Separated at Birth?

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Television

As I was going through some photos I took of the keynote at last year’s Web 2.0 Expo, Jeff Weiner’s cute little mug began to seem strangely familiar.
Yep, Jeff was (is? not sure what his facial hair is doing these days) a dead ringer for Ryan Howard, as played by B.J. Novak on The Office. […]

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Oh hey, I didn’t see you there

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Random

Now I don’t know nothing about nothing. Seriously. I buy shampoo based on how it smells, I buy wine based on the alcohol content, and my current music collection consists of a link to AllHitsOnSky.FM. Seriously.
But one thing I do know for sure, is that this must be the largest collection of “Oh hey, I […]

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Most Valuable Players

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Social Networking, UGC, Design

In an online community that depends on its users to create and share content, who are the most valuable ones? Is it the 10% who are completely addicted and constantly creating new content? Or is it the other 90% who consume the content and generate revenue? Or is just a chicken and egg problem that […]

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8 Random Facts (Meme)

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Random

I’ve been tagged by Leisa! I do believe this is this new, more public form of chain letters. Anyhoo…
These are the rules of this particular meme:

Each player starts with eight random facts/habits about themselves.
People who are tagged need to write a post on their own blog (about their eight things) and post these rules.
At the […]

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Designer’s Heaven/Nightmare

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Design

I just watched the video about Photophlow and I am seriously blown away by that interface. It’s beautiful, and active and interesting and exciting. And kinda scary.
This is a pretty cool side-effect of open APIs - anyone can come along and design a way better interface for your product. It presents a great opportunity for […]

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Reverse Privacy

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Social Networking

Accepting a friend request is no longer a question of whether or not I want him or her to see my profile - it’s now a question of whether or not I care to see theirs. Lately, when I receive a friend request, I’ve begun asking myself, “Do I really care about this person’s status […]

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See You On Email

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Social Networking

I recently met Matt Brezina at the superfun SFBeta Bash a couple weeks ago. He is one of the (young) (hot) founders of Xobni, the add-on-app that extracts information about the most important data in your inbox - the people you’re writing to. Now I don’t know if Xobni has a business model or how […]

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Facebook Memes

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Social Networking, UGC

Well, there’s no doubt about it. The Facebook App Super Craze is full steam ahead. From developers being paid to build them, to an entire freaking conference centered around the “social graph,” it seems like Facebook is the killer app and now we’re all struggling to build the killer app on top of it. Yes, […]

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The Non Personals

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Social Networking, Personals

When a single friend recently asked me if he should get onto Match.com or Yahoo! Personals to try to meet someone, I told him to check out Facebook instead. Yes, Facebook. My sincere apologies to Yahoo! Personals, but the fact is, social networks and online communities not only seem better equipped to help you find […]

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User Ratings

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UGC, Recommendations

I totally agree with Joshua Porter about Amazon’s new review interface - it’s awesome. It provides even greater insight into user ratings by showing a breakdown of the number of people who selected each star rating. Not only is it awesome in and of itself, it also seems easily extensible to allow for a more […]

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