Following in Robert Scobles Footsteps
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Honestly, no one could be more surprised than I am about following in Robert Scobles footsteps. Back in August of last year I wrote a quick write up on how Robert got started in Social Media, blogging, and how he parlayed that into a viable career for himself. When Robert got started, blogs [...]
You have to have a life to life stream
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The new rage, stop blogging start life streaming is great if you have a life. If you don’t have a life, or you do not want to live on a public stage, then life streaming might not be right for you.
Life streaming is quickly becoming the euphemism for people who [...]
FriendFeed as a business enabler to strengthen product branding
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The hardest thing to do is associate a brand name with product, one way of approaching this is to use FriendFeed as a way to help you associate the brand name you are building with the products you are delivering. You can see examples of this littered throughout FriendFeed, and here are some [...]
FriendFeed starts file sharing which could be problematic
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FriendFeed started file sharing yesterday which could be problematic for one of the coolest social networking services on the planet. Risking the ire of RIAA, MPAA, BRIEN, GEMM, and every other copy right protection agency in the world, has FriendFeed taken on too much risk by allowing file sharing?
Imagine the surprise when [...]
Interesting Debate does color and race matter online
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There is an interesting debate going on over at FriendFeed tonight about color, race, colonialism and the book White male seeking sexy Asian women that was featured on Salon.com.
The debate has moved into the why does color, race, nationality matter, and like all subjects, this one is touchy. It depends on where [...]
Rebranding my Startup
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Noticed on the Seattle 2.0 list they have a book store in their startup listing, taking a look through the competitor’s web site, I decided that if I wanted to get on the Seattle 2.0 startup list, then it might be a good idea to refocus what the startup should be about, and [...]
Phase two of the social media plan goes live
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Phase two of my social media plan for the school went live this week; you can find the department web site at http://cs.cityu.edu. This is the next major step on the technology side for building out the social media capability of the program, and much like other colleges, introduces the [...]
Innovation Economics
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One of the new research arms not just in academia, but in business as well is a model that can predict the outcome of innovation, who has it, how do they use it, how can we harness it for personal or corporate advantage/gain. The problem is that innovation economics requires humans, and [...]
Microsoft Immigration Family Network
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If you are involved with a Microsoft employee, the Microsoft Immigration Family Network is a support site for people involved in Microsoft employees. So when your significant other is spending long nights and days at work, there is a place you can go to meet new people, and talk about issues you might [...]
Police trying to confiscate your camera is now no problem
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One of the things that as a photographer who takes something like 3000 to 4000 pictures a year, and has photographed buildings, police, emergency response reactions to fire, arrests and other stuff has been the police cracking down under the idea that photographing a building is against the law.
I have always worried [...]
NY State embraces Social Networking
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In good news for today, NY State IT Department has issued a series of guidelines for State Agencies to use Web 2.0, new media and social collaborative tools. The downside is that there is going to have to be training, the upside to the Empire 2.0 strategy is that it could end up [...]
Customer Service done right thanks Apple Store
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I was at the Apple store yesterday picking up a new copy of Iwork and Ilife for my Apple notebook, and since I teach at CityU of Seattle, I wanted to use my educators 10% discount. Unfortunately, I do not have a school identity card, in lieu of not having a [...]
How much does that User Generated Content mean to you
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Louis Gray posted an article looking back at the last three major user lead revolutions when it comes to users balking against what look like seemingly arbitrary changes on the part of a social community. All three, Digg, Facebook and now Twitter center around thee major ideas, functionality, censorship, and privacy. He also [...]
Are we as well off technologically as we think we are in Seattle
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Ed Lazowska of the University of Washington Computer Science department has a lot to say, and most of the time is great to listen to him, or read his pages out on the UofW web site. But when it comes to Seattle, he thinks we still have a long way to go when [...]
So why did Microsoft do a Bond Sale
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Microsoft recently completed a bond sale for 3.8 billion dollars, which is a first for the software company. Once debt free, Microsoft will now be servicing the bonds for the duration that they exist. Of course this has generated all sorts of speculation, but also shows that for the right kind of risk, [...]
