September 29, 2007 – 11:00 pm
Some stuff I’m reading this week…
Return of the King - Robert Scoble - Yahoo - Jerry Yang
“The more you can engage with your consumers and provide tools back to them, the more viral your services will become,” Horowitz says.
Doc Searls Weblog · Go from hell
In our private lives we defend ourselves from the marketing messages [...]
September 19, 2007 – 11:37 pm
On October 22-23 in Mountain View, Kaliya Hamlin and a group of others is putting on a really cool conference that I thought everyone should know about:
She’s Geeky
A Women’s Tech (un)conference
October 22-23 in Mountain View, CA.
This event is designed to bring together women from a range of technology-focused disciplines who self identify as geeky. [...]
September 19, 2007 – 8:44 pm
Many companies have spent alot of advertising dollars to tell us what’s wrong with the competition. I spent the last US election, wondering what each candidate really had to offer since all I heard from them was what their rival did (or was going to do) wrong. I constantly hear from startups who talk about [...]
September 18, 2007 – 8:42 pm
In my recent presentation at e.day, my “5 sure-fire steps to transforming yourself from a spammer into a connector” (said with booming voice) were:
Turn that bullhorn around: stop talking and start listening
Be part of the community you serve: get out of the boardroom and into the community
Design for maximum happiness: design products that delight people
Embrace [...]
September 13, 2007 – 11:30 pm
Right after I finished my presentation at e.day yesterday, a gentleman walked up to me to say to me:
“If this future of social capital and whuffie you predict is correct, and I largely believe it is, then that means the future belongs to women.”
I made a silly joke telling him to keep it quiet because [...]
September 7, 2007 – 5:50 pm
I think it’s coming along nicely. Yay factoryjoe!
For those of you who haven’t been reading long, learn more about coworking here. It totally rawks.
::and for those of you who don’t know the reference to the starfish, you need to read The Starfish and the Spider: The Unstoppable Power of Leaderless Organizations.
September 7, 2007 – 5:39 pm
I’m constantly surprised at the number of different ways social networks treat the ‘friending’ process. Chris does an awesome job of recording these patterns via screenshot, but I want to outline a couple of the treatments of the processes of friending and how a couple of my favourite social networks handle it. Particularly:
“Levels” of friends
Adding [...]