May 2008
Drinks and dinner with friends in the city - test driving the new dress. Very good choice.
Clearing the air with Twitter →
Yesterday Evan Williams (co-founder of Twitter, his Twitter account is here) wrote me an email telling me he wasn’t blaming me and trying to clear the air. I said “can I come over?” to talk more…
Focusing on my business plan. Again. - http://bkite.com/00nk2
The Art of "No" →
Most clients are awesome. Reasonable, friendly, appreciative, and very much aware that they’re walking down a two-way street with their agency. They understand that they shall reap what…
Shel vs. Shel: A Throwaway Joke Comes of Age →
If you’ve been following the work of ‘Shel Israel’ (the one at ShelIsrael.com), you no doubt have been suitably entertained, as each episode is filled with tons of Web 2.0 inside jokes,…
Odeo Releases Twttr →
Techcrunch’s very first article on Twitter.
Scoble Interviews Twitter Founders Evan Willams... →
Robert Scoble just finished a half hour interview with Twitter Founders Evan Willams and Biz Stone. The two are surprisingly candid about the scaling problems the service has had since, oh, it…
New podcast →
Core Intuition: “Daniel Jalkut and Manton Reece talk about WWDC, the iPhone, indie Mac development, Apple Stores, and more.”
Odeo Releases Twttr →
Techcrunch’s very first article on Twitter.
sydney pollack and the ache →
Via somewhere that I can’t remember right now, Trish Deitch at The New Yorker on Sydney Pollack. As a Pollack fan I’ve been reading a bunch of obits on Pollack this week, and while there’s been a…
2 and a half hours to get back into the city…ugh
Writing some copy and listening to Jason Calacanis on UStream. - http://bkite.com/00mDD
Waiting on my next to last mtg before I head back to NYC. - http://bkite.com/00mpd
Enterprise Adoption of Web 2.0: It's Happening -... →
It’s no longer a trend…
Harvey Korman of ‘Burnett Show’ Dies at 81 -... →
Another piece of my childhood gone…
Enterprise Adoption of Web 2.0: It's Happening -... →
It’s no longer a trend…
Harvey Korman of ‘Burnett Show’ Dies at 81 -... →
Another piece of my childhood gone…
Harvey Korman of ‘Burnett Show’ Dies at 81 →
Mr. Korman won four Emmys for his contributions to “The Carol Burnett Show” and was seen to hilarious effect on the big screen in “Blazing Saddles.”
Grade your press release (for free!) →
HubSpot’s Press Release Grader is a free application that evaluates your press release and provides a “marketing effectiveness score”. The score is based on the language and content of the…
Trulia Brings Sweet Eyecandy to.. the Housing... →
Trulia, the real estate search engine and community, has released Snapshot, a new interactive housing map that is a bit more fun than it should be.
Snapshot overlays a Microsoft Virtual…
Buzz-Monitoring Platform TruCast Launches New... →
In our recent article “When User-Generated Content Goes Bad,” we highlighted the challenges that companies face today when delving into marketing campaigns that revolve around user-generated…
Omni Hotels promotes packages with consumer... →
With Omni Hotels’ new “Live Like a Local” website, visitors will be in the know. The site promises to take travelers beyond the recommendations of guidebooks and conventional travel resources to…
/Message: Fred Wilson on Leaving The Instigator... →
Great post on how conversation is being fractured on and off the blog post.
Social Networks' Sway May Be Underestimated -... →
Great article on the influence of social networks.
Mythbusting: Ideas Do Not Spread Because they are... →
Interesting post by Dan Zarrella on what makes content viral.
Mythbusting: Ideas Do Not Spread Because they are... →
Interesting post by Dan Zarrella on what makes content viral.
Wishing I could be at Tech Cocktail in Chicago today.
wsj on the fall of bear stearns →
The Journal has been running its three-part series on the fall of Bear Stearns, and it’s absolutely worth reading, assuming you have a reasonable amount of stomach lining to spare. Worth quoting…
/Message: Fred Wilson on Leaving The Instigator... →
Great post on how conversation is being fractured on and off the blog post.
Gigya Socialize Goes Up Against Google Friend... →
Distributing friend connections across the web has been quite a hot topic in the Web 2.0 community as of late. MySpace, Facebook, and Google have all come out with their own initiatives…
Social Networks' Sway May Be Underestimated -... →
Great article on the influence of social networks.
Beyond Blogs →
Revisiting of their article from 3 years ago “Blogs will Change Your Business”.
I don't know which is more interesting: The... →
I don’t know which is more interesting: The prospect of “flavor tripping parties,” or this berry, which after consumption makes everything sweet:
Nearby, Yuka Yoneda tilted her head back as her…
Beyond Blogs →
Revisiting of their article from 3 years ago “Blogs will Change Your Business”.
OH: Diablo Cody (Juno) on Twitter →
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…
Video the Active Ingredient in Snowballing News... →
Every night, while you sleep, some news snowballs into massive headlines and front-page stories while others melt away into nothingness. Based on several recent case studies, it seems like the…
PR 2.0: PR Tips for Startups - The Director's Cut →
The “Director’s Cut” of Brian’s TechCrunch post.
PR 2.0: PR Tips for Startups - The Director's Cut →
The “Director’s Cut” of Brian’s TechCrunch post.
Sydney Pollack, Film Director, Dies at 73 →
Mr. Pollack’s star-laden movies like “The Way We Were,” “Tootsie” and “Out of Africa” were among the most successful of the 1970s and ’80s.
Results: Data Portability's Future →
A couple of weeks ago we ran an interactive game on the topic of Data Portability. We had a great response, with 680 people playing the game. Here now are the results, showing how RWW…
My Macbook Pro is running really hot again…getting 1st degree burns
A Bit of Yeats…He Wishes For The Cloths Of Heaven →
Back to Twitterrific…hello old friend…
I think it might be a perspective issue…
Halfway Across Greenland →
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The flight monitor…
The future of PR: Should your CEO blog? →
Several weeks ago I led a panel discussion at the The 2008 Milken Institute Global Conference. The Milken event “brought together some of the most extraordinary people in the world - from…
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…
Search Muxtapes With Muxfind →
Muxtape, an online mix tape-making service, has been a big hit with music fans on the social web. The site lets you upload mp3s to create a playlist you can share with anyone. Now, a new service…
Should services charge “super users”? →
Om Malik says that Twitter should charge super users like me and come up with a business model.
Dare Obasanjo, in a separate, but similar post comes to the conclusion that Twitter’s problems…