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Last fall, satellite TV provider DirecTV said it hired an outfit called ChoiceStream, which serves up personalized recommendations, to provide suggested viewing for its 15.5 million customers. I love the phrase “lean forward or lean back� when used to describe couch potato surfing vs. interactive television.

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There are many others, but these have recently stood out from the crowd.
Buzz Logic
Brand Dimensions
Cogmap
Visible Path
SocialText

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Right on Fred, you touch on many of the points I address with the social net startups I’m advising, although you’re a little nicer about it than I am because the world is full of people entering the space that should stick with whatever they were doing beforehand, that critical mass will likely evade them.
One [...]

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Adventures of an Eternal Optimist has a good introduction to the Cardspace Identity System.

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Miramare has some good mens stuff; Nylon Pinkney has her men’s store there, Toast and Elka offer some men’s items. There is a HUGE men’s store called Swell owned by Beryl Greenacre who makes some really great casual and kind of preppy men’s clothing that I really like.
Tour Guides in SecondLife
Why We Need an [...]

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MIT Technology Review interviewed me about HeyLetsGo, the Boston-based social network that bridges lives both online and off. All my choice blurbs got cut, sigh.

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I recently got a new roomate. She’s awesome. Lightweight, sexy and I feel great when I spent time with her.

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When Bruce Schneier spoke earlier this year, he characterized personal information as a kind of pollution, easy to create, hard to destroy and potentially very dangerous.

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