stowe b. posted an article on Message - 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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stowe b. posted an article on Message - 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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stowe b. posted an article on Message - 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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stowe b. posted an article on Message - 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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stowe b. posted an article on Message - 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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stowe b. posted an article on Message - 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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stowe b. posted an article on Message - 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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stowe b. posted an article on Message - 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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stowe b. posted an article on Message - 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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stowe b. posted an article on Message - 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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stowe b. posted an article on Message - 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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stowe b. posted an article on Message - 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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stowe b. posted an article on Message - 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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stowe b. posted an article on Message - 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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stowe b. posted an article on Message - 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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stowe b. posted an article on Message - 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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stowe b. posted an article on Message - 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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stowe b. posted an article on Message - 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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stowe b. posted an article on Message - 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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stowe b. posted an article on Message - 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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stowe b. posted an article on Message - 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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stowe b. posted an article on Message - 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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stowe b. posted an article on Message - 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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stowe b. posted an article on Message - 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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stowe b. posted an article on Message - 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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stowe b. posted an article on Message - Nov 11, 2009, 9:46 am
I love these cascades where a post leads to a mazillion tweets.  
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stowe b. posted an article on Message - 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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stowe b. posted an article on Message - 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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stowe b. posted an article on Message - 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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stowe b. posted an article on Message - 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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stowe b. posted an article on Message - 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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stowe b. posted an article on Message - 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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stowe b. posted an article on Message - 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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stowe b. posted an article on Message - 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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stowe b. posted an article on Message - 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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stowe b. posted an article on Message - 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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stowe b. posted an article on Message - 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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stowe b. posted an article on Message - 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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stowe b. posted an article on Message - 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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stowe b. posted an article on Message - 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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stowe b. posted an article on Message - 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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stowe b. posted an article on Message - Oct 5, 2009, 1:01 pm
This looks interesting. Rolling out Brightkite 2.0.
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stowe b. posted an article on Message - 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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stowe b. posted an article on Message - 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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stowe b. posted an article on Message - 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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stowe b. posted an article on Message - 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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stowe b. posted an article on Message - 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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stowe b. posted an article on Message - 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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stowe b. posted an article on Message - 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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stowe b. posted an article on Message - 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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