that canadian girl

Gary Vaynerchuk, for those who don’t yet know him, is the guy behind, in front and all around Wine Library TV. He’s a raving looney, a totally loveable geek but most of all, a rough diamond of community relations amongst the world of overly polished marketing bullshit. He says things as they are and has [...]

South by SouthWest is over. Well, the interactive bit is anyways. Music is clearly still going strong, as I witnessed walking down 6th Street and lucking out on seeing Simian Mobile Disco at La Zona Rosa with a few of the geeks still left in town. Reflecting upon the past week, it’s comforting to see [...]

Jaiku, Twitter, Digg, Facebook, MySpace, Flickr, YouTube x2 accounts, Revver, Metacafe, reddit, 43places, del.icio.us, ma.gnolia, Vox, Tipped, Dopplr, Fuelmyblog, Stumbleupon, Pownce, Squidoo, TripIt, LinkedIn, Upcoming, Mybloglog, Technorati and probably more I can’t think of right now… Just a few of the social networks I frequent more or less regularly. Scary to think how much competition [...]

After a number of interesting panels in the day, it was time for beers and Diggnation. Think of being 10 years old and looking up to your biggest, most favourite music star. Now imagine the excitement if you were told you’d get to meet them. That’s how I felt yesterday. I filmed a good part [...]

Matthew Haughey, MetaFilter says… “Be the third place; people have home, work and a third community or social attachment. This can be a car enthusiast club, a WoW guild or a website community. Make something they’ll want to spend time on everyday.”

I’m at the Future of Web Apps in London today. So far, I’ve attended the intro keynote with Om Malik and Michael Arrington, followed by Heather Champ & Derek Powazek on “We’ve got this community: Now what?”. I’m now in Tony Conrad’s “Future of Search”. The main running thread of all talks so far is [...]