I got excited about Geocities when it came along back in the days. You mean I can have my own homepage? To this day my Geocities homepage is the first page I go to when I go online ea
ch day. When I jump to Twitter, Facebook, Gmail or Google Search, it is from my Geocities homepage. I was saddened to learn a few weeks back that Yahoo plans to shut down Geocities by the end of the year. I think that is a bad decision on the part of Yahoo.
I have been excited about Twitter most of this year.
I got taken by Disqus and Zemanta a few months back. They have taken my blogging to a whole different level. There is no blogging without Disqus and Zemanta as far as I am concerned.
Before Disqus came along, blog comments sections were a wasteland. Now it has becom
e valuable real estate. The blog comments sections are microblogging territory just like Twitter. They are a better way to meet new people who might share your interests than even Twitter. And Disqus is the reigning monarch there. And it is one of those things where having the first mover advantage makes all the difference. Twitter has had that in its turf.
A few months back I came across a blog called AVC.com. A venture capitalist with a blog, and not a ghostwritten blog, or a blog because it was cool to have a blog. This was a guy who was really into blogging. This was no vanity blogger. This was a genuine blogger who also happened to be a venture capitalist. At that point I did not know of what stature.
Recently I started reading that blog regularly and commenting in the comments sectio
ns. The blogger/VC replied to some of my comments, and even left a comment at my own blog.
I am a Deaniac from 2004. I moved to NYC summer of 2005. Howard Dean got to know me through DFNYC. I have been fast friends with the MeetUp CEO Scott for a few years now. And I am eFriends with Joe Trippi. Today I learned Fred Wilson is also associated with MeetUp.
I have been honored to have exchanged a few emails with Fred Wilson this past week.
MeetUp is a Web 5.0 company. I could argue Geocities was a 2.0 company before that term got coined. Twitter needs no introduction, soon Disqus and Zemanta will not either.
InRev TwitIn now does people search. I learned that a few hours ago from the CEO's Facebook stream. I think that is a great addition to an already impressive service. The ability to search through people's brief bio to look for people to follow is an enhancement I have missed from day one. To me Twitter's attraction over Facebook has been that on Twitter you can meet new people. I like the idea greatly. Although I have not enjoyed hitting my daily limits.
Businesses collect so much data on individual customers and individual transactions. Social media is becoming so very pervasive. Your social media profile is portable. Soon enough you could take it to Amazon.com and all sorts of vendors big and small.
Just like your Facebook experience is different from mine, your shopping experience at a site ought to be unique to you, unique and rich.
Chris Brogan sounds rather futuristic in his latest blog post.
Wiring a City and the Internet of Place how come there’s no simple news feed for a city? Why can’t we not see immediately (or even with an hour delay) all the various goings on within our city? It’s not like the information isn’t captured..... the bus tells me it’s coming
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