*Personality Not Included

I've just finished reading *Personality Not Included by social marketing guru Rohit Bhargava. I don't know a lot about marketing, but I know what w...

What Do You Use Search Engines For?

Chatting with colleague Dan Thornton I said outloud something that's been festering at the back of my mind. And I want to share it with you. "I onl...

The Great Comment Switch: Disqus

I have been using Disqus on a number of the new blogs here at /Edgewards, so I decided that it might be time to step up to the new comment system f...

Announcing /Edgewards

Despite all the recent discussion about failing blog networks and the resulting handwringing about the presumably negative climate for blogging, I ...

Matt Balara Interviews Me

Back in Copenhagen at Reboot, Matt Balara (now a contributor here at /Message) pulled me into his series "What's Design Mean To You?", and he poste...

I Am A DJ, I Am What I Play

I came across this tweet in Gerd Leonhard’s Daily Wisdoms “Bloggers are now like DJs: They pick bands to play and talk about, and become powerful s...

Gregor Hochmuth Misses The Mark With The 'Power Of Audience'

Gregor has attempted to analyze the success of Twitter using old media imaginings, and largely fails to capture what is happening: [from Why Twitte...

Mozilla's Future Of The Browser Project

My pal, Jamais Cascio, asked me to drop in on a series of meetings earlier in the year, something to do with Mozilla and the future of the browser....

Boxee: UI Nightmare, But Worth It?

My pal, Ian Forrester invited me to the alpha of a new media sharing app called Boxee. Yikes. I was baffled by the experience at first because the ...

Google's 5% Stake In AOL Isn't Worth $1B Anymore

No surprise that Google has assessed it's $1B acquisition of 5% of AOL and decided that it looks like a bad deal, now: [from Wired News - AP News b...

Jeff Jarvis on The Google Age

[from The myth of the creative class] When we talk about the Google age, then, we do talk about a new society and the rules I explore in my book ar...

Communications Nerdvana: Next Year, Maybe

I have been smacked in the face with a battery of new flow apps. There are so many popping up I can't even adequately fool with them. David Chartie...

No Time For Newsprint

The folks at The We Campaign have already demonstrated that they aren't wise to the web (see Getting Sociality Wrong: We), so it comes as no great ...

Tweet Pro: No Way, Unless You Are Planning To Spam

I stumbled across Cesar Serna's Tweet Pro, thanks to Rhea Drysdale, and even before I read her insightful review I clicked over to the website and ...

Quote Of The Day: Flat Is The New Up

by Stowe Boyd, Reston A quip about the steep decline in ad revenue in magazines: [from In Deepening Ad Decline, Sales Fall 8% at Magazines by RICHA...

paidContent.org Acquired By Guardian News & Media

by Stowe Boyd, Reston Rafat Ali and Co. have been acquired as part of the Guardian's move onto the web and into the US media markets. Congratulatio...

Todd Tweedy on Affiliate Marketing At /Message

by Stowe Boyd, Reston [Update: 11 July 2008 1:33pm ET -- The affiliate marketing experiment for Andy Sernovitz at /Message has been terminated: see...

Anecdotes And Reason

by Stowe Boyd, San Francisco Michael Shemmer presents an argument explaining why we tend to believe anecdotal evidence: it's as a evolutionary adva...

AOL Is A Dog With Fleas

The implosion at AOL is accelerating: [from Bewkes confirms AOL split | News - Digital Media - CNET News.com by Caroline McCarthy] It's the first t...

Andy Sernovitz on Word Of Mouth Marketing

by Stowe Boyd, Reston [Update: 11 July 2008 1:33pm ET -- The affiliate marketing experiment for Andy Sernovitz at /Message has been terminated: see...

Blogging 2.0 Meme Doesn't Go Far Enough

Duncan Riley is promulgating 'Blogging 2.0' to represent what I consider the erosion of social media by their historic communities under the inexor...

More Support For The iPhone Nano? Or Mac Netbook?

July's quarterly financial results call from Apple had the CFO Peter Oppenheimer warning of a drop in gross margins before the end of September due...

Friendster: New Money Following Bad?

Has anyone ever climbed back from a plunge like the Friendster nosedive? I don't think so. But big money thinks so, with IDG Ventures, Kleiner Perk...

The Gravitational Pull Of Enterprise 2.0

by Sandy Kemsley, Toronto Susan Scrupski and Jevon MacDonald are developing a graphical view of the overlapping "2.0" space, dividing it into digit...

Twitter Spam: What Can We Do?

by Matt Balara, Hamburg Germany If I believed in God, I'd thank him for the block link on every Twitter user's page. This certainly isn't news, but...

Virtual Worlds In The Enterprise

by Sandy Kemsley, Toronto I've never really got into Second Life; I guess that I keep waiting for it to do something "useful". Although I've heard ...

Apple Rumor Day

A day with a barrage of Apple rumors, including one that I am happy to start. Based on a few paragraphs in the UK scandal sheet, The Daily Mail, pe...

The New Ordering Of Information: An Assault On The Edge

When Knol – google’s answer to Wikipedia - first showed up I feared it was the answer to a question no one was asking. It addressed the ‘problem’ t...

Who Owns Your Comments?

by David Cushman, Peterborough, UK I think I upset Jeff Jarvis. I didn’t mean to. No offence meant Jeff... attention is love… Jeff is currently wri...

Stowe Boyd Interviewed By Aaron Strout

by Stowe Boyd, Reston Recent interview by Aaron Strout: [from We Are Smarter Than Me | Blog | We Are Smarter Podcasts] Stowe Boyd is a well-known b...

/Ground: Globosclerosis and The Limits Of Open Markets

I take on David Brooks of the New York Times over at /Ground: [from /Ground: Globosclerosis and The Limits Of Open Markets] Brooks -- despite being...

Maarten's Journey : Optimism 2.0

by Marjolein Hoekstra, Den Haag, NL I only learned last night that fellow bilingual blogger Maarten Lens-Fitzgerald, known by most Dutch social ner...

Rapleaf Research Into Social Networks Not Particularly Revealing

Email today from Rapleaf shows some tepid insights based on looking at 49.3 million people in their dataset: [via email] In a follow up to the Stud...

NowPublic's 'Life In A Fishbowl' List For Silicon Valley

I get a kick out of placing twelfth on NowPublic's 'Most Public' Index for Silicon Valley. I am in the dark on the internals of their calculations,...

