In a blog post here, he says, in the context of reputation: The way quality works on the web is through links … it works because reputable writers make links to things they consider reputable sources … One’s chosen starting page, and a nurtured set of bookmarks, are the entrance points, then, to a selected…

The highlights from a talk by Bob Sutton and Diego Rodriguez at Stanford. Failure sucks, but instructs Enlist fanatical mavens Begin with empathy Find an enemy Be authentic

I hope you meant that, Eric, because I’m about to quote you! In a ZDnet post titled "A tipping point?" he comments on Technorati’s adoption of OpenID, and almost casually, he says: Note: "internet identity" is now called "URL-based identity," or even more broadly and less accurately "user-centric identity". This is quite remarkable. As far…

In this article, Internet News’ Clint Boulton quotes Peter Sondergaard, Gartner‘s head of global research, as having said during the Gartner Symposium ITxpro 2006’s keynote: Changes in consumer behavior and preferences will trigger a power reversal in business models… Consumer-to-business will replace the predominant business-to-consumer model. If I recall correctly, it was Drummond Reed who…

I just found out that the term "Social Commerce" was coined by Mary Ruddy in a conversation with Paul Trevithick. Mary first used the term publicly in a podcast from IIW 2005. Since, Yahoo picked up the term, assorted startups use it and many people blog about it all the time as it seems. Score…