Rice’s Riffs

Dave Winer reflects on the newsroom of the future. Highlighting diversity of age and backgrounds, curiously linked. All immediately available to the World via wifi.
I would extend it to a good possibility for the corporation of the future. A future with less need and reliance on corporate infrastructure. A future where working with people is [...]

Joseph Jaffe of Jaffe Juice needs your participation in his social experiment of Bumrushing the Amazon Charts. He has written what is sure to be a killer book on social media and is looking to put his thesis to the test.
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This is what I have been waiting for: FriendFeed.
I wan’t to know what my friends and blog readers are doing, reading, watching, consuming. This could be better than any filter, news site, periodical, or newspaper, or search engine for my daily information, IMHO.
Tags: friendfeed, social content, social software

Marc Andresseen takes exception to the recent comparisons of social networking platforms to Geocities. Specifically, he cites the Wall Street Journal and Steve Ballmer.
I found this curious because I had a very similar conversation recently with the CEO of a major lead generation platform. That individual, who had direct familiarity with Geocities, had similar comments [...]

Just in case you are still trying to figure out why social networking is a trend you should be monitoring–Hugh MacLeod of GapingVoid stupid proofs it for you.
Throughout life you, like any good investment, are always a product of your leverage and ability to scale. That is what a social network is all about.
Leverage is [...]

I have been ranting about content and community in lead generation for months now, but the message often gets me skepticism at best and a confused glazed look at worst.
However, I think I may have stumbled on an enlightening analysis for my point: Steve Rubel of Micro Persuasion in his analysis of "Why Some Web [...]

Time to jump into the fray. The last couple of weeks a discussion has been frothing over the effects of the mortgage market chaos on online advertising.
Jerry Neumann started me thinking about what might happen to lead generation in the changing mortgage market, why some arguments seem counterintuitive, and past data in other similar markets [...]

Yahoo! has launched their new social networking platform into private beta. It is very Facebook-like with some interesting features. If you would like an invitation to try it out email me wmrice [at] gmail [dot] com.
My Yahoo!Mash Profile: http://mash.yahoo.com/wmriceusa

While the media and the market is focused on mortgage meltdowns, downgrading online Ad companies, and maybe even pitch-forking a few lead generation companies a few smart people (notice, I added myself–hey, it is my blog there must be a bit of ego in me) are thinking about building a better lead generation mouse trap:

Jerry [...]

I tripped upon (via Steve Rubel’s Lifestream) an interesting article about the decline of face to face chat in our digital world.
Perhaps this is why I so enjoy a great conversation and the occasional flared debate.
Tags: social networks, conversation, bill rice, chat