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07.27.10

Illustrating The Team Business, Entrepreneur, Facebook, Machine learning, Narrative, Recreation, Tagline, Venture capital, blog | Comments Off
In my experience, the team overview slide in the average entrepreneur’s presentation is often the least effective. There’s good reason for this – cramming a high-level overview of 2-4 backgrounds into a series of bullets nearly always results in a “word wall”. A “word wall” is a slide that has so many words on it that it looks more like a page of an essay than a slide. That format doesn’t work well for presentations – nobody wants to read an essay when they’re listening to a presentation. So how do you show off your team’s accolades without ...
07.27.10

Illustrating The Team Business, Entrepreneur, Facebook, Machine learning, Narrative, Tagline, Venture capital, blog | Comments Off
In my experience, the team overview slide in the average entrepreneur’s presentation is often the least effective. There’s good reason for this – cramming a high-level overview of 2-4 backgrounds into a series of bullets nearly always results in a “word wall”. A “word wall” is a slide that has so many words on it that it looks more like a page of an essay than a slide. That format doesn’t work well for presentations – nobody wants to read an essay when they’re listening to a presentation. So how do you show off your team’s accolades without ...
07.21.10

Will the future of social networking be open and distributed? Here comes Plexus Facebook, Social Media, Social trends, Web 2.0, blog, diaspora, plexus, social networks, socialnetworks | Comments Off
I just caught up with my neighbor and fellow futurist Mark Pesce, who over a coffee at our local briefed me on his new project Plexus, which he publicly announced at his recent keynote at Pycon Australia, for Python developers. His excellent speech, titled How Not to be Seen, is below, and the transcript on Mark’s blog. In his presentation Mark starts with his long relationship with programming and finally moves on to describe his project Plexus, which will provide a new platform for social networks. In his talk Mark says: There are three ...
05.06.10

Facebook and the Open Graph: good for Linked Data? Everything Connected, Facebook, Linked Data, blog, f8, graph, open, open graph, open graph api, open graph protocol, privacy | Comments Off
|This post will feature in Nodalities Magazine issue 10. In April, I was watching the twitterverse explode during the Facebook’s f8 conference, as a steady stream of links and gasps and applause and intentions to delete profiles poured out. My initial reaction to quickly-scanned third-hand reports was essentially: “Oh no.” The message I was getting was that personal information would be be made more public, and that more places would start sporting the little fb: “like” box you see on sites using Facebook Connect. I was concerned because there have been many conflicting messages around facebook and privacy, and this movement ...
11.13.09

Twitter users share early adopters symptoms Facebook, PEW Internet survey, Social Networking, Trend Spots, Trend Spotting Behavior, Trend Spotting Tools, Trend Targets & Groups, US sample, blog, internet behavior, mobile web, twitter | Comments Off
Recent findings of a Pew Internet study revealed, Twitter is being extensively used as a status update service to keep in touch. Youth (age 18 -44), social network users and users with access to mobile internet show early Twitter adoption symptoms. The study – Twitter and status update, was conducted in September 2009, amongst a sample of 2,253 adults, 18 and older. The key Highlights of the research indicates: 1. One in every five Internet users are now on Twitter 19% of internet users say they use Twitter or another service to share updates about themselves, or to see updates about others (up from ...
10.12.09

Google Wave And The Dawn Of Passive-Aggressive Communication Company & Product Profiles, Facebook, Google, blog, gmail, google wave, twitter | Comments Off
We’re now a little over a week into the extended roll-out of the preview build of Google Wave. This is an important time for the service because many people can now finally start using it as they eventually may — which is to say, with their friends and colleagues. Of course, the backlash is also already in full-swing, as expected. But I can’t help but wonder if this backlash and the hype that it is a byproduct of, is blinding some to the larger picture. Google Wave is not just a service, it is perhaps the most complete example yet ...
10.02.09

Google Wave: Revolutionizing Collaboration but Will the Wave Crash? API, Cloud computing, Facebook, Google, Google Inc., IBM, Lars Rasmussen, Microsoft, Microsoft Corporation, Social Networking, Technology_Internet, Web News, Web usage, blog, final product | Comments Off
Since Google Wave’s unveiling in May, it was quite interesting to try to figure out heads or tails of how the application will be received once it’s released. And now, we are inching closer and closer to when it opens for the general public. Closed Beta testing has been open for a few chosen developers who have been actively providing feedback on Google products. Will Wave be able to create a tsunami upon its release? So what is Wave? Wave, in the word of its co-creator, Lars Rasmussen: Google Wave “Here’s how it works: In Google Wave you create a wave and add people ...
09.23.09

The Top Ten Twitter Apps On The iPhone Among Early Adopters Company & Product Profiles, Facebook, IM, Twitelator, appsfire, blog, boxcar, iPhone, iTwitter, shozu, tweetdeck, tweetie, twitter, twitterific | Comments Off
What are the top Twitter apps on the iPhone? It’s hard to say because the iTunes store doesn’t have a Twitter category (Twitter apps are lumped in under “Social Networking). But AppsFire, the iPhone app sharing service, might have an answer—at least for the early adopter crowd who tend to use AppsFire (i.e. people like you, dear reader). AppsFire looks at apps actually downloaded and kept on people’s iPhones. Based on a sample of 1,500 AppsFire members, the top ten Twitter apps on the iPhone are: TweetDeck Tweetie Twitterific TwitterFon IM+ Twitelator Pro Twitterrific Premium iTwitter ShoZu Boxcar Notice that 7 of the top ten Twitter apps ...
09.21.09

Facebook Data Mining: Truth in Association? Facebook, blog | Comments Off
With a product as ubiquitous as Facebook, the public has raised a number of privacy-related concerns including optional settings, privacy policies and data mining. In the past, ReadWriteWeb covered Facebook's plans to sell user data for market research purposes. However, today's article in the Boston Globe suggests that user information can be mined for more than just advertising purposes. Sponsor An MIT experiment dubbed, "Gaydar" by creators Carter Jernigan and Behram Mistree has employed computational analysis to identify user traits based on information listed by their Facebook friends. Through friend profiles, the program predicts the likelihood of your religious affiliations, political ...