Box.net has one of the best apps on Facebook right now, because it’s so open-ended. Their Files app stands out amid the Facebook app frenzy because it lets you easily share music, video, photos, images, documents and whatever else you can think of via one handy box.
Well, turns out it’s not just for Facebookers. [...]

Nina Katchadourian does book cover rants much better than I do. Only they’re not rants; they’re vignettes.
[via Book Patrol]

Listen to this March 20th CalacanisCast interview with Andrew Lih, author of a forthcoming book (the first, surprisingly) about Wikipedia. Then go check out Mahalo again, Jason Calacanis’s new well-funded “human-powered search” project that currently has the blog world perplexed. Suddenly it becomes clear: Jason wasn’t able to convince the Wikipedians to let him help [...]

“Metadata is what you know. Data is what you’re looking for.”
-David Weinberger, author, Everything is Miscellaneous
“The Facebook guys are betting that the next fad or fun thing will be built on Facebook, not the internet.”
-James Hong, co-founder, Hot or Not
“I’ve been writing a blog comparing web 2.0 to hip-hop. The five elements of web 2.0 [...]