Things that I'm thinking about (part 3)
Wow, the past few days have seen a noticeable increase in traffic here, which says to me that some of you subscribers are more actively engaged and are maybe even passing on my posts to friends of yours. Thanks!
A quick shout out to a few folks who've been commenting:
Valeria - for always taking the time to comment when I link to you. Very impressive. Mark - I always appreciate that you take the time to leave a quick note when you like something. Thanks bud. Jim - Wow. Awesome comment on my "Go Fail Yourself" post. Between the comments from you and Ben on that post, that has to be one of my personal favorite posts so far. Ian - For sharing your little javascript code on my "Proactive Discovery" post. Amazingly, you were the only one to contribute something there :)
So, on to the networks version of my "Things I'm thinking about right now" series (here are Part 1 and Part 2):
Web Worker Daily brings us back to the point of networking: remembering that it's not just a series of transactions is important.
Fred Wilson hits on something near and dear to my heart - he's unsure of where this is going and about the difference between what users want and what developers will seek out. I believe that I have a very good idea of where it should go. Let's talk Fred.
He also links to Dave Winer, who gets provocative in Fred's comments (Scott Rafer also adds in his useful pragmatic view). I think that he's right on here - real platforms look different from Facebook F8, folks.
Jason Calacanis's post which spins the discussion around and essentially asks, "Does this stuff have any substance?" He also continues on in a second post, lightly touching on something that I think is being left under-discussed: the younger generations are being raised, at least in the U.S., with the expectation that they have to market themselves.
Proving that he really is a portal, Scoble also points me over to new stuff coming out of Plaxo. I'm hoping to make it to Lunchaxo tomorrow, to see what's going on.
The NY Times does a piece on how the businesses who create networks impact real-life relationships in significant and negative ways.
Ok, I'm realizing this could be a bit of overload for people, so I'm going to stop now. As promised, I'm working on a more coherent piece that will hopefully pull these things together better.
A post that pulls it all together would be great ;-) I'll be looking out for it.
Posted by: Valeria Maltoni | August 14, 2007 at 03:29 PM