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Stowe Boyd
stoweboyd.com · Personal blog · on HN since 2007
Stowe Boyd writes about social media, the future of work, and technology trends, with posts on Twitter, Facebook and online discussion.
What HN saysHN commenters link it for his takes on online discussion, Facebook as the new AOL, and network centrality, and as the original source for quoted posts.
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Most-shared posts
- 1Fred Wilson on Leaving The Instigator Out: Small Worlds v Big World2 people · 4 points · first shared 2008 · discussion on HN
- 2The Tata AirPod: a car that runs on compressed air w/150-200km range1 people · 126 points · first shared 2012 · 77 comments on HN
- 3New Twitter Code For Retweet: ♺1 people · 32 points · first shared 2009 · 37 comments on HN
- 4Writing Tight: Why Tiny Business Plans Are Best1 people · 11 points · first shared 2007 · 3 comments on HN
- 5Facebook Apologists Miss The Point: Facebook Isn't The Future1 people · 4 points · first shared 2010 · discussion on HN
- 6The Flipboard Dilemma: Who Owns User Experience?1 people · 3 points · first shared 2010 · 1 comments on HN
- 7Men Pledge to Support 25 Years of Women in Charge of Everything1 people · 2 points · first shared 2017 · discussion on HN
- 8The Rise of Algorithmic HR1 people · 2 points · first shared 2015 · discussion on HN
- 9The Future Of Money1 people · 2 points · first shared 2009 · discussion on HN
- 10Why The New Web Matters1 people · 1 points · first shared 2008 · discussion on HN
- 11Stowe Boyd - Surprise Twitter Ecosystem Attracting Less Investment1 people · 1 points · first shared 2010 · discussion on HN
- 12He’s Got A Gregarious Physiology1 people · 1 points · first shared 2010 · discussion on HN
- 13Thought Leadership: Beyond Marketing1 people · 1 points · first shared 2010 · discussion on HN
- 14Messiness At Scale1 people · 1 points · first shared 2011 · discussion on HN
- 15NY Times Retires ‘Times People’ But Doesn’t Actually Tell The Users1 people · 1 points · first shared 2011 · discussion on HN
What HN people wrote when they linked it
bootload · 2008-05-31
"... i would love to see a way to pump all this discussion on hacker news into disqus ..."
This quote resonates a lot. Especially after reading Stowe Boyds` response "Fred Wilson on Leaving The Instigator Out: Small Worlds v Big World" on exactly this problem ~ http://www.stoweboyd.com/message/2008/05/a-vc-web-discus.html
rogeryu · 2015-11-09
Marshall McLuhan once said that the last thing a fish would ever notice in it’s habitat is the water. Likewise, the most obvious and powerful realities of our human culture seem to also be the most unrecognised.
http://stoweboyd.com/2013/07/12/marshall-mcluhan-once-said-that-the-la…
retroafroman · 2011-06-14
Linking to the original source is ideal: http://www.stoweboyd.com/post/6518390176/jason-calacanis-blogging-is-d…
Also, the formatting there is much easier to read.
frisco · 2010-02-10
Also, I should point out that his reasoning for betweenness over eigvector centrality was given in a link in the article: http://www.stoweboyd.com/message/its-betweenness-that-matters-not-your…
brownbat · 2015-12-31
Felt like I heard the Facebook/AOL comparison before... turns out it pops up in a lot of places:
Kottke, 2007:
http://www.kottke.org/07/06/facebook-is-the-new-aol
Marketing tech blog, 2009:
https://www.marketingtechblog.com/facebook-is-the-new-aol/
Stowe Boyd, 2010:
http://stoweboyd.com/post/7928792532/the-decline-and-fall-of-facebook-…
PC Mag, 2010:
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2372729,00.asp
The Verge, 2015: http://www.theverge.com/2015/1/4/7488495/facebook-is-the-new-aol
NY Mag, 2015:
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2015/03/facebook-is-the-new-aol.h…