Archive for June, 2008

One of the people on my must-read Twitter follow list posted a link to a site called GlobMe earlier today in response to the deluge of tweeted complaints that followed a day spent looking at the Fail Whale as well as the lack of a reply tab in recent days. Heck, even the Twitter powers-that-be were recommending users try to interface with Twitter through Summize for a while - hardly trust inspiring behavior from a company.
I was skeptical when I [...]

It brings a tear of joy to my eye to think that a website is taking steps to become grammatically proper.  Listen, we English majors have to find satisfaction somewhere, right?  Facebook is working on a way to make grammar significantly more consistent. 
Though you might not care one way or the other if your friend's status update reads, "Jimmy John is Does anyone know where the nearest Chipotle is?" Facebook is of the opinion that such odd [...]

I'm not talking about the tech blogosphere, who've shown a decided preference for infighting and attempting to eat their young. I'm talking about parents.
We exist in all forms online: in the tech blogosphere, in MMOs, on forums, and as mommy bloggers, but no matter what area we find ourselves spending most of our time in, we are a tightknit group of loosely connected people. Yes, if you make the mistake of mentioning something like circumcision or the decision to formula-feed, [...]

Shel vs. Loren (and puppet). TechCrunch50 vs. DEMO. Mike Arrington vs. Pete Cashmore (and, well, pretty much everyone). We've all seen the constant battle of words in the blogosphere, but the real question is why these altercations come up at all.
In the world of Web 2.0, attention is everything. Getting attention and maintaining an audience are crucial to any type of success for a company, and the struggle for eyeballs has continued to escalate as a result. It's no longer [...]

Earlier today I got to participate in the first ever Twebinar with Chris Brogan, Radian6 and other social media heavy hitters. I must say it was one of the more informative hours I've spent in quite some time.  It wasn't so much that the social media thought leaders were saying anything new, it was more the conversations centered around the Twebinar on Twitter and Summize.
The Twebinar was orginally slated to air on WebEx. It filled to capacity so fast [...]

How does that saying go? Imitation is the greatest form of flattery? If that is true, then FriendFeed should feel very special, because the most popular social network on the planet is taking pointers from the up-and-coming social aggregator.
Far be it from Facebook to let a good feature that some website innovates go to waste. FriendFeed, which is primarily an aggregator of various social media platforms, provides a unique way for users to [...]

We see a lot of different approaches to becoming unique in social media.  This is one of those moves that I'm just not sure what I think about it yet.  Multiply, a reasonably large social network directed towards adults, is now offering premium storage for photos and videos for the price of $19.95 annually.
The new premium storage will be called "digital scrapbook," and is based on some pretty nifty functionality.  An Adobe Air application will upload videos and photos [...]

LimitNone is learning a very difficult, and probably very expensive, lesson: you need to build a product of your own, and not a feature for someone else's product.
The start-up had an agreement with Google that allowed Google to see their "trade secrets" for an app they had built to bridge users from Microsoft Outlook into Gmail. When Google turned around and built out a feature to do the same thing, LimitOne filed suit for deceptive business practices. They claim that [...]

Twitter may be the darling of the social media set right now and the addiction of many both in and out of social media circles, but it has certainly been going through some growing pains lately. Because of this, Twitter users have had to seek ways around the Twitter issues to make sure they don't lose the thread of their conversations.
It is a testament to Twitter user loyalty that Twitter users are so willing to use third party services [...]