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Category Archives: Web 2.0
Twilio forwarding and CallerID hack
I like Twilio. They’ve made programming voice fun, something it certainly wasn’t when Dialogic boards were the platform of choice. I’m using Twilio for a new service I’m working on. More on this in another post. When you start playing … Continue reading
What it takes to make the Web more personal
Tom Pinckney has written a great post on GigaOm about the new kinds of processing companies have to do to create a highly personalized experience for users. My comment is still in moderation, so in the spirit of the real-time … Continue reading
Posted in Facebook, startups, Web 2.0
Tagged data ownership, Facebook, Hunch, personal Web, personalization, startups, Web 2.0
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Get in on Brizzly
Now is the time to get in on the new thing from Thing Labs (makers of Plinky). It’s called Brizzly and it’s a new, cool and very simple way to experience the social Web. See a screenshot + demo.
Posted in social media, startups, Web 2.0
Tagged Brizzly, Plinky, social media, social Web, startups, Thing Labs, Web 2.0
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Plinky Launches Content Encouragement Platform
Plinky is out of stealth. Check it out. Use it. Live it. Love it. Or not. But either way, send us feedback. It felt strange to be on the opposite coast from the team as they were going through the … Continue reading
More on RIA Debugging
A month ago a wrote about one approach for debugging RIAs across platforms such as Flash/Flex, AJAX, SilverLight, etc. Mike Nimer has a post soliciting ideas for the common UI to do this. If you have any ideas, share them.
Posted in Web 2.0
Tagged AJAX, AJAX debugging, Flex, Flex debugging, RIA, RIA debugging, Web 2.0
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Three Generations of SEO (Part II)
This is part II in a series of posts on SEO-driven businesses. Part I is here. I see three generations of SEO optimization in the wild that build upon each other. Below are their distinguishing characteristics. SEO 1.0: human-driven SEO. … Continue reading
Posted in Digital Media, startups, Web 2.0
Tagged Automattic, Digital Media, Internet marketing, Scribd, Search engine optimization, SEO 1.0, SEO 2.0, SEO 3.0, startups, TechTarget, THCN, Web 2.0, WordPress, Wordpress.com, Zemanta
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The Participation Gap
Corinna @ Plinky pointed me to a Clay Shirky talk from the Web 2.0 Conference in April, which I missed. In his inimitable style, Clay uses back-of-the-envelope math to quantify what might be called the participation gap, a term (I just … Continue reading
Posted in Web 2.0
Tagged architecture of participation, Clay Shirky, social surplus, Tim O'Reilly, Web 2.0
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Artificial Scarcity For Entrepreneurs, Not Just Economists
Ryan Freitas @ Plinky pointed me to Aaron Schwartz’s riff on 37signals’ advice on how entrepreneurs should launch startups using the “Holywood method” (teaser, preview, launch). Aaron makes a solid point that web sites are not movies. Movies are fixed … Continue reading
Posted in startups, Web 2.0
Tagged artificial scarcity, entrepreneurship, startups, Web 2.0
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Designers vs. Users
I received a piece of relevant “spam” yesterday from IDEA, the Institute for Dynamic Education Advancement–a message alerting me to a new study on how people interact with web sites. The interesting aspect of the study is that it compares … Continue reading
Growing The Plinky Team
Jason and I are really excited to have Ryan Freitas joining the Plinky team. Ryan comes from Adaptive Path where he did led the recent MySpace redesign and a lot of the work on Plazes and Sphere, both of which … Continue reading
Posted in startups, Web 2.0
Tagged Adaptive Path, interactive design, Plinky, Ryan Freitas, startups, Web 2.0
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