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Streaming Ads?

stowe b. posted an article on - Dec 3, 2009, 10:22 am
Now that Typepad is going Micro, will they cook up a form of streaming ads as well?
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Battelle Says Google Should Surrender To Facebook

stowe b. posted an article on - Dec 3, 2009, 10:07 am
But honestly, if Google really wants to get social, why doesn't it do what Yahoo's already done, and admit Facebook pretty much owns the social graph? After all, Facebook has already admitted ...
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More Proof (If We Needed It) That Americans Are Dumber Than A Bag Full Of Hammers

stowe b. posted an article on - Dec 3, 2009, 10:01 am
[crossposted from /Ambivalence] Most Americans (52%) believe that there continues to be significant disagreement within the scientific community over global warming. While many advocates of aggr...
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By/Association

stowe b. posted an article on - Dec 3, 2009, 9:47 am
By/Association is a private service. Members are screened after filling out a somewhat lengthy online application with a series of questions about themselves and their interests. Since the service was...
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reblog: block that metaphor - sippey.com

stowe b. posted an article on - Dec 3, 2009, 9:00 am
I finally read Ken Auletta's New Yorker piece about Google this past weekend, and of course with 20/20 hindsight enjoyed the vignette of Karmazin complaining about Google's plan for advertisin...
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Yahoo And Facebook, Sitting In A Tree, K-I-S-S-I-N-G

stowe b. posted an article on - Dec 3, 2009, 8:39 am
Yahoo, which is announcing the partnership, says the deal is part of its Yahoo Open strategy, designed to make experiences on the site more open to the wider Web and more personally relevant for its 5...
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Facebook Is Dumbing Down Privacy, But Really We Need 'Eddies' In The Stream

stowe b. posted an article on - Dec 3, 2009, 8:08 am
To make privacy simpler, Facebook's controls will be changed to permit sharing with three groups: "only friends," "friends of friends," or "everyone." In addition, the Privacy Page itself will be ...
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Facebook's Mutual Friends

stowe b. posted an article on - Dec 3, 2009, 5:38 am
Facebook has also been on the receiving end of some heavy criticism this year for an array of privacy issues and a perceived desire to look and act more like Twitter. Some of these concerns are valid,...
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FTC Says You Must Confess Your Freebies

stowe b. posted an article on - Dec 3, 2009, 5:31 am
Beginning today, bloggers, Twitterers, and others who write online reviews or endorse products using new media must disclose it when they receive free merchandise or payment for writing about an item....
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Tumblebacks Convention: Now A Microsyntax.org Project

stowe b. posted an article on - Dec 2, 2009, 10:22 am
Based on positive response to the Tumblebacks idea of interoperability between tumbleblogging platforms (see A Call For Interoperable Tumbling: Tumbleback), I am announcing a new Microsyntax.org initi...
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Volunteers Log Off as Wikipedia Ages - WSJ.com

stowe b. posted an article on - Nov 23, 2009, 9:06 pm
Volunteers have been departing the project that bills itself as "the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit" faster than new ones have been joining, and the net losses have accelerated over the past y...
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Employee Discontent Expected to Reach Crisis Level Next Year

stowe b. posted an article on - Nov 23, 2009, 8:59 pm
Do you plan to pursue new job opportunities as the economy improves in 2010? – 60% – Yes, I intend to leave – 21% – Maybe, so I’m networking – 6% – Not likely, but I’ve updated m...
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links for 2009-11-23

stowe b. posted an article on - Nov 23, 2009, 10:04 am
The 800 Pound Gorilla Problem Brad Feld does a check sum on being the 800 lb gorilla in a market: what if you are a 12 lb gorrilla, instead? (tags: bradfeld)
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i = Future Of Newspapers = Think, Know, Understand, and Feel

stowe b. posted an article on - Nov 23, 2009, 9:03 am
Interesting piece about a Lisbon-based online newspaper that is turning the design of papers upside down. What i is doing differently I is not structured like a traditional paper. The paper's ...
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My New Signature Block

stowe b. posted an article on - Nov 23, 2009, 8:44 am
Stowe Boyd Front Man, Stowe Boyd and The /Messengers stoweboyd@stoweboyd.com = (ok, but I'd rather use other tools) stoweboyd.com/message = operating manual for the social revolution ambivalence...
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Gen-Y Women Are Webful

stowe b. posted an article on - Nov 23, 2009, 7:05 am
Trust in Internet, Online Reviews, Blogs Gen-Y women are technologically savvy, and their perception of the world around them has been shaped by the Internet. They are more likely than their Gen-X ...
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A Speculative Post on the Idea of Algorithmic Authority « Clay Shirky

