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• Must-have features for Twitter-killing February 8, 2010
  In October 2009, after 2.5 years of using Twitter every day, I wrote a piece that explained the limits of Twitter that we'll have to look past Twitter to see solved, because Twitter doesn't seem to be trying to solve them. Tomorrow, we hear, Google will announce a product that's designed to take on Twitter. If so, here's a list of featur […]
• Who dat just won the whole thing! February 8, 2010
  A brief note of congratulations to the City that Care Forgot. It's so wonderful that the Saints won the Super Bowl! This will go down as one of the big moments of sports history, imho. As the 1969 Mets undid the betrayal of NY fans by the Dodgers, the Saints give hope to a city that was betrayed in so many ways. From what I know of New Orleans, this v […]
• My first full day in NYC February 7, 2010
  I spent my first full day living in NYC since 1977. Lots of observations, but I only have time to share one. In other cities, the places you drive to are places you walk to in Manhattan. There's every kind of restaurant within a block of my apartment. In Palo Alto, you can get it all (but the pizza isn't as good) but you have to drive everywhere u […]
• Hypercamp, revisited February 7, 2010
  David Weinberger asks: "After press conferences, what?" Imho: A hybrid of newsroom and press conference. And it must be open, unlike newsrooms and press conferences of the past. A few years ago I wrote about an idea called Hypercamp, a way of distributing ideas and news that I felt would come into existence in what we now call the "rebooted n […]
• Might be the perfect tweet for all time February 6, 2010
  wilshipley: "Is there an iPhone app for adding your own subtitles to that famous Hitler scene on YouTube™, yet?" Why it's the perfect tweet: 1. It's about a product from Apple. 2. It suggests an Apple slogan that's almost become a meme. 3. You know damned well there's no app for that. 4. But there totally should be. 5. We love A […]
• Bit.ly Pro February 5, 2010
  Saw a link this evening in Danny Sullivan's feed to Bit.ly Pro. Not sure when this was announced, there are no references to the product in Google News. Read over the FAQ. This is basically the service I wanted to create with Bit.ly when we started it up in the summer of 2008. But it's apparently missing one key component, the freedom to switch to […]
• Snow stories? February 5, 2010
  I'm in California, where it rains a lot but snow is pretty rare. That's why a honkin winter storm is so interesting! If you're getting dumped on in Washington or Baltimore or where ever, how's it going? Any accumulation? Pictures! […]
• Networking Experiment: NYU Computer Science February 5, 2010
  This is a networking experiment to see if I can connect with people in NYU's Computer Science department through the readers of this weblog. Me: I'm a visiting scholar in the Journalism Institute for the next year; working with my friend Jay Rosen and his students on several interesting projects. While I'm there it would be interesting for me […]
• Google's two-way search is good for the web February 3, 2010
  WIthout any fanfare as far as I can tell, Google has unveiled one of the most signficant, far-reaching and basically good features in its core search product. Now, in addition to presenting the pages ranked in order of algorithmic importance, it also shows you what people you know have to say about the subject. How does it know who you know? Based on some […]
• If you think you have it bad... February 2, 2010
  I can list all the conferences I'm not going to this year because I didn't get an invite. A friend who's going to TED this year for the first time (I've never been) says he's pissed at himself, ironically. I've never personally faced a life-and-death struggle as intense as Dana Jennings describes in a piece at the NY Times. Whe […]