Ma.gnolia: Ryan Ozawa's Bookmarks

Welcome to Conference 2.0

2008-03-12T10:35:11-07:00

Social media is putting an end to the passive role attendees traditionally play at business gatherings.

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Tags: web20, conferences, conference20, unconference, twitter, socialweb, socialmedia

DailyWritingTip.com

2008-02-25T10:31:22-08:00

Mitchell Dwyer, Honolulu high school English teacher, hopes to help the world (and its wide web) to improve the quality of its writing, one simple step at a time.

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Tags: writing, writers, english, language, grammar, spelling, syntax, tip, tips, help

Unconferenz: Not your father's technology conference

2008-01-09T09:19:08-08:00

The event is open to any and all geeks and geek-appreciators in and around the tech sector, from code-writers to bloggers and vloggers, from academicians and legislators to profusely pocketed persons perusing for profit potential.

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Tags: hawaii, unconference, unconferences, podcamp, barcamp, foocamp, tech, geek

When Movies Don’t Live Up to the Trailer

2008-01-03T14:18:49-08:00

Just how different can a trailer be without becoming false advertising?

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Tags: movies, films, movie, trailer, trailers, commercials, nationaltreasure

Beethoven Goes Digital

2007-09-25T10:14:53-07:00

Classical music hardly seems like a growth business. We're forever reading about how concert audiences are graying, and new artists must flounce around fiddling in tank tops and platform heels to get attention. In fact, classical music is doing a lot better than you might think. Although total sales in all music categories fell 5 percent last year, classical sales grew by a whopping 22 percent.

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Tags: music, music industry, digital music, classical, classical music, itunes, long tail, business

Getting a lesson in retail inside world's busiest Costco

2007-09-05T14:12:46-07:00

The Iwilei Costco - the largest among the company's three Oahu locations - posted $300 million in sales last year. Iwilei is so busy, in fact, that it turns its entire inventory every two-and-a-half to three weeks... a logistical wonder considering most everything comes in by water.

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Tags: hawaii, retail, costco, walmart

Downside to Xobni, Meebo and Squidoo

2007-09-04T12:57:12-07:00

Even if you could say Abazab or Eefoof without snickering, would you want to do business with them? Would you feel OK owning Wakoopa shares in your 401(k)? Telling potential in-laws you met on Frengo? Relying on Ooma to call Grandma?

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Tags: web20, names, naming, brands, branding, abazab, eefoof, wakoopa, frengo, ooma, xobni, meebo, squidoo

'Drive' makes primetime Emmy history

2007-07-20T12:00:10-07:00

Fox's quickly canceled drama "Drive" has inadvertently made TV academy history on Thursday, becoming the first-ever Primetime Emmy broadband nominee. Twenty years from now, when Emmy only recognizes programming found on the Internet, historians will point to the mostly forgotten "Drive" as the show that started it all.

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Tags: tv, television, emmy, fox, drive, minear

My Time as a Hostage, and I'm a Business Reporter

2007-06-25T18:26:19-07:00

Detention in a toy factory says something about the new power of the Chinese marketplace. "Factory bosses, I would discover, can overrule the police, and Chinese government officials are not as powerful as you might suspect in a country addicted to foreign investment."

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Tags: nyt, business, manufacturing, china, journalism, toys, thomas

A Long Line for a Shorter Wait at the Supermarket

2007-06-25T18:03:02-07:00

Because people stand in the same line, waiting for a register to become available, there are no “slow” lines, delayed by a coupon-counting customer or languid cashier.

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Tags: nyt, shopping, business, retail, queue, lines, cashier, wholefoods

Justin.TV's Hawaii Channel

2007-06-22T19:00:32-07:00

This week, with no apparent fanfare, the Justin.TV network added another radio station to the lifecasting family: Star101.9, right here in Honolulu.

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Tags: lifecasting, lifecasters, live, video, streaming, justintv

A Craigslist Wedding

2007-06-21T11:15:20-07:00

At that point, Amanda said “I just wish that there was someone here to blog all this,” completely unaware of the background of the accordion player at her wedding.

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Tags: wedding, marriage, craigslist, livejournal, accordion

Best of the Web: the MetaFilter Podcast

2007-06-21T10:43:48-07:00

I love MetaFilter (and Ask MetaFilter), and I love that I can now get it in my ears. This is the podcast feed for your podcatcher. There's also a podcast page (http://podcast.metafilter.com) at MeFi but it's curiously lacking a prominent RSS link.

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Tags: metafilter, mefi, weblog, communityweblog, blog, web, podcast

'Lost' won't end 'with a blackout'

2007-06-14T11:50:35-07:00

"I'm not sure there is any ending that will satisfy everyone," Cuse said. "Our hope is that the ending will be ... the logical conclusion of the story."

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Tags: lost, abclost, tv, television, abc, writing, storytelling, series, sopranos

A Rat With a Whisk and a Dream

2007-06-14T02:01:54-07:00

The idea was to create food so authentic that people would leave the theater with an urge to cook and eat. But it turns out that computer-generated food can look much scarier than a computer-generated bug or car.

