What Path Teaches Us About The Future of Social Networks

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You’ve probably heard of Path. Even if it doesn’t sound familiar you might remember last year a new social network, that many called a “Facebook killer” even before it launched, ended up being a total flop. For starters a lot of people criticized the 50 friend limit. There were other … Continue reading

A Shed Load of Global Social Media Stats

If you’re like me you’re always having to pull together presentations and training decks for a variety of reasons. Today I was pulling together a bunch of social media stats specific to Europe (bellow) and was recommended Social Bakers and Factbrowser. Both are amazing! Factbrowser is basically your one stop shop for … Continue reading

Twitter Copies Facebook and Google+ by Adding ‘Recent Images’

When I logged onto Twitter this morning I found a new little feature called recent images. It instantly reminds me of Facebook’s newest implementation of profile pictures or the similar layout that Google+ has. I think this is a good feature for Twitter to implement. People love pictures and they love sharing … Continue reading

The Rebirth of Tom Anderson, Founder of MySpace on Google+

Is this the first Google+ post on Techmeme? [Update: No that wasn't the first Google+ post on Techmeme but the first one was actually by Tom Anderson and it was about Mark Zuckerberg's response to Google+ when asked at the Facebook/Skype announcement.] As I do every morning I check Techmeme to see what’s up … Continue reading

How and Why I’m Using Tumblr: As Status Management Not Blog Replacement.

After this weeks incident with Twitter “disappearing” me for a day I decided I needed to rethink how I was using Twitter and all of the other social networking and publishing tools I was using. Up until not Twitter has been the central hub for all of my social networking. … Continue reading