Archive for May, 2008
The Tipping Point vs. Duncan Watts
Months after Duncan Watts published his article basically calling the Tipping Point an irrelevant concept, the debate still goes on about which theory is “correct”. Personally, I tend to agree with Joe on this one:
A year later and a little more to the point, here’s what marketers can consider: Everyone has influence, but that influence [...]
The new art of digital storytelling
When I was a kid, many of our family vacations involved camping. During these trips, late at night (well, shortly after dark anyway) my Dad would crawl into the tent with my brother and I and tell us stories. Random characters doing random things would spill out of Dad’s imagination.
Since then I’ve been fascinated by [...]
Rapid Fire - Tuesday, May 06
10 Social Media Blunders that Can Destroy Your Brand | Sparkplug CEO
Great list. How many have YOU been guilty of at some point or another? Come on now, you’re among friends…
Tags: socialmedia, bloggerrelations, dailylinks
Lego’s latest brick trick: a virtual world - washingtonpost.com
I love to see LEGO Universe getting the attention it rightly deserves. Go LU!
Tags: [...]
Uttering from the Flip (looking into the sun)
Mobile post sent by sink using Utterz. Replies.
Beautiful woman as an analogy for community development
Martin, the blogger at the wonderful Community Spark blog recently posted a wonderful article, “Why your online community is like a beautiful woman“. Considering that most of my presentations have some connection to the idea that community is about relationship building, this struck a cord.
I’m already thinking about how I might be able to work [...]
Rapid Fire - Monday, May 05
Web 2.0 Educators Are Atwitter About Twitter
“In the classroom, I might set up a Twitter account for just my students and their parents. We can all update our little community about what we’re up to in class. I also think it would be interesting to track brainstorms — students immediately post a thought on Twitter [...]
Microsoft Photosynth is Amazing
You know those moments where you are introduced to a new technology and the only thing you can say is “Holy f**k”? Microsoft Photosynth is one such technology.
Here’s how the Microsoft site describes it:
Our software takes a large collection of photos of a place or an object, analyzes them for similarities, and displays [...]
FFF: The Bridge
Reasoning for this week’s Friday Flickr Find:
I the overall composition of this shot, but especially that the background is so lacking detail it’s flat black, while the foreground is sharp as it gets.
(The Bridge by Hulalulatallulahoop)
Where the f**k do ideas come from?
Ze Frank hits yet another one out of the park. If the F-word isn’t work appropriate, turn your speakers down.
play_blip_movie_166003();
Presdo: What a Web app should be
Thanks to TechCrunch, I found a brilliant new Web app for dealing with online scheduling. As a consultant working on a Mac and scheduling many clients and sales calls with people who use a wide variety of calendaring program, it’s a bear to get it all working right. Presdo looks like it might solve all [...]
