Entries Tagged as 'Notes from MP'
Working From Home
March 21st, 2008 · 2 Comments
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Quick Things Before I Go
March 20th, 2008 · No Comments
It’s my birthday, so I’ll be making the voyage upstate for the weekend to be with family and likely not spend much time blogging/twittering.
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Myspace vs. Facebook - My first and last post on the topic
March 20th, 2008 · No Comments
Alexa’s got a weird way of reporting (this chart actually means out of every one million users of the internet, x number of users visited site y and z on average), but what you can tell in this chart is exactly what’s creating such heated debate.
Facebook and Myspace are now neck-and-neck with regards to total […]
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My first home brew!
March 19th, 2008 · 1 Comment
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My first home brew. A very standard APA.
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Neat Web 2.0 Stuff: Viewdle
March 19th, 2008 · 2 Comments
As much as my sympathies go out to Bragster for coming in second place at the Plugg conference, I’m going to write about the winner:
Viewdle.
Simply put:
Viewdle is a white label platform that uses facial recognition technology to identify people in videos.
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“The wonderful world of music” or better yet, “Holy fuck! New Yawk Sit-AY!”
March 18th, 2008 · 4 Comments
Today on the train into work I was literally sandwiched between Seldon Hunt (black metal graphic artist revolutionary) and Tim Harrington (Les Savy Fav beatnik crazy).
To put this into perspective, I was sandwiched between these two men:
Keep in mind that Mr. Fav was not covered in filth, and Mr. Earth was still 7 feet tall.
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Seth Godin: Why bother having a resume?
March 17th, 2008 · 2 Comments
I’m piggybacking on this blog post by Seth Godin today, because it really struck a chord with me more than I ultimately expected.
His point: Why have a resume? A resume makes you seem like you’re begging to be another cog in the “machine”
See below:
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Friendfeed: Gaining steam.
March 17th, 2008 · No Comments
Friendfeed is an ultrasyndicator.
I’ve been using it with Facebook a little bit.
It’s pretty cool, but its strength and weakness lies fully in just one element:
This page.
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Looking Back on the Twittering Assholes and their SXSW Raid of Mark Zuckerberg and Sarah Lacy: Maybe the older generation’s age plays a factor?
March 17th, 2008 · No Comments
Hopefully all of the readers of this blog are now well aware of the audience-led IRL raid of the keynote interview Sarah Lacy conducted with Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook at SXSW.
Let’s take a look back, now that we’ve had time to digest.
Discussed: Sexism. Would the audience have been as cruel to Ms. Lacy […]
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Neat Web 2.0 stuff: I want to interview the co-founders of Bragster
March 16th, 2008 · 1 Comment
Bragster.com, of course.
…For an audio podcast.
I’ve had the opportunity to work with them quite a bit over the past few months, and I’d like to get Bertrand, Wim, or Brittney on the phone to talk about the site’s new features and direction.
Wim, in this blog post, talks about their new funding. I can’t imagine […]
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