Why I Blogged About Kodak Without A Pitch
Today I’m really proud of Kodak. My first encounter with Kodak reps was when I spoke at BlogHer 09. During the SocialLuxe party, Kodak set-up a demo table and the reps showed so much enthusiasm, not to mention some very neat products to everyone in attendance. They left no question unanswered and were quite open...
How To Tell If Your Service Is A Social Media Copycat
Louis Gray isn’t a blogger known for writing the worst about services in Social Media. In fact, almost every review I’ve read from Louis is nothing but positive, though he always points out where services can improve. It’s something I’ve always admired Louis, particularly in this niche full of negativity and bashing. However, Louis’ recent...
Learning Social Media: Things To Do When Twitter Goes Down
Man oh man, the blogosphere is having a field day with the latest Twitter takedown by DDoS attacks. Twitter wasn’t the only service affected either (Google, Facebook, FriendFeed, Youtube, Livejournal, and Blogger). If your panties have been in a wad over the downtime of these services, here are a few tips on what you can...
What’s Really Killing RSS Feeds? Hint: It’s NOT Twitter
There are a lot of opinions floating around the web about Twitter killing RSS feeds. I wholeheartedly disagree though Twitter definitely helps to keep me out of Feedly and Google Reader more often these days. I think it’s the apps themselves and the process of consuming RSS feeds that kills RSS more than other social...
App Development Request: The Web’s Opinion About One Topic
I want to see every conversation happening around the world right now about one specific topic. ANY topic. Notice I said conversation. Twitter search nor the many other search tools accomplishes this for me. They’re just real-time people search engines. FriendFeed comes close. For short conversations, it’s great. However, their way of threading conversations makes...
