Hulu Now The Number Three U.S. Web Video Site. Soon To Be Number Two.: To be clear, the new March U.S. numbers released by comScore show that Hulu is still slightly behind Yahoo’s video properties when it comes to unique viewers. But the NBC and Fox-backed Hulu should pass it any day now in that [...]
How To Grow Your Blog Through Customer Development: When you think about growing your blog, whether it is a personal, professional or company blog, what is the first thing that comes to your mind? Chances are it is something related to traffic or subscribers. Getting more traffic or subscribers is never a bad thing, but [...]
The Pond: “ ‘Can I work remote?’ I cringe. It’s Ian and Ian is a senior engineer. He’s a rock. He gets it done. I never have to ask him twice and, after six years, Ian has every right to ask to work remote. But I’m still freaked because my first thought when anyone asks [...]
Is Your Company Designed for Humans? – Peter Merholz – HarvardBusiness.org: …The companies that do best in serving others are those that do best in serving themselves. (Via Harvard Business.org.)
The Elements of Social Architecture: Published in 1977, Christopher Alexander’s A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction contains the collective wisdom of world cultures on centuries of building human housing. It had a resounding effect not only on architecture and urban planning, but also on software design. In it, Alexander and his co-authors explored 253 architectural [...]
The Twitter Gold Mine & Beating Google to the Semantic Web: There’s always been jabs at Twitter for not having a viable business model and the chatter has increased in the current economic climate. In a recent interview Evan Williams, Twitter CEO, said ‘We had planned to focus on revenue in 2010 but that’s no [...]
If you have any idea what Twitter is, and wonder about where it is going, how it affects our culture, and the different ways that people use it, check out Michael Lopp’s “We Travel In Tribes” essay. He has a particular style and relationship with Twitter, and thereby is de-facto part of the tribe that [...]
Tweetdeck is an Adobe Air application that allows all kinds of filtering and presentation of Twitter timelines. Like watching the web think.
Good advice that could aid moderators of almost any social group or social media site. Also probably includes teachers, counselors, guides, etc… …draw attention to qualities that can be expressed by anyone: simplicity, individuality, and humanity. Allow there to be a feeling of “Hey, I could do that too”. Via Kottke
Tim O’Reilly has been writing, speaking and doing a lot to promote his idea to “Work On Stuff That Matters” lately. His first principles post gives some great context for why you can’t go wrong if you follow that advice. While reading the post what occurred to me is that Tim is just explaining the [...]