May 2007
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/Talkshow: Postponed Till Monday
The connectivity at Reboot is unstable, so I will be recording interviews haer, and doing the show on Monday, at 10:30am PT.
Apologies.
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/Talkshow: This Week Reboot, Next Week Tony Conrad
I am in Copenhagen this week, for the Reboot conference. I interviewed Thomas Madsen-Mygdal, the founder of Reboot, last week about the upcoming show and the soul of Reboot. This week I will be trying to broadcast live from wherever we are partying Thursday evening 7:30pm Copenhagen time, which is 10:30am PT. I plan on dragging in various folks that are attending.
Next week I will be back in...
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CBS Buys Last.fm
I am slightly out of touch here in Copenhagen — my hotel does not have Internet in the rooms — so I learned that CBS has acquired Last.fm via Twitter today (thanks, Paulo).
[from from Reuters]
Media group CBS Corp said on Wednesday it had paid $280 million in cash for the popular music social network service Last.fm.
CBS said in a statement the online service had more than 15...
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Jangl Call Anyone Service
I was emailed about a new service from Jangl that allows you to get a phone number to call anyone who has an email. For example, you could try to find a number to call me via my gmail account:
http://callme.jangl.com/stowe.boyd@gmail.com
Which provides a Jangl intermediary number assigned to my email address. You call the number — note: that you have to sign up with Jangle to do so ...
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Blogtalkradio: Facebook and Skype Integrations,...
I have been enjoying the interviews at /Talkshow. Some great people over the last few weeks, like Thomas Madsen-Mygdal, Leisa Reichelt, and Ted Rheingold.
The more I use the Blogtalkradio.com solution, the more I enjoy doing the show, but also the more I want other features.
Blogtalkradio.com, as a sponsor of the show, has set up a service that they may want to offer to other users at a price:...
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/Work: Entrepreneurialitis and Start-Up Fever
Working with a client recently, an executive said something along these lines:
We don’t need to do the right thing, because we can do the wrong thing really well.
This has got to be one of the most dangerous sorts of thinking in start-ups, which I believe are all psychological reactions to stress, leading to ‘entrepreneurialitis’. Here’s others that I worry about...
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Bloggers More Connected Than Journalists
A Plaxo-sponsored survey discovered that bloggers are more connected than journalists and reporter:
[via email from Alicia Mickelsen (Breakaway Communications)]
A new survey to be announced tomorrow rated 50 different professions by connectedness and found some interesting results – including that bloggers are more connected than reporters/journalists/writers. The survey compared the size...
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/Talkshow: Thomas Madsen-Mygdal on Reboot
This Friday May 25, at 9:30am PT, Thomas Madsen-Mygdal of Reboot will be joining me for a talk about the upcoming Reboot conference. Reboot was the best thing I did last year, and I am looking forward to being there next week. Thomas and I will talk about the factors that make Reboot so great, and what we are going to see there this year. I see that there is a waiting list, since the capacity...
/Talkshow: Thomas Madsen-Mygdal on Reboot
We’ve rescheduled this Friday’s interview with Thomas Madsen-Mygdal of Reboot to 11am PT.
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Edward Vielmetti on Twitter
[from Twitter / Edward Vielmetti
if you can’t twitter something nice, don’t twitter anything at all.
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Could Open Email Work for You?
Having a morning chat with JP Rangaswami, who will be on a panel session with me today at the Cutter Summit. JP has adopted an unusual approach to email.
JP has set up a stringent approach to filtering his email. He throws all email where he is CC’d directly into the trash. Basically, he only reads email directed to him, alone. Of course, for this to have any influence on...
The Piazza dela Riforma Sessions
David Mantripp created a slideshow from our coffee break in Lugano, starring Hans and Stowe: see slideshow.
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It's the Message, Not the Medium
I have been asked to present a luncheon keynote presentation at a PR conference, of all things: PR Online Convergence 07. I predict a lot of upset stomachs, and I may be dodging utensils once the food fight breaks out.
I will most likely be speaking on the topic “Bloggers and PR People: Why Can’t We Just Get Along?” and it’s a good topic: here’s one of the ...
