FTC to monitor blogs for conflicts of interest
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After the major blowout on the Gillmor Gang about reporting a conflict of interest, and the issues that have arisen over Social Spark, Payperpost and Izea, the FTP according to the AP is planning on going after bloggers if they do not say that they are taking compensation for a blog entry or [...]
Social Media Influence in the Iranian Elections
The newspapers have been generally useless in covering the Iranian elections over the weekend. While the major media outlets have let the story drop on the cutting room floor a robust and notable process of information flow is happening via Twitter, Facebook, and FriendFeed over the weekend. What the media will not cover, the social [...]
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 [...]
Boot Strap startup funding too much of a good thing
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Sometimes too many opportunities can hit too fast, causing a severe drain on the resources that a bootstrapped company can manage. What to do when there are too many good things happening, and you can only afford to do what you need to do.
Sometimes good things happen far too quickly for a [...]
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 [...]
RIAA three strikes policy still failing to engage ISPs
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The RIAA still has problems getting ISP’s to agree to sign up for a “Three strikes you are out” policy when it comes to their users using P2P applications on their networks. While this does not mean that it is not happening, what it means is that no one has publicly admitted that [...]
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 [...]
Facebook and the Holocaust
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For worst or worst, Facebook has entered into another controversy that has ignited many well placed, and vocal people. Facebook allowed two groups to deny the holocaust on their site, and for good or bad, this has caused a firestorm of controversy for the company. The problem is that this is a symptom, [...]
Fizy Video Music
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Super easy, and fast, if you are looking for music, fizy might be the next big place you want to stop off and take a look at. What is also noticeable is that they already have a huge sponsor for their playlist, Coke. Not bad for a company that does nothing more than [...]
I think I failed others are telling me not so fast
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Had an interesting conversation with a group of people yesterday, and I think I failed because they were unwilling to commit to a social networking service. While I am not a sales person, I do think that social networking is one way of helping customers and companies connect. Connection, the 1 to 1 [...]
Wrangling with the H1B Visa Issue
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Nathan over at NPost published a thought provoking article on the H1B visa program and how to fix it (if this is possible). The problem is that the H1B visa program is enormously unpopular right now with people living through the highest unemployment rates since 1982, and companies cutting back on everything that [...]
Is the General Services Administration ready for Facebook
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Interesting news coming from NextGov that they have signed a deal with facebook, is the government really ready for this kind of thing? The other real question is, as a case study, can any government really be truly open like we see with web 2.0 and the person to person interaction with Globalization [...]
Right now we are invisible in Social Media
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If you ask folks about where I work and the things that we do there is a blank slate when it comes to peoples reactions. Not only do we not score high in Google, but if you ask the average person on the street about where I work you get [...]
Copyblogger on A Listers in Attack Mode
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It is an interesting premise, and not one far from thinking could happen, but what if an A list blogger decided they wanted to take someone out. Personally I think that the A Lister would have to be very careful about this one, as the loss of stature and reputation on the part [...]
