Author Archive
links of the week: 6/29-7/4
what happens to the web when a celebrity dies?
interview with twitter operations engineer John Adams
details: Reddit vs. Digg
why doesn’t google close it’s html tags?
Danah Boyd: ‘white flight’ from myspace to facebook
ALICE & Jabberwacky walk into a bar…
Social Media as a force of good…now we’re getting somewhere!
6/25/09 UPDATE II: a brief history of technology & communications development within the Islamic Republic of Iran provides context to the “revolution”: http://www.meforum.org/2169/iran-technology-revolution
6/25/09 UPDATE: “Twitter creator shocked and saddened to learn that Twitter can be useful…”
Iranians using Twitter as means of circumventing Media/ISP control mechanisms.
No doubt there are interests against social media – both at [...]
TechFellow Awards
Google vs. Bing side by side: you decide
Will Bing (& Wolfram) push us closer to an era of hyper-aggregated search?
Events: 6/3/09 Rockin’ the Cloud with Reside
**Update: here’s the slideshow courtesy of Eric Scheel, Sr.Application Architect at Reside
Initial Impressions:
The Wayzata Ballroom is absolutely beautiful & they’ve done it right: plenty of good food & drink
This is a great promotional tool for Reside, I think any agency should do what they can to throw an informational/educational event. Bring people together around your [...]
MN CUP: Social Entrepreneur Finalists!
http://www.breakthroughideas.org/page/1/2009-Social-Entrepreneur-s-Cup-Finalists.jsp
smart people: Henry Jenkins & danah boyd
http://web.mit.edu/cms/People/henry3/
http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/
Coming Soon to MN: 40 Ventures
h/t to the Minnov8.com for the audio (Minnov8 Gang Podcast #37)
Project Title: 40 Ventures- a “seed fund & venture development enterprise”
Organizers: Marti Nyman & John Montague
Strategy: 5 companies per year are taken in on full time basis to an environment known as “the facility”. Mentorships ensue with multi-party hands on development aimed at prepping the [...]
Review/notes-CATFOA 5/11
Thanks to Tim Brunelle for making this series of speakers and events possible. From what I understand, if I heard anything over current (5 tab) internet adventure, this will be the last one for this year.
Tissues
Anyways, we’ve got Michael Lebowitz (@bigspaceship) from Brooklyn NY here talking about advertising (yawn) in a post advertising world.
Ok, so [...]
Notes & Review: Minnebar 5/7
new counsel-http://newcounsel.com/
minnesota cup-http://www.breakthroughideas.org/page/1/high-tech.jsp
Corey Sax @ Pizza Luce – RP/Net Neutrality
adagogo & doapps.com
http://www.startupshoppe.com/index.htm
