May 2008
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The Social Media Press Release: What Is It And Why...
So now I am a “social media maverick”… Hmmm. Maybe that’s pretty close. But the show notes make me sound like a prick. Maybe Spininfluencer’s Eric Schwartzman doesn’t like me much.
[from Spinfluencer: On the Record…Online with Social Media Maverick Stowe Boyd]
SHOW NOTES:
04:40 - Boyd sounds off on the new ethics of the blogoshere and how he ruffled...
Weinberger and Jarvis (Why I Love Twitter #2)
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Weinberger and Jarvis, originally uploaded by Stowe Boyd.
This could be good.
Drama 2.0 on Venture Capitalists
[from Ross Levinsohn: From Big Rounds to Down Rounds : The Drama 2.0 Show]
Of course, the semi-initiated know that only a handful of venture capital firms have proven an ability to consistently pick big winners and that most VCs are little more than McKinsey types who know everything about building a business in theory but couldn’t run a local pizza joint if you gave them a manual....
Enable Google Contact Sync Without an iPhone or...
I am trying this Lifehacker tweak to enable Google Contacts sync with Address Book.
Breaking Out Blogger Pay
Fred Wilson creates a cascade by stating a seemingly simple question: if the conversation is migrating off the blog comment space, then authors of the initial ‘content’ loses the feedback that might be considered their due as authors. Note: this is a post where most of the action is in the comments.
My brother, known as Jackson to the blog world, wrote a wonderful post on the...
Getting Down To The Heart Of The Matter: Twitter...
Al3x says:
[from Twitter Technology Blog]
Twitter is, fundamentally, a messaging system. Twitter was not architected as a messaging system, however. For expediency’s sake, Twitter was built with technologies and practices that are more appropriate to a content management system. Over the last year and a half we’ve tried to make our system behave like a messaging system as much...
Twitter Switches To Tumblr For Service Updates
I never understood how Twitter could use its own platform to update users about outages, so this makes sense:
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The Social Revolution: Why The New Web Matters
[I gave this talk at the Next08 conference a few weeks ago, in Hamburg.]
What is the web worth?
How would you go about valuing it, if you had to? Is it worth all the tea in china? If Google wanted to buy the whole thing, what would it cost? Every blog post, spam comment, Wikipedia entry, and hyperlink: what would we charge if Martians arrived and wanted to buy it?
The hardware involved...
Surprise, Surprise!
[from An Op-Ed Need for Diverse Voices by Deborah Howell]
The [Washington] Post’s op-ed page is too male and too white. And there aren’t a lot of youthful opinions, either.
I have nothing against older white men; I’m married to one. And the nation’s power structure, often represented in Post op-eds, is white, male and at least middle-aged. But a 21st-century op-ed page needs more ...
No Vision
Tim O’Reilly cut to the heart of the Microsoft Malaise:
[from Slow Dissolve: Bill and Steve at the D Conference - Bits - Technology - New York Times Blog]
In response to a question asked by Tim O’Reilly, the computer book publisher and conference impresario, about whether Microsoft had a “big hairy audacious goal,” in the tradition of its original commitment to put a personal computer...
Nokia Bluetooth Stereo Headset BH-903
I am using a bluetooth headset for the first time, the new Nokia BH-903 (courtesy of their bloggers program). Instead of hanging on your ear like a Star Trek device, it hangs on your chest with more or less standard earplugs, more like an iPod than a phone device, although with a strong cord behind your neck to hold it up.
I have been wearing it on walks, listening to NPR on its built-in...
The Blogosphere: A Mass Movement from Grass Roots...
Courtesy of eMarketer:
[from The Blogosphere: A Mass Movement from Grass Roots - eMarketer]
Buoyed by these massive levels of consumer engagement, US blog advertising will reach $746 million in 2012, up from $283 million in 2007.
Paul Graham on Six Principles for Making New...
[from Six Principles for Making New Things by Paul Graham]
Here it is: I like to find (a) simple solutions (b) to overlooked problems (c) that actually need to be solved, and (d) deliver them as informally as possible, (e) starting with a very crude version 1, then (f) iterating rapidly.
