Archive for February, 2007
DemoCamp Dallas Cometh
DemoCamp Dallas is coming up soon - 15 February! Should be a fun event. Here’s the description:
A DemoCamp is a lighter-weight style of un-conference. A DemoCamp lasts only a few hours on a weekday evening. Unlike a BarCamp, you don’t have to present. You are welcome to come along and give feedback to the [...]
Fun with numbers
MySpace by the numbers:
38 billion page views per month
320,000 profiles were created today
Dogster.com (+ Catster.com ?):
250,000 registered members
Something tells me that we can stop having the "is this a fad" conversation about social networking. The question is clearly firmly planted in the "how do we make a relevant, successful social network" arena.(Yes, I know this [...]
links for 2007-02-05
YouTube - Web 2.0 … The Machine is Us/ing Us
“Web 2.0 in 5 minutes”. Not really, but still very cool presentation.
(tags: web2.0 video youtube)
Tools for the household, not the individual
If you look at most any Web-based tool, the core concept is almost always focused around an individual. An individual signs up for an account then adds content or manages a profile or does an activity of some sort. Consider three Web-based services that are used regularly in my household:
NetFlixMy wife and I share an [...]
The Death of Corporate Email?
Entry first posted at the Future of Communities Blog. Check it out for some great community discussion in advance of the upcoming Community 2.0 conference.+++
(Don’t you love blog entries that start of with a title so ominous, so juicy that you can’t help but read? Yeah, I know, but they’re still fun sometimes)
I was chatting [...]
links for 2007-02-02
Convince Me - Debate Online
From the site: “Convinceme.net is the ultimate debating website. You can create any number challenges, and compete in any number of debates that other users create as challenges. Compete for votes, a winning record, and points. It’s your chance to convinc
(tags: debate Web2.0)
FTC requires Sony to respect their customers. Sorta.
Sony.
Once a giant, a seemingly unstoppable force of high quality, well-thought technology, seems today to be floundering under it’s own weight and cluelessness. I’d believe it in a second if you told me that the product design team hasn’t been outside their building in a decade, and has only learned about consumers through marketing reports. [...]
links for 2007-02-01
Forrester Research: Organic Branding
Research company Forrester releases a new report: “Brands that connect with their target consumers must be more organic in nature: They must align more closely with their core consumer and be developed and nurtured by those consumers as well as by the com
(tags: forrester branding organicBranding)
