… next time you’re brainstorming, try a party. Nifty. Now I just need to find something to brainstorm about. [...]

After a brief and fleeting spell of ambivalence, I was sucked straight into the depths of the Twitter vortex, the finger-snapping, trigger-happy, easy-to-use mini-blogging application that lets you send short messages to your group of followers via web, IM, or SMS. At its essence – I've spent some time thinking [...]

The best thing since sliced bread ? a mix between the ultra simple blog platform and the IM features of a large scale social network. Very amusing. [...]

It’s only a matter of time before people start to Twitter in the bathroom. If you don’t know what Twitter is (either because you don’t follow online technology or you’ve been locked in a sock drawer), that IS as bad is it sounds, but not in the way you probably think. If you do follow online [...]

BlogSafety Community: Predators & cyberbullies: Reality … Quote: “The CJR article continues, ‘Dateline has argued that ‘Predator’ serves a genuine public good, but it could be argued that, in fact, Dateline is doing the public a disservice.’ One significant disservice is the way Dateline presented the numbers. ‘When Attorney General Alberto Gonzales gave a speech about [...]

I've set my trial KRZR K1 to get SMSes from twitter which means that I get 75 SMSes per day. After 50 SMSes have been received, the KRZR runs out of memory and stops receiving text messages. This is not very helpful and a bug. [...]

Is all the fuss about Twitter much ado about nothing, as Shakespeare put it? Is Twitter the crack of the Internet, as my friend Mark puts it? Is it a useful way of staying connected to friends, and keeping track of your thoughts — as Tara “Miss Rogue” Hunt has said? [...]

Well, I'm not sure I like the name - but then again, who am I to quibble - the popular European business social networking site openBC is morphing itself into "XING". I've been an openBC member for over 2 years and it is the only social networking site I've tried [...]

If you haven't heard of the internet phenomenon Second Life, you probably will soon. It's an online world where players create virtual representations of themselves, or rather, themselves as they'd like to be. Then they go about "life" in the way they would if the tedious flaws of everyday life [...]

Written by Rudy De Waele and edited by Richard MacManus. Note: this is a Mobile Web focused excerpt from Rudy's complete wrapup of the 3GSM World Congress, held recently in Barcelona. One of the things I realized during the MobileMonday Global Peer Awards is the increasing globalization of innovation. [...]

RedBubble - An Australian site for hosting artwork in a social network environment. Add tags to your works, browse around and add friends and also add favourite works of art. But that’s not all, the power of this site is that you can sell your artwork/photos as prints and even framed prints…see my post on [...]

Today I’m fortunate enough to be in Sydney in the blogging contingent at adTech. As usual at these things there is a lot of content to listen to and many people to meet so I’ll keep my impressions so far (three quarters of the way through day 1) brief. Myspace - Shawn Gold Session Shawn Gold, CMO of [...]

After playing Second Life, Jenny Diski hopes “that our alternative selves, in at least some of those infinite parallel worlds the quantum physicists tell of, are doing better.” (Thanks, Xian.)

With my day-long workshop cut short, I had the afternoon to explore San Francisco with Brenda. We started off walking down Market and then Bush, looking for Chinatown. Finally, the gateway appeared on the right, and we walked down Grant, peering in the antique, jewelry, and high-tech gadget stores. [...]

Fortune has an article about how companies like IBM are embracing secondlife By early January more than 3,000 IBM employees had acquired their own avatars, and about 300 were routinely conducting company business inside Second Life. "The 3-D Internet may at first appear to be eye candy," Palmisano writes in an [...]

Darren Barefoot wants people to Get a First Life. First life has kid pirates, these may occasionally try to travel on planes, much to the horror of people who are rapidly incurring bad kharmic debt. It is interesting in many other ways: good 3-D graphics; bad dungeonmasters; use of dangly bits; and [...]

Recently I got an IM inviting me to join a new social network site named Virb. Initially I was a little bit skeptical because I didn’t understand why I needed yet another social network site to keep track of. After asking a couple of people I found out that Virb from Unborn Media (the people [...]

Don’t let the title of the column fool you, because I’m sure that there must be a viable music scene happening somewhere in Arkansas — it just doesn’t happen to be anywhere near where my wife and I have chosen to live. Of course, the fact that I’m pretty much [...]

Filed under: PC, BusinessA Gamasutra article indicates that dead tree media will soon be missing two more magazines, with Computer Games Magazine and its sibling, Massive, both facing the publishing guillotine. Publisher for the computer enthusiast and MMO-centric magazines, TheGlobe.com, is reportedly buckling under a recent spam-related lawsuit -- the [...]

