I have been meaning to write a very long, complex and cerebral post about the seemingly exponential growth of Twitter in the last few months, but as my list of related bookmarks grows, the time to read them runs screaming, so I thought I’d try and capture a few thoughts in the next week or two in ...

There is an old Dutch saying that roughly translates to "Weddings lead to weddings". And though attending a DrupalCon is not the same as getting married, it does share some characteristics. It's about sharing, passion, learning and helping without xpecting anything back. DrupalCon's are great places...

Attending FroComm’s sparky 2nd Annual New Media Summit, the musky scent of strategy hung heavy in the air with many PR types - inspired by decent presentations from Forrester’s Steven Noble, Ogilvy PR’s Michael Darragh, Google’s Tony Kuesgen and Dan “Downwind Media&...

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After a few weeks of controversy over a change in their terms of service (TOS) agreement, Facebook today has announced it has apparently learned from its mistakes and will open this process up to the users. It is hard for me to fathom why this has taken such a long time given that this is what socia...

Una notizia che ha del grottesco ma anche del preoccupante ragazzo muore impalato dalla propria sedia Statistiche sull'uso del P2P: meno porno e più musica. Youporn e soci hanno cambiato di nuovo il mondo. Anche Rapidshare non scherza. P2P traffic still accounts for the lion's share of Internet tra...

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 ...

Mint, the uber-awesome online budget and personal finance tool is growing fast. They announced recently that they're gaining 3,000 new users a day. That's apparently a lot faster than the tool from Quicken. So the dudes at Quicken sent the people at Mint a letter, trying to get details. The whole th...

I don’t know how many of my readers are habitual users of one or more of the many social bookmarking services available out there … I am one of those and until a couple of weeks ago I’ve used del.icio.us (sorry, I’m a fan of the old “spelling”) and ma.gnolia. For ...

Source: http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3179/2681791084_cfc5604cbd.jpg?v=0 I absolutely love this story that Steve Hargadon has told once more. It's a story I've shared with my family often, and he makes a powerful connection to Web 2.0. Steve's description of how he turns people off when they want t...