In this ‘off the record’, or ‘unattributed’, or whatever you want to call it, Tweet, Nick Bilton gets the nitty-gritty on how Zuckerberg feels about user privacy. Now, to be fair, I’m sure he’s not totally against some user privacy, but it’s the internet people! Other than your date-of-birth, emails, social security number, and your [...]
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Posted in Geek, blogging, community, yahoo! on Sep 18th, 2009
Support your favorite pirate today! Yeah, it’s on the 19th this year, but I like to party like a pirate a little early. Never heard of Talk Like a Pirate Day? Only cool people do it, so if you aren’t doing it… Well, you already know you’re ‘that’ guy. Sad…
Anyhoo! Javascript [...]
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Marketing Socially: Robyn Tippins from Converge SC on Vimeo.
FYI, the very first of my talk is cut off, but what you miss is my telling you that I started a diaper company in 1998, at age 22, and in month one, using forums to market it, we grossed ~$30k. The video picks up there.
Social [...]
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Posted in blogging, community on Oct 15th, 2008
In 1999, I met a young man named James. James was an 18 year old kid who had just finished his stint in foster care. At 18, they handed him a few hundred bucks ($200 if I remember correctly) and the clothing on his back and told him goodbye. Overnight, James had [...]
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Posted in blogging, community, personal, web 2.0 on Oct 12th, 2008
After seeing a series of tweets from a broad range of cool men, I stumbled upon Chris Brogan’s newest site, Dadomatic. The site is a range of posts from men who are taking fatherhood seriously.
From Eric Peterson:
Children can be so inspirational. It’s neat to see how they grow and develop, and even teach adults [...]
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Posted in community on Oct 9th, 2008
I just got back from the Community Managers Meetup in San Francisco, which was held at the Thirsty Bear Brewery. There was only a small crowd, but I think that’s how it goes when you are just starting a new group. Rich Reader, a social media consultant, and Adam Jackson, Community Manager at [...]
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Posted in Geek, community, yahoo! on Aug 27th, 2008
This is one of those things that you don’t want to miss. It’s limited to a few hundred developers and priority is being given to those devs who are hacking. Please request an invite here and add your name to Upcoming if you want to attend. We’ll be sending out invites shortly [...]
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Tilly and I set up a wiki over the weekend (thanks to a HUGE load of help from Wetpaint) and the barebones of our Community Managers group is up and running now.
Community Managers Wiki
I love working with CMs because they are motivated! I sent out the invites around 11am and by 2pm, all but 3 [...]
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Posted in Geek, community, personal, vlog, yahoo! on Aug 14th, 2008
Yahoo! Developer Network – Interns! from mattt on Vimeo.
Social Bookmarking
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Posted in Geek, blogging, community, open, web 2.0 on Feb 22nd, 2008
After a cease and desist letter from Fedora, we learned our logo was a bit too much like theirs, and rather than waste resources saving the logo and fighting with a company many of us like, it seemed to make more sense to just ask the community to help us come up with another one. [...]
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