Happy Holidays!

Wherever you are, with friends or family, we
wish you and yours a wonderful holiday season and a fine new year.
Happy Holidays, and remember to
Drink Eggnog Responsibly!
(Or end up like the poor sod above)
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The Tipping Point

A recent discussion about what critical mass is for a social network site started me thinking about the difference between tipping points and critical mass. Technically both are defined in similar words (sometimes considered synonymous), but they do have different connotations.
A tipping point can be defined as “the culmination of a build-up of small [...]

What is Community?

Jeremiah Owyang posted a question about how we define “Online Communities”. In referencing Jake Mckee’s post on the subject he wonders is Twitter a community?
Before we answer that question we have to define what a “Community” is? As has been pointed out by Robin Hamman, “Community” “has dozens if not hundreds of distinct [...]

Happy Holidays!

Holidays are a time to reassess and reconnect with friends and community. Wherever you are, with friends or family, we wish you and yours a wonderful holiday season and a fine new year.
Merry Christmas, and remember to Drink Eggnog Responsibly!
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Please note that Christmas is in fact not only a celebration of Christian beliefs, but coincides [...]

Moore’s Law vs. Dunbars Number

Moore’s Law wins.
In a recent twitter conversation Jeremiah Owyang asked the question, ” Did we break Dunbar’s Number of 150 members per social network? Or are tools more efficient?”
The reality is that we have been pushing Dunbar’s number since we first invented the little black book. By offloading much of the social context [...]

Who is the Long Tail?

We have been making a lot of noise about the long tail for a while now in our little world of Web 2.0 and it struck me this morning while reading a post by Gordon Haff that we don’t really talk about where it comes from.
The long tail has many forms, some obvious ones being [...]

Drupal is Growing Up.

For little while now I have been dabbling in the open source content management framework Drupal . Drupal promises ( in time) to allow practically anyone to be able to set up and mange complex social web sites with more features than a swiss army knife.
Today a friend of mine Darius asked me [...]

Twitter Housecleaning..

When we “follow” people in Twitter we either want them to be part of our virtual co-presence and conversation or are subscribing to broadcasts we find interesting.
If you use Twitter and you are noticing a high noise level then its time to ask yourself if the people you are following enrich the conversation. [...]

Truemors and Guy’s clay feet.

From time to time I have read Guy Kawasaki’s blog. It was usually engaging, informative even if I didn’t always agree. It also exposed sides of the venture beat that I wasn’t familiar with. I came to respect Guy and still do.
When Guy started his new project truemors.com I was stunned. [...]