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The Identity Corner » The problem(s) with OpenID
A long collection of links to critiques of OpenID. Looks real good.
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Media Bullseye
Interesting new site for PR and marketing news regarding social media. Chris Brogan an early contributor.
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Thoughts on Seth Godin's keynote at SES [SearchEngineWatch]
Seth Godin is probably someone I should read a lot more of. He's a marketer, but interesting.
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Massive Internet Identity Workshop (IIW) Video Recap
Can't wait to spend some time with this one.
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A hunger for books | Review | Guardian Unlimited Books
Dorris Lessing's Nobel acceptance speech where she brings up critiques of the web's cultural impacts, among other things. An important read.
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Top Spots in Organic & Paid Search = Branding
Great write up of an interesting study on the perceptual impact of good search placement. This one's a keeper.
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The significance of Google’s Android
Looks like a good article on Android, 33 comments, consultancy blog. Marked toread.
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Adobe PDF Guide: How to Do Everything with PDF Files
A great collection of Amit's best advice regarding PDF hacks. If you're not reading Digital Inspiration, you're missing out!
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Klout, the Mashable of Social Influence Measurement, Gets Acquired; What I...
Disclosure: I am the CEO of Little Bird, which is a more effective, interesting and genuine social business technology than Klout. Klout, which is the Mashable of social influence measurement, is...
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Pondering the Little Bird brand
Thinking about marketing and branding as I look at applicants for our Director of Marketing position, I’m pondering the following. 1 claim, 3 planks, keep it simple. That’s one framework for thinking...
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Why I Think RSS Still Matters
I still remember the first day I discovered an RSS reader, it must have been ten years ago. It left my head spinning with marvel over its power and possibilities. In fact, I told a woman about it on...
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Robots attending concerts; what will that look like?
I find robots really interesting, in theory. I think of the network analysis and news research technology we’re building as a team of robots. But this news that robots have begun attending human...
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Gary Vee is wrong: the expertise edition
I like Gary Vaynerchuck – I love his new video podcast Ask Gary. But Gary put up an important blog post yesterday titled “Are experts the only people who should put out content?” and he argues that...
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How I raised millions of dollars for our startup from famous investors like...
Other people at startups often ask me how I connected with Little Bird lead investor Mark Cuban, among the many other awesome investors we’ve raised money from for our startup. Our technology finds the...
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So you want to make an announcement: 7 steps to make it a big one
I have been on one side or the other of thousands of tech company announcements – from making tiny feature announcements at a startup that doesn’t exist anymore to reporting under embargo on many, many...
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How automation in social media marketing can make you smarter instead of dumber
It’s tempting to try to put your business’s social networking on auto-pilot, but that’s not a way to get great results. Used effectively though, smart automation can be an important part of the game...
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Social listening is evolving towards strategic value
Kate Kaye writes in AdAge today about how social listening and publishing platform Sprinklr helped the Republicans regain control of congress. “We are working with about half-a-dozen [Senate] campaigns...
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The power of note taking and re-reading
I love taking and re-reading notes. Rereading your notes about an experience after some time has passed offers a whole new level of insight, I believe. I’m trying a new experiment now where I take...
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How to make a new professional connection by blogging
An incredible thing just happened: I got an email from my WordPress system telling me it just got a notification from someone else’s blogging system that someone has linked to a post on this blog!...
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Great explanation of how we might use wearables at work someday
I love push notifications – I made my career as a journalist with them, from the first stories I beat TechCrunch to (which led them to hire me as the first writer there) through crazy data hacks with...
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10 Lessons I learned on Twitter in November
I’m cleaning my house, watching Jason Calacanis’s 90 minute interview with Reid Hoffman and was inspired to dig into Little Bird’s LinkedIn data as a result. Christopher Penn‘s blog post about...
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On “a Twitter user” as the new “an area man” in media
"Twitter user" is the new "area man." — Lora Kolodny (@lorakolodny) December 27, 2014 This Tweet from journalist Lora Kolodny got my wheels spinning and made me want to articulate some thoughts about...
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You can leverage templates for structured thinking, here’s how I make them in...
“We could become far more intelligent than we are by adding to our stock of concepts and forcing ourselves to use them even when we don’t like what they are telling us.” So writes John Tooby in a...
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Uber: the hottest links about Uber today
I’m in San Francisco this week with several members of the Little Bird team, one of whom is particularly interested in Uber – as I am, as well. In order to efficiently learn more about the company, I...
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Why Don’t People Understand Social Web 101 Already?
How little do people understand about how social networks work and how should we relate to that reality? This morning Gary Vaynerchuck put up a blog post pointing out that anyone can post to a hashtag...
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An aha moment about social data
I just got asked to contribute a story about an “aha moment” I’ve had in tech and this is what I’m submitting. I thought I’d share it here too, as I’m sure there won’t be much overlap. I’ve got a bunch...
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How Some People Blog Every Day
I used to write, no joke, 12 to 15 blog posts every day. For a few years, when I was just getting started, I was prolific. Blogging has led to millions of dollars for me to get my business started. But...
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Public reaction to the Google Car as kick-off for machine ethics conversation
“If self-driving cars cut the roughly 40,000 annual US traffic fatalities in half, the car makers might get not 20,000 thank-you notes, but 20,000 lawsuits.” -A survey of research questions for robust...
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