A Tale Of Modern-Day Customer Support

In the old days, if you had a problem with a product and wanted to deal with it online, you could email the company's customer support or post a qu...

Cuil Tries To Outgoogle Google

With amazing fanfare, the new search competitor, Cuil has emerged from stealth. Cuil (pronounced 'cool') is trying to change our habits and grab so...

How We Are Made Great

Stowe has a phrase. It's one of my favourites: "I am made greater by the sum of my connections, so are my connections." Who is the 'greatest' one a...

The New Literacy and The Enemies Of The Future

As usual, the forces of centrality are fighting against the wrong opponents. Instead of being happy that kids are spending less time watching telev...

Paul Kedrosky: VC Is Broken

[from Pessimism From Venture Capitalists - Bits - Technology - New York Times Blog] Self-serving protestations to the contrary aside, there is no i...

How Big Is The Web?

Google tells us the web is big, like we didn't know. Mostly their post seems like school yard posturing, especially given the hint that Arrington i...

AOL: Getting Back To Basics

AOL is jettisoning a bunch of unsuccessful projects in an effort to trim costs, and perhaps to slap some lipstick on the pig to find a buyer, accor...

Wired Celebrity Meter

Wired built this widget on top of the Google Social Graph. How do you rate compared to me? Your browser doesn't support HTML iframes. You will not ...

Robert Metcalfe on The Internet

The Internet will catastrophically collapse in 1996. - Robert Metcalfe

Corante Is Dying?

As many know, I wrote a blog for several years at Corante called Get Real, which is, sadly, still live there. I say 'sadly' because the blog looks ...

XMPP As A Key Component Of The Social Web

Every once and a while I dust off my master's degree in computer science, and pontificate about the deeper implications of the social architecture ...

David Appell Responds

I recently wrote a piece (see David Appell Is Andrew Keen Jr) countering some of the observations made by David Appell in a post about the blogosph...

Kenneth Boulding on Facts And Theories

Theories without facts may be barren, but facts without theories are meaningless. - Kenneth Boulding

Google Maps Walking Directions Now Live

Looks like Google has released walking directions in beta for Google Maps: 154 S Park St, San Francisco, CA 94107 to 542 Brannan St, San Francisco,...

six groups and Stowe Boyd

The Hamburg-based social tool company, six groups, announced today on their blog that I have joined their advisory board. I first encountered six g...

Scoble Thinks Blogging Has Failed Us

Although it is a bit gloomy (maybe the overcast of the past week in the Bay Area has dampened Robert's sunny nature), I have to agree with some -- ...

Google Page Rank Patent Invalidated?

Recent findings by the US Patent and Trademark Office may invalidate many existing software patents, including Google's Page Rank: [from The Death ...

More New Media For The Enterprise

In case anyone missed the big social media news yesterday, Social Media Group is acquiring Livingston Communications. Tongue firmly in cheek, Geoff...

A Community Approach To Transit

Consumers are starting to wrench control from official public transit authorities when it comes to information about the services: when the transit...

Subjectivity Is The New Objectivity

My buddy BadgerGravling pointed me at this from Chris Hambly (note, no search engines were employed in the creating of this linkage… which is kind ...

Flow Advertising, Defrag Talk

Eric is working on getting people's juices flowing for Defrag, and has been blogging some teasers: [from Anything but ho-hum] “Is the flow just too...

Vote for Stowe

A week or so back I shared some of the thinking behind a launch I've been helping out a little. Now the guys at ditto.net have come up with a way f...

Testing Out New Dopplr Features: Twitter, Email, and Public Profile

I finally am getting around to looking at various new features implemented in the Dopplr social travel application. Various new ways to communicate...

Launching New Blog: /Ground

I am pleased to announce the launch of a new blog, /Ground, dedicated to what I am calling localism: [from Launching /Ground] I believe that we are...

Fred Wilson on The Changing Blog Landscape

In the middle of a torrent of stories about paidContent.org's acquisition by the Guardian News, new investment in Silicon Alley Insider, and a chan...

Social Search: Google and Me.dium

A number of new takes on social search have popped up. Looks like Google is experimenting with a crowdsourcing approach to socializing search resul...

Twitter Buys Summize

I had heard the rumors, and now it's confirmed: Twitter has acquired Summize. But I don't think that Summize search is the answer to Twitter busine...

Paint The Whole Sky, We'll Still Ignore You

Adage shares this in its 3min news: Advanced warning of the stepping up of the most pointless arms race in history. Turning three sides of a 25 sto...

Paint The Whole Sky, We'll Still Ignore You

by David Cushman, Peterborough, UK Adage shares this in its 3min news: Advanced warning of the stepping up of the most pointless arms race in histo...

Mark Pesce on The Tribal Future

I was alerted to an interesting presentation from the recent Public Democracy Forum (thanks @blogstar, I knew I should have gone) by Mark Pesce (@m...

Mark Pesce on The Tribal Future

I was alerted to an interesting presentation from the recent Public Democracy Forum (thanks @blogstar, I knew I should have gone) by Mark Pesce (@m...

The A-List Is Dead, Long Live The A-List

Jim Kukral is trying to thread together a few data points, and looking for a smooth curve, but I don't think he'll find one. Kukral thesis? Because...

The A-List Is Dead, Long Live The A-List

by Stowe Boyd, Reston Jim Kukral is trying to thread together a few data points, and looking for a smooth curve, but I don't think he'll find one. ...

David Appell Is Andrew Keen Jr

Jay Rosen brought my attention to a post by David Appell, someone I don't think I ever read before. Basically Appell is arguing that 'amateur blogg...

David Appell Is Andrew Keen Jr

by Stowe Boyd, Reston Jay Rosen brought my attention to a post by David Appell, someone I don't think I ever read before. Basically Appell is argui...

Lawyers And Social Networks

Some interesting survey results: [via email from www.leadernetworks.com] Leader Networks has just completed an extensive “Networks for Counsel” sur...

Lawyers And Social Networks

by Stowe Boyd, Reston Some interesting survey results: [via email from www.leadernetworks.com] Leader Networks has just completed an extensive “Net...

TwitterSpy : Twitter Track Finally Back, and Better!

As someone who follows Twitter-related news quite closely, I felt quite debilitated a few months ago when Twitter disabled Twitter Track, its keywo...