“Teen book sales” are “booming—up by a quarter between 1999 and 2005, by one industry analysis.” So says the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. That’s wonderful news if true. I’d love to see more stats than the article offers on 12-to-18 readers, especially information on the relationship between (1) teen reading rates and (2) family incomes, along with [...]

Here is Kiplinger’s predictable 12-step program for becoming a millionaire, which inevitable contains ”... and wait” somewhere. This guide is geared towards corporate workers who live and die by the paycheck. [...]

What is it about social networking that is so intriguing? Why does it work? Why are we drawn to it? [...]

What is a social network? That’s the topic of an interesting pair of ping-pong posts between Om Malik, and Liz Gannes.  Om observes that social networking applications are popping up “like mushrooms after a monsoon”, and sharply critiques most as tired variations on MySpace or Facebook.  Too true.  He asks if they are simply a feature [...]

Filed under: Fun, Internet, Windows, Macintosh, Linux, Social SoftwareThe website Frengo that is known for their mobile games has just launched a service allowing users to post bulletins and leave comments for friends on MySpace from any mobile phone with text messaging enabled. In order to sign up for the service [...]

After a brief and fleeting spell of ambivalence, I was sucked straight into the depths of the Twitter vortex, the finger-snapping, trigger-happy, easy-to-use mini-blogging application that lets you send short messages to your group of followers via web, IM, or SMS. At its essence – I've spent some time thinking [...]

What’s in My Blogging Toolkit? I read this post from Ian via Problogger and since I am always interested in finding new tools and applications, I wanted to ask my readers on what they use to make their lives easier. Of course, a post such as this is incomplete without my own input. [...]

Looking down the headlines at Techmeme lately has been like looking at the news headlines from the big corps in the world. Of the first five big stories at the moment, 3 come from the New York Times, 1 from Google, and 1 from Microsoft.

Is this building—headquarters of the U.S. Patent Office—a crime scene? Or maybe the U.S. [...]

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I've been wanting to write about these apps / sites for a while, and my guess is I'll never do if I keep waiting. My only criteria for selecting them is how much I use each one of them every...

Jaxter - a widget for your blog, webpage, startpage, etc…where someone can phone you (VOIP) or leave a message…see more. bubbl.us - mindmapping Imagini Friends - a social network that matches people based on the results of a personal questionnaire buddystumbler - an IM social network…enter your IM user names, find IM users by tag (kind of like [...]

Danny Sullivan has a Q&A with Gabe Rivera, Creator of Techmeme, a site I check daily. Q. Is Techmeme an echo chamber, just showing blogs commenting about blogs commenting about blogs? [...]

Hello faithful listeners! Happy Valentine's Day and welcome to episode 92 here on the mipCast. In today's show, recorded on after a day that has had me snowed in and plowing several feet of snow out of the driveway, we're...

I played around with Yahoo Pipes a bit. I created a pipe that collects several RSS feeds of different blogs I write, comments I make on other blogs, new bookmarks and photos, etc. It's basically a summary of (almost) everything I do in the blogsphere, and it was quite easy [...]

Why is my account inactive? Yahoo! Mail deactivated your mail account because: You have not logged into your mail account during the past four months. [...]

(Updated) round-up of the latest tech stuff:Adobe launches new mobile video technology -- The San Jose company releases Flash video technology on the company's updated Flash Lite software for mobile phones. The Merc has story here.Cuill, the secretive search start-up -- This is the latest start-up, started by two Google folks and two Stanford folks. Co-founders include Tom Costello, of Stanford, and Anna Patterson, formerly at Stanford and now at Google (described...

I’m fooling around with Yahoo Pipes, and uh, I’m a geek, and I feel like I’m doing work. Who is this program for?

The tech community is all a buzz today about Yahoo! Pipes, something super special. Alas, when you visit http://pipes.yahoo.com/, all you get is: Our Pipes are Clogged! [...]

Pipes: Rewire the web need time to look at this (tags: web) alphaWorks Services | QEDWiki | Overview need time to look at this (tags: web) Pinar: withpenandpaper A cup of Turkish coffee is endowed with a variety of important connotations for Turks: friendship, affection and sharing. This is best illustrated in the old saying: “A single cup of coffee can [...]

Filed under: Utilities, Web services, Yahoo!There has been lots of buzz around Yahoo and their newly launched Pipes beta. So what is it? Plain and simple, it's an interactive feed aggregator and manipulator. [...]

