Archive for September, 2006

Smartpox Party!

OK, was I the only one that thought Smartpox was a new social network for parents to use to plan (chicken) pox parties? It has chicken pox written all over it.
From Wikipedia:
A “pox party” is a party held by parents for the purpose of infecting their children with childhood diseases. Similar ideas have [...]

Rise in Second Life Signups Explained

A couple reports have surfaced talking about a sudden rise in Second Life signups (reported to be a 300% increase in new signups) since the hack, check it out here, here, here and here (and here, here, here). (Sorry, I ran out of places to “here” you.)
Something very serious to consider here: how do we [...]

Pandora Gets it

WOW.
Pandora came across my clickstream awhile ago. I visited the site briefly, but didn’t stay for long. On a colleague’s urging, I finally went back to it last night. Wow. Amazing. Cool.
It is the closest thing I’ve used online that reads my mind. I think a song and it plays it. Always adapting, changing and [...]

NBBC, ummm, not for me

ummm, guys, there is already a place that you can post video to, its called YouTube. If I need content, I can take a snippet of code and put the video anywhere I want. That is called syndication. Its being done by the masses already. Go away with your media 1.0 advertising ploys. We don’t [...]

IMDB.com should become the Next Big Social Network

why not? It really is a quasi-social network (aren’t they all) for tv and movie stars already. What would be interesting is if they opened it up for the stars to actually be able to post to their profile pages.  It has comments, so that is a small start; and they already have an existing [...]

The Way I see it.

We’ll try to do this weekly (everyone loves a weekly column, it is so media 1.0). This is an early week wrap up of what I see and what the (in)significance of it may be.
1. Facebook opening up to the world - I thought the cool thing about Facebook was that it was fairly exclusive. [...]

Second Life? No Thanks.

I caught the bug about a month ago and happily joined Second Life to see what all the talk was about. They threw me into some vacuous place to “learn”. Immediately I wanted to find out where everyone else was… not an easy task for a newbie. Eventually, I learned to fly a little and [...]

Where have all the E’s gone?

Where have all the e’s gone?
Short time passing
Where have all the e’s gone?
Short time ago
Where have all the e’s gone?
Web 2.0′ers have deleted them every one
When will they ever learn?
When will they ever learn?

special thanks to our favorite trendsetter:

10 ways to do 2.0

There is a pattern here, I can feel it.
So you want to go 2.0? Here’s what you need to do:
1. start an auction on ebay early. You’ll most likely end up selling soon, because you’ll either run out of money or get Googled (and not in a good way).
2. Absolutely start out in some sort [...]

When a web 2.0 Nation Revolts - Trouble in Diggnation

It happened earlier this week with Facebook and now its going on big time over at Digg.
Users of both popular web 2.0 social networks are up-in-arms over what they perceive as anti-nation practices.
Growing pains of a young nation? Heck, you could argue that the combined strength of each site (and its user base) is greater [...]