Monthly Archives: September 2009

links for 2009-09-30

Microsoft Wants To Make A Play In Social Media Monitoring | paidContent This could be interesting. Real-time monitoring is where it is at. It is Google's greatest weakness – Google only searches places, not spaces (conversations). The fact that an

links for 2009-09-30

Microsoft Wants To Make A Play In Social Media Monitoring | paidContent This could be interesting. Real-time monitoring is where it is at. It is Google's greatest weakness – Google only searches places, not spaces (conversations). The fact that an

links for 2009-09-29

What makes Twitter worth a billion dollars? – Times Online Review of the implications of Twitter securing new investment. Whether Twitter is over-valued is difficult to say. It is almost certainly in-correctly valued because the money boys haven't yet worked

links for 2009-09-29

What makes Twitter worth a billion dollars? – Times Online Review of the implications of Twitter securing new investment. Whether Twitter is over-valued is difficult to say. It is almost certainly in-correctly valued because the money boys haven't yet worked

links for 2009-09-25

Seth's Blog: Launching Brands in Public Interesting but … I get the feeling this isn't going to work because it seems to sideline the main stream of conversation. Getting the conversation to flow through a service such as this is

links for 2009-09-25

Seth's Blog: Launching Brands in Public Interesting but … I get the feeling this isn't going to work because it seems to sideline the main stream of conversation. Getting the conversation to flow through a service such as this is

Google’s Sidewiki has a sting in the tail

A couple of days ago Google announced something very interesting – Sidewiki. This creates an overlay on any website / url allowing a form of commenting and rating.  Because this is linked to the browser, the site owners themselves have

Google’s Sidewiki has a sting in the tail

A couple of days ago Google announced something very interesting – Sidewiki. This creates an overlay on any website / url allowing a form of commenting and rating.  Because this is linked to the browser, the site owners themselves have

Just an interesting thought

In the Gutenberg world information was created by acts of publication.  In the post-Gutenberg world (i.e. world of social media) information is created by acts of observation. Don’t know whether this goes anywhere – but the idea of the act

Just an interesting thought

In the Gutenberg world information was created by acts of publication.  In the post-Gutenberg world (i.e. world of social media) information is created by acts of observation. Don’t know whether this goes anywhere – but the idea of the act

links for 2009-09-23

socialized blog » McLuhan, Socrates and Edith Wharton On Social Media Some great quotes and an intersting perspective. Marshall McLuhan in particular is worth revisiting because his perspective on the end of print culture and the global village are highly

links for 2009-09-23

socialized blog » McLuhan, Socrates and Edith Wharton On Social Media Some great quotes and an intersting perspective. Marshall McLuhan in particular is worth revisiting because his perspective on the end of print culture and the global village are highly

Has Twitter encouraged journalism?

A journalism student in Australia (@jadelemoigne) contacted me last week (through good old fashioned email) to ask questions about Twitter and whether it was encouraging journalism. I thought I would also blog the answers I gave, since this is a

Has Twitter encouraged journalism?

A journalism student in Australia (@jadelemoigne) contacted me last week (through good old fashioned email) to ask questions about Twitter and whether it was encouraging journalism. I thought I would also blog the answers I gave, since this is a

Are social networks just pretty snowflakes?

Have just been to TedxTuttle.  Interesting.  Eclectic certainly.  The clash of styles between a TED sit back and listen approach and a Tuttle sit around and talk approach didn’t quite meld together.  I felt that a TuttlexTED event might have

Are social networks just pretty snowflakes?

Have just been to TedxTuttle.  Interesting.  Eclectic certainly.  The clash of styles between a TED sit back and listen approach and a Tuttle sit around and talk approach didn’t quite meld together.  I felt that a TuttlexTED event might have

links for 2009-09-11

Facebook @Mentions: Five Ways They Could Impact Twitter Interesting development. However, in reality this highlight's Facebook's weakness – lack of focus on what it is. Twitter is a dedicated microblogging infrastructure. Facebook is not and simply adding a way to

links for 2009-09-11

Facebook @Mentions: Five Ways They Could Impact Twitter Interesting development. However, in reality this highlight's Facebook's weakness – lack of focus on what it is. Twitter is a dedicated microblogging infrastructure. Facebook is not and simply adding a way to

links for 2009-09-10

MediaPost Publications Ford Revs Up Social Media Efforts 09/10/2009 This has been an interesting initiative to watch. This isn't necessarily the type of content that I would recommend Ford produce (it isn't close enough to the brand or product story)

links for 2009-09-10

MediaPost Publications Ford Revs Up Social Media Efforts 09/10/2009 This has been an interesting initiative to watch. This isn't necessarily the type of content that I would recommend Ford produce (it isn't close enough to the brand or product story)