Posts in: Social media
- Plurk.com: Twitter on a timeline
- Meet Plurk, another Twitter-like microblogging service. It’s a fairly new addition to a space that also includes Pownce and Jaiku. After using it for a few hours, I’m torn between loving Plurk’s take on the 140-character update and thinking there’s just too much interface. Plurk does some things beautifully — the Getting Started Guide — for [...] [2 Jun 2008]
- Aww junk! I been BoingBoinged! (Where Are the Black Tech Bloggers?)
- Yeah, Joel Johnson of BoingBoing.net was at the South by Southwest “Where Are the Black Tech Bloggers?” — a panel I was asked to join at the last minute (but not the very last minute. That honor belongs to Cheryl :-). ). So Joel wrote about it, and the comments went straight to typical. Which, of [...] [14 Mar 2008]
- Tips for using the web to run your business
- TwoThree posts on turning your office into a web-based one. The Freelancer’s Toolset: 100 Web Apps for Everything You Will Possibly Need 8 Steps to running your business on (mostly) free apps The Social Enterprise - What Works, and What Doesn’t Somewhat related: Using Amazon S3 for hard drive backups Freebie resources for designers Review: The online mind map smackdown Open source favorites [6 Nov 2007]
- Recommended: “The Big Juicy Twitter Guide”
- If you’re a Twitter-phile like myself, you don’t need to be convinced of the service’s value. But just in case you need to convince someone else, Caroline Middlebrook’s series The Big Juicy Twitter Guide is an excellent resource. In it, Middlebrook covers everything you would need to know before getting started with Twitter: etiquette, branding, tools, [...] [6 Nov 2007]
- Recommended: Jeremy Keith’s “Lock up your data”
- You’ll need to read the Flickr forum thread for some context regarding Jeremy’s post, but Jeremy’s point is a good one: As sites like Flickr and Last.fm move from having early adopters into the mainstream, this issue becomes more important. What isn’t clear is how the moral responsibility should be distributed. Should Flickr provide clearer [...] [5 Oct 2007]
- Yahoo! Mash: an interesting exercise in trust and control
- Yahoo’s new social network service Mash is best described as Facebook-meets-43People with a hell of a lot more personalization options. Like Facebook, MySpace, or BlackPlanet, you can create a profile with basic information about yourself and ‘friend’ other users. You can also add modules — what other sites call widgets or gadgets — to [...] [19 Sep 2007]
- Recommended: “SNS visibility norms (a response to Scoble)”
- danah has a really good post up about social networking site visibility and raises some interesting questions about how to design technology to enhance or destroy privacy. Also see the Scoble post that inspired danah’s response. Related: Recommended: Social Networks Aren’t Products “Facebook Follies” and what might an open social network format look like? [9 Sep 2007]
- Recommended: Social Networks Aren’t Products
- From Vitamin: It’s the cold hard truth, and a reminder of how difficult it is to launch such a site: Social Networks Aren’t Products. Nobody gives a damn how good the cupcakes are; if scarcely anybody shows up, your party is a failure. Equally, nobody goes to MySpace or Match for the cupcakes — or, to [...] [4 Sep 2007]
