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What exactly is "User Generated Content"?

There's an interesting discussion going on over at CenterNetworks , with Allen calling out Mike Arrington and co. for giving Digg the award for "best user-generated content". Allen says that Digg doesn't belong in that category (which he includes Wikipedia, your blog, and Flickr), but...

Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 01-22-2008
The Case for Freeing the WSJ Online

An interesting article in Business Week about opening up the Wall Street Journal Online in the wake of the sale to Murdoch. For The Wall Street Journal Online, going free will come at a high cost. The daily financial newspaper is one of the few major publications to successfully charge for access to...

Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 08-25-2007
Distinguishing between a platform and a destination

Charlie says that "the whole idea that you have a main site is dead". I couldn't agree more - I strongly believe that platforms are the future of the Internet. One clarification I'd like to make in this whole discussion is Facebook is both a destination and a platform. It's important...

Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 08-21-2007
Twitter is, or will be, a Messaging Platform

Charlie discusses the future of Twitter and touches on what I think are two key points: corporate twitter and content subscription. The key as Charlie discusses is the opt-in and one-way nature of Twitter. That is, I only get updates from someone if I explicitly choose to receive them, and the party...

Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 06-18-2007
FeedBurner does postal mail

Like many others, I subscribe to my own feeds to help catch any issues that happen to arise, and I just noticed this gem at the bottom of my FeedBurner e-mail subscription. If you prefer to unsubscribe via postal mail, write to: Loosely Coupled // Tim Marman's Weblog, c/o FeedBurner, 549 W Randolph,...

Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 02-14-2007
On Syndication ... and why formats don't matter

One of my big pet peeves with syndication is when platforms publish multiple formats. Or, more precisely, when the user is presented with 5 similar-looking icons with all of those options. Why make the user think ? The user wants your content, but you've put an additional barrier in that ultimately has...

Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 02-12-2007
An Anthropologist's Take on Web 2.0

The Machine is us. ( Link to the video )

Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 02-09-2007
Buzzwords say all the wrong things

As I've written in the past, I'm not a big fan of buzzwords because "they're vague, overbroad, ill-defined, and most of all trivialize what is really going on in the first place." Matt at 37Signals says there might be other reasons to avoid buzzwords . These buzzwords are often a mask. People who use...

Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 10-10-2006
PodShow gets funding... but forgets to renew DNS?

Maybe that really was the last Gillmor Gang . My downloads of the latest show kept failing, and now I know why - PodShow.com expired on Oct 4th and is now parked. Ooops! I don't know what's more ironic - their domain expires and they forget to renew just after they get funding, or that GoDaddy sponsors...

Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 10-09-2006
Advertising in RSS

Mike Gunderloy (Larkware News) points to an ad brokerage for RSS feeds . Interesting idea. How effective it is depends. I still think that, especially when it comes to personal weblogs, a personal endorsement is going to be infinitely more effective than a canned ad. I think the only way this is going...

Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 01-26-2004

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