Shira Lazar on social media and building relationships from JD Lasica on Vimeo. If I could point all the 18- to 29-year-olds in the land to one video about how the social media revolution has fundamentally reshaped power relationships and entrepreneurial opportunities, it would be to this 13-minute video riff with Shira Lazar. I’ve been […]
Web 2.0
Lunch.com: a beta launch worth buzzing about
C an you feel it? The flutter of excitement. Call me a complete geek but nothing quite compares to a beta launch and the energy that surrounds it. So who is causing the latest buzz? Lunch.com, based in Los Angeles, is a social review site where you can express your opinions and connect with users […]
Online slide shows that sing
We’re continuing to experiment with offering the latest, most useful set of tools and resources around social media while making robust use of WordPress plug-ins. So you’ll see additional changes here in the coming days and months. One widget we like is from Slideshare.net, which can be configured as a vertical or horizontal widget. (A […]
Social media: bringing sexy back
I just returned from a week of conferences. I started up at SearchFest in Portland, OR (put on by the dominators of search—SEMpdx) and ended in Austin, TX where I partook in both the PubCon and SXSW festivities. Let me just say…I am tired. What is it about us geeky types? Put all of us […]
Netvibes: The widget factory
Here’s a recent interview I did with Netvibes CEO Freddy Mini in the company’s San Francisco offices. Widgets (little pieces of code that bring in real-time data) are becoming increasingly important in the Web 2.0 world — to individuals, companies and organizations — and Netvibes has been an early pioneer in the field. Netvibes provides […]