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 [...]

What is the common good(s)? Michael Walzer answers.

His article in Dissent magazine supports Obama’s policy of initiating dialog with enemy nations.
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Google CEO: Next big reality in web2.0 is that it doesn’t monetize well

Well actual Netzökonom interview with Google CEO has headline as "The next big wave in advertising is the mobile internet". It's been nearly 9 years since we  have been waiting, with baited breath, the arrival of mobile web. One that can support garage startups, not just telecom behemoths. With the arrival of iPhone, it looks [...]

TechCrunch says Facebook to go Open Source!

I like the sound of it. I have been selling virtues of open source strategy for some time and I know it works.
Facebook will have a convincing claim for leadership in emerging internet operating system if they let other developers run with significant chunk of social networking shell. Shell which hosts all social graph processing. [...]

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 [...]

Hate 2.0 in Web 2.0. Industry insiders time for little introspection!

Rabbi Abraham Cooper, an associate dean at the Simon Wiesenthal Center,  shared key findings from his  organization’s annual study of online terror and hate. 

I feel repulsed by these numbers - 

(he)..attributes a third of the 30 percent spike to blogs and discussion groups that support terrorism. The rest is the material of age-old hatreds–40 percent anti-Semitic, [...]

Breaking news using Twitter.

"Twitter as a news media" meme is adding momentum. Today Jeff Jarvis posted his thoughts and they are quite insightful:
this publicness and immediacy is yielding both a new relationships and new value: ways to find and report news for a start. Perhaps our chattering will also reveal our collective mood (for that, go to twistori.com [...]

What kind of openness you want?

Something has to be said about the flurry of blog posts coming out with words like "revolution", "data portability", "freedom" , "It's your data" and "open" etc.
Suddenly I started seeing parallel to this in something I read long time back. What was that? Animal Farm? Or was it 1984? Or maybe Brave New World? [...]

Twitter founder: We lucked out with 140 character limit on twitter

Thanks to @maryhodder running commentary, I get to enjoy concise takeaways from @Ev 's  Yi-Tan call.  You can catchup on Jerry Michalski interview with Twitter founder from this site.
Here is a quick list of all her tweets (Thanks Mary!).. could add a layer of context to see what's going on in a place, or [...]

Implicit Web, Interface for Telling and Atomization of Conversations - Recipe for OMG

Trying to understand evolving signals around silent web. Web which we users leave behind when we share our profile data, friends information and information related to transactional experience.  I think something significant is just around the corner. These signals are coming up in memes such as Implicit Web, Atomization of conversations, Interface for telling and [...]