Be Careful What You Buy In The App Store
Boing Boing has recently written up an article about a very serious concern for people who buy apps from the iTunes App Store. Apple does not refund the money on apps that they pull from the store. According to the post, one customer tried to receive a refund from Apple for pulling the NetShare Tethering […]
Read moreWhy Are “We” More Willing Than Mainstream?
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 moreTheSocialGeeks Episode 5 is Out!
Apologies for the delay, however the awesomesauce TheSocialGeeks podcast episode 5 is available for public consumption! This time around we talked about the latest hot web service on the market, Social Median, which I first discovered via Louis Gray. Other notable mentions in the podcast include hostels and booty calls. Be sure to subscribe to […]
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