The Real Blind Influence

Jesse Thomas’ video on the State of the Internet shows the amazing amount of users on the internet and how we’re using it. We’ve come a long way from 1995 when Newsweek declared that the internet would fail.
My takeaway from this is that it’s a great reflection of how connecting online has become a basic [...]

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It is an interesting time for social media.  Fifteen years ago bulletin boards and  forums were the only platforms available.  Three to five years ago blogs, MySpace, YouTube and Facebook were carving out a niche.  This week Google announced Buzz which was added to the internet social landscape along with Twitter, Side Wiki, Wave, SlideShare, [...]

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If you are still worried about your information being on the web, get over it.  Google your phone number and you’ll see your name and address with a link to Google Maps.
That information has been online for at least a couple of years.  Has it hurt you? I doubt it.  You’d be better served to [...]

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About a year ago the big prediction was that mobile platforms were going to break out in 2009.  Their influence grew, but outside of Asia, the world is still way behind in utilizing the full potential of what’s available now for mobile computing much less what’s around the corner.
The latest 2010 breakthrough prediction is that [...]

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Yes, a picture really is worth a thousand words.  After a few weeks of poking at Google Wave & thinking the concept is cool, but the reality seems to have no juice, I saw Dave Michels post a link to this picture on Twitter and it said everything I had been thinking.

It was gratifying to [...]

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The conversation about social media, Twitter and Facebook is the wrong one to have, even though it’s the one most people are having.  It is now a normal everyday action to connect on the real time social web the same way you share with friends on the phone or by email; only now one action [...]

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I recently had a meeting with the other two founders of Oxstein Design Labs to get our messaging together before we launch a lot of what we’re doing to the world. We already have great partners and interested clients that are helping us to create our initial offerings which is nice place to start.
A big [...]

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I just got my Google Wave invitation yesterday.  I probably won’t have time to play with it to understand it until this weekend.  But after watching this video, it’s easy to see how the social web and social email will be transforming how we share and receive content.
The language is not safe for work, but [...]

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So either you don’t ‘get’ all this whiz bang social media buzz or you do ‘get it’ and can’t understand why people who don’t use social media platforms daily don’t get it.
Either way, you need to watch this great SlideShare presentation by David Gillespie.  Also read his blog, which is both insightful and humorous.  How [...]

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This the follow up to a post I wrote last week.  It seemed a little more palatable to serve this up in smaller chunks.  So here are more musings based on my research, experience and conversations with people confused about this whole social media thing.  I hope this helps you to understand the social media [...]

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