Way back when, when I was on Facebook, I had a good amount of “friends” on the service, maybe 350-500. I can’t recall the exact number, but it was a lot of people from High School, Undergraduate, Graduate, my various occupational peers and a few randoms as well.
On Twitter I have followed 96 people and [...]
I’m beginning to think we are in the adolescent stages of “social media” like Facebook and Twitter. It seems that these services (more so FB) have reached critical mass and peaked, at least in the States. Now the search for serious innovation and value take over. You’ll see a lot more new services from the [...]
Recently the founder of App.net, Dalton Caldwell, wrote a post criticizing bad faith negotiations between Facebook and his startup. Essentially during the negotiations, he posits that FB basically told him that what his team was working on was in competition with something that the social network giant was working on, but to be nice, they’d [...]
The times they are a changin’.
Especially at this point of the year with the olympics, it’s obvious that the way the US and world are consuming media is changing drastically. Twitter launched in July 0f 2006, basically six years ago. That’s not a lot of time, yet it is prevalent in how many consumers interact [...]
Read a very interesting article on tech company obsolescence today. The basic gist of it is that web based companies are not “master of their own domain” due to the typical infrastructure that sprouts at the time of their start. The author then points out that these companies are part of three generations: web 1.0 companies [...]
For the better part of two years, I was very ensconced in all things social media. I saw it as a revolutionary alteration to the world of marketing as I’d known it. It was more of a hobby than a job, though I did incorporate a few things into my work environment at that point. Of [...]
Twitter is rolling out a monetization effort for their service, Promoted Tweets. A lot of consumers will not like this, a lot of them will understand that the service and information provided by “free” sites such as Twitter and Facebook has to be paid for at some point. This is similar to how basic programming [...]
Twitter just added geolocation to it’s growing list of services to tweets. That’s a really big deal as 4square has been making so many waves in the last few months. I tested it and it works really, really well.
We’re seeing a lot of overlap from the big guys in social networking (or whatever you want [...]
Just did a quick search on “iPad” to look at some reviews and thoughts and found Google’s news feature, a scroll down of new publications updated constantly. It incorporates a lot of stuff that I saw such as tweets, blogs, site reviews and whatnot.
I just found it interesting and a nice, functional real time piece. [...]
It’s a fascinating time to be alive. Although chances are that most people feel that way during their lives, I really do feel as though the technological revolution we are in right now is mesmerizing.
Eric Schmidt goes over some real time issues here for Google, such as how to rank and the change in users [...]