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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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When blogging less becomes more

by Tris Hussey on June 29, 2009 · 6 comments

in Blogging, Social Media, Web 2.0

As many of you know I’m in the midst of writing my first book (zapped off three more chapters yesterday!) which is entitled “Six Easy Blogging Projects” and one of the last chapters in the book is creating a “Lifestreaming blog”. When I was putting the book’s outline together I had no idea that I was actually on to something that would become quite timely by the time the book hits the shelves.
My long-time blogging friend Steve Rubel has announced that he is giving up on blogging and moving towards [...]

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Lifestreaming to Infostreaming: The what’s next?

by Tris Hussey on October 20, 2008 · 3 comments

in Internet Life, Social Media, Web 2.0

Mark Krynsky of the Lifestream Blog wrote a pretty damn intriguing guest post on Louis Gray’s blog postulating that lifestreaming is the next evolution of “what’s next” and I might be inclined to agree with him:
Companies are slowly starting to understand social media. They should also start thinking about how to improve communication internally for a well informed workforce. Creating rich workstreams by aggregating real-time data on an internal network can help achieve this. I see a resurgence of rich intranets like this starting to happen soon. [...]

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