After reading a ton of articles today, I pondered one thought, why are we more willing than mainstream to sign up for a bunch of services that they aren’t? We’re Everywhere! We’re on everything. We’re everywhere, and we don’t really care that our every action is published for the entire web to see. In […]
Read moreScaling Web 2.0 – Reaching The Limits
Last week Twitter implemented a limit on the number of people you’re allowed to follow. I’ve seen numerous numbers, but the common limit seems to be 2k users. While the limit is a work in progress, that’s a lot of (hopefully) great conversation to go around. However, for major players in the web game, or […]
Read moreArrington Wants To Stroke Me, My Ego That Is
While she was not looking, I figured a little guest blogging by Corvida’s partner-in-crime, IdoNotes (and on Twitter) was required. So here I am. Mainly when Michael Arrington offers to stroke my ego in a recent TechCrunch article. The main point of his article was the following, and is the focus of my rant in […]
Read moreWhy Twitter Has Failed: The Power of Time and Mainstream
To a certain extent Twitter is a mass failure. Andy DeSoto points out hints of Twitter’s failure thus far with “What the iPhone Application Store tells us about Twitter”. While Twitter is a major hit within our web bubble, it’s a major failure in the real world. Twitter and Mainstream Success Now don’t get […]
Read moreSocial Media Is Far From Overrated
Today, Steven Hodson pointed out a great article in his post Is Social Media Losing Its Shiny New Luster? He pointed to a post by Mack Collier entitled Is Social Media overrated? Mack poses two really good questions about social media and companies: So if Social Media is overrated and overhyped, as some claim, why […]
Read moreLooking At Twitter’s Latest Bump Differently
Today, I hopped online to news that people were noticed that their number of Twitter followers/followings were completely out of sync. Louis Gray is reporting a significant loss along with a ton of other people, myself included. However, let’s really examine this situation because people are up in arms about losing a patch of followers. […]
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