From the monthly archives:

May 2009

WordCamp Blogfest: Mozilla’s John Lilly on Lessons Learned

May 30, 2009

Image by Joi via Flickr * I am live blogging from wordcamp, so please excuse typos and drafty nature of posts.* * make it easy for your community to participate and contribute * polish community invented polish term for tab browsing * “suprise is overrated”  – suprise is the opposite of engagement, goal is to [...]

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WordCamp Blogfest: Chris Pirillo on Community

May 30, 2009

Image byRandy Stewart via CrunchBase * I am live blogging from wordcamp, so please excuse typos and drafty nature of posts.* Next session is about Community, presented by Chris Pirillo : despite being on the web for many years “it’s the connections that I make with people, amazes me to this d’ay. “Here are bit’s [...]

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WordCamp Blogfest: Tim Ferriss on How to Blog without killing yourself

May 30, 2009

Image by shelisrael1 via Flickr * 2 disclaimers before you are starting to read the post: first is that I am live blogging from wordcamp, so please excuse typos and drafty nature of posts. second is that this is an uber excited post on Tim, he won my heart, so this post may be a [...]

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Wordcamp Blogfest: Matt Mullenweg state of the Word

May 30, 2009

Image by TechShowNetwork via Flickr *Blogging Live from WordCamp – Please excuse any typos * Matt, wearing jeans,  a light brown jacket and sneakers, giving his ‘annual speech’ taking the audience through WordPress‘ 6 years history, present and future. After taking us through the post evolution, and with help from Andy Peatling and Alex King, [...]

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Baby Boomers, Social Networking and Competitive Advantage

May 26, 2009

This year we have seen amazing growth in Internet use by adults, with 45+ category gaining more and more attention and pulling more weight with web advertising and investment overall. Last week Danah Boyd posted about Facebook being for Old people, and more and more stats show how internet, and especially social media is being [...]

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Thank you Zemanta!

May 20, 2009

Image via CrunchBase In past few weeks I have been posting more frequently and with richer content (more links, more images) – this is largely thanks to Zemanta that I have installed on my Broweser and that automatically pulls relevant content into my posts: links, tags, photos – making the post richer, and saves me [...]

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What are you searching for?

May 20, 2009

Image via CrunchBase Everybody is talking about Wolfram Alpha:  it’s new, changing all the rules, is it a competitor for Google, is it not a competitor for Google, will it need some regulation over data delivered and will it be able to answer ANY question? Working in the legal industry means that a large part [...]

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All rules have changed. Enter intelligent web – enter Wolfram Alpha

May 17, 2009

Search. It will never be the same. This sounds more like a part of ‘Lost’ plot more than anything. A new search engine – that brings you the answer you need rather than a bunch of links – the brain child of a ‘mad scientist’ is emerging: “It is named after its inventor, Stephen Wolfram, [...]

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“Is the Web getting any smarter?” depends entirely on us

May 17, 2009

Image by jdlasica via Flickr About a month and a bit ago, Web 2.0 Expo took place in San Francisco. This is the major event of the year for the New Media Industry, one that has been going on for 5 years now. It is brought by O’Reilly Media and specifically Tim O’Reilly, the person [...]

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Wordcamp celebrations

May 16, 2009

Image via Wikipedia For more than a year now I have been running my blog on WordPress after an unsuccessful and frustrating experience on another platform which shall remain nameless – i am no blogs trasher . I am no techie and I wordpress is just the perfect tool for me to use to manage [...]

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