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Leveraging raw, unrefined ideas into tangible musings. This blog focuses on social media, entrepreneurship and venture capital. Written by Sam Huleatt, CEO of Heights Media Group

What we're trying to do is just make it really efficient for people to communicate, get information and share information. We always try to emphasize the utility component.

It’s a utility in terms of a tool for the 24 million Facebook users, but it also reflects Facebook’s desire to become a utility, like an power company, in which potentially billions of people use the

There are an increasing number of new "social applications" as well as traditional application which either require the "social graph" or that could provide better value to users b

In Mathematics, a Graph is an abstraction for modeling relationships between things. It is no different from a Network, which is a more common term for describing the same thing.

The problem is that Technorati is accepting non-blogs disguised as blogs. Here’s the about note on the CNN’s Political Ticker itself:

Social psychology is the study of how social conditions affect human beings. Scholars in this field are generally either psychologists or sociologists, though all social psychologists employ both the

In 2005, servers accounted for an estimated 1.2% of all power consumption in the United States and 0.8% worldwide. Koomey says that server power consumption in the United States was the equivalent of

Emailing, googling, blogging, uploading, etc everything this owes a measurable and material debt to first life. When one computes the amount of power normal 1st life electricity that is consumed to ma

Tony Walsh has, as others do, some doubts about whether Second Life is sustainable as a business. But he also poses another question that I hadn't come across before: "Is Second Life sustainable

Internet Recession Watch: Falling Ads, Taxes, Housing

Member directory (with an online dating service) for admirers of Ayn Rand's novels the Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged

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Sometimes, the solution to becoming more creative can't be arrived at by traditional thinking. Writing pro Copyblogger suggests that we try to frame ideas in a metaphorical way instead in order to see

continuous partial friendship", "ambient intimacy", why the "hidden call to a return to a mythical, fallen Golden Age" (lost of "primary" life & relationships) i

A small change to the users.getInfo API call shows that “Networking” is one of the options for the meeting_for field. There is no guarantee that this change will be happening soon though.

Once launched, Facebook (or third party developers) could add a lot of functionality around networking. Applications could be developed that show a social graph for users who’ve said they want to netw

LifeStreams, an Essay in Progress: The massively connected meta-verse enabled by new Internet technologies has hit another level of hype with Lifestreaming. Lifestreaming is a concept, rather than any

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Paul Tudor Jones II leans back in his chair and grins. The stock market is going to crash, and he knows it. “There will be some type of a decline, without a question, in the next 10, 20 months,”

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We want to find a way to enhance the experience and services, rather than looking for a way to interrupt people from getting to where they want to go," said Stefan Olander, global director for br

Extreme Entrepreneurship is an organization that goes from University to University and does an a presentation that lasts all day… students learn the practicality and issues of being entrepreneurs and

While I’m not a hard core mega-Objectivist, Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead both spoke loudly to me at critical points in my life and have had a hand in shaping the way I think about the world.