The Free Economy

It comes to no surprise to many that I am an ardent follower of the economic trends and business models that are evolving online. Among other things this affords is a perspective on what happens when you take traditional media and services and move them online where the cost of production and friction for consumption […]

Sleeping with the GPL

Today there is a lot of misunderstanding and confusion about what uses of GPL’d software might compel a company to open source their software. Having run into this issue at Disney, Sony and several startups, this article is meant to clarify my own understanding as well as hopefully help a few others make informed decisions. […]

Getting It

“It” is a paradigm shift. A concept that may be elusive, visceral and something that we need to understand completely to be part of the conversation. We see the symptoms in sales statistics and market reactions and try to understand it in terms of what we already know.
The changes happening to […]

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 […]

What is SPAM?

To a previous post, MaxS commented that my reaction to SPAM was different than his and particularly to that of teenagers and young adults (Millennials).
SPAM is in the eye of the beholder. The point of the other article is not whether we should consider one thing or another SPAM based on frequency […]

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. […]


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