TwitterSpy : Twitter Track Finally Back, and Better!

by Marjolein Hoekstra, Den Haag, NL As someone who follows Twitter-related news quite closely, I felt quite debilitated a few months ago when Twitt...

New Directions, Old DNA: The Future Of The /Messengers

I am setting new directions in my work. Based on a wide variety of factors, ranging from the hugely personal issue of what makes me happy, the econ...

New Directions, Old DNA: The Future Of The /Messengers

by Stowe Boyd, Reston I am setting new directions in my work. Based on a wide variety of factors, ranging from the hugely personal issue of what ma...

Stowe Boyd And The /Messengers

Pixelated Avatar from Dopplr, originally uploaded by Stowe Boyd. [updated 12 July 2008] The /Messengers is not a band, although it sounds like one....

Stowe Boyd And The /Messengers

by Stowe Boyd, Reston Pixelated Avatar from Dopplr, originally uploaded by Stowe Boyd. [updated 12 July 2008] The /Messengers is not a band, althou...

Andy Sernovitz on The End Of An Experiment

I am all for word of mouth marketing. But, as I explained to Andy Sernovitz a week or so ago, word of mouth is only one part of an overall marketin...

Andy Sernovitz on The End Of An Experiment

by Stowe Boyd, Reston I am all for word of mouth marketing. But, as I explained to Andy Sernovitz a week or so ago, word of mouth is only one part ...

/Message In Top Analyst Blogs And Microblogs By Technobabble 2.0

I discovered, sort of by accident, that /Message is in the top five analyst blogs as calculated by Technobabble.com: Top 100 analyst blogs « Techno...

/Message In Top Analyst Blogs And Microblogs By Technobabble 2.0

by Stowe Boyd, Reston I discovered, sort of by accident, that /Message is in the top five analyst blogs as calculated by Technobabble.com: Top 100 ...

Quote Of The Day: Flat Is The New Up

by Stowe Boyd, Reston A quip about the steep decline in ad revenue in magazines: [from In Deepening Ad Decline, Sales Fall 8% at Magazines by RICHA...

paidContent.org Acquired By Guardian News & Media

by Stowe Boyd, Reston Rafat Ali and Co. have been acquired as part of the Guardian's move onto the web and into the US media markets. Congratulatio...

Todd Tweedy on Affiliate Marketing At /Message

by Stowe Boyd, Reston [Update: 11 July 2008 1:33pm ET -- The affiliate marketing experiment for Andy Sernovitz at /Message has been terminated: see...

Andy Sernovitz on Word Of Mouth Marketing

by Stowe Boyd, Reston [Update: 11 July 2008 1:33pm ET -- The affiliate marketing experiment for Andy Sernovitz at /Message has been terminated: see...

The Gravitational Pull Of Enterprise 2.0

by Sandy Kemsley, Toronto Susan Scrupski and Jevon MacDonald are developing a graphical view of the overlapping "2.0" space, dividing it into digit...

Twitter Spam: What Can We Do?

by Matt Balara, Hamburg Germany If I believed in God, I'd thank him for the block link on every Twitter user's page. This certainly isn't news, but...

Virtual Worlds In The Enterprise

by Sandy Kemsley, Toronto I've never really got into Second Life; I guess that I keep waiting for it to do something "useful". Although I've heard ...

Who Owns Your Comments?

by David Cushman, Peterborough, UK I think I upset Jeff Jarvis. I didn’t mean to. No offence meant Jeff... attention is love… Jeff is currently wri...

Stowe Boyd Interviewed By Aaron Strout

by Stowe Boyd, Reston Recent interview by Aaron Strout: [from We Are Smarter Than Me | Blog | We Are Smarter Podcasts] Stowe Boyd is a well-known b...

Maarten's Journey : Optimism 2.0

by Marjolein Hoekstra, Den Haag, NL I only learned last night that fellow bilingual blogger Maarten Lens-Fitzgerald, known by most Dutch social ner...

Jay Rosen on The Jessica DaSilva Witchhunt

by Stowe Boyd, Reston Jay digs into the DaSilva mess -- young female intern at the Tampa Tribune excoriated by incensed journalists after she seeme...

Updating Technorati Tags In TypePad Using Live Writer

by Sandy Kemsley, Toronto I use Live Writer for writing blog posts, since I'm often on a plane or in some other place without wifi; this also has t...

Traditional Software Vendors Go Marketing 2.0

by Sandy Kemsley, Toronto As a part-time analyst, I receive a lot of email from vendors plugging their latest product, service, webinar, white pape...

Getting The /Message

by Sandy Kemsley, Toronto I've run into Stowe a couple of times over the past few years -- Enterprise 2.0 in Boston and mesh in Toronto -- and afte...

Bumper Stickers A Sign Of Territoriality

by Stowe Boyd, Reston [from Bumper stickers reveal link to road rage - Pragma Synesi - interesting bits] [...] People who had a larger number of pe...

I Hope That Craig Newmark Is Right

by Stowe Boyd, Reston Craig Newmark make the case that Obama might actually be willing to change the business of politics once elected: [from cnewm...

The Evolution of Mobile Phones

by Erno Hannink, Doetinchem, NL Great video with lots of phones in it. From the first 'mobile' phone up too the Nokia N95 and iPhone. At the end th...

When Search Fails: Humans To The Rescue

by David Cushman, Peterborough, UK A few days back Stowe drew my attention to flickchart.com - a taste-driven movie list generator. I've signed up ...

Chris Anderson Responds To The Long Tail Of Hyperlocal

by Stowe Boyd, Reston Chris Anderson, the author of The Long Tail a PhD candidate at Columbia and the J-School blog, wrote a longish comment on my ...

Unpublishing

by Stowe Boyd, Reston A story in the New York Times by Naom Cohen relates the recent discovery that Xeni Jardin deleted a bunch of posts from Boing...

Foldable Screens = Changing The Form Factor

by Stowe Boyd, Reston I see that the Readius electronic book device is being rolled out. HalfOpen_Transparant_ReadiusLogo_ByPV_2K, originally uploa...

Raymond Williams on Mass Identity

by Stowe Boyd, Reston Raymond Williams. There are no masses, there are only ways of seeing people as masses. [via Jay Rosen]

John McQuaid, The Big Die-Off, And The Long Tail Of Hyperlocal

by Stowe Boyd, Reston More reaction to the hornet's nest stirred by Jessica DaSilva, the Tampa Trib intern, whose blog post about the uncertain fut...

