August 2011
37 posts
““Writing leads to understanding”
This says it all to me.
Leads...”
– Gabriel Weinberg
Why I blog - Gabriel Weinberg’s Blog
(via fred-wilson)
WatchSimon Sinek’s Ted Talk on “How great leaders inspire action”
How you share inspiration is the gift of the very few.
Especially when you are doing this through a product as the embodiment of a empowering idea.
Well worth a watch.
bijan sabet: Thoughts about signal to noise →
Noise is a contextual criteria. Great way to think about this. And this rule is a good one: “It all starts with a highly curated list of folks to follow or friend. And then the network starts delivering the goods from there.”
bijan:
As we all know, the east coast is dealing with Hurricane Irene.
And as result, there are a lot of posts on various social networks about the storm...
Some thoughts on community as a marketing and...
I’ve been thinking about and building communities since my very first job at Atari. This post is my thinking on the power of community today on the social web. Looking beyond context and connections to community.
Something to read while your waiting for the...
To all my friends who I’ve worked with on virtual communities, open source platforms, developer organizations and user groups!
There are a lot of you out there. These are my thoughts on communities today as dynamic centers of a redefined view of marketing and commerce. I’m curious on your opinions. Looking forward to reading them on the blog @
Looking beyond context and connections to community
Bloomberg just announced evacuation for Zone...
Oy! Moving to hotel in Union Square tomorrow morning. Sam the cat seems quite unconcerned. Wait till he goes into the carrying bag!
New blog post: "Looking beyond context and... →
sunchaser: Legacy →
Really wonderful Robin. I felt the pull of the ocean. Makes me want to take the bold plunge and write about my father, now gone 29 years. Thanks for this!
robinharper:
When I was growing up we always looked forward to summer Sundays, when my Dad was home from work. I think he loved to swim in the ocean as much as we did. He would put us in the back seat of his red convertible and we’d drive...
“Jobs’s greatest creation isn’t any Apple product. It is Apple itself.”
– This captures it for me. I competed against him early in my career when I was at Atari.
Been a life-long student of his market brilliance.
Felt perpetually awed by his ability to continually hand me a new and more personal and empowered world through his products. Owned every generation of his...
“Micropayments Aren’t Enough - We Need Nanopayments.
The gap between 10...”
– One of the next frontiers.
Taking the reliance of micro (and nano) payments away from closed virtual currency systems like Facebook Credits is a no brainer for the success of community commerce on the open web. From “Credit Cards Are Killing Creativity: The Case for a New Online Payments...
Foursquare wins major victory with death of... →
No surprise here. Foursquare’s DNA is the behavior of location. A good testament to following and focusing on your passions. And that social platforms only work when they naturally give expression the behavior of the community.
“Six decades into the computer revolution, four decades since the invention of...”
– From “Why Software Is Eating The World” from Marc Andreessen’s WSJ article.
Good piece if you missed it.
I love it because it lays the backbone for my passion, the era of real community commerce and the amazing potential of implicit and explicit data to make our online/offline...
Who understands Klout's influence ranking system?
I can’t find anything that makes me feel comfortable about the the Klout ranking system. I’m simply not convinced and naturally dubious about numerical scales. I have my many questions about its use, but for now, just looking for data that shows me how the ranking is established and why it’s valid. For true influence ranking, how can this be established without factoring in the...
bijan sabet: Write once, share anywhere →
Nice post and well said:
‘API’s changed the web forever”
So true.
The lack of a way to distribute my content into G+ is a major hurdle for me, and mostly, I’m simply not using it as I should.
My audiences are on Twitter, my blog’s subscriber lists and RSS, Tumblr and FB. Engagement happens on Disqus.
bijan:
Over the past week or so, I’ve switched text editors on the...
Storm watching over the Statue of Liberty
All thunder and lightening and heat, torrents of rain and zero visibility.
Too bad…my camera just can’t capture the lightning bolts.
This bottle of L’Arpent Rouge, Clos Roche Blanche Touraine, and the storm and a movie is the setting for the night.
Snug…
gotham galry: Loving Britta Riley →
I seriously love this.
Art meets nutrition meets health with a new twist. My hot buttons lined up. I’m excited to get my winter herb garden designed and growing.
gothamgalry:
How to Make a Window Garden, With Crowd-Sourced Advice
By STEVEN KURUTZ
Published: August 17, 2011
Britta Riley grew up on a ranch in Texas, so after four years of living in a one-bedroom apartment overlooking an...
“Social is built into the core experience and if you take that and couple it with...”
– More and more…success is about tapping the dynamics of community.
fab.com is doing a great job of implementing this. Kudos to them!
Quote is from Goldenberg, the CEO of fab.com in a GigaOm post today.
Kickstarter - 110 Stories: Augmented Reality Twin... →
Love this project.