TwitterVision is a Google Maps mashup that displays what people are doing right now. The items are taken from the (hyped or not?) Twitter.com website of ex-Google employee Evan Williams. Twitter's self-proclaimed mission is to be a... [...]

Twitter was slow earlier today and it now appears to have crashed completely. It was probably inevitable given the way the service was growing. Numerous mashups and apps were built over the past days and that probably also helped overload Twitter's current server capabilities. [...]

A few folks have already noticed the cute Twitter box that's now on the lower left sidebar of my blog. An even rarer few might have noticed that it only works intermittently -- seems that Twitter's quite popular at the...

Now that South by Southwest 2007 has come to a close I finally have some minutes to write about the two most vaunted services of the show: Twitter and Dodgeball. With both services, users establish a friends list to whom messages are broadcast. Twitter allows you to update your status through IM, SMS or a [...]

The tech world is all excited about Twitter. I’ve managed to avoid the rage thus far, and am not very interested in hopping on board this particular train. I like what Kathy Sierra has to say about Twitter, and how we’ve possibly crossed a kind of attention event horizon. [...]

Once IM support gets back into Twitter that is… In case you don’t know Fring can let you connect to GoogleTalk, MSN, Skype and now SIP accounts all in one. It does eat a fair bit of memory and works the battery over pretty well while it’s running, but overall it’s a really nice [...]

Many of you know that I was on the selection committee for "Why Office 2.0 Matters" - a one day conference being organized by the Dealmaker Media team in SF. The one day session will look at 32 of the most promising companies emerging in the Office-productivity-on-the-web category.As part of [...]

Here’s the latest Silicon Valley action: Twitter, fun for some, nauseating for others — Twitter is the latest social networking product generating buzz, and boredom, among the Silicon Valley set. It was launched last year by Obvious, in San Francisco. It claims 50,000 users. [...]

Apparently there was a lot, and I mean a lot, of talk about Twitter at SXSW. I guess when Mr. Scoble is a big fan lots of talk, and use of your product, will follow. [...]

I’ve made a conscious effort not to do too much road-show type posting here even though I’ve been all over the place of late. But today was just too much fun. A keynote at the NCAECT conference that just felt like it really clicked, Skyping with Jeff Utecht in Shanghai during one of my sessions, [...]

Our next poll is up, and we’re wondering, who do you think will be next to cash in on the the Web 2.0 Jackpot? We’ve already seen some huge pay-outs already, and Google acquiring YouTube definitely tops that list. There’s another jackpot brewing, so who do you think will be next to cash [...]

I know it's not cool to admire Second Life any more, but this column from Warren Ellis illustrates so clearly what's completely new and weird about a world infested by content freed from real-world constraints. [tomorrow elephant]

3D interfaces have been around since the Web began - and more than one dot com fell by the wayside partly because of an over-reaching 3D interface (cough, boo.com). Indeed as we noted in December, virtual shopping malls are still alive and kicking. But is 3D of any use on the Web, or is [...]

There is something irresistable about games. It is so easy to take the bait. That's why I think they are important to understand. [...]

Second Life has been receiving a great deal of mostly press over the past several months. The positive press began around the time Second Life claimed one million members. Later Reuters set up a news center inside Second Life which generated more coverage. [...]

Filed under: Design, Developer, Fun, Games, Internet, News, Windows, Macintosh, Linux, Open Source, Social SoftwareI don't care if you dislike Second Life, think it is stupid, or whatever, the fact that they will open source their client is a bold and smart move. This means people can and will be [...]

I’m fooling around with Yahoo Pipes, and uh, I’m a geek, and I feel like I’m doing work. Who is this program for?

The tech community is all a buzz today about Yahoo! Pipes, something super special. Alas, when you visit http://pipes.yahoo.com/, all you get is: Our Pipes are Clogged! [...]

Pipes: Rewire the web need time to look at this (tags: web) alphaWorks Services | QEDWiki | Overview need time to look at this (tags: web) Pinar: withpenandpaper A cup of Turkish coffee is endowed with a variety of important connotations for Turks: friendship, affection and sharing. This is best illustrated in the old saying: “A single cup of coffee can [...]

Filed under: Utilities, Web services, Yahoo!There has been lots of buzz around Yahoo and their newly launched Pipes beta. So what is it? Plain and simple, it's an interactive feed aggregator and manipulator. [...]

Recently released Yahoo Pipes was down for a while, but I now had the chance to play around with it a bit. Basically, it's a graphical editor to create feed mashups. So you can connect a variety of RSS sources and then remix them for a new output, which you can then also subsribe to with an RSS reader. [...]

