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Drew Meyers currently runs ESM Exec Designs, a design shop specializing in corporate and personal blog design. Travel addict managing Oh Hey World, a travel blog focused on generation X & Y, and real estate technology enthusiast. In his free time, Drew enjoys reading, traveling the world, spending time with passionate people, and is active member of the microfinance community.
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Monthly Archives: January 2007
Superbowl Commercials from the Web 2.0 World
H/T to Mashable for this post! Here are commercials that some web 2.0 companies (Meebo, Technorati, RockYou, Meez, Multiply, and Plaxo) created in spirit of Superbowl creativity — enjoy!
Web 2.0 – What’s the Next Wave?
Entering the internet time period that people will call Web 3.0 is inevitable, but the specifics of what web 3.0 is or will include is up for debate. There have been a number of articles written about Web 3.0 since Tim O’Reilly’s web 2.0 article in 2005- see here, here, and here. BUT instead of hypothesizing about Web 3.0, I thought I’d focus on the next wave of Web 2.0 technology. This has been a work in progress for awhile, but I think I finally finished my thoughts. Image courtesy of LeJournalduNet Merging of Blogging and Social Networking API’s become Vital Continued Rise of Wiki’s (user-generated content) Mobile Web Applications Take Off RSS as a … Continue reading
The Darfur Wall at www.darfurwall.org
Part of what inspires me to blog is bringing attention to issues not being given enough attention by the mainstream media or the government. With the rise of social media, everyone has a voice and can impact lives with only a little money or time (or both). I highly encourage you to place a quick post on YOUR blog to the Darfurwall in the hopes of spreading the word for this fantastic cause. On the Local News tonight, I saw a short feature on the Darfurwall non-profit project focused on helping aide those affected by the genocide in Darfur and thought I’d try to help the cause. Here’s the opening headline from the article: Jonah … Continue reading
Seattle Networking Wednesday January 31st
Update: This event has been moved to Thursday, February 1st My friend, Tim Reha (now working on a start up in the new media space – New Media Synergy), is putting on a networking event at his Pioneer Square loft tomorrow Wednesday night from 6-9 pm if you’re interested. Cost is $25 that includes refreshments. I’ll be there for the early part of the evening. If you’re interested, send an e-mail to events (at) ventureallstars (dot) com by tomorrow Wednesday afternoon (sorry for the late notice). Hope to see you there!
YouTuber Users to Receive Ad Revenue
This is certainly big news – YouTube is going to start giving contributors a cut of the revenue that YouTube makes off advertisements shown during their videos. The goal is to encourage creativity. Since most people (and companies) simply follow the leader, I’m guessing we’ll see an influx of sites implementing this model in their user-generated web sites. I applaud Chad Hurley for good business strategy — he focused on getting the passionate users who wanted to participate for the right reasons before providing incentives. I think it’s something many sites miss — in my mind, the quality of community content goes down with increased monetary incentives. It really comes down to the fact that … Continue reading
Link Love
No, I’m not going to talk about how to link to others tonight — instead, I’ll just do it: The 2007 World Economic Forum is under way in Switzerland — you can actually watch webcasts of most of the speakers here. The Economist has an interesting podcast on the subject of CEO’s and other leaders starting to blog (a topic debated quite a bit). Personally, I would love to read more CEO blogs — if for nothing other than to get some interesting business strategy insights from incredibly smart people. I don’t think CEO’s have to blog often to be effective. Also check How Power has Shifted. John Battelle has a quick Q & A … Continue reading
Venture Philanthropy
There was an absolutely fantastic article in the LA Times that my best friend e-mailed me today, titled “Network Philanthropy: The men behind EBay are leading a high-tech revolution that is turning charitable giving on its head” (registration required). I really encourage you to read it — very good inspiration if you are interested in mixing a heavy dose of business with philanthropy work sometime in your career as I am. The article talks about how eBay founders Pierre Omidyar and Jeff Skoll have redefined venture philanthropy with their work over the past decade. Pierre pioneered the notion of granting pre-IPO shares to a non-profit foundation by endowing Community Foundation Silicon Valley with $1 million … Continue reading
