Why Social Media Will Help (Not Suffer) in the Crisis
Ever since the financial crisis hit the stock and real estate markets, there’s been a fair bit of discussion about its impact on the web scene. Venture capitalists Sequoia made some powerpoint slides that became quite famous. That was one month ago. (Others, more recently, have been way more positive. Describing the atmosphere at Web [...]
Seven rules for a corporate presence on Twitter
Twitter still seems to be one of the bigger mysteries for many folks out there, particularly in the corporate sphere. No surprise, it’s one of those phenomena that aren’t easily understood at a first glance. (When looking at a few hundred web 2.0 services for a study I was working on, Twitter was one of [...]
Learn from the Fail Whale: failing doesn’t need to hurt
If there’s one thing all Twitter users have in common, it’s that they’ve experienced down time. Twitter is famous for it’s long and regular down times, and since the service is growing so fast, it will continue to be unavailable fairly frequently for quite a while. Usually, with the fickle web audience, this would mean [...]
perspctv: Who’s talking about McCain, Obama?
perspectv visualizes who’s being talked about more: McCain or OBama. Or as TechCrunch calls it: “An Election Mashup That Proves Nothing, But Looks Good Doing It“.
And guess what? It’s just that:
This project presents different perspectives in our world, including that of Mainstream media and user-generated content on the Internet. (…) What we think vs. what [...]
12seconds: Twitter for video (and video for Twitter)
A new day, a new video service. Today: 12seconds, which has a refreshing take on web video: Record a video message of exactly 12 seconds, the moving image equivalent of a 140 character message on Twitter. It’s a video micro blog.
hello world on 12seconds.tv
My first test post on 12seconds.
You see the parallels to Twitter? Well, [...]
State of the Web Summer 2008
The State of the Web Summer 2008 is a neat visual summary of what has happened this summer on the web so far, in 11 steps by Matthew Inman. I like.
Protect your tweets - or don’t
Recently I proposed to add a little Twitter feature, namely an indicator for why you protect your Twitter feed. (Why is this important? To prevent social awkwardness.) Tapio picked up on this issue and asked (among others) me:
You folks out there must have come across that situation: a new follower request comes in, you don’t [...]
Workshop: Social Media in Higher Education
Next Tuesday, I’ll have the great chance to hold a workshop at UOC, Barcelona, on Social Media in Higher Education. UOC is a virtual university with students all over the world, so they’re very web-savvy to begin with. I’m very curious about their feedback on my two cents on Web 2.0 and social media. Also, [...]
Twitter feature request: Protected updates options
One thing that’d be really useful for Twitter: If you could signal somehow why your Twitter updates are protected. Some folks do it because they prefer to communicate within their circle of friends. Others do it so they can monitor who subscribes to their tweets - which is the only way of making sure that [...]
Is Twitter the new Google?
Well, of course that title is slightly misleading. (Come on, what did you expect?) However, it’s not just there to draw a few more eyeballs. Let me explain what I mean.
Google is everywhere. But not just in a general, universal “oh my god they’re everywhere” sense, but more concretely: I work with Google all day, [...]