Social Media
Twitter needs a mute button
During this historical time of our next presidential election, I found that people I like are more than enthusiastic about their candidates. That’s fine, people have the right to say what they want, but unfortunately some spew more than others and I found my Twitter stream was filled with more about Obama, McCain, Hillary, and [...]
Should Twitter change their tagline?
I wasn’t around when Twitter first started. If I was, I’d have the username “starman” instead of missing out on it by four hours. From what people tell me, it was supposed to be a service where you could tell people what you’re up to. Hence, “what are you doing?”. The tagline worked at first, [...]
The state of conversations on the internet
Ever since Twitter started having brain damage, I’ve been seeing a trend that I hoped would stop. People are using ping.fm, a service that blasts your microblogging messages to multiple sites, and are having a hard time keeping up with the sites that they’re sending the messages to. Pownce was Twitter’s competition last year, but [...]
There needs to be a way to funnel all this data
Over the last few months, it’s been getting more and more difficult to funnel conversations from all these blog posts, tweets, diggs, plurks, friendfeeds, pictures, and videos in one place. Most recently, Plurk as come online which has the advantage of self-contained conversations, but with the disadvantage of not seeing friends’ plurks inside those conversations. [...]
Plurk survived WWDC, Twitter did not
Yesterday was Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) in San Fransisco, California. Despite how the media will tell you that Apple is a gnat in the computing world, thousands of nerds take their pilgrimage to San Fransisco to meet up with other nerds and talk about C, Cocoa, CoreFoundation, Objective C, and other odd terms not [...]
12-step program for converting from Twitter to Plurk
1. Tell everyone on Twitter you love them and you’ll miss them. 2. Tell everyone on Twitter to move to Plurk. 3. Decide what you’re going to do with your time now that there’s no wait between responses. 4. Work on that karma! 5. Beg the Plurk developers for an API. [...]
Plurk me
Plurk is a new micro-blogging service from Canada. Riding on the heels of Twitter’s current problems and an endorsement from Leo Laporte, it provides not only the standard 140-character micro-blogging service that everyone loves from Twitter, it adds several new features. Some are attractive, some are…not. “plurk is hard it has instructions” – irina slutsky [...]
Where's (isn't) Waldo?
About a year or so ago, my aunt and uncle wanted to have a new carpet installed in their home. They worked with the installers to determine a time that they can come over to install the carpet based on their work schedule. They said that looking back, they apparently gave too much information about [...]
Social media: are we the pioneers or a niche?
Podcamp NYC 2.0 was amazing. Apart from finally meeting a lot of people in person, there were a lot of ideas thrown around about how to improve what people are working on, and bring it to the next level. I can’t stop and wonder if this is the kind of thing that’s going to spread [...]
