Posted in Photo Sites, Photography, Social Software on May 20th, 2013 15 Comments »
The photo sharing site and service that I use, flickr has made a major update to its service and site. I’ve been using flickr since 2005 and I’ve stuck with it even after Yahoo bought it and let it dwindle. Certainly the amount of time I’ve spent with the old user interface makes it difficult [...]
Posted in Opinion, Process, Reading, Social Software, Tech Stuff on Mar 17th, 2013 8 Comments »
There’s an interesting backstory to why I’m so interested in the fate of Google Reader, RSS in general, RSS vs. Twitter and the evolution of tools for collecting, organizing, and reading news. In the various pieces that I’ve read about this issue in the past week (all of them excellent) none has touched on the [...]
Posted in Process, Social Software on Mar 14th, 2013 No Comments »
Why RSS still matters Another well-written piece on the Google Reader demise and the importance of RSS as a technology on the web. This piece on the difference between looking at a collection of RSS feeds vs. a Twitter feed is meaningful: Trying to get caught up on more than a day or so of [...]
Posted in Social Software, Tech Stuff on Mar 14th, 2013 No Comments »
The outrage and sadness of Google Reader’s demise More broadly speaking, Reader’s ultimate fail is the latest major rebalancing of the internet’s legacy symmetry of “push” and “pull.” RSS has always been a useful time-saver for voracious internet binge consumers. Rather than circling among dozens of websites and suffering through tiresome page loads at each [...]
Posted in Opinion, Social Software, Tech Stuff on Mar 14th, 2013 No Comments »
RSS: an appreciation Nicholas Carr talks about the difference between a set of a la carte tools and platforms (AOL and Facebook) where the tools are built as well as the fact that many modern platforms don’t put out RSS feeds. A very well thought out post and a different take on the demise of [...]
Posted in Done, Opinion, Social Software, Tech Stuff on Mar 14th, 2013 No Comments »
Google Reader lived on borrowed time: creator Chris Wetherell reflects This is a great history and commentary from one of the creators of Google Reader. If there were things that went wrong, then there is a lot of positive things that came from Google Reader, Wetherell said. He believed that one of the main reasons [...]
Posted in Process, Social Software, Tech Stuff on Mar 14th, 2013 7 Comments »
We launched Google Reader in 2005 in an effort to make it easy for people to discover and keep tabs on their favorite websites. While the product has a loyal following, over the years usage has declined. So, on July 1, 2013, we will retire Google Reader. Users and developers interested in RSS alternatives can [...]
Posted in Gadgets, iPhone, Social Software, Tech Stuff, Video on Mar 13th, 2013 2 Comments »
This is an incredible invention: Plug Automatic Link into your car’s data port and it shares all kinds of data on your car’s health and your driving habits with an app on your smartphone. You can find out if your car or phone is supported here (you don’t need to go through with the pre-order). [...]
Posted in Creativity, Ideas, Social Software, Video on Mar 13th, 2013 2 Comments »
The production values on this animated video aren’t great but the ideas are. It’s not as one sided as it seems (all brainstorming is bad, everyone should work alone) and if you watch it to the end it makes some excellent observations and suggestions. The judgement of groups stifling creativity stands out to me and [...]
Posted in Photo Sites, Photography, Social Software on Feb 8th, 2013 No Comments »
Flickr Is Back, Letting Us Go Home Again Mat Honan has written a brilliant piece on how flickr has come back from the dead, thanks in part to the attention of new Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer. Yahoo has a new CEO. The competition stumbled. And largely thanks to a new app, Flickr is back; reborn, [...]
Posted in Photographers, Social Software on Dec 5th, 2012 3 Comments »
Iconic Photographer Steve McCurry Talks Blogging and WordPress This is a great interview with McCurry on his use of WordPress to share current work. His blog is here: Steve McCurry’s Blog.
Posted in Opinion, Photographers, Photography, Social Software, Video on Oct 15th, 2012 No Comments »
Richard Koci Hernandez made a wonderful video on photography, from film to iPhone/Instagram and everything in between. This is the best commentary on new tools I’ve seen/heard yet. Photographers, embrace Instagram [via PetaPixel]
Posted in People, Social Software, Video on Oct 9th, 2012 No Comments »
Kevin Rose interviews Jack Dorsey, the inventor of Twitter and co-founder of Square. This is a great interview and well worth taking the time to listen to. Jack talks about how the ideas for these two successful services came about and many other things. Kevin’s questions are great and Jack is both humble and brilliant. [...]
Posted in Gadgets, Ideas, Social Software on Oct 5th, 2012 No Comments »
Facebook’s plan to find its next billion users: convince them the internet and Facebook are the same This is the story of Facebook’s rapidly unfolding plan to take over the world, or at least the world wide web. It’s a tale that’s been hiding in plain sight for years, and it begins with an explanation [...]
Posted in Politics, Social Software, Video on Aug 22nd, 2012 No Comments »
YouTube Elections Hub Today we’re introducing the YouTube Elections Hub, a one-stop channel for key political moments from now through the upcoming U.S. election day on November 6. You can watch all of the live speeches from the floor of the upcoming Republican and Democratic National Conventions, see Google+ Hangouts with power brokers behind the [...]
Posted in Apple, iPad, iPhone, Macintosh, Social Software, Stories, Tech Stuff on Aug 7th, 2012 3 Comments »
How Apple and Amazon Security Flaws Led to My Epic Hacking This is a both a fascinating and sad story and a wakeup call for those of us who have built up a complex life online. It’s also a wakeup call for those of us who do not back up our computers, iPhones, iPads, and [...]
Posted in Events, Ideas, Opinion, Social Software on Jun 30th, 2012 No Comments »
The cult of TED Excellent BBC News magazine piece on the TED Conference. Many people think TED is an elitist organization: it’s expensive to attend, one must apply, not just pay, no questions during lectures, and all the lectures are available online for free which means attending isn’t necessarily about the lectures. Maybe attending is [...]
Posted in Slide Show, Social Software on May 25th, 2012 No Comments »
Reset the Web View more presentations from yiibu Midway through a project, a client of ours recently said “One thing I’m learning is that it’s ok to give up on the desktop experience once it stops making sense”. This wasn’t an isolated incident. In fact, i’m beginning to think desktop web sites stopped making sense [...]
Posted in Ideas, Social Software on May 15th, 2012 2 Comments »
How Yahoo Killed Flickr and Lost the Internet This is quite a good article on both the history of flickr and how Yahoo has killed it over time. Worth reading for flickr users but also for anyone interesting in the history of these types of sites on the web. Had they not sold flickr to [...]
Posted in iPhone Photography, Social Software, Stories on Apr 14th, 2012 No Comments »
Behind Instagram’s Success, Networking the Old Way This is a great start up story which takes about 18 months and ends as many know with Facebook buying Instagram for $1 billion in cash and stock. Many Instagram users who want to make a statement about their “hatred” of Facebook have left the service. While I’m [...]
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