This past week, which most people were simply enjoying a long holiday weekend in the US, early adopters of social media have been enjoying Google's new social media play, meant to challenge Facebook - and to a lesser extent, Twitter, for dominance in social interaction. And unlike Google Wave and Google Buzz before it, which largely failed out of the gate, Google+ seems to have more staying power. All of the people you expect are kicking read more...
BlogHer Study Shows the Continued Slide of Twitter Influence, Facebook Makes Gains
All of the talk around Klout Twitter influence is missing the point. When Twitter was in its infancy in 2006/7, it was a heady platform. One could ask questions and get answers in record time. Don’t know what kind of laptop is best? Ask “Twitter” or your friends on Twitter, anyway. Today, if you ask a question, it is likely to get ReTweeted, but less likely to get answered. It has increasingly become a broadcast channel vs. a relational one. A Pew study late last year underscored this problem. It showed that just under 1/2 read more...
Cool Tools: Four Ways to Build a Custom Facebook Tab, and the Tools and Services to Accomplish It
There has been lots of good conversation over at the Zoetica Salon this week about building Custom Facebook tabs (image above is the tab for the Zoetica Salon built on Beth Kanter’s Fanpage). It was of particular interest to me since I built two such tabs within the last month, one the Nonprofit read more...
The Six Degrees of Separation and of Actor Kevin Bacon Reimagined
The six degrees of separation is the idea that every person is within six degrees of knowing every other person on earth. In 1929, Hungarian author Frigyes Karinthy published a volume of short stories titled Everything is Different. In one of the stories, the characters created a game to prove that any two people could be connected through at most five acquaintances. That was (obviously) well before the Internet and the connected social web we all now know. In 1990, author-editor read more...
Google Update: How to Find Old Conversations from Twitter
Someone pinged me today asking about how to find an old hashtag conversation on Twitter. Awhile back I would have had to say they were out of luck. But thanks to a deal with Google that was penned earlier this year, older tweets can be found. I found it wasn’t really all that intuitive to use the new Updates Search feature but it does provide hope for the data miner and procrastinator alike. According to Google, they have Tweets back to February 11, 2010, and this simple search for my Twitter name shows read more...
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