“Semantic, shemantics” says Alan Wilensky in reaction to today’s ReadWriteweb post: Top 10 Semantic Web Products of 2008.  I have to agree with him that these apps just all seem to process existing data in different ways to create a new node in the network rather than to deliver content that is relevant to me [...]

In my last post “Life | Work: understanding service ecology”, I left you hanging in an attempt to break up my thinking in digestible chunks. To recap: Though it may seem unrelated, my readings on design thinking have helped me shape this idea of an ecological approach to digital communication, especially when I came across [...]

I just spoke to Joey Mornin, from YourRevolution and it’s really incredible what they are doing. In just two weeks these guy have delivered a formidable social media strategy (Joey has not slept 8 hours in the last week). Pickens campaign had no idea how good they had by hiring these young super powers!
The campaign [...]

No one loses or wins in the battle of Netflix & Amazon on-demand streaming videos, says Betsy Shiffman from Wired Magazine. But judging by the reader comments, the Losers R US: the generation X/Y users.
We’re still so early in this on-demand content game that the technology is very poor and the usability is far from [...]

Lately I’ve been wondering why is entertainment so successful on the web. It seems to be the magic formula to making something viral or getting a lot of hits (that or pure controversy). You wouldn’t be sending your friends product recommendations (lame) but you sure will send them a little funny video like this: