While Facebook has been inching closer to Twitter-like functionality for awhile I see the publishing privacy change that they are rolling out in the next few weeks as the first real run at assuming Twitter’s position in the online attention marketplace.
So far Facebook’s functionality changes to publishing; the addition of the News Feed, more general [...]
Podcamp Boston 4 has a date, August 8-9, 2009 at the University of Massachusetts Boston Harborside campus and registration is open. The schedule has not been determined yet, as a matter of fact you can register to lead a discussion yourself. Keep an eye out for updates.
Again, I’m not associated with Podcamp Boston, but [...]
A couple weeks ago Skittles changed their website so that rather than Skittles.com leading to a brand website it now leads to one of several social media websites, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Wikipedia, etc. along with a widget allowing visitors to navigate between them. Relying on these sites rather than their own releases their control of [...]
Sara Taylor is the former political director of the Bush White House and she has one idea [about what will be next in harnessing grass-roots political support via technology]. “We’re at a place in the country where almost everybody has a cell phone, but not many people have a smartphone, meaning a video-enabled phone. But [...]
For the last few months I’ve been playing with lifestreaming, using the SimpleLife plugin for WordPress as the basis for this work. Based on it and some edits and ideas from Db0 I’ve modified the plugin that I am using enough that I thought that I should make it public and therefore add these [...]
I’ve fallen a bit off the blogging wagon in the last few weeks because of travel for work, a new agency of record agreement and a lot of deliverables, not to mention trying to spend some family time. As a result there is a bunch of news that I’ve thought about over the last few [...]
Social Networking Wars // Current
(tags: animation facebook myspace socialnetworking video friendster funny secondlife)
Email Opt-in, Opt-out Processes Not Quite There Yet
Data behind use of best practices for email registration.
(tags: email registration opt-in opt-out best_practice data)
10 Tips for Launching a Solid Podcast
10 tips for launching an engaging podcast that will help you build a loyal and responsive [...]
Here is another of my old posts from a now defunct blog, originally posted 6/13/07.
Ask five different people what “Web 2.0″ is and you’ll probably get five different answers, but it all boils down to new ways of interaction and communication online.
Blogs, social networks (like MySpace, Friendster and LinkedIn) and other user-generated content (like YouTube [...]
Personally I see no benefit in the lists of 500 friends that you see on Facebook, LinkedIn or Twitter, but to each his own and if you happen to be the kind of person who is that social then more power to ya! Personally I’m not, and I think that my friend lists prove that [...]
Seth Porges’ post on CrunchGear yesterday on laziness killing Web 2.o brought some thoughts that I have been having about Web 2.o into focus. First of all Web 2.0 is not only about social networks like MySpace, Facebook and LinkedIn. Web 2.o’s social component encompasses sites like YouTube, Flickr, del.icio.us, Twitter and other [...]
