Tag Archives: Twitter
Social media goes dark on Palo Alto plane crash
Its comforting to see that there is still some common decency left despite the seemingly total transparency that social media facilitates. Yesterday the pilot and passengers of a small aircraft were killed when their plane hit some power lines and … Continue reading
Gin, TV, Social Surplus and 4-year olds
As anyone who reads this blog knows, I have a fascination with the state of the newspaper industry and its impending demise…it serves me well as a proxy for ‘old media’ in general. Its not the printing press, the TV … Continue reading
Prescriptive social software & WOM
Alice Marwick’s piece on the emergence of prescriptive social software solutions – Brightkite, Loopt, Foursquare, Whrrl, etc. – made me think about how all these products are about mimicking ‘real life’. Take Foursquare – in a nutshell all it really … Continue reading
Twitter Deficit Disorder
Increasingly these days I hear the gentle chimes of TweetDeck during meetings or on conference calls, followed almost immediately by furtive glances at the laptop or pauses mid-sentence. These folks are clearly suffering from ‘Twitter Deficit’ Disorder’ – which is … Continue reading
Conversation via Status
Fred Wilson recently wrote a post where he observed that status has become the ultimate social gesture. Assuming that’s true we really need to solve the use case of folks commenting via one platform (e.g. Facebook) on updates made via … Continue reading
