Social Media as Storytelling
The more I look at social media, the more it reminds me of storytelling. A person can be telling stories around a camp fire with a small audience, or telling stories around the world in mass releases of information. The better the story the more people that will engage with the subject and the better [...]
Digg needs Transparency not a new Candy Coating
That is great that Digg wants to redesign their web site and do cool stuff like making it more social. The problem with Digg is not that it is a bad system technologically; it is that it is impossible to get traction on the web site for some users because the way that the community [...]
Sneaky Way to Use Your Blogroll: Call People Contributors
Bloggers and many readers are familiar with the idea of the blogroll, where we share some link love with the people we follow or read on a regular basis. The sneaky part comes in when someone renames their blogroll to “contributors”, making it seem like people are contributing to a blog when they are not. [...]
Using the Cloud to Design Your Startup Computing Infrastructure
Now that the wireframe is done for the startup, we are looking at the backend architecture for what we want to accomplish. The idea of using the cloud to cut down on costs is nothing new, and my new startup will be heavily leveraging Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) to keep [...]
