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web 2.0’

March 27, 2009
Posted by Ryan Graves

Explaining my Actions: Don’t Let Twitter Ruin Your Online Productivity

image via Robert Scoble’s flickr Over the past 2 months I’ve made some drastic changes to how I use Twitter (which I will share below). When I was in China, as I was reading The 4 Hour Work Week, I realized that my control over my own productivity was slipping from my hands. I spent [...]

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Posted Under Delivery & Execution Technology

October 8, 2008
Posted by Ryan Graves

SocialDreamium ad

This is the first ad for SocialDreamium that I created last night. Please let me know what you think and how it can be improved! Feel free to steal and repost this anywhere. check out SocialDreamium.com

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Posted Under Projects

September 30, 2008
Posted by Ryan Graves

Summary: Financial Crisis effect on VCs and startups

In 2001 the pop of the bubble in Silicon Valley brought Wall St. tumbling down. Will This pop on Wall St return the favor to Silicon Valley? The super investment savvy in NYC and beyond probably have a pretty good take on what the hell is going on with the financial crisis. What’s most interesting [...]

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Posted Under Economics

September 19, 2008
Posted by Ryan Graves

The History of Web Tech in NYC

This is the keynote at the Web2.0 Expo in New York this week given by Fred Wilson. It is extremely cumulative and shows super potential for NYC going forward. Fred – great work on this presentation and Jeremy great work on the slides!

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Posted Under Technology

September 1, 2008
Posted by Ryan Graves

Forcing Value with Web 2.0

This week my sister was asking me about Friendfeed and how to find value in it for her PR company. This is an extract from our conversation… Taylor: what’s Friendfeed exactly, what you’ve done online? what you’ve posted, commented, etc? Taylor:  what’s the purpose of it, i’m trying to understand Me:  it aggregates all of [...]

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Posted Under Technology

July 22, 2008
Posted by Ryan Graves

Web 2.0 … The Machine is Us/ing Us

This incredibly inspiring and well creatively delivered video helps again show how the original web (html) is being transformed into a dynamic, mutational source of user contribution and innovation. Michael Wesch, Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Kansas State University helps anyone who is still trying to understand the over but enevitably used term “web [...]

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July 18, 2008
Posted by Ryan Graves

How I use Web 2.0

I’ve been working in and with web 2.0 applications for about 5 years and in the paste 2 I’ve really focused how people use web 2.0 apps in their business and their lives. As part of the process to establish myself as an expert on social software and the craze that is web 2.0 I [...]

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Posted Under Delivery & Execution Technology


  • Hi. I'm Ryan Graves and this is my personal blog. I'm an entrepreneur living in San Francisco, via Chicago, via Miami OH, via San Diego. My wife blogs too, and I love my family.

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