Big social media opportunity lies in increasing the size of creators.

It's always refreshing to see  good discussion on the big picture. Fred Wilson started this thread sharing his social media vision.
"every single human being posting their thoughts and experiences in any number of ways to the Internet."

This vision is brilliant in it's simplicity but it's a big shift in the grand scheme [...]

Six Apart matches Akismet offer. Announces AntiSpam plugin.

Competition is a good thing for end users. Innovations in key blog authoring tools had hit a slow patch. Things are beginning to look different now.
Today Six Apart announced TypePad AntiSpam plugin for both TypPad and Wordpress blogs. This is a great news and it should be welcomed for multiple reasons.
First of all it’s open [...]

Techmeme is now Rated R - Let the killing begin.

First I thought I will put  picture from Roland Joffe's classic The Killing Fields. I realized that will be offending to some people so I thought why not just emphasize what is burning in my eyes. I mean burning when I scan Techmeme from top to bottom.
Few disclaimers to start with. I have big [...]

After Myspace Data Availability and Facebook Connect, Google Announces FriendConnect.

Two weeks, three announcements and wild west world of social networking is all topsy turvy.  Following Myspace and Facebook announcement, Google today gave a preview announcement of FriendConnect. Goals of FriendConnect are:

Drive traffic: people who discover interesting sites can bring their friends with them, and can opt-in to publish their activities on those sites back [...]

Three Reasons To Question Comments As We Know Them

I am jumping into comment related meme started by Fred Wilson. He made a well articulated case for using Disqus. He mentioned three reasons - Threaded discussion, Shared profile and email convenience. I completely agree on email feature. Its a big missing feature in existing blog conversation design.

Threaded discussion [...]