Supernova 2007 Virtual Life or Virtual Hype? I'm at the Supernova conference in San Francisco this week. In this post I review a panel entitled, 'Virtual Life or Virtual Hype'. The panel was moderated by Sandra Kearney from IBM and included the following panelists: Clay Shirky (NYU) Rueben Steiger (Millions of Us) Raph Koster (Arae) The brief description in the program was: "Do most… Sean Ammirati View comments
Analysis Finding the Perfect Shot: 5 Stock Photo Search Engines Reviewed Big blocks of text just aren't very interesting. That's why we usually dress up our posts with images, diagrams, or videos. It's a fairly common occurrence, both on this blog and in other web development work I do, that I need a stock photo of something specific. Searching Google Images or another general web image search just won't cut it… Josh Catone View comments
Supernova 2007 The First Principle of Social Web Apps and its Implications I'm attending Supernova this year and will be covering the event for Read/WriteWeb. In addition to attending various panels, I participated in the conference today by giving a quick presentation as part of the challenge roundtable at the end of the first day. My topic was titled: The First Principle of Social Web Apps and Its Implications. A number… Sean Ammirati View comments
Analysis Continuous Partial Attention: Software & Solutions The ways in which we consume and pay attention to information are changing. The changes are not minor, they are big and profound. Right now, it impacts us all individually - but soon the change will be visible on a global scale. We are splitting our attention over a rapidly growing body of online information. To cope with that we replaced reading… Alex Iskold View comments
Analysis Digg Overtakes Facebook with 1400% Growth, 22.6 Million Uniques According to recent Compete data, digg has overtaken Facebook in number of unique visitors and has grown 1400% in one year. Compete's May 2007 data states that digg had 22.6 Million unique visitors, while Facebook had 20.2 Million. Facebook still has many more page views, 11 Billion to digg's 250 Million - which says that Facebook's site is far… Richard MacManus View comments