Sunday, April 20th, 2008
My friend Chris just posted this Washington Post article to Twitter, and I thought I'd blog a bit about it before I left.
The piece -- Friends Indeed? -- looks at the social networking from a different perspective than those of us who are steeped in it normally discuss: the downsides ...
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Saturday, April 5th, 2008
Well, the traditional media has hyped the hell out of social networks, so that means it's about time to start tearing them down. The first salvo (that I've seen) comes on the heels of comScore numbers which suggest that fewer people are signing up for -- and using -- social ...
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Saturday, April 5th, 2008
As the Twitter application continues to gain traction with the digerati, there are scads of new apps meant to help users track their use and connections. Social networks, after all, aren't very useful if you can't track what your friends are doing -- and how important you are in ...
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Monday, March 24th, 2008
This via Dave Thomas, my good friend and long-time game journalist who is also on The Modern Journalist mailing list.
Seems a SXSW attendee had his Xbox 360 stolen while he was attending the big Austin confab. The police weren't helping out, so our intrepid investigator turned to Digg and Twitter ...
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Monday, March 17th, 2008
A few events occurred within the past 12 hours that set me thinking about the value of social networks.
First, Guy Kawasaki and I have been discussing the value of one of his latest creations, Alltop, which is a people-run aggregation site. He (and presumably a small team) scour the Web ...
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Monday, March 3rd, 2008
Maybe I should quit my job and head over to the ReadWriteWeb for god's sakes. I was having this discussion last week with a source: when will we reach a point where open protocols create a truly ubiquitous social network? Until then, we're all just swimming around in the big, ...
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