by • March 14, 2011
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What do the following topics emerging from SXSW have in common? 1) Limited social networks 2) Group messaging 3) Geosocial 4) Tribe-targeting 5) Hyperlocal These themes align around a common thread: intimacy. More than ever before, relationships are more accessible, abundant and constant. But relationships…
by • July 1, 2010
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There is lots of buzz about Facebook attrition, privacy concerns and dying socnets. Those of us familiar former LiveJournal and Friendster users aren’t really surprised. Once mom and dad show up to the party, it’s time for the cool kids to find another one. But…
by • June 16, 2009
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We don’t know what to call the events occurring in Iran — an election? a coup? a revolution? an uprising? It’s being called The Twitter Revolution and some are saying the formula is: Tiananmen + Twitter = Tehran. Whatever you want to call it, it’s…
by • April 28, 2009
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One of Twitter’s long-time strengths compared to Facebook, has been the cadre of third-party applications available for accessing the service from desktop and mobile devices. Applications such as Tweetie, Twhirl and TweetDeck use Twitter’s application programming interface, or API, to access the service and provide…
by • April 17, 2009
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A few of my friends received “breaking news” messages from CNN in the past 24 hours telling them that “Ashton Kutcher is first to reach 1 million followers in Twitter contest with CNN.” Between news of Somali pirates threatening to kill Frenchmen and Americans and…
by • March 11, 2009
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While we’ve made significant strides as a society with regard to our collective embrace of social media, there are still those that cling to the impression that social media is scary. While certain manipulations of the tools may be be clumsy, I beg the question:…
by • March 2, 2009
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Want to wear pieces of flair like a waiter at Chotchkie’s? There’s a Facebook application for that. Want to throw virtual sheep at your friends? There’s an app for that. Want to share with the world which Sex and the City character you are? You…
by • February 25, 2009
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That’s what neuroscientist Susan Greenfield argues in the UK’s Daily Mail: Sites such as Facebook, Twitter and Bebo are said to shorten attention spans, encourage instant gratification and make young people more self-centred. I have no problems with these conclusions. In fact, they may even…
by • January 30, 2009
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Techcrunch reports that Facebook users now more than double that of MySpace. Recent data shows that 200 million unique users visited Facebook — that’s more than one out of every five people that went online. I know that’s not four out of the five dentist’s…
by • January 28, 2009
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Last week, in his annual message for the World Day of Communications Pope Benedict XVI bestowed his blessing on Facebook. OK, perhaps to call it a blessing is a bit of a stretch, let’s just say he endorsed it. From the AP story on the…