I like the fact that his title numbers then six, but he uses letters in the text.
Sample Of Responses To My Question: How To Keep...
So, what are people using for keeping track of stuff that pops up on the web? Bookmarks in the browser? Social tools? What? Stowe Boyd about 18h ago via twhirl
@stoweboyd Diigo works well for me robpatrob at 26-05-2008 22:55
@stoweboyd del.icio.us and friendfeed #tracking ninefish at 26-05-2008 22:35
@stoweboyd i have the bookmarklet too, but i dunno, somehow it doesn’t gel with...
Linus Pauling
The best way to get a good idea is to get a lot of ideas.
Social TV: Everybody Wants It [reposted from 24...
[reposted from 24 March 2005 from Get Real]
Everybody is talking about social TV (so I created a new category for it). Olga Kharif posted on research going on at PARC, which will incorporate Tivo and instant messaging elements:
Indeed, in many ways, Social TV will be similar to the Instant Messenger you already use on your computer. Only it will be more dynamic: Social TV software, located...
Darren Waters on Social TV
I don’t remember the first time I used the term social TV, but it’s definitely in vogue at last:
[from BBC NEWS | dot.life | A blog about technology from BBC News | TV becomes social again]
Last night I was watching Eurovision with Twitter runnng on my laptop. In real time, my Twitter friends and I shared comments and made observations about the event as it was happening.
...
Kevin Marks on Organic, Not Viral
[from Kevin Marks - 19 minutes ago from web in reply to KathySierra]
@kathysierra I’ve been saying “be organic, not viral” but recently I’ve been thinking r vs K strategies. “be a mammal not a dandelion”
Om Malik On Twitter Metering
Om thinks the fat cats on Twitter should have to pay:
[from In Twitter’s Scoble Problem, a Business Model - GigaOM.
This massive database of followers is what Twitter should turn into a business. Twitter should charge Scoble, Leo, Me, Michael Arrington and anyone else who has more than 100 friends & followers. How about something simple: $10 a month for 1000 subscribers. 25,000...
Plazes - Sneak Peek Upcoming Version
Plazes - Sneak Peek Upcoming Version, originally uploaded by fiahless.
Finally got a chance to look at the sneak peek of the upcoming Plazes.
From The Far Side To The Dark Side: Video From...
Stowe Boyd: From The Far Side To The Dark Side Uploaded by GoingSolo
I enjoyed giving the presentation, and the event was very well-received.
PR Secrets? Hmmm...
Loic Lemeur thinks the idea of PR Secrets is bullshit. He makes a case that other CEOs should follow his supremely extroverted and super-connected lead, and skip the PR, getting right into community connectedness.
He suggests that Brian Solis’ recommendations are at least merely tactics, or at the best misleading.
I guess I fall in the middle on this one. I think that CEOs like Loic...
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Friendfeed And Twitter: Between A Rock And A...
There is a chorus of voices that suggest that Friendfeed should inherit the mantle of web sociality that Twitter has claimed in recent months.
Steve Rubel twittered this, yesterday [first post at bottom]:
@infoman Friendfeed has RSS. See the bottom of the page. 10:41 AM May 24, 2008 from web in reply to infoman
@steverubel That’s the beauty of Friendfeed. You can participate from...
98% Chimp, But What A Difference 2% Makes
Michael Tomasello writes in the New York Times about the similarities and differences between people and our nearest relatives shown by recent studies comparing 2 year old and adult chimps and orangutangs:
[from Idea Lab - How Are Humans Unique? - Intelligence - Evolution - Idea Lab - NYTimes.com]
When you look at apes and children in situations requiring them to put their heads together,...
Mapping Job Cuts In Newspapers
The folks at Paper Cuts have a Google mashup that tracks job losses at newspapers in the US.
More On Housecleaning: The Return of /Ambivalence
I am going to drop the use of daily publishing of bookmarks, which was a shorthand communication at best. I find that I am not using bookmarks, really, for my own journey on the web anymore, so it seems out of step with what I am up to.
I am going to divide what has been going there into two piles: either a short post directly on /Message, or a post on my tumble blog, /Ambivalence. [Note...
