Archives for the 'miscTech' Category
Millions of Blogs are Now…
Tuesday, September 15th, 2009
A week ago I wrote the following: Either everybody who’s been gushing about rssCloud “making millions of blogs real-time” is missing the point, or I am. I haven’t worked through it all in my head, but if I had to write a totally speculative, one day after release headline right now I’d go with something [...]
Untitled #470: On Foursquare
Tuesday, September 8th, 2009
Being a post against the possibility that enough hasn’t yet been enough written about foursquare in the past few days. In the post that launched a thousand VCs on to foursquare, Charlie O’Donnell both neatly outlined a compelling analysis of foursquare’s potential as a real, money-earning business and articulated some areas of concern for that [...]
Aggregation and Accretion
Thursday, September 3rd, 2009
Aggregation: a group or mass of distinct or varied things, persons, etc. Accretion: the growing together of separate parts into a single whole. Bonus definition! Excellence: the state or condition of being excellent. Step One: Aggregation I begin with the proposition that aggregation has been one of the key concepts of the past five years [...]
Nitpicking: development, agile and otherwise
Tuesday, August 25th, 2009
Earlier today I twittered as follows: It means I wasted a couple of hours with the API this morning, but I just heard that a @songkick feature I really want is in QA…sweeet! Thanks to my ego-tastic monitoring processes, shortly thereafter I became aware of an indirect response to that tweet, along the lines of [...]
Reconsidering Facebook
Tuesday, August 18th, 2009
Being a quick brain dump, since the Internet does not exist where we’re staying in Claryville, NY. Before we left Brooklyn I was thinking about Foursquare; I think what Jon Steinberg and crew have done with Social Great is really interesting, but it’s not the direction that really excites me about the potential of the [...]
A Couple of Needles for a Tiny Thread
Tuesday, August 11th, 2009
So if you’re on Twitter, you are almost certainly aware by now that Joshua Schachter (of del.icio.us fame) just launched a personal project called A Tiny Thread. It’s a nice idea: piggyback off of the Twitter identity system [and take note of that, identity/SSO geeks] and create conversation spaces. This neatly and rather elegantly addresses [...]
The Twitter That Was
Tuesday, August 4th, 2009
Let’s start with a couple of interesting links: first, Nate Westheimer’s post from a few weeks ago in which he notes that his own Twitter use (and that of a number of other once heavy Twitterers) has been declining over the past few months. The full post and chart are here [and you should take [...]
Data, Information, Medium, Message
Tuesday, July 28th, 2009
Being a Small Post on a Large Topic What you put in your Web app dashboard is different from what you put in your emails, and different from what you put in your SMS messages or mobile app dashboard, and rightly so; if McLuhan had his act at all together, we can be confident that [...]
User Inactivity: One Reason and Another
Tuesday, July 21st, 2009
Last week Fred Wilson posted The Difference Between Total Users and Active Users, which proposed that web services focus on active users rather than obsessing over the many, many inactive user accounts that litter every even slightly successful service. He noted that: It is not a problem for a service to have a large group [...]
Follower Count: Pageviews 2.0
Monday, July 13th, 2009
On the Hype Machine’s Twitter Music Chart The Hype Machine crew recently released a Twitter Music Chart. First off, it’s pretty excellent: We monitor Twitter for links pointing to tracks on the Hype Machine. We then give each of those tweets a number of points based on the number of followers (and the ratio of [...]