Kwippy? No, I Want More... Much More.

by Stowe Boyd, Reston I got invited to YATKO (yet another Twitter knock off) called Kwippy: [from Kwippy blog › kwippy !!] What is kwippy? - a micr...

Hello New Social App. Why Should I Use You?

by Matt Balara, Hamburg Germany My first post on the /message left a little confusion in its wake. I didn't introduce myself, so many thought Stowe...

TweetDeck

by Stowe Boyd, Reston I caught wind of TweetDeck, a new Twitter client, via Scobleizer and decided to give it a try: TweetDeck, originally uploaded...

Janet Coats on The Church Of Journalism Is Dying

by Stowe Boyd, Reston Jessica DaSilva writes about the growing sense of mortality in the journalistic trenches, as more and more journalists begin ...

Kurt Opsahl on Viacom v Google

by Stowe Boyd, Reston Louis Stanton, the presiding judge in the Viacom v Google case has ordered Google to provide him with records regarding all u...

School Of Everything Wins New Statesman New Media Award

by Stowe Boyd, Reston School Of Everything, the London-based social tools start-up where I serve on the advisory board, won a New Statesman New Med...

Jason Kinzler Is Trying to Steal Repurpose Twitpitch

by Stowe Boyd, Reston Jason Kinzler has rewarmed the idea of microPR and Twitpitching, and created a Ning group around the concept. For those who m...

Nora Ephron: Gore For Vice President

by Stowe Boyd, Reston I am with Nora Ephron on this one: Gore for Obama's VP. He has all the necessary characteristics: [Nora Ephron: What About It...

Paul Kedrosky on Predictably Irritating

by Stowe Boyd, Reston Paul Kedrosky is tired of books like Dan Ariely's Predictably Irrational, another recent non-fictional exploration of human c...

Constant Traveller

by Stowe Boyd, Reston I am going to be interviewed by the artist behind the Constant Traveller project, Monika Codourey. Could be interesting. +++c...

Ariel Waldman on One Size Does NOT Fit All

by Stowe Boyd, Reston photo by Jeremy Keith, originally uploaded by Stowe Boyd. Ariel Waldman asks a good question at the very end of a rambling po...

Yahoo To Be Sold For Parts

by Stowe Boyd, Reston The technosphere is awhirl (see The Humiliating Detail Yahoo (YHOO) Left Out of Its "Microsoft Timeline", Ballmer on Yahoo De...

Snakes And Widgets

by David Cushman, Peterborough, UK Markets can be pesky things to pin down these days. Some just don’t fit our traditional expectations. I’m not ab...

9cays: Embracing The Email Beast For Lightweight Collaboration

by Stowe Boyd, Reston I am fond of quoting my dear friend, Doc Searls, who once said, "Email is where knowledge goes to die." But still, I spend a ...

Planes, Trains, And Laptops

by Stowe Boyd, Reston A preposterous side effect of the ridiculous airport "security" regimen in place at our airports worldwide is the increase in...

Luis Suarez: I Freed Myself From E-Mail’s Grip

by Stowe Boyd, Reston Luis writes in the NY Times about his experiment in zero email: [from Preoccupations - I Freed Myself From E-Mail’s Grip - NY...

Share Your Shit : Impressions from Reboot 10, Copenhagen June 2008

by Marjolein Hoekstra, Den Haag, NL "Share Your Shit" turned out to be the slogan of Reboot 10, the amazingly inspiring conference organized by Tho...

Easy Blogging Using Email - Posterous

by Erno Hannink, Doetinchem, NL Posterous launched yesterday (see comments on this post). It is a really easy way to blog, maybe the easiest way th...

New Guest Contributor: Marjolein Hoekstra

by Stowe Boyd, Copenhagen I'm happy to say that Marjolein Hoekstra (of CleverClogs) will be joining the growing cadre of contributors here at /Mess...

FrontlineSMS

by Stowe Boyd, Copenhagen FrontlineSMS: Empowering NGOs and non-profit organizations around the world, originally uploaded by Stowe Boyd. I just le...

Social Tools In The Enterprise. Contradiction In Terms?

David Cushman, Peterborough, UK I often hear people talk about deploying social tools ‘in the enterprise’. And that’s a good thing. A great first s...

Web Culture: Identity, Belonging, And Scalar Freedom

by Stowe Boyd, Copenhagen I gave a presentation yesterday at Reboot10 in Copenhagen called "Web Culture: Identity, Belonging, And Scalar Freedom" a...

FriendFeed In A Wiki? Whoisi

by Erno Hannink, Doetinchem, NL There is something new at the horizon of personal feed collectors. Whoisi received some attention from Dave Winer o...

Tweets From Reboot10 On "Web Culture: Individuality, Belonging, And Scalar Freedom"

by Stowe Boyd, Copenhagen I pulled some comments on my talk, Web Culture: Individuality, Belonging, And Scalar Freedom, from Summize: [from stowe b...

Twitpitch: Kindling

by Stowe Boyd, Copenhagen Saw an interesting twitpitch this morning: Kindling (http://kindlingapp.com) is your org's democratic suggestion box. Ide...

Twitter Isn't About Conversation - It's About Forming Groups

David Cushman, Peterborough UK Hello, I'm David Cushman and this is my first guest post on /message. My regular blog tells you more than you're lik...

Tom Formeski on Adtribution

Tom Foremski starts out by talking about the AP copyright brouhaha and winds up taking a lefthand turn into a very interesting convention. He sugge...

David Weinberger on Babbage’s Noise

by Stowe Boyd, Reston VA David Weinberger is one of many folks coming to Reboot10 this week, along with yours truly. He's let us peek under the kim...

Christine Rosen Joins The War On Flow

by Stowe Boyd, Reston VA Christine Rosen, in The New Atlantis, does a masterful job of collating all the arguments against multitasking in her Myth...

Typepad And Feedburner Woes Lead To Author Confusion

by Stowe Boyd, Reston VA Let me apologize for any confusion about recent posts, and let me also clarify things. This blog, /Message, has been a sol...

Nick Carr and Scott Karp: Is The Web Making Us Stupid?

by Stowe Boyd, Reston VA Nick Carr suggests in his recent Atlantic Monthly article, Is Google Making Us Stupid?, that the way we use the Web is cha...

