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Quit Facebook Day Didn’t Fail It Acheived Its Goals: Discussion and Awareness

June 1, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Yesterday was Quit Facebook Day (QFD) and according to reports about 30,000 people closed their accounts yesterday which is leading people to call it a failure—‘Quit Facebook’ protest day flops – Telegraph, but that is an entirely over simplistic view of what was trying to be accomplished. I knew this would probably happen (no legion [...]

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DreamHost offers Status.net as a 1-click install. Great step towards distributed micromessaging

March 12, 2010 By 25 Comments
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I’m a pretty heavy Twitter user but I have long argued that we need the equivalent of SMTP/POP for micromessaging as we have for email. I know Twitter is great and has a great ecosystem going, but it can’t last forever. Sure a lot of us have gmail addresses, but we can still send/receive email [...]

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Can Twitter Make It?

December 20, 2009 By 14 Comments

Sometimes, especially after this week’s Twitter DNS debacle—Internal Twitter Credentials Used in DNS Hack, Redirect-Twitter Email Security Blamed for Latest Hack—, I wonder if Twitter really has what it takes to make it in the long haul. It certainly took them long enough to get basic scaling working. At least now a simple Apple announcement [...]

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Who are your social media friends, really?

December 11, 2009 By 4 Comments

How many “friends” on Facebook do you have? Twitter? Foursquare? LinkedIn? If you’re like me probably “lots” is a safe answer, but there’s a problem with the term “friends” or “connections” because we use these tools to define our personal, professional, and informational networks many of the people on these lists aren’t really friends at [...]

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Foolproof, Basic Blogging Tip: More Posts Means More Traffic

December 1, 2009 By 4 Comments

Yes, I’ve been posting more here lately. It seems that my blogging has run in fits and starts of late. Part of the issue, I think, has been the diversity of places I could publish to, coupled with lots of projects on the go I didn’t publish enough. So for the past few week I’ve [...]

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