Monthly Archives: August 2007

Finally, it seems Facebook will solve the missing piece of Facebook. Though details are not public yet, Facebook has added two new api calls — “friends.getLists” and “friends.getListsMembers”. I think it means Facebook will be adding a way for me to group my friends — hopefully, a “newsfeed” for each group is part of this new friendlist feature they are working on. Mashable wonders if these calls are an attempt to compete against linkedin and slide — I don’t think so. Personally, I think Facebook saw a weakness in their platform and this is the fix. As Fred says, fixing problems is the way to build a great company — Facebook is definitely on the … Continue reading →

In case anyone missed it like I did, there was a lunar eclipse on Monday night. Here’s a picture from the Seattle Times. More photos on Flickr.

I’m with Fred on this issue – the Internet is NOT Dead and Boring, which means I disagree with Mark Cuban’s post. I, for one, love all the innovation happening. If you want to read more, head on over to Techmeme — articles seem to be popping up by the minute.

Surrounding yourself with passionate people is important — both in life and in business. Though I do firmly believe in the vision of Zillow, I wouldn’t be at Zillow if it weren’t for all the fantastic colleagues I get to work with — it was the team that attracted me. I’ve heard both Rich and Lloyd (co-founders of Zillow), both of whom have considerable business experience, drill home the “surround yourself with passionate people” theme several times. I can confidently say they (props to our recruiting team too) are doing a great job of attracting a fantastic team; I’m blown away with the passion and skill of the vast, vast majority of employees I’ve worked … Continue reading →

I just found a fantastic website, WorldChanging, via White African’s “Blog Envy” post. And I definitely couldn’t just read one article — I just read “Understanding Blogs” and “Sustainability and Empathy” and “Building Community through Lunch” Here’s the mission: worldchanging was founded on the idea that real solutions already exist for building the future we want. it’s just a matter of grabbing hold and getting moving.

I think so. Politics needs more transparency — PERIOD. And I think Youtube can help politicians interact more directly with the public. Enter CitizenTube, Youtube’s Political vLog. Here’s an interesting video addressing the question that is worth watching.

If you’re interested in web 2.0, social networking, online community building, or anything related — you definitely have to check out Brad’s Thoughts on the Social Graph. The social graph is global mapping of everybody and how they’re related. The social graph infrastructure Brad is proposing is not aiming to replace facebook, myspace, or bebo, but is aiming to organize relationships across the internet and open them up for anyone to use. Here’s the ultimate goal – Ultimately make the social graph a community asset, utilizing the data from all the different sites, but not depending on any company or organization as “the” central graph owner. More on Techmeme.