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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Colossal Waste Of Time?

May 16, 2008

My interest in all the shiny new web services, betas, and networks is obviously not representative of the masses. Most people will not jump at the opportunity to check out anything that has the words “invite-only beta” in the description. I understand that. Today I saw a forum post from a friend of mine, and [...]

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Magnify.net Takes A Step Toward Video/Blog Integration

May 14, 2008

Magnify.net has announced Magnify Publisher, a plugin for WordPress and Movable Type, letting bloggers search for video and images directly from their blog editor and embed the video/image code in blog posts. Magnify.net has always been a bit of a mystery to me. As a blogger, I like the idea of “curating” my own video [...]

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Blogs Are Apparently A Sign of The Apocalypse- At Least That’s What I Learned From Costas Now.

May 12, 2008

This weekend I watched a special edition of Costas Now, entitled "TAKING STOCK OF THE SPORTS MEDIA LANDSCAPE, INCLUDING THE RISE OF INTERNET BLOGGERS AND SPORTS TALK RADIO," and I was actually yelling at the TV. The show was split into three segments, the second of which was about blogging. Though they were specifically dealing [...]

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How Would Profile Portability Change The Web?

May 7, 2008

Last night I went to the DEMO event in Boston. It was great to see both familiar faces and people I’ve known only on twitter. While talking with people, my conversations inevitably ended up moving to the topic of data portability. It’s something that’s been on my mind a lot lately, and when something is [...]

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The Disconnected/Connected Web- I Want This

May 5, 2008

A few nights ago, I was watching Stephen Colbert and a singer called Feist came on. I’d never heard of her, but thought she was interesting. That thought led me to remember way back when friends of mine and I were into Marilyn Manson. I remember one friend who would call me and say "Dude, [...]

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