Social Networks
FriendFeed Hand-Wringing
J. Phil talks about role of Twitter, FriendFeed and other social networks for self-promotion, or lack thereof.
Facebook Makes Stalking So Easy
So Facebook has finally gone public with it’s new chat feature. It’s pretty harmless and nicely integrated with the option to hide offline if you’d like to. I’m sure many Facebook users will find it to be a nice addition compared to many of Facebook’s other changes and additions.
However, I’m noticing that Facebook is [...]
Are We Just Jumping On The Social Media Bandwagon?
This is a guest post by Colin Walker of colinwalker.me.uk - a blog about social media, the internet and blogging.
This post was inspired by my own recent thoughts and a comment from an old friend at my normal blog: since I have been blogging about social media he has not read a single post.
Without question [...]
Facebook Is No Threat To Friendfeed
A tweet by Lee Sherman just noted the following:
Facebook’s lifestream is a real threat to FriendFeed. It’s easy to add web services, much harder to recreate the social graph everywhere.
However, I’d have to disagree with Sherman for three reasons: demographics, different uses, and a closed community.
Different Uses
Due to the demographics of [...]
Facebook Helping Mass Adoption?
News is spreading quickly about Facebook’s newest enhancement to their Newsfeed.
According to the Facebook blog:
Chances are, you use parts of the Internet that aren’t Facebook. You might post photo albums using Flickr or Picasa, for example, instead of on Facebook. There are a lot of good sites out there, unfortunately, that can sometimes mean a [...]
My Journey To Joining Mixx
For the past week, I’ve been debating whether or not to join Mixx, a social bookmarking and news site similar to Digg. These sites take a lot of work and I don’t like joining sites that I don’t plan to participate in, otherwise, what’s the point? Thanks to Sarah Perez’s article "Why "Add To [...]
Sex On Twitter
There are plenty of unwritten rules of what not to post on Twitter. The last thing you want to see in your replies tab is "TMI!" Consequently, there isn’t much sex talk on Twitter. I know some of you voyeurs came here looking for Twitter porn and I’m afraid to say that there isn’t [...]