Why Aren't You Talking To Me?

by Matt Balara This afternoon my best friend Steffen called me. The first thing I said was, "Hey! What have you been up to the past couple of weeks...

PingMe: A Task Reminder Service

by Stowe Boyd, Reston VA Passing by on the Deck ad network this morning (at Andy Baio's blog) I saw a new service called Tempo, which is a time tra...

Poll: How Many Of My Twitterstream (and /Message community) Are Going To Reboot10?

by Stowe Boyd, Reston VA

Another Reason To Distrust The Powers That Be

by Stowe Boyd, Reston VA Michael Arrington cast a bright light on abuse of power by the domain registration companies as a whole, and Networld Solu...

Instant Messaging Decreases Interruptions

by Stowe Boyd, Reston VA Those that have followed my work will know that I don't buy the microeconomic reasoning that requests for assistance shoul...

AVIN: An ISBN for Wines

by Stowe Boyd, Reston VA Adegga, the social wine site, is doing a lot of cool stuff. But perhaps the greatest contribution that the smart folks at ...

The Twitter Hall of Shame: 50 Tweets That Will Echo in History

by Stowe Boyd, New York City, Chinatown InsideCRM has posted The Twitter Hall Of Shame, 50 tweets that 'will echo in history', and the first on the...

Tom Raftery on Xing

Whoops. Xing (formerly OpenBC), a leading European business networking service, has managed to piss off Tom Rafferty, and probably many other Irish...

Feedly: Turning Google Reader Into A Social Flow

I have been heads down for the past few days -- no, I am not a full-time blogger -- and somehow only was twigged to Feedly, the new Firefox plugin ...

Comment by gregory on Web Culture And The New Ethos Of Work

[from comments to Web Culture And The New Ethos Of Work] all this stuff is just consciousness in action, pretty easy to figure out, get coders for ...

Twitpitch: Chictopia

Via Twitpitch: chictopia @stoweboyd[Chictopia hits 2 million page view run rate 8 weeks of public launch. Lands first advertising deal American App...

Butterfield and Fake To Leave Yahoo

Yahoo's best and brightest continue to leave in droves, and the newest -- and brightest -- stars are Catarina Fake and Stewart Butterfield, the fou...

Tweetburner Stats

I signed up for Tweetburner, and I have been using it for creating short URLs via Twitter, but I don't think I ever logged back in to see the resul...

Twitter + Webinar = Twebinar

by Erno Hannink, Doetinchem, NL Chris Brogan comes up with some great ideas. See for example his articles 100 Personal Branding Tactics Using Socia...

Movino: S60 Nokia Phones Can Be Used As WebCam On Mac OS X

I was hoping that I could find a way to use my new n82 as a webcam. Specifically, I wanted a way to webcam the screen of my Mac, which can't be don...

Beauty Disclaimers: Plazes

I wonder if all tool makers should be as candidly disarming as the Plazes folks: [from Inbox - Plazes - Right Plaze, Right People, Right Time] Let'...

Web Culture And The New Ethos Of Work [From Enterprise 2.0 June 2008]

I gave a presentation at the recent Enterprise 2.0 conference in Boston, entitled Web Culture And The New Ethos Of Work. The text below are the sli...

The 'No Women Speakers' Meme Is Awake Again

[from Twitter.com/maryhodder] retweet of @anon: The no-women-at-conferences sausage fest is become a trope! Agree! @jerrymichalski prob is, most me...

This Ought To Be Fun: Inside Knowledge Profiling Me

Jenny Ambrozek is doing a complex piece on me at Inside Knowledge magazine. One cool idea we are trying is to crowdsource the profile. [from 21st C...

Web Culture: Individuality, Belonging, and Scalar Freedom

I have posted my proposed talk for Reboot10, which is two weeks away in Copenhagen: [from reboot10 - Web Culture: Individuality, Belonging, and Sca...

Overload, Schmoverload: The Myth Of Personal Productivity

The newest attack on connectedness and whole brain attention is here, spouting conventional wisdom as gospel: [from Lost in E-Mail, Tech Firms Face...

Om Malik on Social Networks And Scale

Om seems to be a luddite at the top of his social network sanity check piece, but he quickly gets down to what he advocates, after reviewing and an...

Guest Blogger: Erno Hannink

As part of my growth plans for /Message, I will be bringing on new bloggers. Erno Hannink is the first guest blogger here, as he has already posted...

Twiddict: When Twitter Lets You Down

by Erno Hannink, Doetinchem, NL Are you a Twitter addict and fan? Not ready to jump on the next micro blogging service, despite all the downtime on...

Joe Nocera on Jerry Wang's Yahoo

Joe Nocera is a wise man, based on the William James notion that you judge someone's intelligence by how well he agrees with you. It is time for Je...

Ode To The Death Of Mr Paperclip

I love Lynda Rathbone's connection between Microsoft's killing off Mr Paperclip -- perhaps the most hated avatar of all time -- and the emergence o...

Stephanie Booth Rediscovers Social Media Basics

Stephanie Booth is the force behind the recent Going Solo conference (where I was a speaker; I also serve as an advisor to her company, Going Far)....

A Few Links To Web Culture Talk

Discovering some lnks to people who saw my Web Culture presentation at Enterprise 2.0: Column 2 : Enterprise 2.0: Stowe Boyd on Web Culture Day 3, ...

Ideas For Enterprise 2.0 Next Year

Based on (in part) the closing Town Hall. [from Twitter] Ideas for Enterprise 2.0 next year (based in part on the town hall): 1. Drop 'tracks' base...

Jeremy Zawodny Is Leaving Yahoo

[from Leaving Yahoo! (by Jeremy Zawodny)] It seems that word has started to leak out, so I might as well remove any speculation or ambiguity. In th...

A Bite Of Reality Sandwich: Twitter And Belonging

Jennifer Palmer offers up some insights into how Twitter helps us coalesce into on-the-fly 'groupings' as I call them: Reality Sandwich | Radical I...

Tony Clement of Spaceo.us: Enterprise 2.0 Interview

Veodia Wins At Enterprise 2.0 Launchpad

The people have voted, and Veodia won at the Enterprise 2.0 Launchpad an hour ago. Congratulations to them, and best wishes to them and the other f...

