Why Socialcam Will Fail*
* Yes, the title of this post is blatant linkbait. But it’s a serious topic. Over the past few days, I mentioned the topic of my post to a number of smart people in the industry, who all had the same reaction: “I don’t get Socialcam, and I want to r…
Cezanne’s Apple
Cezanne wrote once “With an Apple, I will astonish Paris.” Cezanne at the time was a notoriously sophisticated and gifted walking set of contradictions. He loved everything he hated and hated everything he loved. He approached painting with scalpel-like precision but with a scalpel to canvas nonetheless. He wanted the world to bleed – and […]
When Real-time is Too Much – Can You Handle the Firehose?
This morning I’ve been testing TweetDeck’s new super-fast version, based on the new Twitter User Streams API. TweetDeck provides fair warning: This is a VERY experimental version of TweetDeck I saw a few small glitches, but nothing major. Yet I am in trouble, and it’s not because of the product. It’s me. My brain… The […]
Twitter Marketing Hell: New Site by Steven Hodson
Steven Hodson has to be one of my favorite people to read online, and over the holidays he put together a “Wall of Shame” for bad twitter marketers. I hope he lets me write for him on this one, as I have plenty of good examples, not just from my Techwag Twitter, but from my […]
Future Of Web Video Services Doomed?
Seesmic, a video chat service startup which gained some prominence due to its founder’s “friendship” with A-List bloggers, appears to be shifting its focus from video to compete in the Twitter ecosystem. They have almost removed any signs of video service from their homepage except for a link to the service through a subdomain. This […]
