May 2008
Ryan McGinness →
Zappos Shows How Social Media Is Done →
What’s more stereotypically trivial than shoe shopping? Using Twitter, of course! Online shoe retailer Zappos does shoes and social media remarkably well. Scores of bloggers, lots of video…
Domino's Pizza Tracker →
Caroline, my Pittsburgh correspondent, just tipped me to this fantastic new Domino’s feature. She said she sat mesmerized for 30 minutes as a red bar (below) made its way from left to…
Watchpeterwknox: wadcity: Twin Trailers: Batman (1989) vs The Dark Knight (2008) Oh wow this is an awesome treatment. Awesome.
April 2008
How to Be a Stress-free Web Worker →
Just because web workers have done away with the traditional office, it doesn’t mean we’re also rid of the stress that comes with working.
We encounter equipment failures, personal problems, and…
Listening with Summize and Tweetscan →
by Josh Bernoff
As Twitter swells, at least in the minds of Groundswell thinkers, you have to wonder what people are saying about you. It’s easy enough to track that (in theory . . ….
Ten Foods You’ll Find, Eat, and Regret at the... →
vaivoda: First on the list? Krispy Kreme Burgers: [Allow a moment for jaw-dropping, brow-furrowing disgust, followed by a split-second indulgence in hedonistic curiosity, quickly rebuffed by the open-palmed smack across the face of ARE-YOU-F’ING-KIDDING-ME?!] Yes, my thoughts exactly. Suddenly, I feel much better about the funnel cake I split with a friend this weekend. Mmm foot long corn...
Doing some Records Management. Trying not to spoliate. Look it up.
Coachella, let's go again (Day One) →
Ah, Coachella, you winsome siren. That festival is going to beckon to me annually after the amazing experience I’ve had over this past weekend. Even with a lineup that some declared “not as…
Watch“We live in a world where the little things really do matter. Each encounter no matter how brief is a micro interaction which makes a deposit or withdrawal from our rational and emotional subconscious. The sum of these interactions and encounters adds up to how we feel about a particular product, brand or service. Little things. Feelings. They influence our everyday behaviors more than we...
The Emerging Main Street Web →
This is the second in a 3-part series, by Bernard Lunn, on the new Web. Part 1 was The Whatchamacallit, Post Recession Phase Transition.
Recessions change consumer behavior, drive weak…
Twistori: A Twitter Zeitgeist Social Experiment →
Twistori, according to the site, is the “first step in an ongoing social experiment.” The brainchild of Amy Hoy and Thomas Fuchs, Twistori pulls tweets from Twitter (via Summize)…
Data chart of the week: who do people trust? →
by Josh Bernoff For today’s weekly data chart we’ll look at a different kind of data for a change — not a Social Technographics Profile but some attitudinal data that’s highlighted in …
Changing all my addresses on all my accounts - this might take some time.
How to upgrade your Tumblr theme so people will... →
David Karp’s blogging platform Tumblr, popular with creative types and those who dress like them in Sanfrooklyn, allows its users to modify their themes. And, just like the kids on…
Web 2.0 Expo Slides on Slideshare →
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Several of our speakers have uploaded their slides to Slideshare. There are fifteen so far. I’ve embedded the slides from Design Your API: Learnings from…
Wireless Pool & Spa Thermometer →
Think outside the pool and spa spaces. Which for most people is a requirement since they lack both. No problema. Fun in the tub too. Got no tub, just a shower stall? No problema. …
There is No Web 3.0, There is No Web 2.0 - There... →
Something struck me while listening to Tim O’Reilly’s keynote speech at the Web 2.0 expo yesterday: glancing at my notes after he walked off stage, I noticed that his current definition for Web…
Is Keyword Search About To Hit Its Breaking Point? →
As the Web swells with more and more data, the predominant way of sifting through all of that data—keyword search—will one day break down in its ability to deliver the exact information we…
The Enterprise Social Network, Auto-Generated And... →
Making social networks work inside companies is a difficult task. Who wants to update their “status” to tell everyone what they are working on, or have to tag things manually? We’ll do that for…
enjoying a nice Betty’s cafe dark roasted Italian coffee my mum sent me - thanks mum.
Exercise changes structure and function of the... →
A recent Harvard study has found that 90 days of athletic training not only produces significant changes in the heart, but those changes vary with the type of exercise performed.
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