stowe b. posted an article on - Nov 23, 2009, 5:49 am
Algorithmic authority is the decision to regard as authoritative an unmanaged process of extracting value from diverse, untrustworthy sources, without any human standing beside the result saying “Tr...
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Ulrike Reinhard Interview: The Web And The Post-Everything Economy

stowe b. posted an article on - Nov 22, 2009, 3:46 pm
My friend Ulrike recently interviewed me for a documentary she's working on. It runs an hour, and touches on the web from a variety of angles. I touch on 'The Post-Everything Economy', ...
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Cell Phone Blocking

stowe b. posted an article on - Nov 22, 2009, 9:38 am
One group of companies assume that some people know they can’t help themselves, and therefore want a service to automatically disable their cellphone when it is in a moving car. But other companie...
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More On Cross-Platform Tumbling: Following Is Mostly RSS

stowe b. posted an article on - Nov 20, 2009, 7:28 pm
In two recent posts (Typepad Goes After Tumblr, A Call For Interoperable Tumbling: Tumbleback) I explored the idea of cross-platform tumbling. In particular, I suggested a construct I called 'tu...
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links for 2009-11-14

stowe b. posted an article on - Nov 14, 2009, 10:03 am
Tumblr Shares Stats: 20 Million Uniques, 420 Million Impressions Per Month Very high stick rates, too (tags: Technology tumblr)
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Twitpitch: That Failed Idea

stowe b. posted an article on - Nov 13, 2009, 10:54 pm
After talking with an entrepreneur who was having trouble articulating the vision for his start up, it occurred to me that it might be fun to host a twitter stream of 140-character elevator pitches...
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links for 2009-11-12

stowe b. posted an article on - Nov 12, 2009, 10:03 am
With Facebook as Alibi, Brooklyn Robbery Charge Is Dropped - NYTimes.com Man uses a facebook posting as an alibi, and gets off a robbery charge. ...
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Verizon's Top 10 Hot Tech Trends For Business

stowe b. posted an article on - Nov 12, 2009, 7:52 am
Social networks will spread further in the workplace, taking collaboration to a new level. As the lines between professional and personal communications become increasingly blurred, IT leaders will ne...
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links for 2009-11-11

stowe b. posted an article on - Nov 11, 2009, 10:03 am
Google hopes to remake programming with Go | Deep Tech - CNET News Google corrals Rob Pike, Ken Thompson, and others to whip up a new programming language called Go. (t...
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Twitter Retweet Post Cascade

stowe b. posted an article on - Nov 11, 2009, 9:46 am
I love these cascades where a post leads to a mazillion tweets.  
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Chris Messina's New Microsyntax

stowe b. posted an article on - Nov 11, 2009, 7:06 am
Chris Messina, well known for creating the hashtag (see Chris Messina on Twitter Tags) has some more ideas up his sleeve. Recall that when Chris suggested the hashtag, back in 2007, he intended to be ...
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links for 2009-11-10

stowe b. posted an article on - Nov 10, 2009, 10:06 am
Your Social Network is Limited to 150 Businesscard2.com Weblog No, it's not. Another person builds on a mistaken understanding of Dunbar's Number. ...
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links for 2009-11-09

stowe b. posted an article on - Nov 9, 2009, 10:04 am
BookBlog Blog Archive Are Twitter lists the new blogrolls? - Adina Levin's weblog. For conversation about books I've been reading, social software, and other stuff too. ...
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Twitter's New Retweet

stowe b. posted an article on - Nov 9, 2009, 6:12 am
My initial reaction to the announcement that  Twitter was going to implement the retweet (RT) microsyntax as a basic function of the platform was shock (see Project Retweet: When Ultrastructure Becom...
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The Sum Of All Fears: The Social Business Naysayers

stowe b. posted an article on - Nov 6, 2009, 1:37 pm
My old friend Dennis Howlett revels in the role of doubting Thomas, perhaps more than anyone I know. His most recent screed has been attacking the Enterprise 2.0 meme, and by implication, those that a...
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Social Business Epicenter: The Website

stowe b. posted an article on - Nov 6, 2009, 11:46 am
I set up a website for the Social Business Epicenter, the new conference I am working on with Jeff Pulver. Check it out, subscribe to the mailing list or the RSS feed for updates.
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Bettween: I Like The Idea, But...

