Author: Andy Wibbels

Final thought before I retire for the night. I want to talk about chafing. Virtual chafing. This is when all the little inputs you have: the Skype, the Gmail, the POP3 inboxes in Thunderbird (or Outlook or whatever), the Flickr, the RSS feeds, the voicemails and calls on the home phone, the voicemails and calls […]

Nice to see my thoughts on Dan Pink’s Whole New Mind echoed elsewhere: The perfect business? No inventory. No employees. No marginal cost of production. No rent. No business cards. Just a server hosting fee, a few other startup expenses, and a bank account to hold a lot of cash coming in. I was talking […]

From Read/Write Web: It’s no real secret that Google wasn’t supporting dodgeball the way we expected. The whole experience was incredibly frustrating for us – especially as we couldn’t convince them that dodgeball was worth engineering resources, leaving us to watch as other startups got to innovate in the mobile + social space. And while […]

From a recent talk I did: We invited Blogwild! author Andy Wibbels to chat with our SF/IABC Independent Communicators’ Roundtable about the benefits of blogging if you’re self employed. He gave us an excellent hour of insights and advice. Here’s what I took away:

Bruce Bartlett writes: The point I am getting at is that blogging is finally maturing into a useful way for people to interact with each other to sort out differences. It’s like being in a seminar room with some of the smartest people on the planet, where we are all searching for answers to the […]

Steve Smith of MediaPost The same video shows I enjoy on my iPod are now on my TV. All of those little things like Tiki Bar TV, Rumor Girls, Rocket Boom, G4 video game reviews, and many more, are now mashed up into a single input choice on my TV. The digital discovery process that […]

(via Slashdot) Cody Webb was jailed for calling in a bomb threat to his Hempstead Area high school (near Pittsburgh). He spent 12 days in lockup until the authorities realized that their caller-id log was off an hour because of the new Daylight Savings Time rules and that Cody had only called one hour prior […]

I was complaining that Skype ate my contacts list a few days ago (both on the Mac desktop and the WinXP laptop). One of their PR folks contacted me and hooked me up with support and they responded: It appears that due to a temporary error your contacts effectively disappeared from one of our databases. […]

After the onrush of Tweets, some are starting to reconsider: But, the problem of course, is that these kinds of “realâ€? events that are “importantâ€? happen relatively infrequently, which leads some of us to navel gaze and discuss the relative importance of these tools. and Both of these trends make me far less productive than […]

The main nugget from the New York Times article on ‘cumulative advantage’: Introducing social influence into human decision making, in other words, didn’t just make the hits bigger; it also made them more unpredictable. The researchers were analyzing data from a music download site and some downloaders would see the popularity of certain songs, some […]