Moving Beyond RSS (Maybe)
Something weird is happening with me and RSS. I should preface this by saying that I’m a *classic* late adopter (insert irony here) for a ton of things (I don’t have an iPhone; hell, i don’t CARRY a cell phone 90% of the time), but a semi-early adopter for other things. The things I tend [...]
The Real Power of Twitter is Link Sharing
This is the fourth posting in a series I’m calling Twitter 101 for all those that say “I don’t get it?” The Twitter 101 outline it’s here. In the second post I talked about Twitter being like Instant Messaging (IM) and text messaging (SMS) and that is the reason for the 140 character limit. Many [...]
How to Get (the Right) People to Follow You on Twitter
This is the third posting in a series I’m calling Twitter 101 for all those that say “I don’t get it?” The Twitter 101 outline it’s here. In the first post I talked about how beginning users can just be “consumers” of information by subscribing to news sites or bloggers, reading their 140 character “headlines” [...]
Twitter is IM (and Why the Limit is 140 characters)
This is the second posting in a series I’m calling Twitter 101 for all those that say “I don’t get it?” The first post is here and if you want to see the outline it’s here. In the first post I talked about how Twitter is a real-time news source where by subscribing to the [...]
Twitter as a News Source (RSS)
Twitter is one of the most misunderstood new technologies to emerge and therefore a common refrain I hear from friends, family and colleagues is, “I don’t get it.” So I decided to do a primer with commentary on how I currently use Twitter (July 2009), which will no doubt change. But I hope to help [...]
Twitter Observations
When I first signed up for Twitter on April 25th, 2007 I was curious what it what all about. I had been reading a lot about Twitter on blogs followed through its usage at the SXSW conference in Austin when it really “blew up” (and as you can see here – not everybody thought it [...]
More Twitter Fueled Efficiency
I’ve gone on record as being a little dismissive of the utility of Twitter, this despite the fact that I was a reasonably early adopter of it and use it pretty frequently. I posted the other day about a nice service that uses both Twitter and more traditional electronic communication channels (if that isn’t a [...]
Twitter and Yammer – Growth vs. Revenue
The New York Times presents the perfect showcase for what I've been preaching in my recession / business models mini-series here: turn to businesses stop poking around, create a valuable service charge for it (yes, revenue is not a crime) The showcase compares Twitter vs. Yammer and their categorically different approaches to business. Twitter is [...]
SocialText Becomes Really Social
Socialtext, the enterprise wiki company is no more… a wiki company, that is. Not since Socialtext 3.0, the new release announced today. Founder and Chairman Ross Mayfield calls his new baby a Connected Collaboration Platform, that’s modular, built on a widget framework, and consists of: Socialtext Dashboard – your Communication Central Socialtext People – Facebook [...]