stowe b. posted an article on - Nov 6, 2009, 7:08 am
First time I tried the app, tracking chatter with my pay, @euan, and he and I have have had just too many tweets since we started. I hazard this will be unusable for anyone with a long history, since ...
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The Future Of Money: Conclusions

stowe b. posted an article on - Nov 5, 2009, 2:13 pm
At the end of a series of interviews and an equally wide exploration of new thinking on the future of money, I find my thoughts line up pretty closely with those of author Neal Stephenson in a 2005 Sl...
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The Future Of Money: Santiago Siri and WhuffieBank

stowe b. posted an article on - Nov 4, 2009, 2:54 pm
I heard Santiago Siri present at the Techcrunch 50 event a month or so ago, and I thought that his WhuffieBank project would be a good fit with the Future Of Money series. The project is an ambit...
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links for 2009-11-04

stowe b. posted an article on - Nov 4, 2009, 10:07 am
Claude Lvi-Strauss, Anthropologist, Dies at 100 - Obituary (Obit) - NYTimes.com Claude Lévi-Strauss, the French anthropologist who transformed Western understanding of what was once c...
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The Death Of The Embargo: We Won't Care

stowe b. posted an article on - Nov 4, 2009, 7:02 am
Brian Solis dedicates far too much text to the topic of news embargoes, while coming to a status quo ante result on their future: The reality is that embargoes are an important and fundamental part of...
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Open Mobile Health Exchange: A Microsyntax.org Project

stowe b. posted an article on - Nov 3, 2009, 10:47 am
I am happy to announce that Alan Viars will be heading up a new project for Microsyntax.org, called Open Mobile Health Exchange: via www.microsyntax.org OMHE (Open Mobile Health Exchange), pro...
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links for 2009-11-03

stowe b. posted an article on - Nov 3, 2009, 10:02 am
The Sex Diaries - A Critical Reading of New Yorkers' Sexual Habits & Anxieties -- New York Magazine Fascinating analysis of New York magazine's sex diaries: how text and IM hav...
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Twitpitch In Three Tweets

stowe b. posted an article on - Nov 3, 2009, 8:40 am
jdagerot: @stoweboyd explains why 140 characters are enough. And managed to do it over three posts. Excellent humour! Screendump: http://bit.ly/3PRhq6 via www.dagerot.com
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The Downside Of URL Shorteners And One Answer

stowe b. posted an article on - Oct 5, 2009, 2:29 pm
The recent announcement by Pierre Far at Cli.gs that the company would be shutting down its URL shortening service raises questions about the viability of this sort of company. As Far said, Short...
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New Brightkite In The Works

stowe b. posted an article on - Oct 5, 2009, 1:01 pm
This looks interesting. Rolling out Brightkite 2.0.
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links for 2009-10-04

stowe b. posted an article on - Oct 4, 2009, 11:02 am
Knight Foundation rethinks its stance on for-profit deals Nieman Journalism Lab "Everyblock won a $1,100,000 grant from the Knight Foundation in 2007 to build its innovative platform ...
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Different Kinds Of Twitterers: What's The Right Balance For Business?

stowe b. posted an article on - Oct 3, 2009, 5:27 pm
I have been thinking a great deal about the application of the open follower model (a la Twitter) to the emerging social business. My intuitive sense has been that there are many ways that people use ...
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links for 2009-10-03

stowe b. posted an article on - Oct 3, 2009, 11:03 am
Glympse - Share Your Where "Glympse is a groundbreaking new way to share your location with anyone for a specified period of time using patent-pending GlympseWatch!22 timer." ...
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Infodemics

stowe b. posted an article on - Oct 3, 2009, 6:47 am
In a 2007 study on global risks, a group working on behalf of the World Economic Forum identified a collection of highly interconnected risk factors, and explored various scenarios in which these fact...
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links for 2009-10-02

stowe b. posted an article on - Oct 2, 2009, 11:04 am
Study Reveals Two Types of Twitter Users "In a study of Twitter, a microblogging service used by millions of people from high school students to national elected officials, Mor Naaman ...
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links for 2009-10-01

stowe b. posted an article on - Oct 1, 2009, 11:04 am
PCUK/Harris Poll: Only Five Percent Of UK Readers Would Pay For Online News | paidContent "If Rupert Murdoch thinks readers will pay to read his websites, maybe he should think again. ...
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Switching Coasts: Climate And Temperature

stowe b. posted an article on - Oct 1, 2009, 10:51 am
I have been splitting my time between my legal residence in Reston VA and a toehold in the heart of SOMA in San Francisco for the past three years. At first, I would simply travel to San Francisco whe...
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links for 2009-09-29

stowe b. posted an article on - Sep 29, 2009, 11:04 am
Zipcar parks its iPhone app - finally | csmonitor.com I love the notion of opening the door of a Zipcar from my iPhone. (tags: Technology zipcar iphone3gs)
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