Not many people labeled as Visionary really deserve the title.   Reid Hoffman definitely does.   He's proven it multiple times, both as an EVP at PayPal & founder/CEO/Chairman at LinkedIn, and as an insightful & early angel investor at Facebook, Digg, Friendster, Flickr...

This past summer, I did a presentation called " Facebook Big Pimping " for some entertainment execs down in LA.  The presentation was about using Facebook, social networking platforms, news feeds, & apps to drive content distribution & commercial transactions.  It was f...

[note: this post was originally a comment on TechCrunch post summarizing Max Levchin's panel on web platforms from the Web 2.0 Summit, with Facebook, MySpace, Google, & Microsoft.  i decided since my comment went past 3 paragraphs, i should probably expand it on my own blog...] this is gros...

my former PayPal colleague Yishan Wong , now an ass-kicking, name-taking engineer at Facebook, lays the "Walled Garden" rebuttal smackdown on Kottke, Arrington, et al.   you go, Yishan... you just go. look for more news on the Facebook front coming in a few weeks at the 2008 Face...

Our recent Liquid Conversations panel at Supernova covered some interesting territory about how blog posts & particularly comments are becoming more distributed, shared semi-privately among friends & followers. in particular, i think there's a really interesting conversation (heh) that's bec...

ok, so even after all these announcements about data portability, no one seems to understand what the hell i keep talking about re: using email & IM messaging data stores to improve targeting & make friend lists work better.  i admit it's a bit inside-baseball, but it's actually pretty ...

hey Kara:  want to know why Facebook, Slide, RockYou, Ning, & all those other Facebook toy apps (& MySpace, etc) are worth $15B or $500M +? well if they're worth anywhere near that much, it's not obvious 100M+ widgets, walls, & installs are what generates revenue... however, it MAY ...

note: this isn't an April Fool's post, at least not intentionally... Semantic Web , WTF?  Nigga please, tell me something i give a shit about. while i find the concept of a semantic web intellectually stimulating, for the most part i think it's just a lot of geeky mental masturbation (did i jus...

Q: Social Networks still Sexy?   Or is the Thrill Gone? well, what's new folks... turns out Teh Sexy depends on CASH MONEY, G .  which means we probably need to do more work on social network monetization & business models. many folks rip on Facebook & MySpace for having weak busin...

An Open Letter to Mike Arrington: Mike, we miss you.  Please visit soon. I hope whatever malady or depression keeping you out of the public eye passes quickly, and i'd love to buy you a beer the next time you're out & about in San Francisco, San Diego, Seattle, or Austin, or anywhere outsid...