December 2008
5 posts
I love this explanation for why the Cuil search... →
StockTwits: harnessing Twitter for community... →
Unlike other services that tap the wisdom of the crowd, StockTwits does so in real time, thanks to Twitter, which is obviously critical for stock tips. Roger Ehrenberg sums it up nicely:
Stocktwits massively leverages the power of the long tail, but the reason followers are able to rapidly identify value is because of reputation. THE STOCKTWITS COMMUNITY IS A MERITOCRACY. Those that hem and haw...
Calling bullsh*t on Google's Net Neutrality... →
I’ve been following the online brouhaha over the WSJ article claiming that Google, one of the leading corporate Net Neutrality advocates, is all talk and little walk. Basically, I kept coming across responses (such as: Google’s Richard Whitt, Lawrence Lessig, TLF’s Tim Lee) that attempted to define Net Neutrality as solely packet delivery (i.e., traffic shaping), not internet...
Kanye and Colbert: Has Twitter crossed the chasm?
What surprised me most about this little “battle” b/t Colbert and Kanye isn’t that Colbert pulled it off, but rather that it started on Twitter. With well over 3mm msgs/day (probably double that by now), it is amazing that any one message can rise above the noise, yet that is exactly what happened. The key factor at play is the practice of “retweeting”, where it is...
Is it possible to stop junk (snail)mail? →
I would say I get >20lbs of junk mail every month, e.g. coupons, credit offers, menus, catalogs, etc. Looked into it and came across a page on Privacyrights.org that has info on stopping this huge paper waste that ends up in the landfill. There are several steps, but the first one looks the most promising: opt-ing out at the Direct Marketing Associations web site. If this works, it should stop...