Twitterstream From Andrew McAfee's Reality Check Panel

I live twittered Andrew McAfee's Reality Check Panel at Enterprise 2.0. The tweets below are in chronological order (first tweet is at the bottom, ...

TwitterSnooze

TwitterSnooze, originally uploaded by Stowe Boyd. Interesting utility that allows you to 'snooze' a Twitter contact for some period of time. The si...

Stowe Boyd, Twitter Application

The folks at Sun's JavaOne conference thought I was a Twitter Application: They were confused since Gregarious Narain and I were there working Fron...

Twist: Trends In Twitter Terms

Trends for "tomorrow" and "yesterday" - Twist, originally uploaded by Stowe Boyd. I think it's wild that using Twist to track 'tomorrow versus yest...

Peter Kroptkin on Compassion

Compassion is a necessary outcome of social life. But compassion also means a considerable advance in general intelligence and sensibility. It is t...

Twitter Jitters

I for one am not buying the Twitter jitters I see emerging in the technorati. Duncan Riley is the newest voice suggesting the bloom is off the rose...

Rafe Needleman Wants Twitter To Close For Renovations

Rafe is pissed: [from A proposal for Twitter: Shut it down | Webware : Cool Web apps for everyone] If Twitter can't deliver a reliable experience, ...

Instant Messaging Proves Useful In Reducing Workplace Interruption

Big surprise? [from Instant Messaging Proves Useful In Reducing Workplace Interruption from ScienceDaily] Employers seeking to decrease interruptio...

Brightkite Comments

Looks like Brightkite has added a major feature: comments on people's posts. I guess Brightkite is slowly inflating, and getting cooler all the tim...

Internet Week NYC Forum on Participation and Politics Online

Internet Week is in NYC this week. Grrr. I am missing a lot of interesting stuff. Example: Jay Rosen (NYU), Zephyr Teachout (Duke), Baratunde Thurs...

YouNoodle

Link: A new social network, for entrepreneurs, called YouNoodle. Yes, YouNoodle. Built by a bunch of dweebish overachievers: [from YouNoodle.com ] ...

Selfreferential

Twitter / selfreferential, originally uploaded by Stowe Boyd. Someone has set up the Twitter Selfreferential account, which apparently finds all tw...

TwitterFountain For Under The Radar

TwitterFountain is a cool tool for pulling a keyword from the public Twitter stream, with a stream of flickr photos behind. Here, I set the keyword...

Getting Down To Business With /Message

/Message has been a key element of my work life, and the central core of my public identity (although Twitter is starting to play a big part there ...

Long Ago, In A Social Network Far, Far Away...

Poland Piquepaille reports on a Nature News piece about the oldest detailed social network yet substantiated by historical records. The mathematici...

Fred Wilson's Vision For Social Media

Fred Wilson offers a concise notion, leaving aside the specifics, about where this social media thing is headed: [from A VC: My Vision For Social M...

Plurk: Looking In All The Wrong Places

Stan Schoeder summarizes the quirky appeal of cute-as-a-button Plurk, a newly announced social presence tool (a la Twitter): [from I Like Plurk Bet...

Aaron Brazell Makes A Twitpitch Plugin For Wordpress

Totally wild: [WordPress Plugin: WP-Twitterpitch] Obviously, there’s been a lot of talk about PR pitches gone bad. Stowe Boyd coined the word Twit ...

Weinberger and Jarvis (Why I Love Twitter #2)

Weinberger and Jarvis, originally uploaded by Stowe Boyd. This could be good.

Kevin Kelly on Productivity

Productivity is for machines. If you can measure it, robots should do it. [via Eric Norlin] There is more to be gained by producing more opportunit...

Drama 2.0 on Venture Capitalists

[from Ross Levinsohn: From Big Rounds to Down Rounds : The Drama 2.0 Show] Of course, the semi-initiated know that only a handful of venture capita...

Enable Google Contact Sync Without an iPhone or iPod Touch

I am trying this Lifehacker tweak to enable Google Contacts sync with Address Book.

Fred Wilson on Leaving The Instigator Out: Small Worlds v Big World

Fred Wilson creates a cascade by stating a seemingly simple question: if the conversation is migrating off the blog comment space, then authors of ...

Getting Down To The Heart Of The Matter: Twitter Performance

Al3x says: [from Twitter Technology Blog] Twitter is, fundamentally, a messaging system. Twitter was not architected as a messaging system, however...

Twitter Switches To Tumblr For Service Updates

I never understood how Twitter could use its own platform to update users about outages, so this makes sense:

Surprise, Surprise!

[from An Op-Ed Need for Diverse Voices by Deborah Howell] The [Washington] Post’s op-ed page is too male and too white. And there aren’t a lot of y...

The Social Revolution: Why The New Web Matters

[I gave this talk at the Next08 conference a few weeks ago, in Hamburg.] What is the web worth? How would you go about valuing it, if you had to? I...

No Vision

Tim O'Reilly cut to the heart of the Microsoft Malaise: [from Slow Dissolve: Bill and Steve at the D Conference - Bits - Technology - New York Time...

Nokia Bluetooth Stereo Headset BH-903

I am using a bluetooth headset for the first time, the new Nokia BH-903 (courtesy of their bloggers program). Instead of hanging on your ear like a...

The Blogosphere: A Mass Movement from Grass Roots - eMarketer

Courtesy of eMarketer: [from The Blogosphere: A Mass Movement from Grass Roots - eMarketer] Buoyed by these massive levels of consumer engagement, ...

Paul Graham on Six Principles for Making New Things

[from Six Principles for Making New Things by Paul Graham] Here it is: I like to find (a) simple solutions (b) to overlooked problems (c) that actu...

Sample Of Responses To My Question: How To Keep Track?

So, what are people using for keeping track of stuff that pops up on the web? Bookmarks in the browser? Social tools? What? Stowe Boyd about 18h ag...

Linus Pauling

The best way to get a good idea is to get a lot of ideas.

Social TV: Everybody Wants It [reposted from 24 March 2005]

[reposted from 24 March 2005 from Get Real] Everybody is talking about social TV (so I created a new category for it). Olga Kharif posted on resear...

Darren Waters on Social TV

I don't remember the first time I used the term social TV, but it's definitely in vogue at last: [from BBC NEWS | dot.life | A blog about technolog...

