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Midwest copes with floods, East warned of heat Announced on WWDC. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
Charlie Cheever from Facebook has hurled first real bomb in closely observed attempts by social networking platforms to "open up". Data portability promise got first reality check of ToS violation.
Facebook spent couple of days brainstorming on Google's "grand design" and came to conclusion that it's better to block them right away. So no Google [...]
Finally Comcast bought Plaxo. We have been hearing rumors of this event for some time now.
It's equally fun to watch how Arrington is matching CNet on every news story out there. He managed to get most important bit of information. Price tag:
The rumors were accurate: Comcast will announce their acquisition of social contact list [...]
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 [...]