Social Entrepreneurship

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Budding Entrepreneurship

Budding Entrepreneurship 03/06/2004 01:49 AM
If you were about to graduate from college and had an interest in becoming an entrepreneur, what would you do? That's the gist of an I received in an email from Taylor Brooks, an entrepreneurship major pondering the big questions...

Open Source and Entrepreneurship

Open Source and Entrepreneurship 02/05/2005 09:30 PM
A commenter asks: Mitch, you are a big supporter of open source, but do you think you would reach the same position you are in today (in terms of money and credibility) if you were starting now in the software business embracing the open source model? I do not mean...

Entrepreneurship and Innovation
Education

Entrepreneurship and Innovation
Education 07/15/2004 01:36 PM
Notes from a Always On session on Entrepreneurship and Innovation Education with Professors Tom Byers and Bob Sutton of the Stanford Technology Ventures Program. One of my favorite topics and perhaps the best session at the event. Tom Byers: Can...

Boomerang Entrepreneurship: How To Sell
The Same Startup Twice

Boomerang Entrepreneurship: How To Sell
The Same Startup Twice 07/14/2004 08:57 PM
In 1999 the entrepreneurs behind a photo hosting company named Webshots sold their company to Excite@Home for $82.5 million. Not bad. Even better, though, was that a few years later, after Excite@Home went bankrupt, the founders bought Webshots back at an $80 million discount, paying just $2.4 million. That was pretty smart of them... because now, two years later, they've flipped the company again, this time to CNET, for $70 million, $60 million of which is in cold hard cash (they've obviously learned the value). You have to wonder if this agreement has a buy back option as well. While most news stories focusing on the deal are comparing it to Google' s similar Picasa purchase yesterday, this bit of yo-yo startup reselling is a much more interesting story.

Innovation and Entrepreneurship: Silicon
Valleys Resurgence: Is It for Real?

Innovation and Entrepreneurship: Silicon
Valleys Resurgence: Is It for Real? 02/11/2004 06:57 PM
Wharton Feb 11 2004 11:06PM GMT

President Emphasizes Minority
Entrepreneurship at Urban League

President Emphasizes Minority
Entrepreneurship at Urban League 07/23/2004 04:38 PM
the money part of his speech .. This is brilliant .. WhiteHouse.gov

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Computer Divas Receives Grace Institute
Entrepreneurship Scholarship

Computer Divas Receives Grace Institute
Entrepreneurship Scholarship 08/19/2004 02:11 AM
Computer Divas, a woman-owned networking solutions company located in New York City, offers a diverse workforce and a creative attitude to provide clients with the best technology services possible. [PRWEB Aug 19, 2004]

TJ's Webl0g - "Technology, Venture
Capital and Entrepreneurship" - Looking
for web design talents

TJ's Webl0g - "Technology, Venture
Capital and Entrepreneurship" - Looking
for web design talents 04/12/2005 05:55 AM
Carnival of the Capitalists .. week's edition .. TJ's Weblog

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Social Issues Surround Social Software
(Ziff Davis)

Social Issues Surround Social Software
(Ziff Davis) 06/25/2004 10:06 AM
Ziff Davis - Participants in the Supernova conference give insight into the social dynamics around the use of online social networking services, Weblogs and wikis.

eTwine.com Launches Fun & Interactive
Free Blogging Tool and Becomes First
Social Site to Integrate Blogs with
Social Networking & Online Dating
Features

eTwine.com Launches Fun & Interactive
Free Blogging Tool and Becomes First
Social Site to Integrate Blogs with
Social Networking & Online Dating
Features 08/13/2004 12:47 PM
eTwine.com integrates new interactive blogging tool with its existing social networking, online dating, and event planning features. Members can share their blogs entries with friends and other members, as well as rate other blogs, add comments to any entry, and sort entries by most popular and highest rated in this unique feature. [PRWEB Aug 13, 2004]

Social Issues Surround Social Software

Social Issues Surround Social Software 06/25/2004 09:01 AM
Participants in the Supernova conference give insight into the social dynamics around the use of online social networking services, Weblogs and wikis.

