Archived Entries for social media

The State of the Internet

Creative agency and data visualization specialist JESS3 put together this onslaught of figures and numbers on what we do online. It does of nice job of showing some staggering figures without harping on their significance. By the time it takes you to register that Asia has nearly three times the number of Internet users as [...]

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The Onion: Internet Archaeologists Find Ruins of ‘Friendster’ Civilization

I was just thinking this evening about our digital dossier, specifically about what digital archaeologists will be able to dig up hundreds of years from now from fragmented chips found buried in the rubble — and it turns out, The Onion was thinking about the same thing.

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PodCamp 3 Boston: A Recap

I spent this weekend “geeking out” at a PodCamp Boston 3, the social media “un-conference” held at the Harvard Medical Center. The organizers – Chris Penn, Chris Brogan, Chel Pixie, Sooz, Steve Sherlock, Doug Haslam, and Whitney Hoffman — deserve a great deal of kudos for putting such great event together. This was my second [...]

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Change is Good: A New Gig

With all of the issues I’ve had on this blog — a horrendous hosting provider, a failed experiment with unproven blog software, family craziness, and a case of walking pneumonia, to list but a few — perhaps the reason I’ve been silent here as much as I have was because I have embarked on a [...]

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It’s Been a Long, Long Time, Baby

After dealing with various crises at the 9-to-5, bronchitis, a cheap hotel in Albany, NY, a coolant leak in my car, Skaneateles, NY in a snowstorm, and more bronchitis, I’ve officially caught up with the rest of my life and finally feel like I can blog again. Lots has happened since my last post here. [...]

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PodCamp Boston 2

I’m here at PodCamp Boston 2. The Unconference on social media. The unconference format, with content provided by the participants, has been a fantastic and informative experience so far (even when the speaker doesn’t show up for a session, which is the case right now. PodCamp’s co-founder, Chris Brogan is running an ad-hoc session on [...]

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On Microsoft and the Facebook Valuation

Boy wonder Mark Zuckerberg and company announced today that Microsoft infused their little social platform with $240 million in cash for a 1.6 percent share. This puts Facebook’s value at $15 billion, which makes MySpace’s purchase price fall somewhere between pocket change and one car payment, relatively speaking. And so ends the flurry of blog [...]

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EMC Hosts Boston’s Web/Social Media Community

As someone that publishes two blogs (or is attempting to, at any rate) and works deep within the bowels of the industry that spawned today’s ubiquitously connected society, I’m always ready to jump at the chance to mingle with other like-minded folks. One such opportunity came up last night thanks to the good folks at [...]

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