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Remember how I wrote all that stuff about email being the next big thing? Remember all that stuff about the hidden social network within email? Hah! Those were good times.
Sad to say it, but I think I was wrong. Taking a look at my inbox these days - my personal inbox - I find that [...]

Top ten best tweets about watching fireworks in San Francisco:

Number 10
Victoria_Is: still finding it intriguing that San Francisco and its residents consider brightly colored fog to be actual, honest-to-god FIREWORKS
Number 9
feorlen: typical San francisco fourth of July. Hope you weren’t expecting to actually see the fireworks, bring a coat [...]

Non-famous people twittering about mundane things isn’t interesting, but famous people twittering about mundane things is. For instance, we don’t really want to read about you brushing your teeth, going to pick up your kids, or the aches you have in the morning. But if Brad Pitt twittered about his morning aches, it would be [...]

Although your average, everyday person might not think of themselves as having a “personal brand” or even knowing what that term means, they usually do understand one thing: the results that come up when someone searches for their name and the fact that these results essentially represent who they are to other people, especially people [...]

During my time at both Flickr and Polyvore, I saw first hand the type of unwanted content and communication that happens within online communities. Between the two sites, a lot of it was very similar; pornographic uploads, derogatory comments and users complaining about and sometimes ganging up on each other. The difference, however, did exist [...]

This past weekend was completely obliterated by the single most emotionally manipulative show ever created: Lost. Unfortunately I could only get through about three and a half of the six discs before I had to turn it off. I found the writing to be painfully glib and there seemed to be an emotionally charged [...]

A few weeks ago I read about the Mobile Connections thing happening at Supernova 2008. Although I read about it after the deadline, I decided to put together a concept anyway. Unfortunately I wasn’t able to submit it in time, but, as part of my No Photoshop File Left Behind™ Program, I’m going to go [...]

I’ve never gotten into online communities. Social networks, yes. Online communities, not so much. What’s the difference? Well, online communities form around shared interests, while social networks form around relationships. As I wrote in “Most Valuable Players,” I think it’s the ultimate goal of most online communities to eventually become social networks, i.e., Flickr making [...]

I am super late to the microblogging scene, even though it’s a form of expression that I totally love. Unlike most Twitterers out there, my microblogging experience really began with Facebook status updates. But I didn’t really get into it until I received an invite to Brightkite’s beta, and now I’m completely hooked. Although it’s [...]

As I was going through some photos I took of the keynote at last year’s Web 2.0 Expo, Jeff Weiner’s cute little mug began to seem strangely familiar….
Yep, Jeff was (is? not sure what his facial hair is doing these days) a dead ringer for Ryan Howard, as played by B.J. Novak on The Office. [...]