Guardian Looking Under The Wrong Rock
[from David Smith: What happens when bloggers bare all then get caught in the brutal blowback | Media | The Observer]
A blog is created every second, but are people who use it to share their most intimate details ready to face the potentially shocking consequences, asks David Smith
Bullshit. This is the result of the unprepared being smashed in the face by minor stardom derived from...
Daily Links
Microsoft Will Shut Down Book Search Program - NYTimes.com
Microsoft is bailing in a small niche of the search market, leaving the ground to Google. Will we look back on this as the high water mark in its search efforts, and from now on, it will just be retrenching?
Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
Tags: microsoft, search, google, book search, internet archives
Saturday Interview - Changing the Game With...
Cracking the Code: Selling through Social Tools...
[reposted from Darwin, Sept 2004]
Intuitively, we all know the value of social networks. Gossip and politics are latent in the wiring of the human mind (or soul, depending on your religious bent), like the capacity to talk or perceive colors. And just like speech and color vision, social networking is something that most people do unconsciously, without a great deal of reflection.
As an ...
Swarm Intelligence: The Socialization of the...
[reposted from Darwin, July 2004]
In 1999, I wrote a piece about Abuzz, a then-newly funded start-up that had developed a fascinating expertise management solution. The product was called BeeHive, and was based on insights about emergent behavior in groups that grew out of research into the interactions and behavior of social insects, hence the name. The premise of BeeHive was to enable an...
Get Real [reposted from Darwin, May 2004]
[formerly published in Darwin, May 2004]
Every day, 3.2 billion instant messages flit around the globe, moving between 400 million or so folks that are tied into the global instant messaging (IM) networks of AOL, MSN, Yahoo, and others. 30% of that traffic is business, not teenagers swapping gossip or MP3 files. Hard-headed business types conducting normal business through IM. A whopping 1 ...
House Cleaning At /Message
It’s Memorial Day weekend, which seems like a great time to do some housecleaning at /Message.
Flickr and Soup — I am going to try to move away from posting all sorts of screenshots at Flickr for /Message. There’s a number of steps involved, and I think it would be better to have a totally different stream for screenshottery, and leave Flickr as a repository for real...
Daily Links
Microsoft embraces ‘Bring Your Own Laptop’ model | Beyond Binary - A blog by Ina Fried - CNET News.com
Kidaro and others support a desktop virtualization model that could change enterprise notions of what’s acceptable as a laptop environment
Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
Tags: kidaro, desktop virtualization, microsoft
Twitter: Why not use WebSphere MQ?
Why not indeed. Or Jabber...
As Bad As It Gets: The Case For Twitpitches, Part...
My Twitpitch idea has caught some attention, especially Sarah Perez at ReadWriteWeb:
[from Twitpitch: The Elevator Pitch Hits Twitter]
Twitpitch. We love it. It’s brilliant. It’s social media put to work. We hope it catches on.
And just to show why it’s a good idea, on a personal level, here’s just one of the email pitches I got today, one of like 30:
This is the...
Under The Radar: Social Media and Entertainment, 3...
I will be headed to the Social Media and Entertainment episode of Under The Radar in just over a week. An amazingly interesting collection of companies, investors, analysts, journalists and pundits. I will be live twittering.
The folks at Deal Maker are passing along a $100 discount, so click through here, and get in for $595. See you there!
Social Media and Entertainment
June 3, 2008 |...
Daily Links
Reality TV Show for Startups Announced; RWW Editor a Judge - ReadWriteWeb
Richard MacManus will be one of three judges in a startup reality TV show in New Zealand. Yikes.
Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
Tags: startup, launchpad, richard macmanus
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Twitpitch: Slingpage
Slingpage: one-click instant web sharing http://tinyurl.com/49x2bu about 16 hours ago by CMajor from web in reply to stoweboyd
It's Not The Data, It's The Flow
Fred Wilson paraphrases Umair Haque on the value of social network data:
[from It’s Not The Data, It’s The Flow | The Industry Standard]
I don’t think it’s the data that’s so valuable, it’s the flow of the data through the service.
Plaxo Is Acquired By... Comcast?