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Social Networks Eclipsing Porn?
The Economist has a piece on the growth of Social Networks and the decline in interest for online porn:
[from Sex and the internet]
In America, the proportion of site visits that are pornographic is falling and people are flocking to sites categorised “net communities and chat”—chiefly social-networking sites such as MySpace, Bebo and Facebook. Traffic to such sites is poised to overtake...
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Facebook Evolving Into Platform
Rafat Ali picks up on rumors reported in the WSJ that Facebook will be making an announcement this week about a new platform strategy:
[from paidContent.org: The Economics of Content - Facebook Moving to An Open Platform Strategy]
Facebook will announce a new strategy to let other companies provide their services on special pages within its site, moving beyond its basic social networking...
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In Lugano, Working With ImaginVenture
David Mantripp caught me playing in the Piazza della Riforma this morning:
Here’s the view across the street from my hotel:
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Jamais Cascio on the Deathtrap Showers At The...
I struggled with the same shower issues that led Jamais to take this picture in London: Deathtrap Shower! on Flickr - Photo Sharing!.
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Another Bad Flying Experience: Virgin Atlantic
[Note: misposted this on /Message the other day. Jet lag. I moved the various comments over]
Headed to London from San Francisco, as I was checking in at Virgin, I saw a sign that suggested that for $110 I could upgrade for an emergency exit row, for extra leg room. “Sure,” I thought. Since I already had an aisle seat, I made sure it was an aisle. No problem. I was confirmed.
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/Talkshow: Leisa Reichelt (17 May 10:30am PT) on...
Leisa Reichelt of Flow Interactive and Disambiguity will be my guest this week on /Talkshow. I am going to poke into the whole idea of flow applications (twitter etc.) with Leisa, and her idea of ambient intimacy. Probably a presentiment of her talk at Reboot on Ambient Intimacy, as well as mine, Flow: A New Consciousness For A Web Of Traffic. (PS I think Reboot is going to be great this year!)
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Derek Powazek on Learning From Partnership Gone...
Derek Powasek has announced that he is no longer working with the company he co-founded, 8020, and that he will have no further involvement with JPG magazine. A business partnership slides off the tracks, and after the initial first aid, he offers some advice for entrepreneurs, or for anyone alive, really:
[from Derek Powazek – The Real Story of JPG Magazine]
If it’s any help to other...
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Feed Crier Acquired By IMified
Adam Kalsey hipped me to the acquisition of his Feed Crier business into IMified recently, and he’s announced it officially today:
[from Feed Crier climbs into bed with IMified :: Feed Crier]
For the last couple of months, we’ve been talking to IMified, sharing war stories, and helping them out with some ideas on how best to manage the signed on bot portion of the service. The more...
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Emily Yoffe on Facebook
It’s a bit swarmy, in that Sunday supplement style that ‘slice of life’ journalists employ like a long stick so they can poke at things that attract and repel them at the same time. However, Joffe’s experiences in fiddling with Facebook are actually pretty dead-on:
[from I’m fiftysomething, and I’m joining Facebook. You got a problem with that? - By Emily...
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Oral Sex Causes Throat Cancer
Now people will have a better excuse for saying ‘no’ when their partners ask for head:
[from Oral sex linked to throat cancer from BBC News]
A virus contracted through oral sex is the cause of some throat cancers, say US scientists.
HPV infection was found to be a much stronger risk factor than tobacco or alcohol use, the Johns Hopkins University study of 300 people found.
The ...
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The Secret Life Of Tomato Soup
Someone twittered about this great post by Gong Szeto:
[from The Secret Life of Tomato Soup]
1hr 45min total time. 4 keyword searches on Google. 38 reference sites. Photoshop. A 1MB .gif file. The mental exercise: Think of everything I possibly can about the making of canned tomato soup (I like tomato soup, and red matches my blog).
/Talkshow: Matt Colebourne, CEO coComment
Matt Colebourne, CEO coComment, will be on the show today at 10:30am PT. Be there or be square!
