Stowe Boyd

Stowe Boyd is best known these days for his writing (and hopefully the thinking behind it) at /Message.

He is obsessed with social tools, and their impact on business, media, and society. He coined the term "social tools" in 1999, the same year he started blogging, and claims he hasn't looked back since.

His work is principally oriented toward the theory and practice of social web application design and development, as well as related product strategy (like the activities formerly known as marketing).

Stowe advises School of Everything on the social and viral dimensions of what we're building, and how our product strategy serves our target users. And he teaches too...