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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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The Changing Face of Reader Engagement–I Want to Hear from You

by Tris Hussey on February 9, 2010 · 7 comments

in Blogging, Blogging 101, Social Media

To really understand this post you need to understand a few things about me:

I pour over my webstats to learn more about who my readers are, what they read, and how they find me.
I love discussing the things I write about. That’s why I’ve written about them in the first place.
After blogging for about six years now, I’ve watched social media grow and evolve a lot, especially in how readers interact with writers.

Since I pour over my stats on a near-daily basis, especially when I see a traffic spike, I [...]

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More Focus, Less Distraction Means Less Twitter More RSS

by Tris Hussey on February 8, 2010 · 2 comments

in RSS, Social Media

Something has been bothering me about Twitter lately. It has nothing to so with the service, the people I follow, or those who follow me, I think it has something to do with establishing the right atmosphere for me to be productive. I have found it too easy to get caught up in the stream, distracted, but also disconnected. Wanting to be there so I don’t miss anything, but at the safe time wishing I could tear myself away.
It’s not a good feeling. It’s not a healthy state of mind.
And [...]

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We’re failing to help the mainstream adopt social media

by Tris Hussey on January 14, 2010 · 13 comments

in Internet Life, Social Media

Last night I had the rare pleasure of getting to hear Gillian Shaw speak to the Vancouver branch of the Canadian Authors Association. Gillian’s topic was, as you’d expect, social media and she did a fantastic job explaining it. Gillian delved into blogging (a wee bit) and (mostly) Twitter to a pretty diverse crowd of writers, and what surprised me most wasn’t what people didn’t know about social media, but what they did know about social media—but were wrong.
For example, a good part of the audience were aware of Twitter, [...]

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Money for Something, My Tweets Aren’t for Free

by Tris Hussey on January 12, 2010 · 3 comments

in Internet Life, Social Media

I was watching, and this is rare for me, Net@nite and Leo was telling Amber how Sony offered him $2000 to send out one tweet (one!) on a certain date. Leo didn’t see the email in time, so he didn’t send it. I gather the offer came from Ad.ly where Leo said he signed up for an account and set his cost per tweet very high, just so he could check out the service.
This got me thinking so I queried my Twitter followers:
Would you send out a single tweet for [...]

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I Have Seen Google, and It Is Us. Proposing a Q-A connector for Twitter

by Tris Hussey on January 11, 2010 · 7 comments

in Social Media

Call it the lazy web, wisdom of crowds, organic computers, or a hive mind, but I’ve seen in the last few weeks alone that asking a question on Twitter yields great results. Here is tonight’s example:
I use Twitter as my hyper-intelligent personal search engine #quote @zaibatsu
link: Twitter / Reg Saddler: I use Twitter as my hyper- …

There is a problem, of course, in relying on Twitter or Facebook or whatever social network du jour is out there and it has nothing do to with getting the wrong answer, it’s whether [...]

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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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Social Media and Business–no different then versus now

by Tris Hussey on December 2, 2009 · 0 comments

in Blogging, Business blogs, Social Media, Teaching, Technology, Web 2.0

Way back in 2005, when “business blogs” were pretty rare creatures, those of use who were pushing the boundaries and getting some of the first businesses to actively use blogs were telling businesses to start blogging only if they were serious about getting input from their customers. If they weren’t ready for that kind of interaction or weren’t willing to put real resources behind a blog, then just monitoring social media right be the right choice for them.

I feel compelled to say right off the bat that if you aren’t [...]

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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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