Kevin Marks on Organic, Not Viral

[from Kevin Marks - 19 minutes ago from web in reply to KathySierra] @kathysierra I’ve been saying “be organic, not viral” but recently I’ve been t...

Om Malik On Twitter Metering

Om thinks the fat cats on Twitter should have to pay: [from In Twitter’s Scoble Problem, a Business Model - GigaOM. This massive database of follow...

Plazes - Sneak Peek Upcoming Version

Plazes - Sneak Peek Upcoming Version, originally uploaded by fiahless. Finally got a chance to look at the sneak peek of the upcoming Plazes.

From The Far Side To The Dark Side: Video From Going Solo

Stowe Boyd: From The Far Side To The Dark Side Uploaded by GoingSolo I enjoyed giving the presentation, and the event was very well-received.

PR Secrets? Hmmm...

Loic Lemeur thinks the idea of PR Secrets is bullshit. He makes a case that other CEOs should follow his supremely extroverted and super-connected ...

Friendfeed And Twitter: Between A Rock And A Hardplace?

There is a chorus of voices that suggest that Friendfeed should inherit the mantle of web sociality that Twitter has claimed in recent months. Stev...

98% Chimp, But What A Difference 2% Makes

Michael Tomasello writes in the New York Times about the similarities and differences between people and our nearest relatives shown by recent stud...

Mapping Job Cuts In Newspapers

The folks at Paper Cuts have a Google mashup that tracks job losses at newspapers in the US.

More On Housecleaning: The Return of /Ambivalence

I am going to drop the use of daily publishing of bookmarks, which was a shorthand communication at best. I find that I am not using bookmarks, rea...

Guardian Looking Under The Wrong Rock

[from David Smith: What happens when bloggers bare all then get caught in the brutal blowback | Media | The Observer] A blog is created every secon...

Daily Links

Microsoft Will Shut Down Book Search Program - NYTimes.com Microsoft is bailing in a small niche of the search market, leaving the ground to Google...

Cracking the Code: Selling through Social Tools [reposted from Darwin, Sept 2004]

[reposted from Darwin, Sept 2004] Intuitively, we all know the value of social networks. Gossip and politics are latent in the wiring of the human ...

Swarm Intelligence: The Socialization of the Enterprise [reposted from Darwin, July 2004]

[reposted from Darwin, July 2004] In 1999, I wrote a piece about Abuzz, a then-newly funded start-up that had developed a fascinating expertise man...

Get Real [reposted from Darwin, May 2004]

[formerly published in Darwin, May 2004] Every day, 3.2 billion instant messages flit around the globe, moving between 400 million or so folks that...

House Cleaning At /Message

It's Memorial Day weekend, which seems like a great time to do some housecleaning at /Message. Flickr and Soup -- I am going to try to move away fr...

Daily Links

Microsoft embraces 'Bring Your Own Laptop' model | Beyond Binary - A blog by Ina Fried - CNET News.com Kidaro and others support a desktop virtuali...

Under The Radar: Social Media and Entertainment, 3 June 2008

I will be headed to the Social Media and Entertainment episode of Under The Radar in just over a week. An amazingly interesting collection of compa...

Religious Influence In Politics: Stuck With The Bad Wiring In Our Minds

It may seem like a strange juxtaposition to anyone else, but the recent third page story about Kenyan mobs burning old people accused as witches so...

Daily Links

Reality TV Show for Startups Announced; RWW Editor a Judge - ReadWriteWeb Richard MacManus will be one of three judges in a startup reality TV show...

Twitpitch: Slingpage

Slingpage: one-click instant web sharing http://tinyurl.com/49x2bu about 16 hours ago by CMajor from web in reply to stoweboyd

It's Not The Data, It's The Flow

Fred Wilson paraphrases Umair Haque on the value of social network data: [from It's Not The Data, It's The Flow | The Industry Standard] I don't th...

Plaxo Is Acquired By... Comcast?

Plaxo, has apparently been acquired on the strength of its Pulse offering, by Comcast. Uh, Comcast? That's almost like being acquired by Exxon, or ...

Enterprise 2.0 Launchpad: Round Two Videos Up

The next round of the launchpad videos are up for Enterprise 2.0, go take a look at the eight contestants, and make a vote: Acquia GroupSwim Newsga...

Daily Links

Journalism From the Bottom of the Boat - New York Times "In Zimbabwe, where a television cameraman was abducted and beaten to death last year, Barr...

Presentations From Next08 and Going Solo

My head is spinning, but I had a great time at the wonderful Next08 conference in Hamburg (despite my early departure) and the more collegial and f...

Daily Links

Going Solo: Stowe Boyd - From The Far Side To The Dark Side: A Crash Course In Business Realities For Soloists. Strange Attractor: Picking out patt...

Businessweek on The Escalator Pitch

John Tozzi profiles the Twitpitch: [from The Escalator Pitch] Forget the elevator pitch. Forget the press release. Forget the PowerPoint deck. If y...

Next08: Google, Yahoo, and Facebook Presentations

[My twitter stream from Next08 yesterday] Keynotes at #next08 Geraldine Wilson from Google on mobile Wilson: <20% internet use on mobile in Europe,...

Daily Links

Pitch Media Using Twitter Jason Kinzler on Twitpitch. Rating: ? ? ? ? ? Tags: twitpitch, jason kinzler, micropr View all my bookmarks on Ma.gnolia

Marketonomy: WHIM Interview with Stowe Boyd

It's over a year old, but Christopher Kenton thinks this interview with me is still interesting: Marketonomy: WHIM Interview with Stowe Boyd

Everything Is Different

[Originally published on the Visible Path Centrality blog, 10 January 2005] In Albert-László Barabási’s Linked, the author explains that the origin...

Enterprise 2.0 Launchpad: First Round Results

The first round results for the Enterprise 2.0 Launchpad have been tallied, and our round of eight comprises the following companies (alphabeticall...

Daily Links

When Crowdsourcing Fails: Cambrian House Headed to the Deadpool Cambrian House purchased by Spencer Trask, Sean Wise and Vencorps to move over with...

Brightkite Client?

Looks to me like Hiro at Brightkite is hinting at a Brightkite client application: The only other clue is "Some pretty sweet stuff in the works." D...

Daily Links

BBC NEWS | dot.life | A blog about technology from BBC News | Twitter and the China earthquake "Let's see, as this story unfolds, whether this is t...