Plaxo, has apparently been acquired on the strength of its Pulse offering, by Comcast. Uh, Comcast? That’s almost like being acquired by Exxon, or Proctor and Gamble.[from
Comcast to Acquire Plaxo.
Pulse to Become Central to Creating Unified “Social Media” Experience Across the Web, the TV (and more)
Big doings at Plaxo today! We are really excited to announce some of the ...
@stoweboyd Starts Something Small
[update: 15 Apr 5pm — see Web 2.0 Twitpitch Schedule - Updated 15 Apr 5pm ET for updated schedule and available slots.]
I can’t believe what a pain in the ass it still is to do something as basic as trying to schedule meetings with startups at a conference. The solution is probably to hire a PR firm to do it, since they seem so incredibly avid in their relentless pursuit in...
Enterprise 2.0 Launchpad: Round Two Videos Up
The next round of the launchpad videos are up for Enterprise 2.0, go take a look at the eight contestants, and make a vote:
Acquia
GroupSwim
Newsgator
Project SocialSite
Seero.com
Spaceo.us
Veodia
Wrike
This round — decided over the next week — will lead to the selection of the four finalists, who will pitch their solutions live at the conference in Boston in June.
Daily Links
Journalism From the Bottom of the Boat - New York Times
“In Zimbabwe, where a television cameraman was abducted and beaten to death last year, Barry Bearak of The Times was arrested last month and charged with “committing journalism.” The arrest came on the same day that Bearak’s byline ran on Page 1 from the capital, Harare. He had asked that his byline be left off articles about...
Presentations From Next08 and Going Solo
My head is spinning, but I had a great time at the wonderful Next08 conference in Hamburg (despite my early departure) and the more collegial and fun Going Solo in Lausanne. The slideshows — The Social Revolution: Why The New Web Matters, and From The Far Side To The Dark Side: A Crash Course In Business Realities — are up on Slideshare.net. I hope to create annotated posts...
Daily Links
Going Solo: Stowe Boyd - From The Far Side To The Dark Side: A Crash Course In Business Realities For Soloists. Strange Attractor: Picking out patterns in the chaos
Suw live blogged my going solo preso in Lausanne. She’s unbelievable.
Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
Tags: going solo, suw charman, from the far side to the dark side, cautionary tales
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Businessweek on The Escalator Pitch
John Tozzi profiles the Twitpitch:
[from The Escalator Pitch]
Forget the elevator pitch. Forget the press release. Forget the PowerPoint deck. If you were making a “Twitpitch” about your business, it would be over by now.
A what? A Twitpitch forces you to tell your company’s story in 140 characters (about 20 words), the maximum length of a message on Twitter, a...
Next08: Google, Yahoo, and Facebook Presentations
[My twitter stream from Next08 yesterday]
Keynotes at #next08 Geraldine Wilson from Google on mobile Wilson: <20% internet use on mobile in Europe, due to lack of flat rate for all you can eat #next08 Wilson: Users want to do other things, and services are changing. #next08Wilson: speed is also a factor, and mobile connectivity is improving dramatically: 7.2M - 14M/s #next08 Wilson:...
Daily Links
Pitch Media Using Twitter
Jason Kinzler on Twitpitch.
Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
Tags: twitpitch, jason kinzler, micropr
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Marketonomy: WHIM Interview with Stowe Boyd
It’s over a year old, but Christopher Kenton thinks this interview with me is still interesting:
Marketonomy: WHIM Interview with Stowe Boyd
Everything Is Different
[Originally published on the Visible Path Centrality blog, 10 January 2005]
In Albert-László Barabási’s Linked, the author explains that the origin of the “six degrees of separation” notion that underlies all social networking theory was the brain child of a Hungarian writer, Frigyes Karinthy. In 1929, Karinthy published his forty-sixth book, a collection of short stories entitled...
Enterprise 2.0 Launchpad: First Round Results
The first round results for the Enterprise 2.0 Launchpad have been tallied, and our round of eight comprises the following companies (alphabetically): Acquia, GroupSwim, NewsGator, Seero.com, SocialSite, Spaceo.us, Veodia, and Wrike.
The contestants will have until 19 May to come up with a new pitch of under two minutes, and then we will have another week of voting, leading to a round of...