Wanted dead or alive: any Facebook user, $ 125 reward
With the upcoming IPO of Facebook this week, I got a little worried. I told a few people “Mark my words, this IPO is going to blow the Social Media bubble once and for all” and even “Wouldn’t be surprised if FB’s IPO is going to start the final leg of this crisis and finish [...]
Facebook’s new “Needs Review” feature
I like Facebook a lot, and spend significant social media time there talking to people and otherwise engaging in the usual social media voyeurism. What was very cool today though was the “needs review” tag that is automatically opt-in rather than the usual don’t sweat it you have to manually figure out how to opt-in [...]
Completely drop your Klout account in 30 seconds
Well, the day has finally come. Since yesterday, Klout allows you to delete the profile they (or you) created on you. In my case, that means I’ll first have to sign up for klout, as they created my account all by themselves – but I’m happy to go through that little PITA Here’s how to [...]
New Klout Scores. No Sir, Many People Do Not Like That.
The whining has been phenomenal today with the changes to how Klout scores your relative influence within social media and networks. While it is an interesting system, and one that I do watch because when I have a Klout score of above 50 people offer me interesting things to do, there are still some things [...]
Podio Brings On the Fly App Creation to Mobile
I spent some time recently talking to Ryan Nichols, former VP at Appirio and now heading up the apps division at Podio, a company that set out to allow people to build lightweight social apps for everyday tasks – the sort of long tail type applications that no software vendor is likely to think about. [...]
This CEO Isn’t Afraid to Take on Jive Software or Salesforce.com
Yammer thrives. The herd mentality around the enterprise activity stream is driving its competitors to emulate their every move. Jive’s done it. So has Salesforce.com, SocialText, Newsgator, Moxie Software and IBM Connections. From the Fortune 500 to the Fortuneless company of one, the activity stream is supplanting email for many forms of business communication. What’s [...]
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 →
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 [...]
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 [...]
Twitter spam – a problem? No. Curation is here
A few times a day, I get a tweet directed at me from someone I don’t know, who neither offers something related to what I have recently tweeted. The first few times that happened, a few months ago, I clicked the URL and ended up at some site after being redirected via more than a [...]
The lifecycle and stages of a social network
Thanks to Scott Berkun for triggering me here, and of course this was related to Google+: @drmstream there is a blog post waiting to be written about the lifecycle/stages of a social network. There is. And this is one. I don’t believe in having to behave differently on social networks. I believe that we all [...]
Why Twitter Favorites Aren’t Really Your Favorite Tweets
Twitter is an ephemeral service. It’s what I love about Twitter. When I’m in the mood to consume what my world is telling me right now I can “tune in” to Twitter and digest the rapid stream. I don’t really worry about missing stuff. If somebody wanted me to see something they’d @ message [...]
Chatting Cars and Enterprise Software
Today’s big news is Salesforce Teaming up with Toyota to create a private social network where you can befriend your car and it will “tweet” you when it’s thirsty, need a checkup etc..etc..etc – see the details from @Krishnan’s post. The opportunities are really endless – more on that later. I have to get something [...]
Ask Your Customers and Ask Your Employees!
If you want to know how your employees would feel about using collaborative tools…ask them. If you want to know if your employees will support an initiative to engage with customers via social media…ask them. If you want to know how employees are using social media at work…ask them. If you want to know what your customers [...]
