Because it’s Friday and it’s been a very busy week or two, I offer you no great insights today… just something cool. It’s twistori and I can’t see anything useful you’d do with it, but it’s fascinating. Click on the words on the left hand side of the page and you’ll see a stream of [...]
It seems that some of the early social media adopters are reconsidering how their online lives.
Robert Scoble says, “turn off the Internet and get things done.” Daniel Scocco at Daily Blog Tips says, “Twitter less and blog more.” Hugh McLeod deleted his Twitter account (but then reactivated it). Lore Sjöberg writes about wasting your life [...]
How do I know? Because more than half of my “___ is following you” emails are now spam. Yes, Twitter is now high-profile enough that people will use it to send you junk!
From the last day:
Gee, thanks.
Sigh.
These are the things that make people become less interested in using social media. First: these are not people. [...]
Time and expense tracking web app Harvest is now allowing users to interact with the application via Twitter. This is really fascinating.
People have flailed around quite a bit trying to provide business cases for Twitter and generally failed. The value is real, because facilitating connections and interactions among people has business value, if not an [...]
Mark McGuiness wrote about why he’s changed from a Twitter skeptic to a Twitter advocate; like Mark, I initially reacted to the notion of Twitter with the thought, “Good grief, that sounds horrifying.” And he’s nicely summed up the reasons that I’ve come to use and appreciate it.
There was a period when Twitter was becoming [...]
Last week I gave a Social Media 101 talk at a conference, and at the beginning of the session I asked attendees about their current use of social media. A number of people were blogging or using social networks, but when I got to Twitter, one person in a room of fifty raised his hand.
It’s [...]