Category Archives: online communities

Bad behavior in the blogosphere

Posted on March 30, 2007 by

Great piece in the SF chronicle today by Dan Fost about the recent firestorm related to vitriolic comments against Kathy Sierra (BTW she is great and I love her blog). The threats against Kathy Sierra, an author who promotes the … Continue reading →

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5 ways to get more comments on your blog

Posted on March 23, 2007 by

Fascinating survey post at the Freakonomics blog (Thanks Indus for pointing it out) asking users why do or why don’t they comment. (I love these guys not just because of the book or because they write intelligent/insightful stuff but also … Continue reading →

Posted in Blogging, online communities, Social Media, Trust | 10 Comments

How to build a $50M online company?

Posted on March 18, 2007 by

Updated revision is also available at RWW Interesting post over the weekend by Dan Mitchell at the NYT. He took the cue from Jeremy Liew of Lightspeed, who pointed out a few weeks ago the scale a business has to … Continue reading →

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A-List Bloggers Vs Blue Collor Blogger

Posted on March 17, 2007 by

There an interesting argument going on in the blogosphere. Its captured nicely in the exchange between Tony Huang (deep Jive Interest) and Jason Calacanis: Blogging is damn hard work, and harder still when you have kids to feed and are … Continue reading →

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Digital Love

Posted on March 13, 2007 by

Recently, I heard this fascinating youth radio program about how MySpace is changing the way kids interact/hook up with each other. It also discusses how kids deal with like commercial characters like Jack (of Jack in the box), who have … Continue reading →

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Improving Online Communities

Posted on March 9, 2007 by

An online community, or for that matter any community, is built upon shared experiences of its participants. In the real world, people in a community typically interact with each other by gathering at same physical location, at the same time. … Continue reading →

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Patent reform: Use social networking

Posted on March 5, 2007 by

First USAToday and now the US Patent office…It looks everybody is trying to leverage social networking to improve the services they deliver. In the case of US Patent office, following are the details: The Patent and Trademark Office is starting … Continue reading →

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Google: Click Fraud at 0.02%

Posted on March 1, 2007 by

Interesting post on inside Adwords blog about the extent of click fraud. The upshot is that Google is claiming that they are only seeing 0.02% of all clicks as being invalid clicks but initially recorded by Google as valid clicks. … Continue reading →

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Getting Rich off Those Who Work for Free

Posted on February 25, 2007 by

Fascinating piece in the Time Magazine, titled “Getting Rich off Those Who Work for Free” by Justin Fox, about how the new wave of open-source kind of projects are creating real riches for some: It might seem very odd to … Continue reading →

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Public Connections

Posted on February 22, 2007 by

Great piece from Danah Boyd on her blog about the way Internet and social media makes it easy for people to document and publish their thoughts and feelings…and the effect it has on people’s behavior and relationships. “The presence of … Continue reading →

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