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How has Twitter stayed #1 despite themselves?

And why it will stay there.
The simple answer is, network effect. Yes, I am stating the overly obvious answer that Twitter is surviving because of it’s network. But not just any network, the fact that Twitter, like the rest of the Web is a scale-free network, is saving it.
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How do you stay grounded?

I learned a long time ago that I am NEVER the target audience. As early adopters (if you’re a regular reader of this blog you’re probably an early adopter) it becomes easy to lose touch with reality. If you’re a fellow blogger then you live in a world filled with other bloggers and […]

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I’m a Grup, I finally fit in (kind of)

So while putting together an eBook campaign I’ve been working on for months now I came across an old article from 5 Blogs Before Lunch.
Dave points us to a New York Times article about Grups aka Yupsters aka Yindies.
This is an obituary for the generation gap. It is a story about 40-year-old men and women […]

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The Death of Wrist Watches and Voice Messages

This post is for all you trend spotters out there.
Wrist Watches: Why bother?
I was at my brothers bachelor party a few months back when I asked everyone that was around the poker table what time it was. Not a single person knew. Now my brother is 10 years younger than I am and I’m pretty […]

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