Social people don't need social
networking

Social people don't need social
networking 12/14/2003 09:54 PM
Kevin Werbach points out that social networking sites like LinkedIn and Tribe and so forth have very little to offer highly connected people like Esther Dyson, who would nevertheless be a real asset to the network:

Esther and Pierre don't need LinkedIn to reach pretty much anyone they want to contact. Yet there are a whole lot of folks who want to reach them, and don't have a personal connection to do so. So the service worsens their email overload with little corresponding benefit.

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Social Applications For Social Devices

Social Applications For Social Devices 07/13/2004 01:53 AM
The mobile phone, by its very nature is a "social" device. It's designed to help connect you to someone else. While most of the early efforts to create "mobile data" have come from a broadcast mindset (delivery produced content to an audience), it looks like some are finally realizing that mobile data apps need to be social to really catch on. If they're not making use of the mobile phone for what it's good for, then it's unlikely to get too much attention. MIT's Tech Review has a good overview of a variety of different "social" projects related to mobile devices, from the ever popular "Dodgeball" mobile social networking application to Fluidtime's dorm room washing machine SMS scheduler (and negotiator, should you find out you need the machine now and someone else has it booked). These are the types of applications that really are the future of mobile phones -- and not the ability to watch the latest reality TV series on your phone or to receive a marketing message from Disney.

THE DUTCH
SHOW HOW TO NURTURE
ENTREPRENEURSHIP

THE DUTCH
SHOW HOW TO NURTURE
ENTREPRENEURSHIP 07/04/2004 12:37 PM

A new Dutch government program called SeniorStart "aims at stimulating successful entrepreneurship by older (45+) people who have lost or left their jobs or are re-entering the workforce after an extended period, by creating a dedicated (virtual) professionally-staffed National Service Centre and supporting the sharing of knowledge and experience between experienced senior entrepreneurs and new startups through regional networks". The National Service Centre offers the following services. Connecting new entrepreneurs with experienced entrepreneurs. An online test and preparedness courses that assesses the capabilities and readiness of new entrepreneurs. A computer program that steps entrepreneurs through the business planning process. If desired the resultant plan can be evaluated by professionals. Expert financial, business planning, pension benefit securing and franchising advice. Regional networks, staffed by 50-80 senior entrepreneurs each, will be set up initially in three of Holland's twelve provinces, and later expanded to all provinces. They will function as platforms for sharing knowledge and idea incubators for qualifying new entrepreneurs. Knowledge and ideas will be leveraged nationally by the Service Centre and its sponsors. The project is financed by the Taskforce on Older People and Employment, the GAK (Industrial Insurance Administration Office), the Ministry of Economic Affairs and the WISE (Working Network and Information Centre for Senior Entrepreneurs) Foundation. It was co-developed by WISE and MKB, an umbrella group of over 500 trade organizations and business associations. This is a wonderful initiative, one that deserves to be studied and emulated in other countries. Now, what I'd really like to see is a network that connects these older, experienced aspiring entrepreneurs with the other group that desperately needs advice on how to set up a new business -- young people just graduating from school and unwilling to enter into a lifelong contract of wage slavery as menial employees to pay off their student loans -- and then advises both groups on how to set up and operate a successful entrepreneurial business.

