Oh Twitter. You can’t seem to catch a break can you? Why aren’t you making money? Why are you so unstable? Why can’t you be like your older brother Facebook, he’s got a business model? And now, why don’t users stick with you for more than a month? When MySpace and Facebook were at the [...]
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It’s not about a service, it’s about messaging
Filed Under: Internet Life, Social Media, Web 2.0 Tagged With: Facebook, microblogging, micromessaging, Myspace, twitter
Gutenberg was a blogger
We owe a huge debt to Johannes Gutenberg. Here’s a guy who just wanted to wrestle publication of The Bible out of the hands of The Church and monks and unwittingly (perhaps) set the stage for blogging. The movable type printing press revolutionized how information was disseminated. If you wanted to rail against the government, [...]
Filed Under: Internet Life, Social Media, Web 2.0 Tagged With: geek life, infostreaming, Johannes Gutenberg, newspapers, printing press, publishing, Shebeen Club, Social Media, Web 2.0
Mac Twitter Apps Showdown: TweetDeck, Nambu, Tweetie for Mac
Beyond the post Oprah-on-Twitter hype, the majority of folks I know and chat with on a regular basis are tweeting business as usual. So while Ashton, CNN, and Oprah were getting headlines and new Mac Twitter app was being chatted about in my Twitter stream. Tweetie for Mac is a desktop app brought to you [...]
Filed Under: Internet Life, Social Media Tagged With: AIR apps, infostreaming, microblogging, microsharing, Nambu, OS X, Social Media, tweetdeck, Tweetie, twitter, Twitter clients
Twitter hits the mainstream and a crossroads: Time for an open server
So an actor named Ashton gets a million followers and a talk show host named Oprah joins Twitter and the world rejoices. Twitter has hit that magic point of becoming mainstream. Of course, there isn’t universal cheering, but that is to be expected. I’m sure the academic community was aghast when AOL users could send [...]
Filed Under: Internet Life, Social Media, Web 2.0 Tagged With: microblogging, microsharing, online services, Social Media, software, twitter, Twitter clients, Web 2.0, web services
Is using Google’s keyword tool for ideas pandering to SEO?
Getting new, fresh ideas for posts can be really hard. Honestly, now that I’m not pro-blogging anymore I just don’t seem to have the post output I used to have. There are hundreds of posts on how to get ideas for posts, but this post from the Reachd blog caught my eye: Here are the [...]
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