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Brian Solis
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Brian Solis's personal blog at briansolis.com covers business and culture. Since 2007, 45 different Hacker News readers have linked it 48 times, most often “Ning Proves Ning Proves That There’s Life Outside of Facebook and Twitter”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-27, and you can follow it by feed.
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- Ning Proves Ning Proves That There’s Life Outside of Facebook and Twitter2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2009-12-22
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> What the hell is general intelligence anyway? OpenAI used to define it as "a highly autonomous system that outperforms humans at most economically valuable work." Now they used a Level 1-5 scale: https://briansolis.com/2024/08/ainsights-openai-defines-five... So we can say AGI is "AI that can do the work of Organizations": > These “Organizations” can manage and execute all functions of a business, surpassing tradi…
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on “AGI Is Still 30 Years Away – Ege Erdil and Tamay Besiroglu”Submitted Ning Proves That There’s Life Outside of Facebook and Twitter as a story · 12 points
HN discussionTwitter's base DNA was building a "broadcast" platform with a simplistic I/O of communication between two parties. (keyword TWO) This makes sense in the context of Twitter's underpinnings in emergency vehicle / taxi dispatch. (1) What it's actually becomes is a massive discussion board where information is organized around people rather than topics. With the genius tweak of limiting to 140 characters to drive word e…
Comment linking /2011/04/twitter-co-founder-jack-dorsey-and-the-ideas-that-sparked-a-revolution/
on ““I am quitting Twitter for a while””Submitted Sobering stats on business failures as a story · 10 points
HN discussionhttp://www.briansolis.com/2009/12/ning-proves-that-there%E2%...
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on “Ning Proves That There’s Life Outside of Facebook and Twitter”Submitted Evan Williams on the Past, Present, and Future of Twitter as a story · 10 points
HN discussion> thought processes went "I'm a full stack engineer" > ... > "I'm evaluating classes in professional writing" Let that one run, let's see where it ends. maybe "I no longer build software; I now make furniture out of wood" or "Have taken up farming" or perhaps "I've sold all my RSUs, am taking a Sabattical" > "I'm exploring activities I find more fulfilling: yoga & angel investing" > "I'm the author of a substack blo…
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on “Ask HN: Opus 4.6 ignoring instructions, how to use 4.5 in Claude Code instead?”Submitted Fear Kills Startups, Dead as a story · 9 points
HN discussionSubmitted Whoops, I didn't mean for you to read this as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Silicon Valley Hierarchy of Needs as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Facebook and the Future of User Generated Governance as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The State of Social Media 2008 as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Rise and Fall of Sony/Panasonic/Sharp and How to Survive Digital Darwinism as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Facebook Groups Give Rise to Social Nicheworking as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Facebook and the New Age of Privacy as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Report: Top 20 Brands on Twitter – April 2010 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Revealing the People Defining Social Networks as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Social Media is Rife with Experts but Starved of Authorities as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Twitter Inspires a Dedicated and Thriving Startup Economy as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Twitter Tools for Community and Communications Professionals as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted BackType Unearths Blog Comments to Identify Relevant Conversations as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted PR 2.0: Introducing The Conversation Prism as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted GenAI Prism Infographic: Framework for Collaborating with Generative AI as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Hierarchy of Needs – Silicon Valley Version as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted 26 Disruptive and Technology Trends 2016 – 2018 from Brian Solis as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The 2013-2014 Social Media Landscape [Infographic] as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Future of Media is Currently in Production as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The 6 Pillars of Social Commerce as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted When ROI Represents the Realization of Influence as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Prediction: Twitter to Predict the Future as a story · 1 points
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