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.
For background on this episode of […]
There have been two huge enablers in my online publishing habits. FriendFeed and my BlackJack 2.
I’ve always had a variety of desktop *publishing tools* but my BlackJack has enabled me to create content on the go, and FriendFeed pulls all that content together. While Louis Gray is the real maven on FriendFeed and all […]
The title of this blog should be read out loud in your best drunken Scottish accent.
Twitter seems to be failing at an ever increasing rate. Some people are calling for a global day of tough love to show Twitter that this isn’t acceptable.
Others are just moving on to FriendFeed. If you’re not on […]
If you’re on Twitter I suggest you do a Tweet Cloud. It’s very telling. Tweet Cloud even shows you the number of times you used each word.
This is my Tweet Cloud without the @ replies. If you use del.icio.us you can also mash up your del.icio.us tags into your Tweet Cloud.
Technorati Tags: Twitter, […]
Marshall Kirkpatrick of ReadWriteWeb has written a thorough and thought provoking article during the Web 2.0 Expo (which I was not able to go to at the last minute and am still sulking over). The topic of his post specifically addresses API’s (Application Programming Interfaces). API’s let one application (app) talk to another […]
Social Media Case Study: Blatantly Advertising … And Getting Away With It | Social Media Explorer
As it turns out, H&R Block not only gets the outreach portion of it, but has figured out a way to be 100-percent, totally marketing/advertising to people using social media tools and somehow pull it off. No, I wasn’t sure […]
One possible outcome of new media campaigns that I hadn’t anticipate before is what I’m calling Death by Success.
The outcome is nothing new. Many project managers in many companies recognize instantly what it is that I’m talking about. You try a “pilot” campaign and things go better than expected. From here one […]
I saw the other day that Radiohead is now selling their album on iTunes, after ’selling’ it from their own site for what ever price the fan wanted to pay, even $0.00. I don’t know if we’ll ever know how much they will have made on this new album, but I have to believe […]
I’ve gotten a few questions lately on an older post of mine about using Web 2.0 tools inside the company firewall. One of those queries came in the form of an email from Michelle Rafter. Michelle writes for Inc. Technology and wrote a post specifically dealing with how companies are using or can use Social […]
Here are some random thoughts and links from the Web 2.0 Summit:
Video highlights of the speakers and interviews - http://web2summit.blip.tv/
Context will be the killer app for advertising.
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