I’ve written before about how SocialTech’s main purpose is to present each of us as an API, and I want to expand on that a bit more here. First of all we need to talk about the concept of presenting a person. You are your thoughts, your ideas, your preferences, your sense of humor, etc. These things are…
Why You Should Be Using Friendfeed
FriendFeed is a relatively new service designed to let you stay in contact with your friends in a more complete way than other services. Twitter is an excellent service because it allows one to microblog and push updates via sms, but this doesn’t show your friends everything you’re doing. Someone wanting to follow your blog posts, your picassa/flikr…
How To Create Dynamic Digg/Reddit/Del.icio.us Buttons For Your Pages (Includes Code)
Everyone’s seen the cool little icons/buttons for Digg, Reddit, and Del.icio.us shown under various articles online. They make it easy for users to submit to their favorite social site by automatically filling in the title of your page. I also think they subconsciously add legitimacy to a web presence. In short, they’re just great to have. A number…
Digg and Reddit: Please Learn The Difference Between Original Content and Blogspam
Nothing is worse for systems like Digg and Reddit than repetitive, mediocre content. These networks are designed to magnify the efficiency of the Internet by taking excellent content — regardless of source — and promoting it through impartial democracy. Ultimately, the goal is to minimize the time it takes someone to get up to speed on the most…
My First 2600 Meeting
Last Friday I went to my first 2600 meeting. It was, of course, here in New York City — home of the original meetings. The group started small and grew to around 40, which the regulars said was a weak showing. We pushed through the awkwardness (which wasn’t helped by our being dressed in business attire) and were…