Daily Links

Taking Flack from the Spamalot Caste - broadstuff Alan Patrick debunks the argument that since we have public blogs then it is our job to wade thro...

You Can't Make This Stuff Up: Stage Two Consulting PRology

It's almost funny, but then again, are they serious or poking fun at the inanity of press releases? Another log on the fire of the PR Spam bruhaha ...

Daily Links

Gas Prices Send Surge of Riders to Mass Transit - New York Times "“It’s very clear that a significant portion of the increase in transit use is dir...

Twitpitch: UpTake

UpTake helps u make better travel decisions, powered by 20 mm travel opinions/reviews of edglings from 1000+ sites. Elliott Ng 01:38 PM May 07, 200...

I Bet That Clear Is Going To Do Everything Wrong

I had a minor headache with the Clear security folks tonight at IAD (Dulles, near DC). I arrived at about 8:45pm, checked in, and proceeded to the ...

The Growing Backlash Against PR Spam, And The Rationale For MicroPR

Gina Trapani, of Lifehacker, has created a prspammers wiki where she and others can publicly out PR firms that are spamming bloggers at their perso...

Testing Nokia N95 and N82 Flashes

Just got the new Nokia N82 (courtesy of the Nokia Bloggers program). I have been anticipating various new phones because of the new xenon flash, wh...

Enterprise 2.0 Launchpad Entries

We have received a bunch of entries at the Launchpad site. Go over and listen to the pitches from StratoVista, Veodia, Seero.com, Spigit, EnThinnai...

Steve Rubel Wants To Be A Polymath, And Blames The Internet

I don't know if it was one of those weird association posts or just linkbait, But Rubel steams ahead into contentious waters, asserting that he's n...

School of Everything is Hiring

I am on the board of advisors to School of Everything, so I am trying to help them find the best and brightest. [via email] School of Everything (h...

How I Roll: The Ten Day Rule And Other Consultingology

I thought I would clarify some work-related questions that come up consistently in my consulting work. Ten Day Rule -- I base my consulting algebra...

Daily Links

Butterflies Aren’t Free - New York Times "She’s so at odds with who she used to be, even in the Senate, that if she were to get elected, who would ...

Elliot Ng On MicroPR

Elliot Ng of Uptake blog compiles a bunch of recent posts from many, many bloggers and journos about how they want to be pitched. The skinny is tha...

Daily Links

Are you a Purist or a Corporatist? From 10 for 'purist' (which is pejorative) to 1 for 'corporatist' (which is equally pejorative) regarding the ro...

Brightkite Poetry

Brightkite Poetry, originally uploaded by Stowe Boyd.

Daily Links

Twitter Can Be Liberated - Here’s How Various folks are mulling over a decentralized model for Twitter. XMPP is inherently a federated model, but T...

Open Social Communication And Workstreamer

Sam Lawrence is onto something in his recent post calling for a new way to manage communication: [from Go Big Always - We need a social software in...

Daily Links

Ballmer to Yang: How stupid are you? "If I were Yang, I would read this and wonder why I ever even contemplated getting into business with this guy...

YHOO Close On Monday: Fred Wilson's Poll

Quizzes by Quibblo.com

Is Apple Planning To Buy Adobe?

Cringely thinks recetn activity by Apple -- apparently shopping around its professional editing applications business -- means that Jobs wants to b...

Daily Links

BBC NEWS | UK | Keyboards 'dirtier than a toilet' "During the Which? tests in January this year, a microbiologist deemed one of the office's keyboa...

Tenori-On

A very cool music tool/toy.

Amanda Mooney Has A Tabbed Cerebral Cortex

Amanda describes how tabbed browsing influences her thought process: [from How Tabbed Browsing Changed the Way I Think] This is a *normal* conversa...

Twavatar Meme For Next Week: Upside Down, Topsy Turvy

Twitter / stoweboyd, originally uploaded by Stowe Boyd. Just for fun, I have been suggesting concepts to liven up people's Twitter Avatars (=Twavat...

Daily Links

Ruby Gets Some Enterprise-level Support - GigaOM Stacey Higginbotham wonders if Ruby on Rails can meet enterprise needs: "However, the market had c...

Is That All There Is? Presentism And The Future Of Strategic Consulting

Hanging at Annabelle's with @gregarious and @suthakamal. They are trying to convince me that my idea of a new KcKinsey sort of strategy company won...

Front Channel: Our Micro Business Model

Over at the brand-new Front Channel blog, I describe our micro business model: Front Channel: Our Micro Business Model - Front Channel. Front Chann...

Gosh, Golly: Social Tools Could Be Used In Business? Who Knew?

I guess I will never cease to be amazed at how thickheaded people can be -- even those deputized to monitor what is going on online -- specifically...

Daily Links

A VC: Is "Social Enterprise Software" An Oxymoron? Fred Wilson seems to be making the case for workstreamer. Rating: ? ? ? ? ? Tags: workstreamer, ...

Daily Links

Change.org - Hiring Bloggers Change.org is a social network for hundreds of social causes and over 1 million nonprofit organizations. They are look...

Daily Links

SocioTwitting - developing metrics for Twitter volume vs. Twitter influence A compendium of links about the Twitter Stats meme. Rating: ? ? ? ? ? T...

Twistori

twistori, originally uploaded by Stowe Boyd. [from Twistori] This is the first step in an ongoing social experiment, based on twitter. inspired by ...

Twitpitch: Lefora

Vinnie Lauria: Lefora.com is forums made easy - it's like blogger for forums. about 4h ago via web in reply to stoweboyd

Daily Links

Bicycle-Sharing Program to Be First of Kind in U.S. - New York Times "Starting next month, people in Washington will be able to borrow a bicycle an...

/Message: RSS Subscribers

/Message: RSS Susbscribers, originally uploaded by Stowe Boyd. A palindrome!

Daily Links

Assembla Blog | Workstreaming Andy Singleton thinks he's invented 'workstreaming'. Ha! "The goal of Workstreaming is to share what you are working ...

Another Voice Calling For The End Of Web 2.0

It's an old, old refrain. It seems that all over the place people are suggesting that the Web 2.0 term has reached it's end; that it doesn't have e...

Twitpitch Is Pissing Some People Off

I am somewhat baffled by the response to today's post about twitpitching (see Twitpitch Is The Future). My argument in a nutshell: I am getting a b...