– Erik Benson goes “old man grey” (I knew he was wise beyond his years…)
– Kevin Roberts’ Sisomo (leading edge kiwi wows the marketing/advertising world again with a beautifully designed site about his ‘Sisomo’ concept — “the story of sight, sound and motion”)
– The Future of Web Apps podcasts available now (this will keep my ears busy for a while…)
– Is MySpace.com Really That Popular? (“…despite having large numbers of registered users, only a portion of those are active participants on the site.”)
– Umair: Why is the Valley Afraid of MySpace? (“The challenge, of course, is for geeks to understand that it’s exactly this value equation they should be disrupting, not ignoring: making marketing, branding, advertising not evil.”)
– Commenter on Umair’s site about why MySpace got popular (“All this talk about MySpace lately. As someone who was part of the Los Angeles indie music scene that is now credited with making MySpace cool, I can tell you it was all about hooking up.”)
– Greg Yardly on why Yahoo’s social media pyramid is wrong (“To compete, Yahoo’s new services need 90% creators, not 1% or 10%.” — note that Bradley Horowitz pops up in the comments to say he agrees.)
– Pete Cashmore on Edge Feeders (points to FeedXS as an early example of a service that creates RSS feeds on the fly — i.e. feeds are created and consumed as easily as reading something on the Web)
– Scott Karp: Audiences are not created equal (“Old Media has the audiences, but doesn’t know what to do with them. New Media knows what to do, but doesn’t have the audiences.”)
Flickr pic by Erik Benson
Originally published on ReadWriteWeb (archived copy)