2010 January :: Stephen Clark (sgclark.com)

Tweets of the Week

Blowing Georgetown out of the gym never gets old. Let's go Orange!! #
They are the 'Aints no more!! Congrats to the New Orleans Saints – NFC Champs. Now THIS is something I never thought I'd see. WOW! #

January 29th, 2010 • View Comments • social networks • twitter

Tweets of the Week

Ken Burns is updating his documentary "Baseball". Send him some photos from '04 Sox WS win – http://shar.es/aSnRZ #
I use my Droid so much for music and podcasts that my iPod is now my back up music player #
The founder of Taco Bell has left us for the big burrito in the sky – http://bit.ly/5X5qOL #
NYT to start charging to access site in 2011 – http://bit.ly/7ZKZVT #
ted kennedy is rolling over in his grace #
A long weekend full of kids birthday parties, footrball, and Season 1 DVDs of Mad Men #

January 22nd, 2010 • View Comments • social networks • twitter

Shamrock Cups are single piece coffee/tea cups that have an integrated folding closure that eliminates the service industry’s reliance on two piece paper cups and plastic tops. Will the iconic Starbucks cup be getting an environmental redesign soon? Time will tell.

January 22nd, 2010 • View Comments • coffee • cups • environment • starbucks • tea

Concept Packaging For Doritos

Cool concept designs for Doritos packaging. It moves far away from the traditional bag and it would stand out big time on the vast store shelves of your local supermarket. I’d be curious how they would execute this for the smaller single serving packages, but that’s not my issue.

Via PSFK

January 22nd, 2010 • View Comments • design • doritos • packaging • snacks

Stock and Flow

I just love this article/post Stock and Flow from Robin Sloan at Snarkmarket. I have been trying to put my finger on a way to articulate how modern media and content works today and struggled to find the best way to sum it up. I think this article does this very effectively.

Flow is the feed. It’s the posts and the tweets. It’s the stream of daily and sub-daily updates that remind people that you exist. Stock is the durable stuff. It’s the content you produce that’s as interesting in two months (or two years) as it is today. It’s what people discover via search. It’s what spreads slowly but surely, building fans over time. I feel like flow is ascendant these days, for obvious reasons—but we neglect stock at our own peril. I mean that both in terms of the health of an audience and, like, the health of a soul. Flow is a treadmill, and you can’t spend all of your time running on the treadmill. Well, you can. But then one day you’ll get off and look around and go: Oh man. I’ve got nothing here.

This really hit home for me. In the article, Robin takes the simple economics metaphor of stock, the amount of “money in the bank”, and flow “the rate of change” and applies it to modern online and social media. So services like Twitter and Facebook are the “flow” and things like blogs and publishing are the stock. Yes, sites such as Twitter are interesting and have changed the landscape, but this approach just reinforces to me that blogs and the development of sustainable articles, applications, and services are just as critical to the modern media landscape.

Via Kottke

January 19th, 2010 • View Comments • articles • Media • posts • social media

Tweets of the Week

Some Free Web 2 Companies & Services to help run a small biz – http://bit.ly/797CVz #
Fox News moving into comedy. RT @Jason: BREAKING: Sarah Palin to Join Fox News http://bit.ly/palinfox #
Not much love in Nexus One land – http://bit.ly/5g5QAX #
PATRIOTS playoff hopes went down with Welker last week #
at Tim Burton exhibit at MoMA very cool! #

January 15th, 2010 • View Comments • social networks • twitter

Designing For Mobile Gestures

An interesting article from Nokia on how their industrial designers are incorporating human gestures into their mobile product/device design. They are basically tapping into the “relationship” that everyone has with their mobile device these days, and are using human gestures as a new dialect of interaction and communication with the phone. I’m sure we’ve all looked at our phone with one of those WTF expressions. It appears that in the future, there will be an app for that. :-)

January 14th, 2010 • View Comments • design • mobile • nokia • Technology

Networks To Manage Your Networks

Has it come to this? There are now online sites and applications to help you manage your social networks. This seems like a vicious cycle to me…will there soon be networks to manage your networks that manage your social networks?

