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

by Tris Hussey on March 12, 2010 · 6 comments

in Internet Life, Lifestreaming, Social Media, Technology, Web 2.0

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 from people who are on gmail. Right now we don’t have that ability, really, with micromessaging/Twitter. It’s a closed box.
Early on in the whole micromessaging frenzy Status.net out of Montreal developed an open-source server for [...]

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Can Twitter Make It?

by Tris Hussey on December 20, 2009 · 8 comments

in Featured, Internet Life, Lifestreaming, Social Media, Web 2.0

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 or single conference won’t completely take Twitter down. If this is the second hack that Twitter has suffered because of, I’m guessing here, poor email and password management then do they have the management chops [...]

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Who are your social media friends, really?

by Tris Hussey on December 11, 2009 · 2 comments

in Internet Life, Lifestreaming, Social Media, Web 2.0

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 all. I’d venture to say that, for Twitter especially, the majority are less than even acquaintances. My friend (and I mean that in the sociological way) Chris Brogan probes into this sticky problem as he [...]

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Foolproof, Basic Blogging Tip: More Posts Means More Traffic

by Tris Hussey on December 1, 2009 · 2 comments

in Blogging, Blogging 101, Business blogs, Create Your Own Blog, Lifestreaming, Multimedia blogs, Personal blogs, Portfolio blogs, Social Media, Tips and Tricks, Web 2.0

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 been publishing more and the traffic results are clear:

It doesn’t matter what the actual numbers are, because it’s a matter of scale. It’s the same thing I told the bloggers at b5media and teach my [...]

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TweetDeck ups the Twitter List ante for all Twitter apps

by Tris Hussey on November 30, 2009 · 2 comments

in Cool tools, Featured, Internet Life, Lifestreaming, News and Info, Social Media, Web 2.0

When Twitter added lists not only was there a race to build (and get on) lists, but Twitter clients to add support for them. Over the past few weeks I’ve watched Hootsuite, Nambu, and others add Twitter Lists support all the while waiting for my favourite Twitter tool, TweetDeck to add support. This morning the wait is over and I think TweetDeck has upped the ante for all Twitter clients, and they did it by making themselves less essential, but more valuable at the same time.
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Google Wave is Getting Lots of Attention, But Too Early To Really Understand It

by Tris Hussey on November 23, 2009 · 1 comment

in Internet Life, Lifestreaming, Social Media, Web 2.0

I have to admit, while got into Google Wave early, I haven’t done much with it. Why? Because it was yet another tool that was demanding my attention, but not really giving back.
I had some early success with brainstorming for my current BCIT class, but since then? I do wander by Wave (using Waveboard), but not for long. I don’t think I’ve quiet got the information flow down right. So with that in mind … Look, Mashable is talking about newspapers and the MSM using Wave to discuss and work [...]

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Twitter hasn’t peaked–Risks of blindly reading data

by Tris Hussey on November 22, 2009 · 1 comment

in Cool tools, Internet Life, Lifestreaming, Social Media, Web 2.0

It seems that the “Twitter in the news” cycle is set to a two week rotation. Maybe the law of conservation of twitter news …
Regardless, Twitter was in the news recently that Twitter has peaked because its Comscore traffic data dipped in October. Oh how the pundits, jumped on that. Well the pundits who didn’t really read the data. CNET shows that at least someone is reading the data with a critical eye:

It seems that these figures, blessedly inconsistent as they are, are not taking account of all the third-party [...]

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Blogging is about writing and self expression, not technology

by Tris Hussey on September 4, 2009 · 0 comments

in About the book, Blogging 101, Lifestreaming, Personal blogs

A friend of mine here in Vancouver wrote a really insightful post about social media here in Vancouver. While the larger point of the post is more of a social commentary, there is a part that applies here:
In FACT, I should be MORE relevant. Why? Because I care about social media for two reasons — it’s social, and it’s media. I’m reaching out. For me, being READ is more important than selling adspace, even when I’m killing myself trying to just get by, let alone pay down debt. I don’t [...]

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