A HERETICAL
APPROACH TO ENTREPRENEURSHIP:
EXISTENTIAL ENTERPRISE 101

A HERETICAL
APPROACH TO ENTREPRENEURSHIP:
EXISTENTIAL ENTERPRISE 101 06/17/2004 01:15 PM

©2004 The Caring Enterprise Coach This article is a summary of what everyone should know before starting their own business. It assumes that you've done the following groundwork: You've decided what you want the business to be about You believe you have some core competency -- something you are exceptionally good at -- that will be valuable in such a business You have the key attributes of an entrepreneur: Common sense and self-confidence You have the basic skills needed to succeed in any business: Creativity, communication skills, information management skills and interpersonal skills If you talk to your local accountant or small business advisory office, they'll probably tell you about the importance of doing a business plan to raise financing, the need to incorporate and register your business name, how to advertise your product and service, and the importance of administrivia like business cards and letterhead. They'll also probably tell you that entrepreneurship takes courage, patience, an ability to handle enormous stress, and a willingness to take risks and work long, hard hours. And they'll tell you that growth is paramount. Most of this is nonsense, and all of it is putting the cart before the horse. Why do they tell you this? Because it's what they've been taught, and because of the frightening failure rate of small enterprise. But most entrepreneurial businesses don't fail because of bad advertising, cowardice, owner laziness or inability to handle stress. They fail because they are poorly thought out, poorly researched, set up wrong, marketed wrong, badly managed, and given terrible business advice. I base this immoderate assessment on my experience working with over a hundred entrepreneurs, listening to their stories, and seeing what works (and what doesn't) in small enterprise, and why. Let's take a step back and consider what an entrepreneurial business is. It is a (usually small) number of people with a shared idea and a willingness to work together to make that idea commercially viable. That means, according to what they teach you in business school, finding capital, developing your product and then going out looking for customers for it. This is a recipe for failure. The money you borrow (which in an entrepreneurial business is always horrifically expensive) compromises your control and immediately presents the possibility of the loan being called, and the personal assets securing it being forfeited. And there are a million possible reasons why there could be few, or no, customers for your product. The #1 reason entrepreneurial businesses fold is because they simply run out of cash. The #2 reason is because the owners make one or more fatal decisions, and the most common fatal decision is to produce a product that nobody wants to buy. Here's an alternative model, based on what Charles Handy calls Existential Enterprise, and which I have called New Collaborative Enterprise. Its first two principles turn the business school formula upside down: Marketing: Don't sell or market anything -- identify and produce something for which there is a substantial unmet need. Financing: Don't borrow money or sell part ownership in your business -- only spend your own cash or cash you've earned. This isn't rocket science. The first rule simply says do your research before you start, do it thoroughly, and do it with potential customers. That way you have sales before you have costs. Then rule number two becomes easy -- your customers finance your business, and the debt is quickly extinguished when the product is delivered. This is an oversimplification, of course. You can't always finance operations this way. But if you have to borrow, the principle is the same -- pay it off fast, as part of the same transaction that gave rise to the debt in the first place, and never give up equity -- it's like selling your soul. Most women can confirm the insanity of spending cash you don't have -- which is one reason women entrepreneurs tend to start their businesses more slowly, and keep them going much longer. Time for some more heresy. MBA graduates will tell you to select a management team with a balance of skills -- operational, financial, sales, management etc. But they don't know what your particular business needs -- if the business is an R&D outsourcer it needs people with deep knowledge about research, not accountants and sales executives. An Existential Enterprise will follow these principles instead: Association: Make a living only with people you love and trust -- life's too short to spend so much of it with people you don't care about, or worse. In most cases, don't incorporate -- it adds paperwork, has no tax benefit and usually offers no liability protection to the entrepreneur. A partnership requires little or no bureaucracy and is infinitely flexible. Instead of a shareholders' or partnership agreement, develop together a simple Statement of Objectives and Operating Principles, which affirms why you're making a living together, commits all members to live up to certain shared standards of behaviour, and affirms that each member is responsible for the well-being of all other members, as each member defines well-being, and responsible as well to the community in which it operates. Management: Let the group that you make a living with select and manage itself (new members and expulsions require unanimous approval of other members), based on the 'mutually exclusive/collectively exhaustive' skills principle (i.e. each member should bring unique and critical skills to the enterprise, and between all the members you should have all the skills that you collectively decide you need). Structure: Have no titles, no reporting lines, and no hierarchy -- all members are equal. No "employees". No "leaders". If ego-fulfilment is part of your reason for starting a business (which wouldn't be surprising if you were recently 'downsized'), you'll need to get