words and pictures by Brian Solis
“This is a list of what I should have been but I’m not.
This is a list of the things that I should have seen, but I’m not seeing.”
- Adam Duritz, The Counting Crows
The introduction is a little profound, even psychologically exploratory for an intro to a post about a party, but I think most of us can relate to these words.
We live in interesting times and this dizzy life of ours is spinning us right into relevancy.
I’ve been working in tech for a long, long time. I grew up in Southern California before I moved to Silicon Valley in 95 to be part of rapidly evolving tech culture. Do you know how many times I tried to contribute back to the LA tech economy in Web 1.0? More than I can count. But it never stuck. And, it just didn’t feel right.
But now, there’s an unbelievable and wonderful difference between now and then. This time it’s about you and me and the things that we’re doing together, online and offline. This i...
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To be a top ranked blog at Technorati, as of right now, requires an authority of 23,177 with 182,107 blog reactions.
The top spot goes to a new number one placeholder, TechCrunch . Congratulations Michael, Heather, Duncan, Mark, Erick, and team.
Let’s also take a moment to acknowledge the top twenty list, who all surely deserve congratulations as it’s no easy feat to break the top 10,000 let alone the top 20.
2. Huffington Post
3. Engadget
4. G... more
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Facebook has quietly rolled out an interesting feature that’s tucked away on the lower right-hand side of your “home” page.
It’s simply called “People You May Know” and is a way of reminding us that we may have friends or associates on Facebook that we may have forgotten or assumed were not online. And you know what, it works!
The new feature leverages social proximity across your social graph, as well as the graph of friends of frien... more
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Wikipedia , the Interweb’s eight most popular Web site, was granted a $3 million donation from Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
According to the press release, the money will support Wikimedia’s organizational development and help to increase the quality of its content and the reach of its services.
According to me, I’d like to see the money hone right in on the quality and accuracy of the content and its contributors. So much of what I read is wrong. And... more
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Just in case you were going through FriendFeed withdrawals, Bret Taylor over at FF introduced a new update. And, it’s not insignificant. With FF, you now have the ability to reply to a friend’s Twitter update within the FriendFeed stream and have it appear as an “@” reply in Twitter.
Thank you Bret for listening. It’s something that we’ve asked for across the board.
Here’s an example. I responded to a Twitter update posted b... more
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