Category Archives: Lifestreaming

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

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 … Continue reading

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

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 … Continue reading

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Can Twitter Make It?

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 … Continue reading

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Who are your social media friends, really?

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, … Continue reading

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Foolproof, Basic Blogging Tip: More Posts Means More Traffic

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 … Continue reading

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TweetDeck ups the Twitter List ante for all Twitter apps

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 … Continue reading

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Google Wave is Getting Lots of Attention, But Too Early To Really Understand It

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 … Continue reading

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Twitter hasn’t peaked–Risks of blindly reading data

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 … Continue reading

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Blogging is about writing and self expression, not technology

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, … Continue reading

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