Guilty Pleasure

June 9, 2008

My blog post on the idea of the Guilty Pleasure is now up on the matchmine blog. Tweet

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The Fail Whale

June 6, 2008

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Plurk, Ping.fm and I don’t know what I want.

June 5, 2008

Plurk- A New Microblogging Service So, the new service everyone’s talking about is Plurk. It’s kind of like twitter, as it’s a microblogging service. But, unlike twitter, you can only use plurk on the plurk website. You can’t use it via sms. There are no plurk clients available yet. Oh yeah, and when I try [...]

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Zemanta Plugin- Hmmmm.

June 3, 2008

This morning I installed the Zemanta plugin, which suggests photos, links, articles and tags while you’re composing a blog post. After you write 300 characters, the Zemanta plugin gives contextual suggestions from Flickr, and article suggestions from 300 media sources and the blogs of Zemanta users. Here’s what it looks like: Since this post is [...]

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5 Reasons Why GetSatisfaction Pretty Much Rules.

May 30, 2008

Every company tries to sell the notion that “customer satisfaction is our #1 priority.” Well, get satisfaction says “prove it.” And let me tell you, I love them for that. What is GetSatisfaction GetSatisfaction is a site that acts as a user-to-user support board for companies and products, but it’s a lot more than that. [...]

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Open Source Economics

May 27, 2008

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New Service: dullkite.com

May 22, 2008

Ladies and gentlemen, I am proud to bring you an exclusive: dullkite.com. From their site: dullkite is a revolutionary new way to post your location information to your friends on twitter. Simply click the “Hell Yeah, I’m Ready” button to the left and you’re all set. Tweet

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Boston Social Media/Startup/Tech Events

May 22, 2008

Yeah, not the greatest title. Here’s a short list of what’s going on in and around Boston over the summer: Wednesday, May 28- Social Media + Communications Happy Hour Time: 6:00 p.m. until wheneverLocation: Legal Seafood Outdoor Bar in the courtyard at The Charles Hotel Description: The Boston Communications Happy Hour and the Social Media [...]

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A Scathing Indictment of Collaborative Filtering

May 21, 2008

A scathing indictment of collaborative filtering? Or an excuse for three guys to shoot a video involving throwing CDs? You decide. How Online Music Recommendations Work Right Now from Nathan Burke on Vimeo. Tweet

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Finding New Music Online

May 20, 2008

My directorial debut can be seen in the following video. As you’re well aware, I’m an employee of matchmine, and we’re trying to help people get the stuff they love all over the web. So, three of us here at matchmine formed the unofficial-official video production committe-type-thing with the express purpose of making excellent videos. [...]

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