Interesting takeaway from Macworld today:
Skyhook Wireless has driven around the US and Canada, mapping 23 million Wi-Fi hot spots to a GPS. Even if you’re not connected to the hot spot, the beacon service knows which hot spots you’re near, so when you use the Maps application on the iPod Touch or iPhone, you still [...]

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A few initial thoughts…
1. The MacBook Air is a lovely product, designed for the road warrior. I foresee great uses for it for conferences and things, but it’s not going to be a media machine. 80 GB will go awfully fast. 1 USB port and no Firewire are also inhibitors. Look for Multi-touch features on [...]

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Failing marks for live social media at MacWorld
MacWorld 2008 brought lots of anticipation and excitement to the new media world. New devices, new toys, etc. What it didn’t bring was new infrastructure to popular net-based services like uStream.tv and Twitter, both of which suffered badly under load, in some cases becoming inoperable.
Here’s the scary thought. [...]

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Why Social Media and New Media Can Be Mentally Damaging
In a recent discussion with my teacher, Mr. Mark Davis, one of the topics that came up was how we remember things. At one point, the conversation turned to social media and new media, and how new media can be incredibly damaging to our perceptive abilities [...]

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A Choice with Grief
You have a choice with grief that results from loss, from death. On the one hand, you can choose to let it consume you, to let it haunt you, sapping your vitality away, until all that is left is a mere shell of what once was a human being. This was the [...]

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Metcalfe’s Law and Network Promotion
I’ve had a couple of conversations recently involving social network marketing. One of the things that has been on my mind lately is network size. With social networks and social media, once your network reaches a certain size or focus, it has value in and of itself. Ask Chris Brogan to [...]

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Why You Keep Buying Seth Godin’s Books, Even Though You Already Know The Material
Marketer and author Seth Godin is renowned for his short, punchy, effective books about thinking about your business. He’s a bestseller, and his books are widely lauded. Yet inside his books, there’s nothing supremely groundbreaking. You can summarize his last few books [...]

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Jared Spool over at UIE posted this incredible job ad. I love it because it’s innovative in its approach, clearly sets expectations, and conveys accurately not only a sense of what’s expected of the candidate, but also where the company is going or could be going with the right person.
Kudos to Jared and the UIE [...]

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Manessa, Ninjutsu, and MySpace
In December 2007, I had the privilege and honor of being invited to participate in a search effort for Manessa Donovan, a 15 year old niece of Christopher Wilson, the host of Answers for Freelancers. Manessa went missing just before Thanksgiving, and regular search efforts were not generating results. Chris reached out [...]

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Jake Pulver, 13 year old scion of Jeff Pulver, recently posted this YouTube video, converting a jailbroken iPod Touch to a VoIP phone.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-AKRESzdeE

If the folks at Skype had any sense, they would have rolled out a jailbreak version of Skype the day the iPod Touch dropped. Instead, it’s a 13 year old on Long Island [...]

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