At first glance Yahoo! Pipes seems to be a way to re-mix feeds, all within a social network, straight away I think of Feed Collectors, Feedbite, and kinja, but it is way more than this. It also lets you clone a pipe, as a basis for a new pipe, similar to the way Ning and [...]

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Yahoo! has introduced a new online service called Pipes that allows you to create unique mashups of RSS feeds by manipulating and aggregating feeds to create a new feed that is more useful and relevant. For example, you could combine the feed from the NewYork Times with Flickr and see Flicker images relating to the [...]

Episode number55SummaryAmber's links, an update on Digication with Jeffrey Yan, and an introduction to OpenID with Scott Kveton of Jyte.com. Bandwidth for net@nite is provided by AOL Radio. TeaserAmber's links, an update on Digication with Jeffrey Yan, and an introduction to OpenID with Scott Kveton of Jyte.com. [...]

So this week I've been a capital-w Writer, and I'm the happiest and most creatively satisfied I've been in a long, long time.I don't have any free time, and I'm draining my creative well daily, but it totally rules. In...

Filed under: Internet, Security, Web services, Social SoftwareNow that so many sites seem to be adopting OpenID, you might have decided that you want one. You may also have decided that you don't want it tied to your circa 1997 AOL screen name (I'm looking at you cyrano99). What better [...]

WordPress.com announced today that you can use your WordPress.com blog URL as an OpenID. That means you can log into sites supporting OpenID using that URL. You just enter the URL, click on the sign in button, and you’ll be directed to WordPress.com to sign in if you’re not already and to confirm that you [...]

WordPress.com, the WordPress powered, hosted, free blogging platform has just announced support for OpenID. What this means is that if you have a WordPress.com account, you now automatically have an OpenID! What is OpenID? [...]

Blogging software firm WordPress has announced they are now supporting OpenID, a digital identity standard that can help significantly reduce the number of usernames and passwords people have to remember. Are you fed up with having to remember dozens of usernames and password? Does the idea of creating yet another [...]

We’ve recently seen the tiny and the titanic begin moves to support the sublime OpenID; in the last few weeks, AOL and Microsoft announced their OpenID plans and yesterday, Digg also signalled its intent. Microsoft and AOL represent hundreds of millions of IDs, available on many platforms…so where are the telcos? [...]

1. Brillant event - cheers to Ryan, Gillian and team - best value event in Europe. 2. [...]

Sree Sreenivasan At Poynter.org: Like many journalists, I like to think that I am not just in the journalism business, but that I am also in the connecting business — helping various people find and connect with one another. Connecting people, however, is a dicey game. Every time you connect a requester and a requestee, you are [...]

Social networking on the web is hot. Many sites talk about trust. They tell us something about trust in cyberspace—and about trust in general. [...]

What is a social network? That’s the topic of an interesting pair of ping-pong posts between Om Malik, and Liz Gannes.  Om observes that social networking applications are popping up “like mushrooms after a monsoon”, and sharply critiques most as tired variations on MySpace or Facebook.  Too true.  He asks if they are simply a feature [...]

Being resourceful means knowing how to get the information and results you want. Being organized and having trusted systems are big pieces of the productivity puzzle, but sometimes “Getting Things Done” means being a creative problem-solver. Being MacGyver Many of you will recall the television show MacGyver, about a guy whom I consider The Poster Boy [...]

Boutique (from my mac dictionary): French, literally ‘small shop,’ via Latin from Greek apotheke ‘storehouse.’ Compare with bodega . Some people are getting my reference to boutique mixed up with luxury brands. Personally, I wouldn’t be caught dead with Louis Vuitton bag and I’m sure most Boutiquers wouldn’t be either. [...]

It seems like I’ve been doing a lot of stuff involving social networks recently. Flickr (http://www.flickr.com/photos/twleung) Most of the fun activity in Flickr revolves around finding people that inspire me or who share some common interest. Sometimes that is even extending into the real world, as it did during last week’s SFlickr [...]

After posting my previous blogpost about XING, fellow GNOME colleague Jaap Haitsma pointed me to the online networking service LinkedIn. It looks a bit better, however it has Google Ads. But that probably makes up because most of the functions are free on LinkedIn, in the contrary to XING. [...]

A few weeks ago, Chris Knudsen wrote a blog entry on the lack of value he has seen from his membership at LinkedIn. I guess he wasn’t really saying that there is not value, he was just commenting that he hasn’t seen much personal value. I have always liked LinkedIn, but his post did make [...]