that satisfaction from making the business work and making yourself and your partners happy. If you feel the need to boss people around, find somewhere else to do it. The only reason for the cult of leadership in big business is that big business is basically unmanageable, and arrogant, overpaid bullies can make it appear slightly less so to its investors. This may sound idealistic, but it works. Partnerships are a very common form of business organization, and those formed with family members and others where there is a bond of love and trust are especially durable. And many large businesses are learning the benefits of flat organizational structure, decentralized decision-making, and the abolition of titles. Next, the business school grad will tell you you need systems that provide each person with compensation and reward that is 'commensurate with performance'. That means your partner who's independently wealthy and who self-promotes like crazy will get money he doesn't need, and the young, modest partner with a big mortgage will get less money than he needs, and so will probably leave to get more. And the partner who values and needs her spare time but who has critical and scarce skills will be bribed to work long hours and so will probably leave to get less. Here's a more sensible approach: Goal-Setting: Have each member discuss with the others what (income, time off, travel, non-travel etc.) they want and reasonably need from the business. Define that, not growth or profit, as 'success'. Measure your attainment of it. Don't bother with more traditional measures -- they don't matter. Together, plan and operate the business to achieve that success for each individual. Defining Roles: From that definition of success, collectively define the enterprise's goals, and have each member create their own role statement to achieve those goals. Refine these role statements together, to close any gaps and remove overlap. You may have to add members to do this, and members with redundant roles may have to self-select out. Now everyone in your enterprise knows what you're trying to accomplish, what it will take to achieve it, what's in it for them, and what their individual role is. If each member has the key attributes and basic skills listed at the start of this article, you have all the ingredients in place for a successful (on your own terms) enterprise. All you need to do now is communicate well and avoid the landmines. Think of it as a jazz combo versus a traditional symphony orchestra. In the jazz combo, everyone knows their role, takes their cues from each other, and communicates network-style with the other band members and with the audience (customers). If the audience gets restless (customers are dissatisfied or their needs change) you can improvise quickly. You don't need hierarchy. By contrast, the symphony orchestra, like the traditional business, is hierarchical, communicates only through the guy at the top, and is totally stuck to the rehearsed script (the business plan). If the audience is unhappy, the symphony just ignores them and plays on. Which business model makes more sense to you? Once you're up and running, here are three final principles to keep things going smoothly: Networks: Networking is critical to every business. Business success correlates highly with the amount and breadth of effective, face-to-face time (telephone time is OK, but a very poor second) -- time you spend with (a) customers and prospective customers, no matter what your role is in the enterprise, (b) experts and coaches that can listen to your problems and provide richly contextual insight to help you do your role better (these will often be other entrepreneurs, who you can help and coach reciprocally), and (c) allies -- strategic partners who offer you access to markets and supplies and connections, knowledge you wouldn't otherwise have, new ideas and emerging innovations and technologies, and other mutual advantages. Managing Growth: If the business needs so many people that it gets unwieldy, encourage the members to break it into two or more small Existential Enterprises with no members in common. Don't worry, it won't fall apart -- in fact it may even be tighter and stronger, as long as each enterprise keeps following these principles. We live in a World of Ends, and command-and-control is now not only unnecessary, it's an impediment to success, and it makes people unhappy. Stakeholders: The needs and happiness of the members, you and your partners, come first. Your customers come second. The interests and needs of the community in which you operate come third. That's it. Remember this priority when you make decisions. In Existential Enterprise, there are no shareholders, absentee owners, creditors, Board of Directors or Board of Management to usurp this critical priority, to interfere and force you to do things you don't want to do, to make you a wage slave in your own enterprise. Most of the problems in traditional entrepreneurial business -- the ones that lead to the stress, long hours, divorce, sacrifice, unhappiness, and, often, failure -- are created by the MBA mythology of how to start, build and operate a business -- a mythology that often defies intuition and common sense. And that's all these ten principles are: Common sense, that I've seen work in dozens of small, successful enterprises, and the ignorance of which has been the undoing of dozens of others I have worked with. That's why people with no formal business training are sometimes the best entrepreneurs: They don't have to unlearn all the nonsense, and guided by common sense they instinctively build something closer to the Existential Enterprise model than the Business School model. I'm not saying that this is easy. Adhering to these ten principles (especially the first two) requires a lot of time and energy, and considerable intelligence. But they are relatively fool-proof and stress-free. After all, what could be more joyful than creating a successful enterprise with people you love and trust, on your own terms -- a true labour of love?

