Archive for April, 2007
Social Network Search
Just came across YoName.com, a site to quickly find users of several leading social networks… by name, username or email.
Some of the results are pretty funny too. Looks like Dick Cheney is really into social media… 8-)
My awesome new PDA
My pal Gordon brought his new Hipster PDA on our trek to the Apple store this weekend. I’ve been hearing about it, but it’s the first time I’ve seen one.
For those of you who haven’t seen it, the Hipster PDA is a product of Merlin Mann’s 43 Folders Site. His directions on [...]
The Conversation Economy
Andrew Davies has a great image on his blog, inspired by a talk by DJ Spooky.
It compares the old linear, controlled dialog from companies, through marketers to people… one way. To the new version, a nice closed loop of information, with social media and consumers becoming a part of the dialogs, as well as [...]
Online video for beginners…
Make Internet TV is a new “how to produce online video” site that launched yesterday from The Participatory Culture Foundation.
The site covers shooting, editing, licensing, publishing and promoting video on the internet; it illustrates these topics with screenshots, photos, screencasts, graphics, text and more.
It’s a simple, very beginner-oriented site that walks you through all the [...]
Worth watching…
This is a video on Identity 2.0 that is well worth watching for two reasons:
1. Like many of you, I’m deluged with logins and passwords for sites all over the web. We need a better way.
2. It’s a good presentation, very quick pace, interesting and little/no “chart junk” to use Tufte’s favorite [...]
A few fun thoughts on PowerPoint..
Life After Death by PowerPoint
Comedian Don McMillan gives us some actually useful PowerPoint tips…
Link from Jeff Nolan’s Venture Chronicles, thanks!
Jeff also makes some great points on software designers (MS Outlook in this case) breaking a huge role of usability… “We didn’t design the software for that, so users shouldn’t do it that way.” Ouch. [...]
Another in the coming deluge of video sites…
Jalipo is a new online video site launched recently, with news content from the BBC World, Al Jazeera English, movies, live events etc. It’s clearly a controlled space, without the “webcam” movies and over-compressed shorts of YouTube.
“This is absolutely not for user-generated content. If you were looking to put us into the marketplace, I would [...]
