In a BBC article coming out of SxSW, David Sacks, the founder of business social network Yammer, is quoted as saying that social network users are in “the process of creating email 2.0″. Granted, for the most part, people are … More
Guy told me this was coming a while back when I’d asked about being able to save certain feeds and rearrange them as I saw fit, so MyAlltop didn’t come as a surprise to me. Tomorrow, the “online magazine rack”, … More
The popularity of LinkedIn has soared – the year over year growth is 200%, and the economy is the culprit. I’m seeing people on Twitter talking about their education, and looking for work, asking for leads. Facebook has seen growth … More
I awoke early on Monday morning, to see twitter alive with Skittles comments, posts and tweets crowding my screen. I knew something was going on, but didn’t bother to look until the hubbub had died down, at least a little. … More
“Social networking websites are causing alarming changes in the brains of young users.” Stay tuned, this and more deadly news at 11. Once again, parents are being warned that something else in the world will harm/kill or otherwise damage their … More
"What magazines are you reading now?" "Share the longest road trip you’ve ever been on" "Have you ever gone a day without your cell phone?" Plinky, possibly a "smarter Twitter", is a new micro-blogging platform, which, instead of asking the … More
I can admit it – I geek out over statistics. I pour over my Google Analytics reports, and I ogle Omniture. I also get a little gooshy over seeing compete.com come out with statistics for social networks as a whole… … More
Maybe it was Obama’s inauguration. Maybe it was the Hudson River "landing" that did it. Whatever the event, something catapulted Twitter even higher into the mainstream. For the first time last week, the market share of traffic to Twitter beat … More
Millions of people are converging onto the city of Washington DC for the Inauguration of the 44th President of the United States. It’s a watershed moment – we all remember where we were at the end of Apartheid, the day … More
I spend a lot of time wandering about the interwebs and reading articles that interest me. It makes some sense – as a writer, I’ve got an insatiable curiosity about the world, so when I stumbled across an article titled … More
You’d have to have been either on vacation on a tiny island with no internet access at all or be living under a rock not to know about the web’s latest love-fest, The Shiba Inu Puppy Cam. People have complained … More
And becomes more useful! LinkedIn has always been a great business-focused social network. I’ve managed to get some great connections and contracts through LinkedIn. And now, there are more ways to interact with your network and community. The new LinkedIn … More
Ok, I know it was more than just social media, but he certainly had the best, well organized and strategic social media campaigns I’ve ever seen. It was truly brilliant. I found an article about the guys behind MyBO, which … More
I had quite the debate on Twitter today about Magpie. There are certainly some strong opinions and several people completely against it. Magpie is a new service which inserts ads into your twitterstream using the hashtag #magpie. You choose the … More
