July 2008
55 posts
Master of 500 Hats: Memo to Google, Yahoo,... →
McLure takes on the social web os. Not half bad.
Futuristic Play by @andrew_null (Andrew Chen): 25... →
What risks to take into account in different stages of the product lifecycle
Master of 500 Hats: Second Age of Aquarius:... →
Wrapping up F8 2008, which included everything from social commerce to social search.
Futuristic Play by @andrew_null (Andrew Chen):... →
Very good guest post on Andrews C’s blog on different kind of social apps and their characteristics
Balsamiq Studios, makers of plugins for Web Office... →
Nifty mockup tool based on Adobe AIR. 79 bucks though… where’s the Web 2.0 love? ;)
Online Advertising Made Simple, Instant and... →
Cross-channel campaign management. Not bad at all.
$80 Billion? Online Display Market Is Being... →
Surprisingly interesting take on the whole traditional vs digital ad debate
Mixx - Latest news and top videos and photos from... →
Brilliantly executed, focused social news
PPTtoSWF or PPT2SWF-Convert PowerPoint to Flash... →
Greenzer.com - The green shopping engine |... →
Great idea. Poor execution.
75% of Facebook users are giggly and poke; 25% are... →
gladwell dot com - the coolhunt →
A gem from Gladwell on the art of coolhunting
New Facebook UI: a better architecture for... →
After a few delays Facebook is set to launch their updated UI on monday, though anyone with an FB account can already access the new look and feel on http://www.new.facebook.com/.
I find it…
Y Combinator: Startup Ideas We'd Like to Fund →
Nice wrapup of interesting spaces to pursue for internet startups. Wonder why more incubators or VC firms aren’t being this explicit in what their interest lies?
Dominiek.com | iPhone-App Development for Web... →
Yes. I’m starting to develop my first iPhone app.
iPhone Dev Center →
Hotels, Hotel Deals, Hotel Reviews, and Social... →
Nice name, decent search app
Towards the Attention Economy: Will Attention... →
How the Attention Economy extends beyond advertising and makes a nice introduction to the concpt of “attention silos”
The Attention Economy: An Overview - ReadWriteWeb →
Nice summary of the mechanics behind the Attention Economy
A Bill of Rights for Users of the Social Web «... →
Social Graph: Concepts and Issues - ReadWriteWeb →
Good primer on social network theory
How to Analyze and Improve the ‘Bounce Rate’ for... →
A nice summary of why “bounce rate” matters and what to do about the fact that most are insanely low.
Bookmark suggestions from inSuggest →
What Will the Future of Advertising Look Like? →
Interesting post about how extreme personalization and message-customization is the future of advertising. I couldn’t agree more.
Your life, on the line - Plurk.com →
Interesting app along the lines of Twitter, Friendfeed, Jaiku etc. Sure, it’s a metoo, but it’s got something.
Soon as a mobile app near you? →
Urban Prankster reports of a service that charges 50 cent for giving you a suggestion of what to do. Sure, it’s a vending machine for now, but I bet that this type of service will pop up with…
Ajaxload - Ajax loading gif generator →
iPhone Apps For Social Networks - ReadWriteWeb →
Wrap up from RRW on the first bunch of “official” social networking apps for the iPhone.
White Label Social Networking Solutions Chart,... →
Nine Ways to Build Your Own Social Network →
A nice overview of different approaches to get a social networking platform up and running quickly. But is there such a thing as a default set of features for social networks?
Learning from "bad" UI - (37signals) →
37signals and Tufte always makes it sound so elegant and simple. Note to self: Whipe the dust form your Tufte books and actually read them ;)
Super Mario Kart soundtrack makes me happy
reinventing social network navigation
First iPhone 3G Reviews Are Out →
Walt Mossberg, David Pogue, and Ed Baig all went public their iPhone 3G reviews, which are generally positive. Mossberg says battery life dropped and Pogue says the hardware bump doesn’t make it…
10 stupidest uses for Windows →
From the dangerous to the just plain silly, here are 10 real-world examples of Windows being used in places it has no business being.
Creating a stellar direct marketing campaign simulator tool. Yay!
My Vision Of Social Networking: Burning Problems «... →
Clever thoughts on the problems facing current social network sites. The concept for Genome seems to be well thought thru.
Genome (http://genomepeople.com) looks like they’re one of the companies to watch.
Idea Management - Innovation Managment -... →
An interesting place for startups to be digging.
Exclusive: First Look At Genome, A Next-Gen Social... →
An interesting take on digital identity and the portable social graph
Plurkmania.com - Plurk Stats - Top Users →
Nice dashboard to visualize microblogging activities
getting unstuck
Involver →
Interesting platform to deploy and manage video based ad campaigns
Tinkering on strategies to steal the breakfast of FB, Google, Yahoo and MySpace. And Twitter. In one big quant leap. I’m stuck ;)
White papering reactive ads
Quality of (social Network) advertising →
Mashable has a quick poll on which social network provides the “best” ads, and naturally you get the “I hate ads, I never watch them…” etc. arguments in the comments. From the people who…
Threadless t-shirts →
most awesome e-commerce play since amazon. dunno why i haven’t bookmarked them earlier.
Mod plays NES in a NES cartridge →
Darkeru from the Ben Heck forums came up with the idea for this beauty, and after months of “careful planning,” finally finished his creation. It’s exactly what you think it is; a mod that plays NES…
Sphinn: News, Discussion Forums & Networking For... →