Poking around the intersection of KM and Social Media
Like the title says, just type in something (your name, your web address, a small phrase) and this great little online tool will take what you typed in and fetch pictures from Flickr for each letter. Give it a try — it’s a very cool Flickr applet! read more | digg story
Is it just me, or was last week’s launch of Tello a non-event? Sure, they have a great pedigree; Tello was the brainchild of Vonage founder Jeff Pulver. The board includes Craig McCraw (started what became AT&T Wireless) and John Scully (of PepsiCo and later Apple notoriety). But their namesake product, which is aimed squarely […]
Chris Pirillo ruminates on the comment systems of Slashdot and Digg (and how both are broken). Digg and Slashdot are both powerful in terms of driving traffic, but nobody has yet bothered to compare the quality of comments between the two services. Until now, that is. On any given day, Digg has far more innane […]
This is an excerpt from Paul Graham’s essay on Web 2.0. …we advise all the startups we fund never to lord it over users. Never make users register, unless you need to in order to store something for them. If you do make users register, never make them wait for a confirmation link in an […]
For a long time, the Slashdot Effect or “being slashdotting” was the measure of a hot topic. Essentially it’s the effect of an article or webpage getting a lot of exposure on a highly trafficed website (i.e. Slashdot) and then getting the snot kicked out of the server as thousands of people descend upon it. […]
I like the simple interface of Google Talk. But like most people, I’m faced with the reality that I have a lot of contacts on other IM networks. Getting them to switch is not always an option. Thankfully, you can use Google Talk to chat with your friends and associates on any IM network, and […]
Yes, I was quoted in a front page story in yesterday’s Los Angeles Times. Was it about Web 2.0? Knowledge management? Social media? How about “none of the above?” Times staff writer Susannah Rosenblatt interviewed me for a story titled Growing Remote Areas See Fringe Benefits in Gov.’s Plan. The article discusses Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s […]