Posted on June 27, 2008 by Mike Lewis
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 [...]
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Posted on June 18, 2008 by Mike Lewis
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 [...]
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Posted on June 12, 2008 by Mike Lewis
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 [...]
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Posted on June 8, 2008 by Mike Lewis
I just watched this video about Nathan who is quite an incredible guy who spends 18 minutes describing what he does. It’s a lot of very scientific stuff like:
Archeology - digitizing Easter Island statues and the pyramids
Inventing new nuclear reactors - which are more efficient and better than the current designs
Inventing meta-reactors which are [...]
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Posted on May 26, 2008 by Mike Lewis
My favorite band of the past few years, Phoenix, is coming out with a new album and have posted the first track on Facebook of all places. Go check it out here: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Phoenix/19227674432
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Posted on May 9, 2008 by Mike Lewis
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 [...]
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Posted on April 15, 2008 by Mike Lewis
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 [...]
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Posted on March 14, 2008 by Mike Lewis
There’s a good interview with Steve Jobs in the latest Fortune magazine. One of my favorite parts was this:
People think focus means saying yes to the thing you’ve got to focus on. But that’s not what it means at all. It means saying no to the 100 other good ideas that there are. You have [...]
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Posted on March 13, 2008 by Mike Lewis
This is an interesting graph which shows Bebo, MySpace, Facebook and Hi5. Clearly one of them is stuggling.
However, what Bebo has that Hi5 does not is a English speaking user base which is able to be monetized. AOL has a slew of Advertising companies that must be just itching to get their [...]
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Posted on February 14, 2008 by Mike Lewis
Facebook is a combination of Web 2.0 companies. That’s one way to look at it. The flip side - and more accurate - is to say that there are many Web 2.0 companies that are taking a piece or feature of Facebook and making an entire service out of it. Not the most [...]
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