New Facebook IPAD application rocks but
With everything there is always the potential for using something for good, or just downright stalking people. I downloaded the IPAD application last night for Facebook, and overall I really like it. But thought that the mapping feature was simply … Continue reading →
Porn sites start using Facebook Connect
With a sense of humor because when Mashable’s Pete Cashmore wrote that Facebook users should be beware that the new timeline feature could embarrass a user, I just had to see what the porn industry was doing. Porn has been trying to get involved in social media, but for a multi-billion dollar industry we tend [...]
Europe VS Facebook the data deluge edition
Trolling Facebook is in high fashion today as Reddit users swamp Facebook with requests for individual user data. It would be awesome to know what Facebook knows about you, and to get an idea of just how popular this idea is, check Slashdot this morning. What is interesting though is out at Europe-V-Facebook.org website they [...]
Implementing Enterprise 2.0 at a Healthcare Organization Pt 5: Future Plans and Lessons Learned
This is the fifth and final post in a series on how a mid size medical association is implementing emergent collaboration strategies and technologies within its organization. Part 1 on Business Drivers, can be found here. Part 2 which covers some aspects of change management is here. Part three which looks at the roll out and [...]
In a world where everyone knows everything about you
Does it matter if Facebook knows you went to Ashley Madison? Google already knows this information if you searched for it on Google, or if there was a Google Ad on Ashley Madison. Does it matter if Facebook knows you went to FetLife (NSFW), if you searched for it on Google (or Bing or Yahoo [...]
I wish that Klout allowed for divergent systems
I like Klout; it is an interesting system that can be easily tweaked to work with the major social systems out there. Klout support most of the major systems such as Facebook, Blogger, Flickr, and others to try to put together a bird’s eye view of how your influence and supporters/followers tend to influence others [...]
Salesforce Acquires Assistly… Anyone Else See a Disconnect?
News that salesforce has acquired service desk vendor Assistly in a move that many of us had an inkling about well before DreamForce – it seems that dotting the I’s and crossing the t’s of he deal saw it closing after the event. Assistly is a young company that is squarely positioned to compete with [...]
Why Pseudonymity Is Such an Important Concept
Fred Wilson wrote a blog post yesterday called “Real Names” in which he talked about a commenter on his blog who preferred not to comment because he didn’t want to use his real name. It’s all told through a graphic & very short so worth your having a quick read. It’s a powerful concept. The [...]
Does Twitter Censor hashtags?
There is an interesting hash tag for #occupywallstreet this morning with a protest going on in New York City about the crimes of banks and the rest of wall street. So far estimates are that there are thousands of people in the streets in New York protesting the entire banking system. What is of interest [...]
Consequences far outweigh the positives with spamming social data streams
While I am not overly surprised that spammers have found that Google Plus (indeed any social network) is an awesome place to sell or otherwise try to engage people with their get rich quick, enlarge your anatomy or other scams, … Continue reading →
Number 9 Dreamforce
For a Beatles’ fan and a fan particularly of John Lennon, the number 9 has an important meaning. It has enough meaning Lennon wrote a few songs referencing it, including Number 9 Dream. Perhaps I like Number 9 Dream because it seems to be, quite literally, calling my name on the background vocal track. But [...]
A Multi Service approach to social media
When I first started Techwag in 2005, the reliance on Google as a primary source of traffic was the most important design consideration. While I use WordPress, and people have a lot of opinions about the suitability of WordPress, it is a blog first and foremost. Techwag is a blog, it has been a blog [...]
How Comic Book Ink used social media to save their store
The comic book industry is hard, good times or bad times, the entire industry has crashed and burned so many times there should be a hazard warning out for anyone insane enough to get into this industry. The economic recession of 2008 through today has been very hard on comic book stores as customers stop [...]
Pages for Google Plus are truly needed but we also need to talk about identity
Usually I am not one to ask for much when it comes to someone else’s system, but I am seeing in my friends dialog that there is a need for pages. Huddles are good, but if you have ever taught on line for even so much as three seconds, you know how hard it is [...]
Talk With Everyone
Reading Mark Suster‘s excellent post, “Why You Need To Take 50 Coffee Meetings” brought to mind one of my personal corollaries: Talk with everyone. I’m a relatively small-time investor. It’s a documented fact, and I don’t try to hide it. But that means that I need to deliver value beyond money if I’m going to [...]
