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Reality Check

June 6, 2008 – 8:28

Faces, Ellis Island Museum, New York City, New York
Most people I know:

Do read articles on the web.
Do not read things written by individuals, preferring “traditional media”.
Do not write or share their own opinions online (e.g. write a blog).
Do not comment on website articles.
Prefer to debate and talk about ideas in person with people they know.

Visit [...]

By Taylor Davidson | Posted in Business & Society | Also tagged email, network, offline, online, people, social, social network, user generated content, value | Comments

Thoughts: Metadata, Conversations and Creating Businesses

May 20, 2008 – 8:40

Two weeks ago I realized I was using the wrong hashtag to follow the Twitter conversation at SocialDevCamp, thus completely missing out on the backchannel conversation.
(If I haven’t lost you yet just hold on, hopefully I’ll explain what I mean in non-tech terms.)
What is metadata? In my admittingly loose use of the term, metadata [...]

By Taylor Davidson | Posted in Business & Society | Also tagged communication tools, communities, context, conversations, data structures, network, offline, online, semantic web, social, social network, SocialDevCamp, temporary | Comments

Lingering questions from SocialDevCamp

May 12, 2008 – 22:49

SocialDevCamp after-party @ The Brewer’s Art, Baltimore, MD
Saturday I participated in SocialDevCamp in Baltimore, MD, a BarCamp-styled event focused on the future of the social media and web (yes, beCamp and SocialDevCamp in successive weekends…)
Primary topics (at least the sessions I attended): Business of Social Media, Semantic and Social Web, Location-Based Services (presented by the [...]

By Taylor Davidson | Posted in Business & Society, Unstructured Thoughts | Also tagged Baltimore, BarCamp, business model, content, funding, location based services, network, platform, semantic web, social, social web, SocialDevCamp, socialmedia, value, VC, web application | Comments

Is it obvious why people should use it?

February 19, 2008 – 22:25

From Evan Williams in a post on evaluating new product ideas:
The key question for evaluating an idea [on the topic of obviousness] is number one: Is it obvious why people should use it? In most cases, obviousness in this regard is inversely proportional to tractability. The cost of Blogger and Twitter’s high tractability was [...]

By Taylor Davidson | Posted in Business & Society, Unstructured Thoughts | Comments

Tumbling about Tumblr

November 7, 2007 – 1:27

Lots of conversation about Tumblr out there at the moment.
For the uninitiated, Tumblr recently released an updated version of their hosted blogging service, a dead-easy solution that really changes the way people can write / blog. In about 5 minutes, you can have a blog, and in 10 minutes you can probably [...]

By Taylor Davidson | Posted in Business & Society, Unstructured Thoughts, What I Learned Today | Also tagged blog, digital noise, facebook, social, tumblr | Comments

On Twitter: How using Twitter detracts from being social

October 1, 2007 – 15:26

I tested twitter this past weekend in SF. Having been staunchly against using it, and without any of my friends using it, there never seemed to be the need to use it.
But since I love to test things out, I decided to give it a whirl (now protected, only available to friends).
In short, I [...]

By Taylor Davidson | Posted in Unstructured Thoughts, What I Learned Today | Also tagged network, social | Comments