Online Dating Innovator eTwine.com
Officially Launches its Wildly Popular
Social Networking and Online Dating
Website with Several Thousand Members
Following Completion of Beta Testing
Phase. Unique website integrates online
dating with social networking, event
planning, and bl0gs.

Online Dating Innovator eTwine.com
Officially Launches its Wildly Popular
Social Networking and Online Dating
Website with Several Thousand Members
Following Completion of Beta Testing
Phase. Unique website integrates online
dating with social networking, event
planning, and bl0gs. 09/15/2004 02:13 AM
eTwine.com has officially launched its unique online dating and social networking website after several months of beta testing. eTwine integrates online dating with social networking, event planning & management and an interactive blogging tool to create the most complete social site on the net. [PRWEB Sep 15, 2004]

Social TV

Social TV 03/26/2005 09:10 AM

Tom Coates, who works for the BBC, spins out a vision of the future of television that incorporates social software into the experience.

Always social

Always social 02/16/2004 12:07 PM
I just noticed that Tony Perkins' AlwaysOn has its own social networking service, called the AlwaysOn Zaibatsu.  It will be interesting to see if they can pull this off. 

AlwaysOn is trying to be a lot of things that are traditionally separate -- an advertiser-funded content site, a blog, and a community.  Will the members (many of whom are doubtless already on LinkedIn, Ryze, and Orkut) see AlwaysOn as their business networking "home" online?  And how will the site balance the interests of advertisers with the interests of members, if those things come into conflict?  Tony has a track record of pioneering new models based around tech-oriented content, so he's we'll suited to conduct the experiment. 

Do You Want TV To Be More Social?

Do You Want TV To Be More Social? 03/23/2005 04:51 AM
Experiments in interactive TV haven't done all that well. There are some exceptions, though, it may depend on how you define "interactive." Shows that let people vote on stuff seem to do well, and some people may even consider TiVo-like DVRs as somewhat "interactive." However, for the most part, TV is considered a broadcast system, where people are expected to sit back and watch, while the internet is an interactive system, where people are more likely to lean forward and take part. The folks at PARC (MO: invent the future, let it collect dust, while someone else capitalizes on it) are apparently working on something that might be considered a middle ground: social television. The idea is that people often watch TV in social settings -- with others, rather than alone. However, you have friends elsewhere who are watching the same program and maybe you want to watch it together virtually. There certainly are people who will watch TV shows while being on the phone with someone else watching the same show -- or the more modern variant of using instant messaging. The idea here is to take that even further, and set up a television area where groups in different locations can easily be social while watching the same show. The thing that they had the most trouble with, though, was the lack of body language. When someone turns to face the TV it means they want to watch it and stop talking -- but that's missed in the separation. You have to assume those working on this are taking into account the rise of DVRs. It seems like this becomes trickier when people can schedule their own TV viewing. When everyone watched live TV there was nothing to sync up. Either way, this seems like a slightly more creative approach than typical interactive TV offerings, in that it recognizes that many people view watching TV as a social experience.

Social manners

Social manners 02/10/2004 02:48 AM

I’ve been invited onto the friends lists on Orkut and LinkedIn by several people that I don’t really know. I know who they are, but I wouldn’t exactly call them my friends. Some have commented on my blog once or twice, some I’ve commented on. A couple are people who live near me. I didn’t recognize most of their names—I had to look at their Web sites in order to figure out who they were.

Part of me feels awkward when rejecting these invitations, but I think I should know you before I call you my friend. Random, one-tme interactions do not make friendships. Once at LAX I stood in the security line behind Richard Belzer and said a few words to him. But that doesn’t make us friends.

Social software sites make it easier for people to make connections with others. This reduction in friction encourages people to make connections to everyone—even those to which they have only a tennuous relationship.

In the real world, people have an innate sense of propriety as to whom to extend invitations for social interactions. You don’t invite casual acquaintences to your wedding or complete strangers to your company picnic. Social software has sprung up faster than etiquette can develop. There are no manners for how to invite people into your network. Similarly there are no rules for how to politely decline an invitation.

