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  • Maybe we need a downturn

    December 28, 2008
    culture, politics

    The other day on my bus into downtown SF, a down-and-out looking guy stepped on and asked if anyone could give him the dollar he was short on bus fare. Amazingly, five or six people stepped up to oblige, and it got me thinking about the economy. I’ve seen people ask for money on the…

  • Bush branding: 11 labels we’d like to forget

    December 23, 2008
    politics

    Yesterday, NPR’s On The Media aired an interesting segment about Bush and language. It wasn’t another jab at his butchering of English; it was a look at his administration’s creative branding of its policies, programs and  initiatives: Gladstone’s guest, “Republican wordsmith” Frank Luntz, doesn’t anticipate that much of Bush’s lexicon will stick, but he seems…

  • A Facebook Holiday

    December 22, 2008
    culture, social media

    The somewhat agonizing ritual of sending holiday cards has been my way of keeping long-time and distant friends up-to-date on my life, and each year I feel a twinge of regret that a whole year has gone by without any other communication with many (most, really) of them. Enter Facebook. Facebook hasn’t replaced my holiday…

  • Social Media: Lists, Predictions and Lists of Predictions

    December 17, 2008
    social media

    The end of 2008 is upon us, and that means pundits of all stripes are busy trying to boil it all down. I’ve been reading the lists of social media predictions from the likes of Charlene Li and those compiled by Peter Kim (nothing from Jeremiah Owyang yet). Some thoughts: I’m dubious about Li’s contention…

  • Huffington vs. Stewart backstage – on blogging and web TV

    December 4, 2008
    culture, entertainment, social media

    For the last couple of months, I’ve been working for Kyte (more on that in a future post), and yesterday we got a nice shout out from backstage at the Daily Show with Jon Stewart, highlighting Kyte’s mobile streaming capabilities. Ever the evangelist, Arianna was pressing Jon Stewart on the question of blogging – specifically,…

  • No longer (Yelp) cool

    December 3, 2008
    social media

    Just a year ago, two of my most powerful Internet addictions were Yahoo Fantasy Sports and Yelp. Now, I hardly think about either one. Yelp made me ‘Elite‘ in 2007, which was a nice surprise. By the end of that year, however, my review pace had really tapered off, so I was even more surprised…

  • 2 ways to monitor buzz with Yahoo! Pipes

    November 30, 2008
    social media

    In my last post, I mentioned that you can use Yahoo Pipes as a buzz-watching tool. Today I made three short videos to illustrate how it’s done. As the title of this post suggests though (and as I also discussed in my last post), there are two different strategies for monitoring buzz: searching and curating.…

  • Watching Buzz on the Web

    November 27, 2008
    social media

    Social media analytics and measurement has rapidly emerged as a market over the last few years, and there are a lot of companies trying to carve out a niche (including my former employer, Scout Labs). It’s a huge problem space –  a composite of many problem spaces really – but they all begin with the…

  • Evernote: The Best Free iPhone App

    November 26, 2008
    mobile, software

    I could almost go so far as to say that Evernote is the best free app period, iPhone or otherwise. In Evernote’s case, it’s iPhone app and otherwise, seeing as it also works via a desktop app (both Windows and Mac OS), Firefox add-on, regular web, mobile web and email. Evernote has many fans, many…

  • YouTube, Yahoo: iPhone Parasites

    November 25, 2008
    mobile, software

    Like a party guest who insists on staying long after the alcohol is gone, the music is done, and I’ve dozed off on my couch… YouTube, Weather and Stocks should go away from my iPhone if I say so. But of course, I can’t get rid of them. Since the launch of the App Store,…

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