Ignored in high school, the geek princes of social media now thrive on attention from eager fanboys (and calculating flacks). Relentless Fast Company egoblogger Robert Scoble was their king. Until he got dethroned. Scoble — chubby, bespectacled, and awkward, the unlikeliest of all video person...

Today I was part of a panel session about Web 2.0 tools for the GMC/PCMA Greg Fine - Association Forum showed some of their Association Professionals throughout History video showed the map of online communities from 2007 (”gulf of youtube”) social media is about building community, and ...

Image via CrunchBase FriendFeed has become my gateway to the world system, much like MSN’s Home Page, or Google’s Home page, or even for about three months it was techmeme, I spend far more time on FriendFeed than I do on any other system. If it dies, it is going to be a really bad day. Robert S...

I have been thinking a bit about this notion of a real-time web. Having access to real-time information, as soon as it is published, seems to be a possible Achilles heel for Google according to some (here and here). People who say that do not understand the real strength of Google or it’s poss...

A couple interesting things coming out of startup land. For one, Posterous has a little writeup on Building and Scaling a Startup on Rails: 12 Things We Learned the Hard Way. Good things to take away include using Sphinx/Solr for search, but the real important takeaway for the MySQL crowd is Storage...

I am not new to social media, having been in newsgroups and chat rooms since the early 90s. I’m also not new to information overload, as I’ve always been a news junkie and a voracious reader. But every once in a while, my life changes with respect to how I give and receive information, a...

By Eric Berlin of Online Media Cultist (FriendFeed/Twitter) A Stay N' Alive piece (is there a cooler blog name than that?) by Jesse Stay called My Hiatus From RSS – Is RSS Really Necessary? made me think about my own ongoing challenge/struggle/scramble to grapple with the massive number of news st...

My favorite palindrome is officially: “step on no pets.” What is a palindrome, you might ask? A palindrome is a word, phrase, number or other sequence of units that can be read the same way in either direction. A palindrome is not necessarily a single word, such as the one I quoted at th...

Within the last few hours, Robert Scoble announced that “Twitter is broken” on his @Scobelizer Twitter account. @loic: Twitter is broken and we all know it. But we muddle along anyway. Bring us better tools so we can view groups we care about. Scobleizer - Robert Scoble We’ve talke...

Andrew Warner is an Internet entrepreneur and the founder of Mixergy. He interviews successful people to learn how they did it. I asked Paul Buchheit for advice on launching startups because he fathered two of this decade’s most successful online products: Gmail and FriendFeed. As part of his ...