Like with any other new system, rules will begin to emerge that govern the polite use of social networks.

Social concern

Social concern 09/13/2004 09:45 PM
USA Today Sep 14 2004 1:57AM GMT

Post-social at foo

Post-social at foo 09/11/2004 12:34 PM
I'm at Friends of O'Reilly, the geeks-in-tents get-together that's just too much fun. Since I'm on east coast time, I was up at 4:30 and came to the largish room where people go for focused computing time. Now at 9:30 there are about 20 stellar geeks sitting around tables arranged into a U, each staring into her/his laptop, now and then snorting in laughter and drawing their neighbors' attention to yet some new wonder on the Web. From the faces each two feet from the next but focused on the glowing screens, it'd be easy to mistake this for anti-social...

Google Gets Social

Google Gets Social 01/23/2004 07:38 PM
Google is edging into the social networking space popularized by Friendster. The search engine has soft-launched a networking site ...

The Social Life of XML

The Social Life of XML 12/23/2003 08:05 PM
In this write-up of his keynote address to the XML 2003 conference, Jon Udell explains that the key thing about XML is the way anXML document can become a shared construct, a tangible thing that processes and people can pass around and interact with.

New Lab for Social Computing at RIT

New Lab for Social Computing at RIT 12/22/2004 01:55 AM

Liz has announced her new Lab for Social Computing at RIT over on Many-2-Many. I'm excited to be on the advisory board and look forward to seeing some great work from lab.

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The social life of XML

The social life of XML 12/25/2003 01:57 PM

I recently found a picture of the panelists at the XML DevCon 2001 session entitled "The Importance of XML." My body language told the story: I wasn't a happy camper. Of course I agreed with all the reasons the panel thought XML was important: for web services, for interprocess communication, and for business process automation. But I also thought XML was important for a whole different set of reasons that weren't on the conference's agenda. I thought XML was important for end-user applications, for human communication, and for personal productivity. I believed then, and I believe more strongly today, that it's a bad idea to separate those two ways of using XML. [XML.com]

This is an edited-down version of the talk I gave at XML 2003. It omits the XPath-search-in-the-browser demonstrations, which readers of my O'Reilly Network column have already seen. ...

Social Networking?

Social Networking? 08/17/2004 05:42 PM
So I have this account - that I spent some time setting up and inviting people to by the way - on one of the social networking services, but I can't remember which one.

Get Yer Social Networking Here

Get Yer Social Networking Here 01/24/2004 09:30 PM
Sometime in December, somebody flipped a big switch and all of a sudden everyone was inviting me to join their Linkedin network. Then suddenly last week the Kozmick Finger pointed at Orkut, and near as I can tell, all the geeks on the planet have spent this weekend busily inviting each other to be Orkut pals. It all seems mostly harmless; mind you, I haven’t actually got any use out of either of ’em. For what it’s worth, all the Orkutians seem to be heavy geeks, while about half the Linkedincrowd is VCs and businesspeople. I don’t think it’s gonna change the world, but I’ve been wrong before. To those whose invitations I’ve declined: sorry, nothing personal, it’s just that I feel I ought to either have spent some face-to-face time with you or been in some substantial online interaction.

Social chaff

Social chaff 02/15/2004 06:27 PM

I was talking to Peter yesterday about the risk of accidentally getting on weird lists or being profiled as a threat. Hanging out with, or communicating with the wrong people online or on the phone could land you on a list that might get you hassled at the airport or worse. They apparently used social network theory to find the person who would know where Saddam was. Similarly, I could see people using all sorts of social network theory to figure out who to wiretap or hassle. The thought was that if you hang out with enough people, you might be able to confuse such analysis or profiling. Name-dropping on my blog is a form of social chaff since connections to random nodes must be confusing to analysis. I can see the gapingvoid card, now: "I'm just talking to you because you're social chaff". (Chaff is the strips of foil that fighter-planes drop to confuse radar as countermeasures to tracking.)

