Posts Tagged with ‘robert-scoble’

I often find it depressing how little we know about the web as it is in Asia - their projects and web celebrities or trends maybe. Most often we hear from Asia is when some of the western internet companies (Google anyone?) buys a local company or a startup in Asia - otherwise Asia seems to be very much isolated.
It is also a well-known fact that more often than not Asian consumers and internet users prefer to stick to their [...]

On Friday Robert Scoble published a list of 160+ people worth subscribing to on FriendFeed for everyone interested in technology news. Quite understandably, this list have become one of the most discussed things over the weekend with people either criticizing Robert for this list or thanking him for compiling it.
I think that I have the most obvious reason to be happy about making the list as according to Robert’s comments there are only two great tech blogs - Ars Technica [...]

My initial reaction to Steven Hodson's post about the digital divide between the haves and the have nots has stuck with me, but apparently, 10 days is too long for it to have remained in the attention-deficit world of the Twitterati. The gap between the designers and the intended users is growing ever wider, and you have to wonder if the eventual fate of Web 2.0 won't be a result of the chasm in the middle.
Personally, this week has been [...]

I watched the bitchmeme today float over the blogs and Techmeme with a wry grin and a shake of my head. Twitter has had a horrible week: the downtime and missing features continue. The users are revolting, posting blog posts and FriendFeed items threatening defection at every new development. The first complaints were that the folks at Twitter didn't communicate enough, and now the problem is that the communication is that of developers on the defensive, with a different reason [...]

Here at Profy, we have a true multi-national environment. We authors all live in the United States, although scattered about. The development team is located in Novosibirsk, Russia. And Profy's CTO moved from Germany. Until recently, I'd never had a big language issue (as you can tell from her posts, Svetlana speaks and writes excellent English), but I'd be lying if I said it didn't shame me that most of the Profy staff are far more multi-lingual than I am. [...]

The other night, my husband asked me a question I had no answer for: when we've moved on to whatever Web 3.0 is going to be, what will be left of Web 2.0? There are carryovers from the 1.0 Bubble, but when you think about it, the Web itself is 1.0. And Tim Berners-Lee himself has argued that we can't delineate Web 2.0 since so much of the technology has existed since the beginning of the Web.
Everyone has tried to [...]

I was determined to remain out of this weekend's bitchmeme. I'm an old-fashioned kind of girl who comments on the blog where the author knows I said something, reads my feeds offline half the time, and doesn't jump on the latest bandwagon when it comes to "conversation."
However, when the headline crossed my radar saying "Era of blogger’s control is over" I realized that for all this caterwauling, people are missing the point. Robert Scoble is missing the point, but then [...]

With all the social media tools out there, the second most time-consuming activity after actually reading everyone you are following is figuring out who you should be reading. Most Twitter users and blog readers spend a significant amount of time trying to find the most relevant information. Aggregators like FriendFeed (our coverage) and Socialthing (our coverage ) can help, but two suggestion engines have emerged recently to help you.
The first, Toluu, imports your feeds and then matches you up with [...]

If you pay any attention at all to the tech blogosphere, you'll notice that there have been several recurrent themes lately. One is the concept of A-listers in any community. While Guy Kawasaki shares the CNET study which feels that information has more of a diamond shape than a pyramid, which information trickling down from the A-listers at the point, Alex Iskold over at ReadWriteWeb notes that the 80-20 rule is in play on Twitter, with 80% of the [...]