Social Web

So what is with the cooperation between Twitter and LinkedIn. At its core, it does make sense. After all, both are used for networking and can be used effectively by professionals across the globe. What remains unclear, is just how effective this marriage of the two services can actually be?
Then there is the matter of [...]

Generally I am not someone to get too excited about the idea of yet another Web 2.0 company piggybacking on Twitter’s success. But I am feeling like there may be cause for Topsy to get a pass on this.
For me personally, I find that Topsy provides an interesting way to track the success of individual [...]

I think that by now, we are fully aware that even protected Tweets, are not all that protected. And as this article demonstrates, it sure seems like anything we Tweet these days takes only a small amount of time to become public record.
If anything, the above article should prove to be a reminder that even [...]

Clearly it’s a good time to be a Web 2.0 CEO. While countless others deal with not being able to make money due to hurdles with the economy, others such as Twitter’s CEO seems completely disinterested with the idea of making up a sustainable fund to keep their company in the black.
Clearly living on kool-aid [...]

Honestly, I’ve never really felt like the various startups out there trying to work around Twitter’s content were really worth my time. Sure, some of them provide the Twitter content we are looking for in a format that works. But others are just in the game for a chance to tap some VC capital.
As for [...]

Based on what I have been reading in this article, it seems pretty clear to me that social media has got to be a massive pain for China’s censors. Imagine trying to censor on Twitter or Facebook posts in real time? Honestly am not convinced this is possible, but I might be wrong. Perhaps China [...]

Never been a big fan of the idea behind the social search engine. However looking at what StumbleUpon (SU) has for its own capabilities, maybe I am being a bit harsh here. Or am I?
The problem is that most people using a search engine do so looking to find out about specific info. And while [...]

Normally, I have no interest or problem with Friendster. Honestly, they are about as much on my radar as day time TV. But this news about Friendster working with Intellius is rather disturbing.
The official idea behind the partnership seems simple enough: “to provide a more robust and comprehensive user search experience on Friendster and to [...]

Honestly beyond me how Facebook manages to find profitability. Perhaps it has something to do with throwing crap ads at a captive audience…who knows? The one thing that is clear is that unlike so many other social networks, Facebook is clearly doing pretty darn well.
The best news Facebook is seeing at the moment is the [...]

I definitely have some mixed feeling about the idea of robots roaming around over Twitter. As it is, we already have a significant spam problem there, so I can see the temptation for abuse there.
Despite these concerns, there are also some legitimate uses for tools such as TweetBots. The tool, when used effectively translates into [...]

I guess if we say it enough it will come true. According to this recent post over at Mashable, teens don’t really use Twitter all that much. And while I am not in a position to say yes or no to this, I think there is likely some truth to this. Think about it. Kids [...]

This report on just who is using Twitter these days really caught me off guard. While there is really no question that kids are generally more drawn to Facebook and MySpace, I was surprised to read this article stating that kids were avoiding Twitter as they felt it to be less safe?
Seriously, how in the [...]

It’s something that I for one, am finding of interest. It seems that due to the issue of faked Twitter accounts, often used by sly impersonators, Twitter has dealt with the problem by allowing some elite users to claim their identities before someone else does.
What makes this all the more interesting, is that this claim [...]

Twitter spam is without a doubt, the latest in what some might refer to as forms of comment spam. Worse however, is when this spam becomes a trending topic within Twitter itself. This can be quite annoying, especially if happen to see the spam trending during some kind of crisis like an international incident or [...]

A UK furniture firm known as Habitat ended up in some deeply troubling PR trouble all due to one intern not being supervised well. Apparently the intern was spamming Twitter with off-topic hash tags that related to the Iran elections, amongst other stuff such as the iPhone along with anything else that was popular at [...]

Frankly, I am not sure what has taken this long for Twitter to come to professional gaming. And as luck might have it, we are seeing it with professional poker. What I am interested in seeing is Twitter coming to other sporting events. Can you imagine boxing like this? Crazy as it might sound, it [...]

Is the city of Bozeman going too far? Let me ask you this - would you be willing to hand over your social network login(s)? Most of us would never dream of such a thing. Despite those feelings, this is what the Bozeman city jobs require it apparently.
The news really got out there once a [...]

Seems like these days, MySpace is in more trouble than ever. Going beyond terrible design and a me-too approach to growth, now the social space is looking at a hit to their ad revenue as well.
And to be honest, also hearing that their usership is going stale is not really that big of a shock, [...]

As reports roll in about Facebook looking to back away from their recent redesign, I find myself wondering why? Perhaps part of it is not seeing much appeal with Facebook in the first place. And even now, with the different UI, I still end up setting my Twitter account up to make those updates to [...]

When we look to Twitter or even MySpace, we find that our profiles are easy to remember and share as they are often reflective of our username. But for a long time, this was simply not the case in the world of Facebook. And yes, like most of you I found this to be rather [...]