Here is my three point plan to solve the current financial crisis:
Offer tax cuts to people who buy houses in the next six month
Offer tax cuts to financial companies that offer credit in the next six months
Offer temporary immunity from recourse to people who default on their mortgages (or renegotiate it to [...]
I was asked by PARC to present again on the psychology of facebook. (Why do some applications go viral? You can read my speaking notes or watch this 1 min 52 sec screencast that is almost identical in content or grab the slides or handout.) But the main reason to reprise that post [...]
My friend Richard sent me this interesting link and email in response to my post yesterday:
[Intrade.com is] moving beyond prediction markets that try to determine who will win
the election, towards markets that predict the effect of someone
winning the election. In other words, markets that attempt to predict
the price of oil, interest rates, # troops [...]
Here’s a link to the slides from the other presenters from our facebook expo. Lots of interesting ideas and data, even if it’s a little decontextualized without speakers’ notes.
Here’s a nice outline of raw notes of the 2hrs of demos that we presented yesterday. It may or may not make sense to you if you aren’t involved in the space, or if you didn’t actually attend the event.
One other note: Facebook changed it’s status function by removing the previously mandatory ‘is’. [...]
I guess it’s hard to have an original idea anymore! Here’s a cartoon from June 23, 2007 that is remarkably similar to the idea I posted about earlier this week (”Can you be fooled by a dog on facebook?“)
And more follow up. Here’s a story about a political blogger who posts under the [...]
Someone in South Africa found my video on youtube about facebook that I previously posted here. Here’s his question to compare Ning vs facebook and then my response. Isn’t it cool how sharing works on the net?
Hey,
I saw your video on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HzAG9wGF2QA
I want to find out, you listed a whole bunch of [...]
In my facebook class, we are responsible for forming three person teams: a marketer, a technologist and a manager. I’d like to manage a team that creates something useful for e-thePeople and other membership organizations, so I put together this video to solicit interest. I am pleased with the results. Check it [...]
A new back-to-school ritual for students these days is to create and manage a profile on facebook.com. At the beginning of this summer, my friend Nathaniel convinced me to sign up and I have looked back. It is amazing, for the reasons I described in this past post. But why does it [...]
Yahoo has launched a neat site that allows you to compare video responses of the Democratic candidates. Check it out here:
http://debates.news.yahoo.com/
Unlike the one I wrote about yesterday, this one is highly produced. Charlie Rose asks the traditional questions and Bill Maher challenges the candidates with nontraditional ones. You can make video playlists [...]
Google has just launched an Australian election project, and I think it demonstrates some of the power that I mentioned in my post last week on political video mashups and open politics. It exposes both the strengths and weaknesses of google’s generic approach to information discovery. Here is a screenshot of a portion [...]
Yesterday, I started a conversation on e-thepeople.org about Obama’s new plan for Iraq. I wanted to summarize the interesting feedback that I’ve gotten from these discussions.
First, I raised the question: how does Obama plan to fix the oil sharing problem? No one responded, but I think Chris Dodd has the best proposal on [...]
In a post last week (Chutzpah!), I wrote about the travails of Chris Knight. Chris ran for a seat on his local school board and lost. More notably, he made a funny campaign ad that was appropriate by VH1 for one of its shows. When Chris uploaded the ad on youtube, Viacom [...]
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