Introducing Twitter-disclosure Slashtags
It’s official. On December 1, 2009, the FTC’s new disclosure guidelines went into effect. So what does this mean for Twitter users? It means that you must disclose any financial relationship that you...
View ArticleFlocking To the Stream
I recently began to go through some article backlogs on the websites of various people whose thoughts and perspectives I want to understand better. One such person with whom I’m trying to play catch up...
View ArticleA Flock of Twitters: Decentralized Semantic Microblogging
In my last article, Flocking To the Stream, I ended with this thought about the growing issue of social-networking fatigue: …as the number of streams continue to increase and as the flow rate of each...
View ArticleNosquare and Nowalla: Polluting the Stream
Location-based services are great. But please stop sending updates (check ins) to your Twitter and Facebook accounts. It is the perfect example of social-networking tie-in gone wrong. Why do I say...
View ArticleEasy Code to Show Your Most Recent Tweets in WordPress
Note: The code below will no longer work as it uses a now deprecated Twitter API. Unfortunately, to grab your tweets, or any tweets from the public timeline, you have to set up an OAuth connection. If...
View ArticleApple Unveils Ping and Enters Social-networking War with Facebook and Twitter
During Apple’s media event today, CEO Steve Jobs previewed iTunes 10 which will include Ping, a social network for music (Ping press release). I believe this is possibly a game-changing event for...
View ArticleI’ve Got a Clot in My Klout: Influence Across a Distributed Social Web.
I’ve been a fan of Klout since its inception. I was a relatively early adopter of its services and believer in its ideal to become the standard for influence measurement. I still use Klout and believe...
View ArticleThe Web is Not (yet) Social
There is a common misunderstanding about the meaning of the phrase Social Web. I believe that most of the Web’s netizens think that the Web is social. But in fact the Web is not currently social....
View ArticleIt’s Time for Blogging to Evolve
The concept of blogging needs to evolve. Whereas Twitter and Facebook seem to have stolen some of the wind from blogging, I believe that netizens in general still desire to control their webspace and...
View ArticleGoogle Plus Communities: Analyzing The Impact On User Engagement
Google Plus Engagement Pre Versus Post Communities; clicky to embiggen I’ve suspected for awhile that since the launch of Google Plus Communities three months ago, I am not receiving the same level of...
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