CIO – When you belong to several social networking sites—Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter—(and don’t we all?), keeping up with them can seem overwhelming. Tweet this. Update that status. Share a link here. If you’ve resolved to get more organized this year, consider these seven tools that save time and streamline your social networking interactions. My picks: For easy content sharing across platforms, be sure to check out is the browser plugin Shareaholic. And for simple synching and updating of multiple accounts, Atomkeep seems to be the most efficient.
1. 8Hands. The desktop application organizes your social networking profiles (such as Facebook, WordPress, Flickr, Twitter and YouTube) into one place. It sends you notifications when you receive new comments, messages, friend requests or videos; generates summaries and statistics on your social networking activities; and features a chat window where you can drag and drop YouTube videos or Flickr pictures to share with others.

2. Atomkeep. This service allows you to import, synch and merge your profile data from a wide variety of sites such as LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, Yelp, Digg and Plurk. It also makes updating pieces of information—such as your e-mail address—across several platforms quite easy: Update that specific field in your Atomkeep profile (instead of visiting each site individually) and push it to all or select sites. Note that there’s a backlog in approving accounts at the moment, as the company site states: “All accounts are activated in batches, as soon as our capacity allows. Please don’t ask when, as we can’t give you any timeframe on this.”

3. FriendBinder. FriendBinder aggregates your existing friends from your networks and displays them in a single stream of information. It organizes your Twitter mentions and direct messages, and displays when someone favorites a photo of yours on Flickr or invites you to an event on Facebook. FriendBinder also displays trending topics and threads Twitter conversations, making them easier to follow.

4. FriendFeed. This tool displays a personalized, real-time feed of what your friends are sharing on various social media and social networking sites. You can comment or “like” items that appear in your feed, and have real-time conversations with your friends about the posts. You also may choose from a list of over 50 sites that you may belong to, and share items with your friends accordingly.

5. Ping.fm. Primarily a site that lets you update multiple statuses simultaneously, Ping.fm groups services into three categories—status updates, blogs and microblogs. You can configure the account to aggregate content from several services, including Delicious, Facebook, Laconica, LinkedIn, Twitter and WordPress.

6. Pond. The Pond social media aggregator and publishing tool allows you to follow your friends, collect information about them and share your own content. Pond also lets you merge your friends’ online identities—so, for example, if your friend belongs to Twitter, Facebook and Flickr, you’ll see updates from these services in one integrated time line. Pond also allows you to cross-publish information to several sites with one update.

7. Shareaholic. Shareholic is a customizable browser add-on that lets you share content with over 60 social networking sites. By clicking the Shareaholic icon, you can instantly share the page you’re on (it automatically shortens the link for you). It also displays real-time trending topics, allowing you to find the latest news, videos and blogs.

via computerworld.com

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January 11th, 2010 • View Comments • facebook • social graph • social networks • twitter

Tweets of the Week

Watching the fake "national championship" game and enjoying a Newcastle Brown Ale. Go Alabama, I guess. #
Great analysis how NFL "pundits" do in predicting how the season will turn out. They don't know any more than you do – http://bit.ly/6oxJl8 #
Follow @jason & @contests to win one of nine Nexus One unlocked phones! #freenexusone #
Amazing video of epic fails from 2009. You have to wonder what some people are thinking -http://bit.ly/5ftqzp #
There is no page fold. This is the web. http://bit.ly/7Ryxh9 #
Tiger Woods Decorative Dishes – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NgiCX_y1BW8&feature=player_embedded #
Winter break done. Caught up on movies – Avatar, Up in the Air, Invictus. Back to work tomorrow. Glad its twenty ten! #
Just changed my twitter background, check it out! Found it at http://www.TwitterBackgrounds.com #

January 8th, 2010 • View Comments • social networks • twitter

Winter Classic at Fenway

The NHL held their annual outdoor “Winter Classic” game up in Boston at Fenway Park. The faithful came out in full force for the game and the Bruins did not disappoint, winning the game 2-1

Photo from Boston.com

January 1st, 2010 • View Comments • boston • bruins • flyers • nhl • winter classic