The Next Social Revolution?

The Next Social Revolution? 08/17/2004 10:40 PM

Are markets social?

Are markets social? 03/08/2004 11:12 PM
Scott Kirsner in The Boston Globe (link will break tomorrow) writes about companies trying to enhance eBay. His lead example is a storefront operation run by AuctionDrop that operates as a consignment shop: You bring in your old goods, they place them on eBay, you split the winnings. It sounds like a cool idea until you get to the final paragraphs of the piece: Their 75 employees and 20,000 square feet of warehouse space brought in $1.3M in revenues last year. Ulp. Scott cites other companies that have failed, sometimes because eBay sued them into failure. An eBay spokesperson says:...

Damn social Web!

Damn social Web! 01/07/2004 02:04 PM
I sent an email to a friend this morning asking for help thinking of technology people who meet a particular parameter, you know, along the lines of "Do you know any techies who ____?" Unfortunately, my friend forwarded my hastily written mail to about 20 people who might also be able to fill in the blank. One of those twenty mentioned Metcalfe's Law in her reply. Someone else talked about the need to supplement that law in order to understand a different aspect of social dynamics. Someone else commented, contradicted, expanded... Now those 20 people — strangers — are...

A new social scene

A new social scene 07/05/2004 12:27 PM
SiliconValley.com Jul 5 2004 4:31PM GMT

Social Bookmarks

Social Bookmarks 04/15/2005 09:44 AM
Hoarding a goldmine of bookmarks? Share your killer taste in websites or keep your bookmarks to yourself - online.

In this week's Freeloader Friday we'll take a look at the best new "social bookmark" services on the web, and look at the freeware that support them.

Social Hacking

Social Hacking 06/05/2005 10:46 PM
While I'm really glad that smart people like Tim O'Reilly and Chris Anderson are enjoying t-shirt media hack, I'm realizing that the really terrifying thing is that everybody in my social circle knows what Goatse is. But Tim's right, of course. The only thing bloggers love as much as a...

Staying social

Staying social 06/05/2005 11:35 PM

June is finals month, but the call of @media 2005 is hard to resist. I won't be attending the actual conference (sadly my student budget doesn't stretch that far) but I'll be in London on Saturday the 11th to ride on the coat-tails of the conference.

PPK (yes, that PPK) is hosting a JavaScript get-together in the afternoon at a Thames-side pub; confirmed attendees so far are PPK, myself, Stuart Langridge, Dean Edwards and Jeremy Keith but anyone else who wants to set the JavaScript world to rights is more than welcome to attend.

Planning a little further ahead, I'll be in and around San Francisco from the 11th to the 16th of July. My diary is more or less open at the moment, so if there's anything fun going on I'd love to hear about it.

Update: I almost forgot, I'm also attending the London Geek Dinner on the 7th of June. If you're interested, there are still 12 places left (out of 200).

How Many Social Networks Is Too Many?

How Many Social Networks Is Too Many? 11/14/2003 02:29 AM
I keep reading about all these "social networking software" plays, and the amazing thing to me is that, unlike during the last bubble, everyone except people working for these companies or venture capitalists seem to know it's a bubble. Yet, they keep on coming. The latest is that Evite has launched their own version of Friendster tied to their event organizing system, and eMode (known for their fun tests and dating system) has changed their name to Tickle, which is what their Friendster wannabe is called. They also bought another social networking service, to take one of about 100 off the market. Who the hell signs up for all of these systems? Paten ts aside, there is nothing complicated in creating such a site (there's even one Friendster rip off called Yet Another Friendster Rip Off). The complication comes in actually making money from such a site. The odd thing, though, is the rampant skepticism about these sites. In the 90s bubble years, it was never like this. Sure, there was some skepticism, but not the near universal skepticism that is focused on social software space right now. What's funny is that you would think so much skepticism would make the VCs stay away, but the reverse is happening.

Social Aspect Of Man

Social Aspect Of Man 05/28/2004 06:19 AM
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Social MPN 1.0.1 Beta

Social MPN 1.0.1 Beta 05/12/2004 03:57 AM
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