Social Media
TweetDeck: Cool, But Not Quite
I finally got around to giving the new Twitter client TweetDeck a try. In a word: interesting.
As pictured below, the most obvious change here is multiple columns. You have one column for your normal timeline (similar to Twhirl), another for replies, another for direct messages. Makes it much easier to see what’s happening on [...]
Social Media & Internet Marketing: How NOT To Make Money Online
Anybody who is looking to make money online and wants to use social media as part of your marketing strategy…pay attention.
Facebook. Myspace. Twitter. LinkedIn. These social media services are built on one thing: relationships. Now, if you were having a social gathering and somebody just ran into your room and started pitching their product, how [...]
MicroBlogging Is About to Go All McDonalds On Us and I’m Tired Of It.
It seems like every week sees another launch or yet another new social media website. And right now, microblogging seems to be the fad. Twitter created the fad by being the standard bearer. Everybody jumped on board. The early adopters all wanted to have little baby whales with the Twitter.
Then, Twitter started to crack up. [...]
FriendFeed Etiquette
A post by Chris Pirillo got me thinking about this subject. On FriendFeed, he said:
Removing my Twitter stream from my FriendFeed stream. Why? Ping.fm supports posting directly to FriendFeed now. Social networks, untied.
The general reaction on FriendFeed was positive to this. Bwana, for example, says:
My name is Bwana, and I approve this message
Now, it [...]
TwitScoop Shows What’s Buzzing on Twitter. Awesome.
It is so cool to see some of the sites which are built atop Twitter. These are sites that could be integrated with Twitter at some point to create one of the best social platforms ever devised. It looks like Summize is being bought by Twitter, but this one emphasizes the "right now" nature of [...]
Mac Users: The Absolute Best Friendfeed App Is…
Like a lot of people, I dig FriendFeed. I find that it is much easier to have conversations on FriendFeed. And those conversations are based around the actual content we all produce on the Internet. Frickin’ awesome.
The FriendFeed API, of course, allows for the creation of applications that will allow you to monitor FriendFeed from [...]
Identi.ca: Twitter Killer or a Distraction?
It really is a shame when you see a service like Twitter put one foot into the door of mainstream and then start foundering so colossally and publicly. I can’t remember the last time I’ve seen a company have problems so publicly and drop the ball this hard.
Well, it isn’t as if Twitter is [...]
Scoble is Wrong About Blog Comments Being Dead
I think Robert Scoble suffers from the disease of early adopter-itis. What does that mean? Well, like many tech bloggers (including myself), Scoble is an early adopter. This means he tries new things way ahead of most of the people on the Internet. When you’re way out ahead, the problem is that you forget that [...]
Twellow Helps You Find Fellow Twitterers
As Cordiva would call this, this is "awesomesauce". It is called Twellow.
Twellow is a new site which serves as a directory of Twitter users. A who’s who kind of thing. Various Twitter people are organized into categories and you can then better find them. If you are looking for other bloggers, for example, check [...]
Plurk API Could Change The Race
A few days ago, my response to Plurk was: BORING! I don’t like the interface and I think it is too hard to track down and add friends. I’m sure they thought the horizontal timeline was a novel concept, but I personally find it to be incredibly frustrating.
Today’s news: Plurk is set to release an [...]
