Reblog from Google Reader and blog from Gmail

Blogging is time consuming. Folks who have interesting things to say are super busy. It's good to see more innovation in making blog posting more efficient and time saving.  I have talked about in the past why blogging tools have to evolve to make blog posting simple and distributed. In order to make blogging simple [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Google Reader gets into anywhere to anywhere sharing.

By now every serious social media industry participant must have read Clay Shirky's brilliant essay. Delivered at Web 2.0 conference in Stanford, he wonderfully articulated the new media world we live in -
.. people in the media world don't understand. Media in the 20th century was run as a single race–consumption. [...]

Publishing tools for super-busy blogger suck!

It’s a common complaint that if blogging was easier to do there will be more people doing it. Blog setup, blog posting, formatting, proof reading and post-post comment supervision, list of stuff to manage goes on and on. All that adds up to big drain on time. Its a hassle because it takes time. If [...]