Fred Wilson shared some observations on his blog today about his teenage kids and the future of media in light of a Goldman Sachs research report.
Other than the fact that his children read books outside of school and mine don’t, his observations are in line with my own. Yes, a small sample size, but nonetheless, [...]

Wishing a happy holiday to all!
Love when you can
Cry when you have to
Be who you must
That’s a part of the plan
Await your arrival with simple survival
And one day we’ll all understand
One day we’ll all understand
One day we’ll all understand
Dan Folgelberg
1951-2007

Well honestly, the name Open Social sounds a bit more 1962 than web2.0…I am thinking church social and maybe Aunt Bee serving up the Kool-Aid and announcing in simple to understand terms, “everyone that joins our social will share the same hymnal .”

The announcement from MySpace for the Open Social went like this:” Our partnership [...]

This year’s Forrester Consumer Forum personified at least part of the conference theme, Transformed by Social Technologies. Indeed the transformation was everywhere.
I say this based upon both the Forrester analysts, invited speakers and panelists who provided enough rock solid data, how-to’s, best practices, advice and experience to forever kill that sacred cow….

but also because of [...]

Photo taken with Canon EOS 30D
Picture This, I have had a long term relationship with Nikon. It seems now that it was one-sided. An elaborate invitation for a Nikon D80 did not arrive in my mailbox last April. I was not on the Nikon D80 Blogger Outreach dance card.
A Nikon D80 is a very [...]

“On Thursday, 16th August 2007, the Skype peer-to-peer network became unstable and suffered a critical disruption. The disruption was triggered by a massive restart of our users’ computers across the globe within a very short timeframe as they re-booted …”
OK, well it just sort of had that familiar sound to it….
Other more authoritative and/or [...]

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Asking Typepad support for [...]

Toby Bloomberg’s live internet radio show at BlogTalk Radio will be discussing blog analytics with Peter Kim, Forrester Research and myself.
As Toby writes, “Tonight Diva Marketing Talks focuses on social space analytics. We’re calling this one Blog Analytics A Step Towards Credibility?? Social media is fast taking its place at the grown-up marketing strategy [...]