Tag: STOWEBOYD

Stowe Boyd spends a lot of time thinking about Web 2.0, and web business in general. He was recently asked 5 questions for an article by a reporter at a small paper. His answer to the reporter's final question underscores how drab some recent startups have been. When asked if "someone with nothing more than a good idea could start a Web 2.0 business", Boyd replied, "having an innovative idea is ...

Download Squad readers are tech-heavy web users. If you're like me, you probably generate quite a bit of RSS (maybe even without conscious awareness). Del.icio.us, your blog, your Flickr stream, etc, etc, ad nausea. We're at a total saturation point for the incoming data streams we deal with on a daily basis and, since there's no sign of the dataflow slowing down, we're forced to look for better ...

If you telecommute, you probably live in IM. Even if you don't live by the wire, it's easy to die by the wire, because IM's aren't saved as drafts (unlike those nasty emails you should never send). Stowe Boyd, CEO of Blue Whale Labs, has done what Letitia Baldrige failed to do: bring some civility to the land of OMFG's and WTF's. His Instant Messaging Etiquette just made it to the front page of ...

AOL's much-talked-about social networking site AIM Pages launched today in beta form at AIMPages.com. Logging in with your AIM screen name takes you to the profile editor, which has a neat drag-and-drop Ajax interface. By default your AIM Pages profile has a few "modules" like the obligatory photo and "About Me" box, and you can add other modules like RSS feeds, photo tickers from Flickr or AOL, ...