November 13, 2009
I Want More Information, Not Less
I spent the last two days at the Defrag Conference. It was awesome on so many levels including the content, the venue, seeing a bunch of great friends, and meeting ...
May 21, 2009
The Web Is Working Harder For Me
A few weeks ago I wrote a post titled The Maturing of the Implicit Web. In it I talked about new releases from AdaptiveBlue and OneRiot. As I sit here ...
April 22, 2009
The Maturing of the Implicit Web
I’ve been fascinated with the notion of the Implicit Web since I determined that I was tired of my computer (and the Internet in general) being stupid. I wanted it ...
March 24, 2008
I Need A News Feed For My News Feeds
Josh Kopelman doesn’t blog that frequently, but almost all of them are worth reading carefully. His latest post – Feed Frenzy – is great. Josh is facing the "multiple news ...
March 12, 2008
Defragging The Scary Place Called My Brain
My partner Ryan put up another post on the Foundry Group blog about our Implicit Web theme. This is a theme that is particularly interesting and useful to me since ...
November 8, 2007
The Defrag Summary
If you have been following Defrag from a distance, Sean Ammirati at Read/WriteWeb has an awesome summary up titled Five Themes From the Defrag Conference.
The Attention Economy
Next-Level Discovery
Social Graph
User Centric ...
October 20, 2007
What Is The Best Name For It?
John Markoff suggests there is a looming battle of semantics between Web 3.0 and semantic web. Markoff summarizes by saying:
“There is no easy consensus about how to define what is ...
October 19, 2007
WYWIWYG vs. WYSIWYG
John Markoff has a fun little story about the origin of the phrase What-You-See-Is-What–You-Get in his article titled The Real History of WYSIWYG. WYSIWYG appeared on the scene 30+ years ...
October 11, 2007
Another Day, Another Great Post from Alex Iskold on the Structured Web
In his post 30 Thoughts At 30,000 feet, Fred Wilson referred to Alex Iskold as “a freak of nature.” Fred supports this by saying “He writes code, runs a company, and ...
October 10, 2007
Eric Norlin Discusses Defrag
Scoble has a 20 minute interview up with Eric Norlin discussing Defrag and other conferences that Eric has helped start. If you haven’t heard of Defrag, it’s a new conference being ...
October 5, 2007
Adaptive Blue and the Semantic Web
Semantic Web. Implicit Web. Web 3.0. Lot’s of happy new buzz phrases being tossed about. Of course, the academic one is “semantic web” – all the rest are made up ...
September 20, 2007
The Semantic Web Can Be Your Friend
Alex Iskold, the founder and creator of Adaptive Blue, has a long and helpful post up titled Semantic Web: Difficulties with the Classic Approach. I have a small investment in ...