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People law trumps the power law

Britt Blaser has a remarkable post on power laws and social networks that lays out where real power lies in the Web. Britt starts with five principles although some might consider that word too strong: The size of your audience confers limited power A networks...

Tags: Long Tail, Britt Blaser, People Law

Blog posts 2007-03-20

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Click to talk at Google

Today, via a post at echoditto, I learned about a Google "click-to-connect" feature on Google Local. (Thanks to Britt Blaser for the pointer.) Its hard to tell when Google releases something so this might have been there for months I just didnt...

Tags: General, Web Technology, Google, IP Telephony, Google Inc., telephone

Blog posts 2007-02-01

Location and identity are a powerful team

I'm at Digital ID World this week, along with Dan Farber, so you'll probably get a spate of identity related posts in the next few days. In Phil Becker's annual "State of Digital Identity" this morning, he mentioned that where "location" was a crutch that computer security leaned in in...

Tags: Sun Java Studio Creator, mobile, identity

Blog posts 2006-09-12

Conflicts and passions

There's a lot of heat in the media today about disclosure, over a story that needs to be written now and again which isn't such a big deal. Doc Searls says he sees the question of blogger disclosure as "a typical, predictable, stir-the-shit mainstream journal's dig against blogging." But...

Tags: Blogging, Davids, blogosphere

Blog posts 2006-02-09

The <strike>Four</strike> Five 'Net Freedoms

In February of 2004, then FCC Chairman Michael Powell gave a speech in which he outlined four 'Net freedoms. David Isenberg who wrote the famous paper on the Rise of the Stupid Network has excerpted the four freedoms and Powell's explanation for easy reference. The...

Tags: silo, Net Freedoms, Net

Blog posts 2005-08-19