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Permission to Timehop 18 Aug 2012 | 12:39 am

We’re hardest on those we love. I adore Timehop. You give it access to your checkin, photo and status streams, and it rounds up that data and sends you a daily email recapping what you were doing a ye...

Fungo 16 May 2011 | 03:12 am

Gawd, I used to love to catch grounders.  I’d take as many as I could talk anyone into hitting.  When I didn’t have someone, I’d throw the tennis ball against the wall in the backyard at angles and ma...

I Just Facebook Like You 20 Apr 2011 | 03:16 am

Of course I’ll trade you a meaningless like for an article about DFW.(1)  Rafe writes about this old school move as something dilutive of the value of ‘like’.  That if you spread that stuff all over t...

Revisiting the Echo Chamber 19 Apr 2011 | 04:51 am

Back when we were young Josh Kopelman warned everyone about marketing to the echo chamber. (Thanks, Liz, for helping me find that one.)  The core idea still holds:  don’t confuse inside baseball with ...

Communities of Yes 15 Apr 2011 | 04:39 am

[First published on the w+k blog] When we first came to interview here, David Terry (Gonzo Planning Guy), asked us: what are we going to do about the culture of meanness on YouTube? What a ridiculou...

Jared Spool: Anatomy of a Design Decision 15 Apr 2011 | 02:28 am

Jared Spool came to town tonight to do a talk.  He’s one of my fav speakers.  In the  Veen, Coates, Neb universe. You should listen when they say something.  It’s a prelude to the UIE Web App Masters ...

The Face Game 12 Oct 2010 | 04:54 am

You may have heard Dave McClure preach about the importance of faces in social design.  (If you can call his earthy rants preaching.  I think it’s apt.) And Josh Porter would chime in much the same. ...

On Tummelvision, In Technicolor 25 Sep 2010 | 04:20 am

Did I tell y’all I was on Tummelvision?  Oh, right, I haven’t used the bloggity in a month of Sundays.  Well, I want you to tune in to this show.  It’s Heather Gold, Deb Schultz, Kevin Marks and an en...

Help/Contacts Needed for CleanupJobs.com 7 Jun 2010 | 05:12 am

From TedR comes this request from Camron for help on CleanupJobs.com/org.  Check it out, and see if you can help connect him with some of the right Gulf Coast resources/needs. From: Camron Assadi <ca...

Hell, The Fall Will Kill Ya 5 Mar 2010 | 12:32 pm

In one of my favorite flicks, Butch & Sundance are cornered, yet Sundance is hesitant to take the only escape route available (leaping off a cliff into a river below).  Butch wants to know what’s the ...

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