Twitter the most pure social network

Some social network thoughts…..
I’ve been using Twitter more and more lately and i have to say that i’m really enjoying it.  I love the simplicity and ease of use.  The fact that they limit the characters, is only text and is just a list of your friends thoughts makes it always interesting.  Of course, Facebook [...]

YouTube getting its ass kicked by Hulu?

I read an interesting post by Cuban called “Hulu is kicking Youtube’s Ass”  where he argues that YouTube’s business model is broken and that Hulu has the only sustainable model going forward. He argues that because Hulu has rights to sell ads on their videos they are doing a much better job in revenue [...]

Like Hansel, these are so hot right now

My cousin P-Walk asked me what sites are “hot” right now. My list of sites that may be below the radar of regular people but getting some well-merited attention is:

yelp - anyone who loves food in a city should use this
dopplr & tripit - for travel sites they are both good
imeem - getting some [...]

Boomers and Gen X battle

Last week a reporter (Robert Lanham, author of “The Hipster Handbook” published “Generation Slap… a call to arms against Millennials.” He describes Generation Me as “naive, self-important, and perpetually plugged in.”  It didn’t take long for 22-year-old Gawker writer Alex Pareene to step in and defend his generation.  His essay:
Their moment is over. Finally. They [...]

Youtube is incredible

The beauty of Youtube is the simplicity. Because it’s so open-ended, you get an amazingly broad amount of submissions. They don’t niche it they just say “submit” Here are 2 great examples of just pure gems that have no other outlet. The first is a 14 year old in China who [...]

Where’s Yahoo’s RSS Reader?

Isn’t Yahoo! supposed to compete with Google and other consumer properties? I mean, even AOL has an RSS reader (here). People are using RSS readers more and more and Google’s making it social. I now get feeds shared to me every day and they’re usually the most interesting ones. For instance the [...]

Building Participation & Cognitive Surplus

Clay Shirky has a great speech about cognitive surplus. A phrase that refers to the free time we have away from our jobs or studies to do stuff. Over the past 30-50 years, what everyone did with this cognitive surplus is watch TV. Sitcoms were the big universal thing everyone did. [...]

“Just Enough” is the new “Big” - but can it work?

They should draw an equation: What level of fame do you need to achieve to keep doing what you want? Because you don’t want any more than that.
if you get too famous, you have people wanting to take a picture of your butt on the beach.
(Tina Fey

These are quotes i read from Grant’s blog [...]

Facebook let’s you add to your mini-feed

Lots of folks do stuff around the web that is outside of Facebook. For instance, i post lots of Flickr photos and i save web sites to delicious. I’ve always loved the Facebook News Feed as it does a good job of letting me know what my friends are up to. Today [...]

My Love of TripIt Grows

I’ve been traveling a lot lately and for each trip i make sure to throw my airline, car and hotel details into TripIt as it does a great job of building an itinerary.  You can share the trips you set up with other travelers and all collaborate together.  It also gives you an iCal link [...]