Twitter advertising has been a controversial topic for some time. Initially, people hated the idea of advertising by people they follow. The controversy initially started with IZEA and their SponsoredTweets as well as Magpie and Ad.ly. Mostly, people hated the idea, but there was no denying that popular Twitter users could make some significant money… Read More What Advertising Model On Twitter Will Really Make Money?
Twitter has been on the minds of bloggers again. It started with Fred Wilson telling developers to do more than fill holes in Twitter. I’ve been thinking a lot about the Twitter Platform and Ecosystem recently. I think it is at an inflection point, much like the desktop software and hardware business was in the… Read More Stop Complaining, Twitter Just Proved Your Exit Strategy
People have been complaining about Facebook and their privacy changes for what seems like an eternity. Recent developments have shown that this is all part of Facebook’s plan for world domination. Besides the various privacy policy changes, they have recently decided to share your profile with selected third party sites. Louis Gray posed an interesting… Read More Facebook’s Plan For World Domination
Some recent events in the past few weeks have had me thinking about how we develop software, specifically software that deals with social sites. The release of Google Buzz has raised various privacy concerns from people. I am not as worried about privacy, as those issues tend to get resolved fairly quickly. The problem that… Read More Simplification, Implicit Behaviour and Explicit Opt In
So it has been a while since the original release of Google Buzz. I figured that I would post my personal review of Buzz after some time, but I have decided against it. There are enough reviews of the functionality for you to read and argue with. While reading an interesting post from Profy, I… Read More Google Buzz Is Just A Baby Step
The battle for your attention is heating up. Facebook and Google are always in the news, but some interesting news recently shows how competitive these companies are going to get. Several months ago I wrote about this collision course the two companies are on: Facebook is trying to get closer to a real email client… Read More Facebook And Google On A Collision Course
We have sites like Facebook and FriendFeed that allow you to like comments or posts. We also have services like Glue that allow you to like things. Both of these are mashed up with social networks as well. With all of these services, you are just recommending things to your network and only the sites… Read More Get Paid For Your Likes With MyLikes
So, I was looking at last December’s posts to determine if I had written a standard 2009 predictions post. Instead of finding that, I found that I had written a post regarding the blog community widgets needing to work together. It was written in response to the Google FriendConnect and Facebook Connect widgets being released… Read More Farewell MyBlogLog, You Could Have Been A Contender
You may have heard of a new site called Simler. Wait. You haven’t? Well, the first thing you should do is check Louis Gray’s latest coverage of the site. Why should you check this out? Well, Louis has written three posts on Simler, and normally when you get that much coverage from Louis, you are… Read More Are We Simler? A Chat With Ryan Goodwin
The battle for control of your digital identity has begun. Yesterday, Yahoo announced that they will be integrating Facebook Connect throughout their sites. Some people may say that this is Yahoo hoping to maintain relevance, but Yahoo is still one of the most trafficked sites in the world, and it still maintains the largest online… Read More Google And Facebook Find Allies In Digital Identity Battle
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