Awakened Voice

A new piece of web software called Opentape looks to be a great tool for independent musicians who want to showcase and sell their music. Opentape provides a very simple mechanism for a musician to provide streaming or downloadable samples of their music on the web.A demo of a site built using Opentape can be [...]

Over the past week I’ve gotten into widget development in a big way. For those of you not as geeky as me, widgets are mini-applications that you can copy and past into web pages. Widgets make all sorts of content and information portable. If this sort of thing interests you I recommend that you head [...]

I recently updated the Beginner’s Guide To Podcasting that I’ve been maintaining for a couple of years now. Updates are a necessity for a document like this since the tools, services and communities related to podcasting are constantly changing.
This document is meant to help beginning podcast publishers. Feedback and suggestions on adding content are welcome [...]

The folks behind the WordPress iPhone app deserve to be commended. They have created a simple and elegant tool that allows for posting to WordPress.com or standalone blogs. I used the app to write this post.
The ability to include links without HTML would be a welcome addition. You can include photos from your library [...]

Nothing. You are required to do nothing special when you read content I’ve published or shared. You don’t have to comment but you are welcome to comment if you feel moved to do so. You don’t have to share it, although I encourage you to share if you find the content to be interesting. If [...]

There are three questions that I ask when visiting the site of a new web-based service.

What service do you provide?
How does the service work?
What is going on?

How and if those questions are answered tells me a lot about the service.
The answer to question #1 should include a brief description of what problem the service solves [...]

The term social media is a ubiquitous one these days. But at the same time there are still many people who know the phrase but don’t really understand the meaning. A proper definition of social media does exist on Wikipedia. I find the definition that’s located on Wikipedia to be quite convoluted. My definition of [...]

In my previous post in this series I attempted to define the social media herd. In this post I’ll share my thoughts on the true value of the herd to web based services. I think it makes sense to assess the situation from the perspective of where certain services sit on the food chain. A [...]

Apple has just tossed a huge bone to high traffic social media sites. But will they pick it up?
Sites like Twitter, FriendFeed and yes even the mighty Facebook are grappling with the issue of exactly how they can earn enough revenue to continue to support their services without the need for future rounds of funding. [...]

I’ve been thinking. To some those are some pretty scary words but not necessarily as scary as me deciding to tell you what I think. In this case I’ve been thinking about what I call the social media herd.
The social media herd is a group of people who move in concert from web application [...]