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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

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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.

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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

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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

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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

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