Beyond the end of the Crunchpad
Many people with much dismay were surprised to see an entry from Michael Arrington about the end of the Crunchpad. With the aftermath of this, the real question is who is ever going to do business with Fusion Garage in the future? Shareholders aside deciding to do something against the desire/wish/ability of a partner when [...]
The new PR A List via Traackr
Traackr has come out with a new “A List” of personalities on the internet for public relations. There are a number of people missing from the list as there always is from lists like this. Moreover, lists like this always generate controversy much like the list I did a year ago, and the aftermath of [...]
Hiring for Social Media
If you have not been reading Amber Naslund lately, you are missing a great deal of information on how to hire for social media. Amber goes through many different processes that businesses must look at to find the right person for any social media process that a company will attempt. As social media moves beyond [...]
Facebook Hacked for Real This Time
Control your info has taken administrative rights to hundreds of groups on Facebook this morning – which is going to prompt a stampede of fear across the Facebook landscape. Looking at the security of social networking – this is going to be a bad day for many groups on Facebook. The group Control your Info [...]
Causes Leaves MySpace for FaceBook
Causes is a social networking donation platform that uses MySpace so that people can raise money for causes or issues that they believe in. Generally these kinds of activities help provide a community around issues like Breast Cancer, or stop smoking, or other issues that are part of our daily life. Causes is an excellent [...]
Our Programmers are not like Your Programmers
With apologies to Intel for usurping and corrupting their commercial tag line, in a classic “our rock stars are not like your rock stars” move, Stack Overflow (one of the best programming information web sites out there lately) has opened up a job board with a twist, employers will browse and beg you to work [...]
Twitter Facebook Fantasy Football and other productivity losses
Just a quick note this morning on the idea of random numbers and productivity losses around the use of social networking, but other sacred cows like Fantasy Football we shrug at. Companies do not generally tend to block access to Fantasy Football sites, but the productivity loss playing the Fantasy Football game can amount to [...]
Why you Need a Public and a Private Profile in Social Networking
Social networking when taken from the viewpoint of connecting people works; it is a brilliant way of getting people together across various age and demographic groups. The side effect of all this is that as we become more highly connected to each other we do tend to end up living in a fish bowl, everyone [...]
The Emotional Investment of FriendFeed
Johnny Worthington who is one of the more dynamic and interesting people on FriendFeed issued an open letter to the developers of FriendFeed to find out what is happening with the web site. Many of the FriendFeed users (myself included) have an emotional and time investment in the system that is not easily replaced or [...]
Struggling with Facebook Noise to Signal Ratio
In general, social networks can be a good thing; the only problem is when the noise level becomes too high to have any meaning when it comes to sharing information. Over the last few months, Facebook games have exploded as Farmville and Mafia Wars get more and more players. The only problem with this is [...]
Note to Conference Organizers: Keep in Touch With People
Image via Wikipedia Over a number of conferences I have been at lately, one of the hallmarks of all of them was what could I do for them rather than what I would learn from the conference. Once the marketing folks realized that I would not provide them with anything, it is like we no [...]
I love you Google Wave
My love hate relationship with Google just switched over to love today as I just got my Google Wave account invite today, and am going to spend the rest of the day playing around with this puppy to see if it will work for the school I work at. As we take a look at [...]
Why Is It So Hard to Innovate in Online Education?
With the number of totally cool tools that Schools can use, why are we still waiting for online education to move past blackboard and other systems that are essentially static, unfriendly to social connections, and in general, just unfriendly. The online educational experience can be cold, disjointed and sterile, but it does not have to [...]
100,000 Lucky Google Wave Beta Testers
Google is rolling out Google Wave today, and while it is unlikely that I’ll get an invite, I can still be remarkably interested in what could be a product that will solve some of the problems that I see in how to develop smaller communities of interests around colleges, friends, and others that are a [...]
Webstock – Meg Pickard – Content, Communities and Collaboration
Meg Pickard is the head of communities and user experience for guardian.co.uk. She points out that users interact with content in many different ways. Consume, React, Curate, Create… If people can create recommendation lists on the likes of Amazon, why can they not on traditional news sites (writers comment – isn’t this what digg is [...]
