Sharing recent tweets with blog readers.

MessageDance FatBird does a smart url expansion creating a rich media browsing experience. Current release shows YouTube videos and Flickr pictures automatically. You can even listen to song if tweet has any url pointing to mp3 file as we render a player

Testing apnews.com story blog to wordpress blog

Apnews.com can change citizen journalism as we know it. I am sharing this news article from iPhone using apnews.com.
Update: added pictures using browser client.
User interface optimized for publishing and sharing news stories will win.

Midwest copes with floods, East warned of heat Announced on WWDC. [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Anywhere-To-Anywhere Social Network?

Thinking about emerging anywhere-to-anywhere social network at MessageDance blog.

How long we stick to a specific terminology to define what’s existing and what’s emergent is a challenge. Take the case of Social Networks. This term is as specific as your neighborhood and as vague as your religious affiliations. Actionable definition of social network is better [...]

Microsoft/Yahoo deal is all about Email

Now the Techmeme dust has settled. Time is right for serious discussion to start, on how Microsoft and Yahoo transaction impacts future technology trends. Tim Oreilly, in another brilliant post, is making a great point that Microsoft needs to redefine competition by owning the competitive agenda itself. In order to mount a successful [...]