@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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- Video highlights from Activate 2010
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- Republishing articles from ProPublica
- Behind the scenes of the Open Platform’s evolution
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- Positioning real-time web platforms
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Category Archives: events
Interesting perspectives from Web 2.0 Expo
Today’s Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco provided some really good brain food. Clay Shirky’s keynote was excellent. He talked about architecting a new world for the “cognitive surplus” that’s emerging as people pull themselves out of the historical sitcom … Continue reading
Posted in crime, data, events, ideas, standards, webservices
Tagged brain food, crime data, data visualizations, excel spreadsheet, excel spreadsheets, json, mashups, neat ideas, slap in the face, tom coates
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How to launch an online platform (part II)
The MySpace guys won the latest launch party battle. About 200 people met at the new MySpace house last night in San Francisco to see what the company was going to do to compete with Facebook on the developer front.
Posted in developer, events, myspace, platform, san francisco
Tagged Facebook, launch party, myspace, san francisco
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How to launch an online platform
I attended the Bebo developer platform announcement this morning in San Francisco. The announcement seemed to go down very well based on immediate response, though only time will tell if the expected impact is achieved. It’s clear that a formula … Continue reading
Posted in bebo, events, how to, marketing, platform, pr, socialnetworking
Tagged developer community, driven service, Facebook, metreon, micropayments, proprietary environments, spreading the news, standards developers, substantial gain, thought leader
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The magic of Hack Day
Even after seeing Hack Day work internally a bunch of times and now twice in the open format with external developers I’m still amazed every time. There’s something magical about the event. Yes, ok, obviously, if you attract a bunch … Continue reading
Posted in events, hackday, hackdaylondon, yahoo
Tagged buddhism, external developers, full speed, hack, intensity, intuition, mid point, precedents, profile company, sport season
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StartupCamp
A few of us went to the Startup Camp unconference yesterday in San Francisco representing YDN’s development tools and services. What a hoot. Some of the startup ideas were really interesting, a few were promising but clearly still cooking, and … Continue reading
Posted in entrepreneur, events, startupcamp
Tagged david berlind, entrepreneurial spirit, having a good time, mass events, own destiny, plain silly, startup camp, startup ideas, traffic sources, zdnet
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