DISQUS

Wow. Thanks for the writeup Daehee -- I might snag parts of this for my elevator pitch. :)

I have a lot of college-aged friends that, even though the too participate in the 'bling river', very much find it annoying and un-navigable from a usability standpoint.

With all that money Fbook has, I'm sure they've spent quite a bit of time/money on usability testing & research to find out what people really want -- which I believe is just photos and news and interaction with friends -- at the end of the day, everything else is just icing (i.e. bling river).

carrying a chip on your shoulder does not necessarily make you right ...

Dunc,

Agree with your post.

See the post I wrote about this on my website.

Louis,

Although I didn't specifically address racist, I wrote an interesting post about black nerds, here: http://davidadewumi.com/2008/07/06/why-are-blac... (the reddit and hacker news comments, as well as those on my blog, are particularly insightful)

At the end of the day, as a black person, I'm not too offended by that stuff. I've had one girlfriend (white) whose family and friends would talk about me using the word 'nigger', and another Puerto Rican girlfriend whose one side of the family refuses to accept me for being black. I've experienced racism from the Amazon Jungle to the Carribeans to Colorado.

It's really something where, as a young black male, I don't really have time to convince everyone to be thoughtful and courteous of color, sex, religion, ethos, or any other physical, hereditary, or learned characteristic.

Besides, why let someone who hides behind anonymity get beneath your skin? At least in Feldman's post he was who he is.

The most important thing in this country is not that everybody is not racist, but that despite whatever social or cultural difference or prejudice someone has against you or I, opportunity still flows abundant.

Ted is an amazing storyteller, and I'm glad to share what he shared with us.

Hannah, glad you enjoyed it!

Tochie, have you tried Justin.TV or Ustream.TV?

What strikes me Louis, is that some sites, like Facebook didn't go through that early adopter phase. The early adopters were Harvard students and Ivy Leaguers. I"m trying to understand your article in the context of sites like Facebook, who didn't necessarily attract the generic early adopter.

any personal examples of products you've gone through this cycle with?

With a property like outside.in, is that where exactly are they grabbing peer-produced content,f from?

The problem, Fred, is the definition of "news." What if I told a story on My Facebook, or myspace account (I actually don't have one) that was a blog post about my experiences surrounding a news event, say, an NBA finals game. A first-hand account.

That is peer-produced "news" so to speak, such as we've seen with Twitter, where people are essentially making micro-blog posts firing off news faster than the major mainstream media players.

How does Outside.in organize said social content, and integreate (and filter) that for it's hyper-local news. If it doesn't, it fails to account for peer-produced news as it is already happening -- on our social networks and blogs ( and micro-blogs) where this content is already being created.

Are you including yourself in that mandate Caroline? :)

your kids are upper class. not very reflective on the world population, which you wrote about in your new post.

that's probably good news for Xobni. I agree though, Outlook is horrible. I open it once a week just to back up emails to the desktop (and use the CRM-like Xobni to keep track of phone numbers and attachments).

Test 3

Any plans on expanding into the Latin market?