Data Portability…you are so needed. There’s simply no way I can comfortably manage to keep my network of online friends and colleagues sufficiently sync’d between Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Brightkite, and Friendfeed. Let alone niche places like Mog and Upcoming. But that’s what I want. It’s what most of us want. I want to add a [...]
Social Media Club is one of those organizations Holly and I have gained so much from. As a collective that loves using the web and being on the, Shiny New Toy believes that the web is a better place when every new person, company, and organization starts participating and communicating via the web and related [...]
It has now been a couple weeks since Holly and I invited our friends to celebrate the first day of Summer with us at Gray Whale Cove and hauled a keg of beer down a few hundred steps to make it to the beach. The thoughts and memories are still gloriously swimming around in my [...]
When Holly and I decided to (re)join forces, fire up the factory, and unleash Shiny New Toy on the world, we rooted our principles on many of the same principles found in the open source software community and the emerging – make that exploding – world of social media communications. Like those two outstanding communities, [...]