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 [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

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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 [...]

Myspace’s Data Availability - The walls are coming down

Facebook and Myspace are extremely busy in wooing  developers. Yesterday Facebook announced changes in Profile display and API support. Today Myspace came out with a significantly expanded approach to data sharing. Or as they are calling it Data Availability. Myspace also formally joined Data Portability group.
Let's understand full significance of this announcement from developer's [...]

Why Twitter matters?

Twitter only allows 140 characters.
Average Google Adsense takes 100 characters.
To me they are yin and yang in the battle to capture user’s intention. Don’t rush into asking where is the revenue model. By the time revenue model becomes clear to everybody, Twitter will be another blockbuster story. It will be too late by [...]