Ive been talking this up for awhile, there are really tangible reasons not to put your eggs into one social media basket. You don’t own the space. These sites are walled gardens and urls and data that you collect don’t there are not yours.

For nearly two years, Mobile had been accumulating friends at myspace.com/mobile, only to receive a troubling e-mail from MySpace last Wednesday. Like a house next to a highway that’s set to be widened, the band’s page would have to be moved due to a claim of eminent domain.

“We are in the process of making MySpace better which requires the use of the URL you have chosen,” read part of MySpace’s e-mail. “MySpace will reset your URL within 48 hours of receipt of this email. After it has been reset, you will be able to choose another URL. The reset of your URL will not affect your profile at all.”

blog.wired.com

this one is for the bloggers…my good friend David Gratton and his company in Vancouver are developing amazing new technology which allows you to “snip” almost anything from a web page. i mean flash, text,  photos, youtube videos, almost anything. The application encodes the source of the media and then allows you to tag and save it for blogging or posting later. If you blog you can check it out here http://sni.ps/

these are some of the things ive been snipping:)

tinygrow

www.box7box.com

Art in Hong Kong 香港藝術

www.artinhk.com

i love innovative thinking, here it is…