PicApp: Quality images for your blog from JD Lasica on Vimeo. Have you noticed that blogging has been getting more professional lately? Part of it is the wealth of classy-looking templates and widgets available for users of WordPress, TypePad and other blog platforms. But it’s also due to plug-ins like Zemanta (which I now […]
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4 minutes with the CEO/co-founder of Foursquare
A chat with the co-founder of Foursquare from JD Lasica on Vimeo. Have you heard of Foursquare? If not, you likely will in short order. As some people here in the Valley are saying, it’s the Twitter of 2010. Yesterday, at the Where 2.0 conference in San Jose, I caught up with Foursquare CEO and […]
Highlights and photos of SXSW 2010
From Guy Kawasaki’s Twitter addiction to Evan Williams’ keynote I‘ve learned long ago the challenge of covering South by Southwest Interactive, which hums along at its own idiosyncratic pace compared to more linear conferences. Thus, I spent last year and this year doing less blogging, conducting more interviews (which I’ll roll out in the coming […]
Social media, tech, marketing events: March
Here’s our roundup of social media, tech and marketing conferences and events scheduled for the month of March. For the full year, see: Calendar of 2010 social media, tech and marketing conferences. Note that we’ve published a calendar of 2010 social change conferences on our sister site, Socialbrite. We’ll publish a list of noteworthy conferences […]
Chatting with Wikipedia’s Jimmy Wales about community
(CC) photo by Joi Ito Yesterday I wore two hats as a guest and co-host on David Mathison’s Be the Media Radio podcast on BlogTalkRadio along with Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales. The topic was online communities — how to grow, nurture and sustain them, Here’s our hourlong conversation — Jimmy Wales comes in about 20 […]