Is Twitter Killing RSS?
For media, there are two primary use cases for RSS, promotion of new content and content syndication. The latter is true plumbing that offers low cost, reliability and convenience while the former is a...
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Acrylic Times RSS Client
I think I wrote something about this application last year. Acrylic Times is a very slick RSS client application that faces huge challenges in spite of being a beautifully designed application. 1) It’s...
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Social Network Interopability
I think that pretty much from the beginning there existed a tension between users and software developers around the notion of interoperability. Users want it while developers more often than not view...
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#fixreplies: What Twitter Did to @replies is Stupid
Image via CrunchBase Top trending topic on Twitter is #fixreplies in response to the “small settings update” that they instituted yesterday afternoon. We’ve updated the Notices section of Settings to...
View ArticleMy Twitter Business Plan
Much talk about Twitter and business plans, considering I had an email exchange with a good friend on this very topic I thought I’d throw it out for public discussion. Advertising: I am skeptical of...
View ArticleTwitter Clicks
I’ve been tracking my link traffic with bit.ly (liking very much btw) and have noticed a couple of interesting patterns. These observations may form a basis for how twitter compliments bloggers and...
View ArticleWhy Did I Unfollow You
I’ve been cleaning up my Twitter-roll and unfollowing a bunch of people, here’s why: 1) You don’t tweet. I don’t think anyone really needs to pump out 50 tweets a day to be interesting… but the...
View ArticleTwitter, er Google, Hacked
Twitter makes sure that they throw in the obligatory “this ain’t about Google Apps” disclaimer when actually it pretty much is. This attack had nothing to do with any vulnerability in Google Apps which...
View ArticleG+, Twitter and Tumblr are Biggest Losers
Like a lot of my peers I have been immersed in Google Plus for the last week and I have to give credit to Google for really getting this one right. The sharing mechanism is very accessible, Circles...
View ArticlePut Down the #Hashtag Campaign
McDonald’s recently had to endure the ignominy of a Twitter hashtag campaign that was hijacked for the purpose of highlighting what people don’t like about the Golden Arches. The #McDStories campaign...
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