Posts Tagged with ‘twitter’

The iPhone has developed the same culture of Twitteritis that the rest of the Web has in the two-and-a-half weeks since the launch of the App Store and the iPhone 3G . Everyone wants to build the perfect Twitter application, but with so many to choose from, which one do you choose? Twitterific would seem [...]

Over the past 48 hours I conducted a poll of Twitter users. Unscientific? Absolutely. Generic? Of course. And yet I was surprised at the results. What did I ask on Thursday? “Which issue is bigger to you? Gender gap/social media, race/social media, poverty gap/social media or generation gap/social media.” I must admit I picked a [...]

You remember that only a week ago we were all betting if Twitter really recovered and we will see Fail Whale only when it really means maintenance, not some unexpected crash. Twitter users that left to FriendFeed or Identi.ca started to mention that they could still return to Twitter if it really proves to be [...]

My session at PodCamp3 Boston was called Breaking Into the Conversation, Busting the Clique. It was about how to use social media to its fullest potential for you. Basically, how to be heard online and what social media tools are your best option. So many people assume that to be a success when using social [...]

Honestly, I was very intrigued when I saw the headline in Yahoo News – InfoWorld adds Twitter to its mobile options. It sounded like a big story to me – mainstream media adopting social media tools again, something we can’t stop to admire and so we continue to give them credits whenever they step out [...]

I think there are a lot of people who still point at the divide between someone's "social" life — that being the life they possess as a member of internet-based communities and networks — and "real" social life, saying the void can't be crossed.  While we might not be at the point where our two [...]

PodCamp has been growing in popularity as the nationwide "un-conference". The theory behind PodCamp is that you take the best part of other conventions, the hallway discussions and sidebars, and make them the conference itself. PodCamp3 Boston is this weekend, and I'll be there attending sessions, learning from my peers and networking. Please come find [...]

Though I'm not a parent, I do feel like a relatively close uncle, being able to watch Twitter grow up and get big.  Twitter experienced quite a significant growth spurt today when it acquired the separate Twitter search platform Summize, a buyout that fellow writer Leslie Poston recently explored. Now Twitter is starting to look [...]

There's a lot to be said for simplicity.  Simplicity can mean focused and directed, but it can also mean lacking.  Reaching a balance of features and complexity while maintaining clarity and simplicity is a difficult task for any mobile social platform developer.  Though I feel like I'm beating a dead horse, I think the best [...]