Category Archives: Social Networking

Mesh10 : five years of Meshing in Toronto

By Ian | May 21, 2010

This was the week for MESH and MESH U,which is a Toronto based conference which looks at “The Web” and how it is affecting the media, marketing, business and society as a whole. Mesh is in its 5th year and Mesh U (which is a more focused one for the on design, development and [...]

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Social Networking for Small Businesses

By Ian | April 20, 2010

This is the result of a couple of conversations I’ve had with small shop keepers. They may use some web technologies outside of their business for personal use : ebay, facebook, email, a few e-commerce sites. They may a iPod or smart phone. They may have a one page website for the [...]

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Toronto DemoCamp 26, still going strong with noodles, Lean Marketing and 5 Demos.

By Ian | March 30, 2010

Last night was the 26th DemoCamp in Toronto, and the 3rd held at Ryerson University’s Ted Rogers School of Management with a crowd of ~300 or so. We had a Key Note by April Dunford and Demos by Kobo Books, Status.net, OpenApps, TeamSave, SWIX. and food. kick ass!!

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a GreaseMonkey script for Follow Rank and Follows in Common for Twitter User Profiles

By Ian | January 28, 2010

I’ve released a GreaseMonkey script Follow Rank and Follows in Common for Twitter User Profiles which you can use to display the Follows in Common and the Follow Rank for a given users profile page and discover how important they are in your Twitter Social Network.
Similar in aim to FaceBooks “friends in common”, adjusted [...]

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The Real Lessons From Twitter and it’s an Evolving Architecture

By Ian | June 29, 2009

The Real Lessons From Twitter If you were thrown into a fight, would you start punching or would you open up your iphone and start browsing web pages about Karate? :

1. If people use it, it’s valuable
2. Product, Team, Market? Team.
3. Rails was never the problem (see link below : twitter started as a cms…)

and [...]

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Greasing the bird : enhancing Twitter with GreaseMonkey

By Ian | March 13, 2009

GreaseMonkey is an add-on to (primarily, but not only) the Mozilla FireFox web browser that lets you run small (javascript) scripts to modify HTML pages on-the-fly, changing how they behave and look.  It was originally created by Aaron Boodman (aka youngpup) in 2005.
Twitter is a social networking and micro blogging service that enables its users [...]

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Any sufficiently handsome Accordion player is indistinguishable from Joey deVilla.

By Ian | August 17, 2004

Accordion Guy started it and I’m sure, with his vast whuffie rank, will end it but I’ll give it a Go

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Bloggers represent Community

By Ian | July 29, 2004

Even if it’s a Community of Interest or a community of One….
Via Globetechnology: “The presence of all the bloggers at the two political conventions suggests that there is still a need for the local angle in information, even if it isn’t done with much professionalism (at least not yet).”
It also makes another point that : [...]

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What’s up with blogging, and why should you care?

By Ian | February 23, 2004

The current state of Blog-dom (Bloger-hood? Blog-osphere?), both out side and within (or from) the corporate world (which is a more recent event). Via What’s up with blogging, and why should you care? – TechUpdate – ZDNet

What’s all the fuss about blogging? It looks and smells mostly like writing, self-expression conveyed in a chronological format [...]

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The Orkut Identity system

By Ian | February 2, 2004

Dave (aka Scripting News): writes about Orkut being their identity system. jeremy.zawodny speculates along similar lines as well. (actually jeremy was there first)
They should not forget August 2009: How Google beat Amazon and Ebay to the Semantic Web on Ftrain, which I noted on July 22, 2003. They seem to be right on [...]

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