Posted in Social Networking, Uncategorized on Jun 27th, 2008
Last week I went with the matchmine crew to the Gary Vaynerchuk book signing/live show, and it was incredible. Dmirti Gunn organized a really amazing event, and we had the privilege of sponsoring the wine tasting portion of the evening.
Until I heard about the event, I’d never heard about Gary Vaynerchuk, the guy that’s trying […]
Posted in Human Factors, Semantic Web, Social Networking on May 16th, 2008
Peeling back the curtain on the Ministry of Openness here in the ‘Mine, we’re making excellent progress in the Science Lab. We’ve homed in on a process where we can extract meaning from a few of your feed services that already exist, and we’re iterating over a few more. The goal is to […]
Posted in Random Thoughts, Social Networking, Uncategorized on May 7th, 2008
Last week, I attended the Boston Social Media Breakfast with a bunch of really smart marketing, PR and technology folks. The topic was around how hiring in the 2.0 world has changed the game for job-seekers and job-fillers. There were pretty much three common themes across the speakers:
1 - You are your brand
2 - You […]
Posted in Business Strategy, Social Networking on Apr 28th, 2008
With much fanfare and dancing bears, we’re announcing a new virtual team at matchmine that’s focused on issues related to being open. Yup, that’s right, we’ve talked a lot about our view that data should be free to roam the digital plains and now we’re letting folks know we’re walking the walk.
We’ve pulled together […]
Posted in Business Strategy, Content Discovery, Social Networking on Apr 18th, 2008
It’s always been part of the matchmine mantra that encoding your personal interests and tastes in a portable MatchKey would benefit everyone involved. It’s obvious that users appreciate easily dancing among their favorite sites, knowing their preferences are following along. Content producers are similarly pleased with their ability to find their specific audience.
Beyond […]
Posted in Random Thoughts, Social Networking on Mar 25th, 2008
It was good to read the press release that Yahoo joined OpenSocial, and that along with Google and MySpace they’ve formed the OpenSocial Foundation. This move should greatly decrease the back-chatter between potentially competing social networking interfaces.
While it’s still a nascent set of standards, OpenSocial has the promise of being a solid foundation upon […]
Posted in Social Networking on Mar 24th, 2008
Now here’s a true milestone, both in the ascent of Twitter, and in the decline of western civilization.
Wow. brave new world.
Posted in Media Delivery, Social Networking on Mar 24th, 2008
Monthly column on Adotas, reflections on Twitter coming off the SXSW experience:
Twitter is for real people.
Twitter is hard to understand for normal people. The service – approaching 1 million users in the neighborhood of its first birthday – is among the most rapidly adopted applications ever. Without hyperbole, I would say that every marketing exec […]
Posted in Social Networking on Jan 15th, 2008
In the process of doing research to find ways to make our website- and more importantly our web experience- better, Nathan passed along iminlikewithyou.com citing the simplicity and elegance of their signup process. At first glance, I chuckled to myself and thought “typical teeny-bopper…” Bubbly, cute rainbows, clouds and pastels welcomed me to […]
Posted in Social Networking on Jan 7th, 2008
Chris Saad has a great article entitled “Top 3 Privacy issues for DataPortability on Social Networks” on the core issues at the center of the data portability debate. Asked for his top 3 concerns for privacy on social networks, Saad answered:
Perception
Control
Language
Chris’ second answer was the one that stuck with me. In his […]
