The Web We Lost

Update: A few months after this piece was published, I was invited by Harvard’s Berkman Center to speak about this topic in more detail. Though the final talk...

Communities of Creators

Last week, I found this picture of a group dinner at Guero’s restaurant in Austin, TX, taken during South by Southwest in 2002. At the time, most of us at the...

DRM and Friends

This one’s been kicking around in my head for a while, and maybe you can all help me understand it. With any contemporary social networking site, I can control...

I am okay with my Yahoo sign-in.

I’ve seen a lot of weird, very belated, hand-wringing about Flickr requiring early adopter users to sign in with their Yahoo accounts. This is prompted,...

Would You Like Some Links?

I enjoy links myself, so I thought you might want some too. Here, then: Graphs as art : Werner Vogels picks up the site graph meme with some nice visualizations...

Massaging the Data

Speaking of memes from a year ago , last year I created a site called ishavingamassage.com. (That’s “Is Having A Massage”, not “I Shaving…”) The domain is...

What's Good Lately

Best things I’ve seen lately? A wake-up call for geeks who have been neglecting the legislative initiatives that will affect all of us in the future. The latest...

More on Interesting Economics

I’ve been mostly offline (more on that later) but there’s been some really interesting commentary on my last post, most notably Caterina’s lengthy response ....

The Interesting Economy

Like many great social software applications, Flickr began its life as something else. Flickr was built on a platform for a game called Game Neverending, which...

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Netflix Friends

As the wags are fond of saying, and Flickr is fond of demonstrating, social networking is a feature , not an application. Thus, Netflix Friends . That’s...

Sucker for puppies

The best Flickr tag ever? Puppy .