Video from my panel at DEMO Fall ’08 on the Future of the Web is now available.
I moderated the panel, and our panelists were:
… Read More “New Video: Leading Minds from Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft talk about their Visions for Future of The Web”Howard Bloom, Author, The Evolution of Mass Mind from the Big Bang to the 21st Century
Peter Norvig, Director of Research, Google Inc.
The folks at Read/Write Web have a great analysis of AOL’s recent move to support the OpenID initiative. AOL has integrated with OpenID, adding 63 million users in a bid to make AIM handles sticky.
Digg also just announced they are joining OpenID.… Read More “AOL Adds 63 Million Users to OpenID … Digg Joins Too”
Tom Hayes has an interesting post in which he coins the word ‘beme" to mean a meme that spreads in the blogosphere.
… Read More “'Bemes' are Defining the Blogosphere”Michael Malone’s ABC News column on Thursday mentioning "bemes" has certainly produced a lot of interest. Originally, I coined the word beme
to describe a meme propagated by blogs and bloggers.
The next SFWIN (San Francisco Web Innovators) monthly networking event is happening this Thursday at 6PM in downtown San Francisco at the offices of Orrick, a law firm with a very nice event space overlooking the skyline. We usually have around 100 people or so and delicious food and an open bar.… Read More “Come to the SFWIN Party This Thursday in SF!”
Hi everyone, I am trying to generate some specific stats about the size of the Blogosphere. I couldn’t find the answer in Dave Sifry’s excellent State of the Blogosphere reports. Do any of you know of any studies or reports that answer the following:
This study is interesting — it seems to miss the point that many blogs are loaded with content that is actually USEFUL for work — for example in-house blogs, blogs from competitors, blogs from industry pundits, blogs from software developers, blogs from users and customers … and the list goes on.… Read More “Blogs on the Job — New Stats”
Fred Wilson has an intersting post about how to keep founders engaged in the companies they started after they step out of CEO roles. He says:
… Read More “How to Keep Founders Involved Once Companies Grow”I’d like to find a formula (like the one Yahoo! has found) and bottle it.
This is cool Click to see why. I think this idea has great value for viral, meme-based Web advertising. Just imagine: Advertisers could release really cool animations to add to sites, and site owners could add them into their sites for entertainment or humor.… Read More “A Cool Thingy…”
Great news! Radar Networks, the venture I’ve been building, has received its first round of outside funding from Vulcan Capital. We are heavily in stealth mode.
This article provides some very compelling and useful statistics about the growth of the Weblog tools market.
Rohit Gupta, a Bombay-based writer, who also reads this blog, is writing a blog-novel. He has come up with an innovative way to promote it — by letting readers choose quotes from his text to “own” — by choosing a quote and linking to his blog-novel from it, he will in return link back to your blog from that quote in his novel.… Read More “A Blog Novel”
Greg Tyrell, a PhD student with a strong interest in bioinformatics, has put together a detailed analysis and report on the GoMeme 1.0 experiment, containing several visualizations and results of the survey. Nice work Greg!
Also in other news, Google has started indexing the results.… Read More “Detailed Analysis of GoMeme 1.0 Results”
I wonder if anyone from MoveOn.Org or the Republicans will notice our GoMeme experiments? (Not that I’m taking sides — I’ll simply be happy if somebody wins the election!) Grassroots political campaigns could potentially really benefit from the techniques we’re testing here.… Read More “Can You Imagine What Would Happen if MoveOn.Org Used the GoMeme Concept?”
This posting is the FAQ and introduction for a new, improved, second-generation meme experiment that is designed to spread faster and more broadly than the first meme experiment. We call this kind of meme a “GoMeme” (pronounced Go-Meem), because it is a meme that is designed to Go.… Read More “FAQ for GoMeme 2.0”
Meme Update: The Meme is already global and the rate of growth is showing signs of exponential increase. It’s made the Daypop top list, also same with Blogdex. It’s made its way onto several early-adopter sites and lists. Already the results are interesting.… Read More “Is Your Blog a Hot Zone?”
NOTE: This experiment is now finished.
This is an experiment in spreading ideas across weblogs using the principles of viral marketing and social networks using a new method for making content more viral, which we call a "GoMeme."