now I could just make a blog post full of links, or tweet furiously. How about a personal podcast that I create and put on my blog for my friends to access? OK, I don’t use I-tunes so maybe I’m missing something really obvious. Again, please be kind to this housewife and late adapter.
OK rank newbie and non-techie here, looking for answer to question: how to feed my current music to a kind of personal podcast without simply pasting Youtube music video URLs into Twitter. Lifestreams link above yielded lots of info but not the simple answer to my question.
If I am listening to a series of Youtube clips, is there a simple way to post these in a kind of 2008 version of our old cassette mix tapes we made for each other? I am so out of it, I know, please be kind in your response.
For right now I could just make a blog post full of links, or tweet furiously. How about a personal podcast that I create and put on my blog for my friends to access? OK, I don’t use I-tunes so maybe I’m missing something really obvious. Again, please be kind to this housewife and late adapter.
Cool. Come by and hypnotize yourself if you please
Cool. Come by and hypnotize yourself if you please
Cool. Come by and hypnotize yourself if you please