@mattmcalister
- just added video assets, homepage lineup, editor's picks and more new features to the @openplatform Content API: http://bit.ly/cWvBi7 4 hrs ago
- celebrating our youngest's 1st bday. the baby years are finally coming to a close for us all. very happy. 5 days ago
- Time's Top 50: 'as other British newspapers go behind paywalls, the Guardian opens up its content for developers' http://is.gd/eDIUy 6 days ago
- inspiring essay on purpose in business by Gary Hamel http://instapaper.com/zkmpos51n 1 week ago
- gave my blog a refresh while fixing security holes. now need a good picture for the header. http://www.mattmcalister.com/blog/ 1 week ago
- congrats, Don! “@donlbe: just joined @typekit.” 1 week ago
- tweaked my twitter lists a bit to see how paper.li will react. this is becoming a good read now http://paper.li/mattmcalister/noticers 1 week ago
- good fun yesterday w guardian tech team at Bletchley Park and then Inception. thanks @leftback! 1 week ago
- turning diminishing returns into increasing returns and other great insights by @jhagel on new ways of working http://bit.ly/azZ8yU 2 weeks ago
- the web is more like an awkward teenager with cuter younger sibblings than something fading into oblivion: http://bit.ly/aMLHBy 2 weeks ago
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- Paper.li: Guardian Technology – now available as a newspaper, online!
- Video highlights from Activate 2010
- How to hail a London cabbie using Twitter
- Republishing articles from ProPublica
- Behind the scenes of the Open Platform’s evolution
- Socially linked data
- Positioning real-time web platforms
- The thinking behind the Activate Summit event
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Monthly Archives: April 2007
Getting back to basics
There was something really depressing about Web 2.0 Expo that I can’t quite put my finger on. Though when I woke up Monday morning after a weekend of working on my house it started to become more clear. On Friday … Continue reading
Posted in creativity, culture, history, internet, trends
Tagged coffee food, dialo, garbage removal, joists, losing the plot, monday morning, scalability, sheetrock, tired legs, workspace
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The StumbleUpon effect is real
The StumpleUpon acquisition rumor is interesting if not a bit weird, but it doesn’t surprise me that they are being taken seriously. They weren’t really on my radar until I recently looked at the traffic reports for my wife’s blog, … Continue reading
Posted in helpthing, metrics, stats, stumbleupon, traffic, trends
Tagged acquisition, chasm, critical mass, mybloglog, radar, referral sources, referrals, sheepish grin, sourced, traffic reports
3 Comments
The next Yahoo! Hack Day to be in London in June
This event should be really good. I’ve been working with the local Yahoo! team in London and their partner BBC Backstage to keep the spirit of the original Open Hack Day alive, and I think the teams there have done … Continue reading
Posted in hackday, innovation, yahoo
Tagged background color, bold text, event organizer, event producer, internet developers, sleeping bag, tom coates, white space, yahoo hack, yahoo team
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Transparency as a result of efficiency
Advertising Lab pointed to the AdAge article written by Eric Webber who prefers clothed conversations to naked ones: “It seems to me that all this talk of being “totally transparent” is overrated and takes things entirely too far. What’s worse, … Continue reading
Posted in efficiency, marketing, pr, transparency
Tagged adage, amazing things, betwen, blog entry, conversations, honest advertising, jon udell, keystrokes, openness, webber
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Gatekeepers need to stop calling themselves gatekeepers
Time business columnist Justin Fox questioned the success of the new media methods in a recent post “The reign of the enthusiasts“. He suggests the algorithms that proudly surface the deep dark corners of the Internet are actually just self-referential … Continue reading
Posted in behavior, blogging, google, mainstream media, media, msm, publishing, recommendations, search, socialmedia, socialsearch, success, trends
Tagged amazons, business columnist, construction worker, friend matt, googles, justin fox, local construction, matt mcalister, popularity contests, time business
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Media As A Service
Much like print and tv are becoming marketing vehicles to drive people online, the domain name for an online media service is becoming sort of an abstract utility or maybe just a brand address for media services rather than the … Continue reading
Posted in advertising, attention, feedburner, history, ideas, innovation, journalism, management, marketing, media, models, peer production, process, publishing, rightmedia, rss, strategy, trends, webservices
Tagged casual web, collaborative media, content space, digital universe, distribution technologies, expressions of interest, javascript libraries, many different ways, right place at the right time, yahoo pipes
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