http://www.socialstartups.com All that's new in the social computing space. Sat, 09 Aug 2008 14:01:26 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Writing to say I won't be writing this weekend. I've got my head buried in putting together a proposal for what I think Etsy can be in 3-5 years. It's incredibly fun stuff, and I'm hoping I can get the rest of the company as excited about it as I ... http://www.socialstartups.com/2008/08/09/opus-writing-contd/ Hi everyone, Bre Pettis has invited me to present at the next Ignite NYC event. You can read the NYTimes writeup here. For Seattle folks, this is basically a clone of the Ignite Seattle event, which Bre can pull off in good conscience since he was one of the founders of ... http://www.socialstartups.com/2008/08/04/help/ I saw this post about IMDB as I was perusing Techmeme last night. Wow, talk about a tough situation - the new Batman movie gets voted up to #1 movie of all time even though it clearly is not deserving. Similarly, the long standing #1 - The Godfather - actually ... http://www.socialstartups.com/2008/07/29/mob-mentality-on-imdb/ The NYTimes Magazine today has an article that is part criticism of the band Coldplay and part criticism of the MySpace design aesthetic. Definitely refreshing to see a major publication like the Sunday Times Magazine writing about the message that is imparted by design, the emotion it generates, and the ... http://www.socialstartups.com/2008/07/13/design-and-experience-mainstream/ Josh Porter wrote an article about the co-evolution of humans and technology, which I think should be expanded further. To start, a little background from the one semester class I took with Hod Lipson when I was in school (see his TED talk for self-evolving robots). Co-evolution is a feedback ... http://www.socialstartups.com/2008/07/03/co-evolution/ Thanks to a Facebook Application called Friend Wheel, I can generate the visualization pictured above of my 549 Facebook friends (and still growing). It's kinda fun to look at; my friends are listing around the edges of the circle, and a line connects to people who are also friends of ... http://www.socialstartups.com/2008/07/01/social-networks-in-three-dimensions/ I haven't blogged since the day Lisa came home from Italy. I think it's because I've structured my life to be dichotomous - there are work hours (9 - 7), and then there are non-work hours. So when Lisa was in Italy, I was spending my non-work hours living my ... http://www.socialstartups.com/2008/07/01/work-life-online-life-balance/ Customer forums are always interesting, particularly for e-commerce sites. There is something about staying at home and being bored that ultimately leads people to "window shop" online, which leads them to socializing with other people who are doing the exact same thing. The range of personalities is wild and wildly ... http://www.socialstartups.com/2008/05/28/how-much-listening-is-too-much/ While on the subway heading back to Brooklyn - I had gone to see Iron Man at Union Square, it was great - I was thinking about Microsoft. I was trying to imagine what exactly Microsoft could do that 1) doesn't have an entrenched player, and 2) they might be ... http://www.socialstartups.com/2008/05/27/45/ Om Malik wrote an interesting post about twitter pricing yesterday, but I think he's a little off. I don't blame him, considering his background is not computer science. And besides, it started a really interesting conversation. Before we start talking about Twitter pricing plans, we need to come to an ... http://www.socialstartups.com/2008/05/26/thoughts-on-twitter-architecture-and-pricing/