The Community Is What Makes Social Networks Different
If you’ve ever tried to explain to a friend the difference between their Facebook status and Twitter, tell them it’s the community. There are tons of social networks to hop aboard these days. From Facebook to Myspace to Twitter to Friendfeed to Bebo to Identi.ca to Plurk. There’s almost too many to name and most...
How The iPhone Helps My Work Become More Productive
The iPhone is phenomenal! Yes, I said it. It’s one of the greatest innovations to ever come to a mobile device. I absolutely love it and quite frankly, I don’t want to live without it. Just about everything that I do online is some how, some way accessible via my iPhone. I check my mail,...
Community in the Cloud: Better or Worse?
This is a guest post by Grand Effect member David Peralty of College Crunch. If you enjoy this post, please be sure to give College Crunch a look when you’re done for more of his awesome work! The social aspect of community is changing so rapidly, where we once had to seek people out...
Scaling 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...
Brightkite Updates Pose A Problem On Twitter
The location based mobile social network Brightkite, may be facing a bit of a backlash with Twitter users. While the service is nicely gaining ground with Twitter users, there are some that are more than irritated with one of Brightkite’s most popular features: sending location updates to Twitter. Recently, prolific Twitter user and one of...