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Vladimir Nabokov
Our imagination flies; we are its shadow on earth.
[pointer Evelyn Rodriguez]
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What I Did On My Vacation
I don’t vacation well, but I am doing ok so far in Maui.
Maui feels like a collation of all the most exotic dreams a twelve-year-old could have. Sun, trade winds, swimming pool, beach, volcanoes.
But I am no longer twelve. My travel inclinations lean toward the cities of Europe, and long walks through urban settings. I don’t click with luxury resort living. The Glitz Carlton in...
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The Virtual Cocktail Party
John Girard, the CEO of Clickability, has posted the video of my presentation — Social Media: The Ecology Of Participation — at the Clickability | VIP conference a few weeks ago. Here’s his comments:
[from Blogging: the Great Virtual Cocktail Party]
Stowe Boyd did a very good job at our VIP Conference last week making the case for blogging. He’s a natural evangelist...
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PR Online Convergence: Not Speaking After All
I am sorry to say that I screwed up my calendar so I cannot be in LA to give a keynote at the PR Online Convergence conference. I had it on my calendar for 16 May, and arranged to fly from LA that evening to meetings with a client (Open University: see The Open University’s Open Universities Project) in London for the following 3 days. We have others coming in from the US and the UK, so...
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Stowe Boyd: Building Social Applications
It is a day for presentations, it seems. Laurent Haug pinged me this morning, letting me know that the video of my presentation from the Lift conference in Geneva is up. He had some kind words to say about the presentation, Social = Me First, and the workshop that I had given there, Building Social Applications.
I thought that I had written a “Social= Me First” post, but I...
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Ed Yourdon on Stowe Boyd on Web 2.0
Ed Yourdon was very much in the audience the other day when I keynoted the Cutter Summit in Boston (see Web 2.0: A Social Revolution), and he does a great job of capturing what I said, including why I may not click with older IT types:
[from Cutter Summit: Stowe Boyd on Web 2.0]
Monday afternoon’s session at the Cutter Summit was devoted to Web 2.0, with Stowe Boyd providing the keynote...
Henry David Thoreau
Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes.
/Talkshow today hosed
For reasons that escape me, I was unable to schedule the /Talkshow for today. Got some odd glitch.
Will have to reschedule. Apologies.
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PhoneBoy on N800 and Cingular
At least my unfamiliarity with the new N800 Internet Tablet — that I got in the mail from the nice folks at Nokia (full disclosure: I get this gear free in the Nokia bloggers program) — led to something positive. PhoneBoyd (aka Dameon Welch-Abernathy) walked me through rejiggering the settings on the N800 so I could connect through my cell phone (Nokia n80 at the moment) to...
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Pairup and Dopplr: Ships-Passing-In-The-Night
A few months ago I took a look at Pairup, wishing for the perfect ‘ships-passing-in-the-night’ app. (I wonder if Matt Biddulph read that, and started work on Dopplr?)
[from /Message: Pairup]
There is more to Pairup than finding old friends: the service is geared to helping business travelers meet new people as well, such as people attending the same event you are traveling to, or...
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/Message: Pairup
Pairup is a social networking service for business travelers that I really would like to have take off (pun intended). I have always wanted to use a “ships passing in the night” service, where I could simply state my travel plans, and I would discover that an old friend was going to be in New York City the same dates as me.
There is more to Pairup than finding old friends: the...
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PR Online Convergence: Speaker's Discount
If you are interested in the upcoming PR Online Convergence, 16-17 May in LA, I can pass along a speaker discount of $800. Just use promotional code 5n68a when you register online.
I will be keynoting at lunch on the first day, speaking on “Bloggers and PR People: Why Can’t We Just Get Along?”
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Andy Hobsbawm on Drucker And The Future Of The...
[from Small is the Next Big Thing: Built to shrink]
Drucker, who once joked that the only reason journalists called him a “guru” was because they couldn’t spell “charlatan”, also said this at the turn of the millennium: “The corporation as we know it, which is now 120 years old, is unlikely to survive the next 25 years. Legally and financially yes, but not structurally and economically.”...