Seattle Lunch 2 0 – yes it is worth attending
Seattle Lunch 2.0 just let out and the one thing I love about startups is that there is a lot of enthusiasm for what they are doing that you just do not see in larger companies. Today I finally made it to a Seattle Lunch 2.0 and got to meet some very incredible people who […]
Startup Weekend in Haiti
This is one of the best ideas I have seen all month, taking startup weekend directly to Haiti to help and provide support for budding programmers and entrepreneurs in the earthquake stricken country. If anything will add a bit of hope to that country, startup weekend is one of our best American assets we could […]
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 […]
Regenerated Content Streams and Tuning Out
Louis Gray touches on a great point over on his blog today about how information is regenerated not just by the people who follow us, but by the popularity that we carry. I want to focus on one portion of this because it touches back to many of the issues we face not just with […]
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 […]
Cloud Camp Seattle 03 Feb 2010
Sometimes it is just best to go to camp, and Seattle is having Cloud Camp, or an “Unmeeting” of people to discuss the problems and issues in cloud computing. We will be posting gallery pictures, but you can also follow us on FriendFeed/techwag tonight if you want near real time information on the event. 5:58 […]
Get my Book Free if you write an Amazon Review
It is the New Year, and part of my new year’s resolution is to plug my book “Boom and Bust in the Blogosphere.” The goal is to give away seven copies of the book in return for an Amazon review of the book. Here is what you have to do. I believe in people being […]
Shocking ? Yet another way to ruin privacy via Twitter
With ReadWriteWeb Marshall Kirkpatrick on a roll today about Mark Zukerburg and the end of the age of privacy, with follow up from Steven Hodson (fixed) it is time to look not just at Facebook, but at other tools that are out there than can also alter your personal privacy landscape. While I think that […]
Use Social Networking to find your next job and love it
“Your job security no longer lies in having a job; it lies in knowing how to work the job market”. – @susanireland The attached file is Using social networking to find your next job and love it is meant to help people find their next job. This PDF is all about using Linkedin and other […]
Youth Venture Seattle gets broken into needs a little holiday help
Youth Venture Seattle is one of the very few organizations that are trying to help kids at an early age learn to think innovatively, have some awesome experiences along the way, and become the leaders that we will need in this country tomorrow and today. The cool part about Youth Venture is that they are […]
Corporate Disobedience – Operation Chokehold
Well this is interesting from a civil/corporate disobedience viewpoint, and an interesting way of looking at flash mobbing a place/product/service to see what the upward limits are. Fake Steve Jobs has proposed that IPhone users try to bring the AT&T 3G network to its knees and is asking everyone who has an IPhone to launch […]
FriendFeeds Visitors might be down but its quality is back up
Image by Thomas Hawk via Flickr Imagine a company that built one of the coolest social networking apps I have used all year got bought out by Facebook. In the fear and panic that followed that buy out, many people migrated to Facebook wondering what was going to happen to the company that got bought […]
Just a quick note about Twitter SEO and Social Marketing
If you are planning to use Twitter to help raise buzz for your company, there are some things you do need to note. Many Twitter users use Autofollow – but many do not, and fake following is quickly becoming a scourge of Twitter, meaning you will be blocked by some users. As some folks know […]
AT and T starts blaming customers for downloading too much
Usually the first rule of business is that the customer is right always. Well maybe not so much according to AT&T, especially when it comes to the Iphone and data “hogs”. While unlimited plans usually mean unlimited, it looks like unlimited is soon going to mean caps, and extra charges for well, using your unlimited […]
Crowd Source Your Next Job – Looking for Your Stories
Image by Steve Rhodes via Flickr Looking for input from readers on how they conduct a job search using social media tools. While I have road tested just about every job tool out there from Monster in 1999 through Dice, Career Builder, Linkedin and other job sourcing tools – the bottom line is that all […]
