Hot on the heels of Twitter affirming that yes, you own your tweets, some Chicago Google engineers have launched “The Data Liberation Front,” with the goal of making it simple to move your data in and out of Google products (Blogger, Gmail, and more, with additional services coming soon).
Enhancing options for data portability is [...]
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Google makes it easy to move data out of Google products
Published by September 14th, 2009 in Google and Social Media. 0 CommentsAll your tweets (are) belong to you
Published by September 11th, 2009 in Microblogging, Social Media and Web/Internet. 0 CommentsI normally don’t may much attention to Web site terms of service. Usually it’s a race to get to the bottom of the terms so I can click the “agree” button and get started with whatever I’m doing. With Twitter’s TOS, however, I was glad to see they clarified the issue of “who owns your [...]
Older users responsible for Twitter’s growth
Published by August 26th, 2009 in Social Media, Social Networking and Web/Internet. 0 CommentsTwitter has experienced phenomenal growth over the last couple of years. Unlike many social media sites, however Twitter’s growth hasn’t been driven by the youth – it’s us old people that are signing up in droves.
“The traditional early-adopter model would say that teenagers or college students are really important to adoption,” said Andrew Lipsman, director [...]
Tools to help monitor your brand online
Published by December 27th, 2008 in Social Media, Social Networking, Web 2.0 and Web/Internet. 2 CommentsOne of the first baby steps many organizations take into social media is monitoring for their brand online. In many cases, once they learn what people are saying about them, they take a big interest in becoming part of the conversation.
When you’re new to the social media scene, the number of sites you need to [...]
How will Twitter make money? They’ll figure it out… eventually
Published by October 9th, 2008 in Social Media, Web 2.0 and Web/Internet. 0 CommentsSlate has an interesting article about how (and if) Twitter will ever devise a strategy for making money. I’ve been asking myself this question for a long time, as it seems unlikely that any company will last without a way to pay for things like, oh, servers.
Twitter has been pretty stable lately, and the Fail [...]
Metallica invites bloggers to listen to new album, won’t let them write about it
Published by June 10th, 2008 in Blogs, Music, PR Disasters, Social Media and Web 2.0. 2 CommentsUsually, when a company invites the media or bloggers to an event to offer an exclusive early look at a product, the goal is to encourage said media or bloggers to write about that product. When Metallica invited bloggers to listen to its upcoming album, reviews inevitably popped up on the Web; reviews which Metallica’s [...]
If (traditional) media companies saw the writing on the wall…
Published by April 1st, 2008 in Blogs, Mass Media, New Media, Social Media, Web/Internet, Weblogs and Workplace. 0 CommentsImagine if, 25 years ago, a time traveler from the present day appeared to newspaper, television and radio executives to outline the media landscape in 2008. He’d tell them about how the Internet has dramatically increased the number of media outlets and how it’s enabled everyone to opine or present news via text, audio or [...]
Hollywood pros to launch own video channel, syndicate via YouTube
Published by August 1st, 2007 in Social Media and Television. 0 CommentsIt has never made much sense to me that the entertainment industry has always tried to set up alternatives to the most popular channels for online audio and video distribution rather than partnering with sites that are already well-known and well-used. Several networks have set up their own video sharing sites while vigorously patrolling YouTube [...]
Creating a personal home page as a digital hub?
Published by July 10th, 2007 in Social Media, Social Networking, Technology, Web 2.0, Web/Internet and Weblogs. 0 CommentsThese days I’m finding my attention is split up among so many various Web services that blogging is simply losing out. Not that I don’t love writing, of course, but these days when I find an interesting piece of information worth calling out I’m more likely to share it through Google Reader, post it to [...]
Military changes comm policy, bloggers need permission to post
Published by May 3rd, 2007 in Government, PR in the Media, Public Relations, Social Media, Web 2.0, Web/Internet, Weblogs and Writing. 0 CommentsOver the last few years, I’ve really enjoyed reading blogs of soldiers serving overseas- The information comes straight from the source without being filtered through the mainstream media, and as a result I’ve been able to read a number of extremely compelling stories. I empathize with these guys. I see how hard they’re working, and [...]
