Archives for the 'socialsoftware' Category
Anatomy of a Twitter Bot
Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008
Update: If you’re here in search of sample code for a Twitter repost bot, I would strongly recommend going to the Anatomy of a Better Twitter Bot post, which has a much-improved iteration of the LOTD bot code. Update: Since Fred Twittered this post, it has reached a somewhat larger audience than expected and I’ll [...]
Twitter Client Feature Request
Saturday, March 15th, 2008
So let’s say that you’re like me and have finally come to terms with the fact that you like Twitter. You initially followed a couple of friends and some internet-famous people. Then you added some of the people you work with and some people who always seem to come up with funny things to Twitter. [...]
That “Ambient Intimacy” Thing
Saturday, February 2nd, 2008
While the term “ambient intimacy” still feels a hair creepy to me, I guess I’m starting to see the point. Like all right-thinking people, I’ve followed Techdirt for years, and over the past couple of years Mike Masnick and I have exchanged a number of emails on various topics. I suppose I vaguely assumed that [...]
Source Materials for the Identity API
Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008
Read Joe Lazarus’ musings on the MyBlogLog API. Give some thought to Kim Cameron’s work regarding identity, paying particular attention to “delegation coupons”. Run through the writing that Dave Winer has done in the last couple of days on user generated content (UGC). Consider the evolution of online community, with specific reference to the model [...]
Twitter, Tumblr, and Me
Wednesday, December 12th, 2007
Prologue About three and a half years ago I wrote a post entitled Feed Splicing, Shell Scripts, and the Internet, giving voice to my enthusiasm for the ease with which I could combine the two shiny new toys I had just started playing with: del.icio.us and FeedBurner. In that post I noted that: By taking [...]
Social Software, Venture Capitalists, Optical Isomers
Sunday, August 19th, 2007
Yesterday at about 6PM Fred Wilson posted that an open social network for the Web “sounds awesome,” and that he’s wanted that for a while now. Yesterday at about 9PM Brad Feld posted about the process of manually integrating his Outlook contacts with Facebook, ending the post with the note that “Plaxo is up next.” [...]
T-shirts and Social Software
Monday, June 11th, 2007
A couple of weeks ago I was talking to some friends about what “social” Web sites interested me at the moment; I got some odd looks when I said that Threadless fascinated me. Now that Guy Kawasaki has jumped on the bandwagon I’m not looking quite so eccentric, am I? Seriously, though: these people have [...]
When Social Software Works
Monday, May 21st, 2007
Within 24 hours of the publication of Mark Helprin’s op-ed on perpetual copyright from yesterday’s Sunday New York Times, a wiki page on Larry Lessig’s site, intended to facilitate the collective authorship of a rebuttal to the piece, is well underway. Sometimes social software works the way you want it to.
Lunchtime Musings: on the Maturity of the Internet
Monday, April 30th, 2007
On Saturday, April 28th, 2007, Fred Wilson (venture capitalist, blogger, and noted blog bling enthusiast) posted about adding the lijit search widget to his popular blog. On Sunday, April 29th, 2007, Fred Wilson posted about the fact that “widgets suck” was the most popular search displayed in his lijit search widget tag cloud, suggesting that [...]
Blaming the Messenger: Brand Presence in Explicitly Social Software
Monday, December 11th, 2006
The link is a little dated now, but (via the Social Customer Manifesto) I just came across Wade Roush’s Technology Review piece: Fakesters – On MySpace, you can be friends with Burger King. This is social networking? Raush notes: What’s sad about MySpace, though, is that the large supply of fake “friends,” together with the [...]