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Tags: nyt, movies, animation, pixar, ratatouille, cgi, uncannyvalley

Slimebuckets, pollution and web conservation Calacanis-style

2007-06-13T13:39:20-07:00

Think about the level of absurdity our industry has come to. Today, we build websites, not for humans, but to make them appeal to machines... You only have to search for a product, or a health condition, or your next vacation to discover that SEOs are ruining the web.

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Tags: seo, search, searchengines, mahalo, calcanis, google

Growing Up In Public

2007-06-08T17:40:39-07:00

What do you do when you realize how public your online life is? You could retreat into anonymity and try to ensure you leave no trace online (but increasingly there's something odd about a person who seems to leave no Google trace). Or you could say "So what?" and accept that every aspect of your online life is out there for people to find and judge as they will.

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Tags: privacy, identity, history, google, facebook, myspace

Kongregate

2007-06-07T12:56:07-07:00

A leading online hub for players and game developers to meet up, play games, and operate together as a community. By wrapping user-submitted Flash games with various community features, Kongregate's site serves as a unique way for users to play great web-based games alongside friends.

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Tags: gaming, games, gamers, flash, flashgames, webgames, socialweb, socialnetwork

Visualizing Global Web Performance with Akamai

2007-06-07T12:35:58-07:00

20% of the world's Internet traffic is delivered over the Akamai platform. We combine this global scope with constant data collection to construct an accurate and comprehensive picture of what's happening on the Internet. How fast is data moving? Where's the most congestion? What events are causing spikes in Web activity?

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Tags: akamai, web, internet, traffic, status, map, realtime

Lifecasting in Hawaii

2007-06-06T10:23:23-07:00

"The [your name here] show" - Anyone with a camera and Internet access can become a lifecaster and begin streaming their lives on the Web.

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Tags: lifecasting, lifecaster, lifecast, hawaii, video, live, streaming, justintv, ustream

Podshow Hacked

2007-06-05T11:56:06-07:00

Podcasters with accounts at Adam Curry's PodShow "social media community" got a bizarre e-mail message this morning.

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Tags: podshow, adam curry, twitter, matthew ebel, hacker, hacked, email, podcasters, podcasting

Google Keeps Tweaking Its Search Engine

2007-06-04T16:34:28-07:00

Mr. Singhal is the master of what Google calls its “ranking algorithm” — the formulas that decide which Web pages best answer each user’s question. It is a crucial part of Google’s inner sanctum, a department called “search quality” that the company treats like a state secret.

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Tags: google, search, searchengines, pagerank, algorithm, nyt

For the Greater Good

2007-06-03T21:17:14-07:00

The name of Evan and Kari Leong’s radio/TV show and podcasts, ‘Greater Good,’ says it all: Let’s create a business community in which volunteer service and giving benefit everyone.

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Tags: entrepreneurship, social entrepreneurship, giving, givingback, interviews, podcast, leaders, ceos

The Price of Free Airwaves

2007-06-02T12:47:12-07:00

Using the public airwaves is a privilege — a lucrative one — not a right, and I fear the F.C.C. has not done enough to stand up for the public interest.

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Tags: fcc, msm, nyt, media, broadcast, tv, television, regulation

Time Wasted? Perhaps It’s Well Spent

2007-06-01T16:07:36-07:00

A crotchety boss might say that we’re working longer because we’re wasting time, but the opposite may also be true. We are wasting time because we are working harder.

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Tags: rowe, working, workweek, work, productivity

LOST Podcasts in Podcast User Magazine

2007-06-01T00:53:17-07:00

Issue #17. Their joint explosion onto the world's consciousness as the summer of 2004 drew to a close marked the beginning of a new chapter in television and user-generated content. Something about 'LOST' and podcasts just go together.

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Tags: lost, podcasts, lostcasts, podcasting, podcasters, usergeneratedcontent, tv, television, fandom

Social media studies

2007-05-29T17:21:55-07:00

After years of worrying about how much time freshmen spend on Facebook, schools are incorporating the study of social networking, online communities and user-contributed content into new curricula on social computing. The moves, like other academic expansions into fields like videogame design, are part of an effort to keep technology studies relevant to students' lives

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Tags: socialweb, socialneworks, facebook, secondlife, wikipedia, academic, college, curriculum

Millions of Addresses and Thousands of Sites, All Leading to One

2007-05-28T12:45:59-07:00

The business is a far cry from the days of cybersquatting, where speculators bought up names of businesses to which they had no legitimate claim, but it does represent a vindication of sorts for many who bought hundreds or thousands of random Web address names on the hope that one day they would be worth something.

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Tags: domain, domain names, domainers, domains, domain registration, registrar, cybersquatting

The man who owns the Internet

2007-05-22T18:20:27-07:00

Kevin Ham is the most powerful dotcom mogul you've never heard of, reports Business 2.0 Magazine. Here's how the master of Web domains built a $300 million empire.

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Tags: domain, domain names, domains, registrar, registration, kevin ham, web, internet, yahoo, dotcom, cameroon, cm, com

fortuitous

2007-05-18T14:48:05-07:00

"I'm a hobbyist turned designer turned developer who eventually got to quit my day job and support myself with my projects. Along the way, my business life has gotten increasingly complicated and I've had to spend hours researching accounting, the law, and usage patterns on my sites. I intend to post a new essay about some aspect of my experiences every week."

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Tags: matt, matthaughey, haughey, metafilter, community, fortuitous