Category: The Power of Many

  • Yahoo eats Flickr

    I hope neither Caterina nor Stewart punch me in the mouth for reporting this: Yahoo actually does acquire Flickr: Nicely written FAQ there. Example: Are you going to become Yahoo Photos? No. Yahoo Photos will get a lot of Flickr features, and there are alot of other areas around Yahoo that will also be Flickrized…

  • Ad hoc online-cum-physical social networking

    Ben Brown, one of the names I finally met at SXSW this year wrote up a good example of spontaneous social networking on his Intarweb Rockstar blog: Virtual Community Boards, Missed Connections Not Missed, and Ambient Noise Bonus: Jeff Veen blogged his own comment at the “leveraging solipsism” panel about the best way to continue…

  • Are political parties obsolete?

    Nancy White did a fantastic job taking notes at various panels throughout SXSW interactive this year. In her write up of my second panel, Are Political Parties Obsolete?, she definitely captured the gist of most of what we were saying up on the stage. I plan to do a few retrospective posts here once I…

  • Opening up the book-revision process on a wiki

    Because I’m about to check out of my hotel for my return flight from SXSW, I’m just going to swipe Steve Rubel’s Book Editing Wiki Style post from his essential, how does he do it, I remember when I had that level of energy and ethusiasm for blogging, Micro Persuasion weblog: BusinessWeek reports that Stanford…

  • Yahoo makes its social network aspects explicit with 360

    When explaining social network services to people I often point out that Yahoo, with its profiles, groups, photo banks, and so on, is already the most popular YASN in the world. Obviously Yahoo recognizes this too and by adding a little blogging secret sauce to meld together their existing service offerings, they are making that…

  • Another Deliberative Democracy panel wiki

    There’s an official wiki for this panel that Kaliya is technographing on the screen, but I can’t read the URL (but will post it when I get it – ah, here it is: Sx Sw Delib – NcddWiki), but there’s another one also being built up at the same time: Deliberative Democracy and Interactive Technology…