I 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 [...]
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All your tweets (are) belong to you
Published by September 11th, 2009 in Microblogging, Social Media and Web/Internet. 0 CommentsOlder 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 [...]
Why Chrome OS doesn’t make much sense
Published by July 12th, 2009 in Google, Linux and Web/Internet. 0 CommentsI was a bit surprised with Google announced they were going to be creating a lightweight Chrome OS for use in netbooks. But is it “doomed”? This article at Slate says “yes,” and I’m inclined to agree, mostly for this reason, as the author writes:
Sometimes there’s a logic to this. It made sense for Google [...]
Blast from the past: Online newspapers in 1981
Published by January 29th, 2009 in Journalism, Television and Web/Internet. 2 CommentsThere’s a lot to love in this news report about online newspapers from 28 years ago. Dialing the rotary phone to connect to the modem, citing a whopping 2,000 – 3,000 computer owners in the Bay Area, waiting two hours to download the content of a newspaper (and paying $5 an hour for the privilege)… [...]
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 [...]
Google to release own browser, “Chrome”
Published by September 1st, 2008 in Google, Technology and Web/Internet. 3 CommentsGoogle’s throwing a wrench into the IE vs. Firefox vs. Safari vs. Opera browser dynamic with it’s own offering, Google Chrome. They explain their reasoning behind the project in a very slick comic drawn by “Understanding Comics” creator Scott McCloud, in which they state they’re looking to create a browser for the way people use [...]
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 [...]
Did you delete your MySpace profile today?
Published by January 30th, 2008 in Social Networking, Sports PR, Web 2.0 and Web/Internet. 2 CommentsI’m routinely met with a barrage of e-mails from fake MySpace profiles requesting I add them as friends. These profiles are usually fronts for “camgirl” operations that are – ahem – “less than work safe” – and yet they continue to exist on MySpace. Things that also exist on MySpace: ugly layouts, pages that crash [...]
Remembering influential Web videos of the past…
Published by November 27th, 2007 in Technology, Web 2.0 and Web/Internet. 0 CommentsThe Webby Awards have posted their list of the top 12 most influential videos of all time. Some of these are classics, including the “All Your Base” and “Star Wars Kid” videos. There is some more serious fare on the list, such as George Allen’s “Macacca” video, in which one word derailed Allen’s political career, [...]
