Category Archives: web services

The Internet’s secret sauce: surfacing coincidence

Posted on December 14, 2007 by

What is it that makes my favorite online services so compelling? I’m talking about the whole family of services that includes Dopplr, Wesabe, Twitter, Flickr, and del.icio.us among others. I find it interesting that people don’t generally refer to any … Continue reading →

Posted in behavior, community, creativity, data, delicious, design, dopplr, edge, flickr, future, ideas, innovation, internet, models, network effects, platform, programmableweb, recommendations, social media, strategy, transparency, trends, twitter, visualization, web services, wesabe | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | 6 Comments

Data dynamics: How the rules of sharing are changing

Posted on November 13, 2007 by

Today it’s easy to store and share my pictures, my favorite URLs, my thoughts and lots of other things online. There are a range of data repositories that allow me to do this kind of thing in different ways. What … Continue reading →

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Thinking about media as a platform

Posted on July 3, 2007 by

Back in my InfoWorld days (2004-ish?) I somehow woke up to the idea that media could be a platform.1 Whereas my professional media experience prior to that was all about creating user experiences that resulted in better page views and … Continue reading →

Posted in advertising, innovation, media, models, network, network effects, platform, washingtonpost, web services | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | 10 Comments

Preview of the del.icio.us publisher api

Posted on December 19, 2006 by

I just posted a short screencast on the YDN blog of the cool new publisher api coming from del.icio.us soon. I’ve also embedded the video below. Lots of interesting possibilities with this new service, for sure. Embed video:

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I know where and when my favorite bands are playing

Posted on November 16, 2006 by

Last.fm is my favoriate web app. There’s nothing else on the Internet that comes close. This thought occurred to me a few weeks back, but it wasn’t until I explained last.fm to a group of publishers at the Stanford Publishing … Continue reading →

Posted in apis, attention, behavior, last.fm, music, personalization, recommendations, startup, upcoming, web services | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | 6 Comments

Scaffolding web sites with Ruby on Rails

Posted on October 24, 2006 by

I started messing around with Ruby on Rails for the first time on Sunday. This was after spending all day Saturday tearing down kitchen cupboards, tiled sinks and entire walls for a friend who is remodeling his house, so I … Continue reading →

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“Loosley Coupled” does not mean “Easy to build”

Posted on May 16, 2006 by

The concept of “Loose Coupling” is great on so many levels. I’ve used it to describe different types of things in ideal worlds, but I’m starting to see that there is a lot of gray area there that can be … Continue reading →

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