Me v. Ze Frank (not so much…)
Gordon Luk has a really interesting post that I’ll use as a launching pad to clarify a point I often make in public lectures… In the interest of saving you a click, see below.
This reminded me of Umair’s article “Why Yahoo Didn’t Build MySpace…” which basically suggests that the pyramid of participation I […]
New Pipes release, iPhone support
As reported on the Pipes Blog, Jonathan and the Pipes team just pushed a new release with features both useful and cool. I’m especially thrilled about the iPhone support (having just gotten an iTouch, thanks Mr. Hornik!)
In keeping with the endless stream of jokes that name “pipes” inspires, Jonathan created what may turn out […]
Brightcove v. Maven
The Boston Globe has an interesting article about Brightcove and Maven, or more specifically Jeremy Allaire v. Hilmi Ozguc. I know both of them a little bit, and have been following their respective companies for a while.
Both of them are really Virage 2.0, or at least the part of our business that we used […]
BBC Post
I must admit I’ve got a bit of “poster’s remorse” regarding the BBC blurb here.
I’ve got some lame excuses about why I didn’t do a better job with this, which I’ll spare you (ok, I can’t resist… Two r/t flights to Europe and back in the course of 9 days was part of the […]
Why the famous get famouser…
Kottke points to a great article by Columbia’s Duncan Watts…
The social context of content has everything to do with it’s meaning. It’s one of the reasons that I think that a purely pixel-based algorithmic approach to, say, image recognition is doomed. In optimistic moments, I’ve said that the computer vision community may produce […]
Pipes!
Tim said it better than I could ever hope to…
I’m really proud that our team has launched Pipes tonight. It’s still raw with plenty of rough edges… and it’d surprise me if more than a few folks will be able to connect-the-dots and see where this leads (… though Tim’s explaining will surely help!) […]
Yahoo buys Bix
I said it all over here.
So one thing to note… It turns out that the voice in my head does sound a lot better than the one that is being recorded. Something must be defective with the microphone, the Bix system, or whatever that keeps knocking it out of tune. Until I […]
Cool Flickr Geotagging Examples
Stewart recently showed me some very cool (and in some cases surprising) Flickr geotagging examples. Here’s a few I loved.
Where is the neighborhood in Manhattan known as Tribeca?
Get your kicks, on Route 66
Food tour of Asia
What I love about the “tribeca” and “route 66″ examples is that they show emergent knowledge in the system. […]
Pitch your company at Web 2.0 Launch Pad
Per John’s blog, I’m part of the Advisory Board for the Web 2.0 Launch Pad.
If you think you got the goods, tell us about it!
Interesting(ness) post from O’Reilly
Chad told me that Tim O’Reilly posted about interestingness today. I’ve been contemplating another post about interestingness for a while, and I was glad Tim beat me to the punch! Some of this I hope to discuss at the Adaptive Path UX conference Wednesday too.
I’ve been starting out most talks that I’ve given […]