Category Archives: Social Media

Social Media, media built around the idea of communication with as opposed to at your customers.

furbo.org – Twitterrific firsts

Third party clients have been at the fore­front of the Twit­ter expe­ri­ence for many years, that dif­fer­en­ti­a­tion and unique spin on the Twit­ter stream is what drove many of Twitter’s core func­tion­al­ity today.

The Next Web – Twitter explains why developers shouldn’t build new clients

So basi­cally Twit­ter is going to push hard into developing/perfecting offi­cial Twit­ter clients, so every­one else we’re com­ing after your busi­ness model, switch, dif­fer­en­ti­ate or be dead in the water.

NYTimes.com – American Medical Response Settles Facebook Firing Case

Good deci­sion employ­ees should be able to com­ment in their pri­vate off time as pub­licly as they wish about their com­pany (minus releas­ing trade secrets and such).

Your Site, Your Design

More con­tent own­ers are wish­ing to make it eas­ier for peo­ple to share their con­tent in a well mean­ing attempt to attract more read­ers, unfor­tu­nately I think they are ruin­ing the thing that peo­ple are most inter­ested in, the con­tent itself.

Official Google Blog – Some weekend work that will (hopefully) enable more Egyptians to be heard

Only Google has this kind of abil­ity to just buy a com­pany and build a prod­uct to make the inter­net and a pub­lic more free.

The Atlantic – The Inside Story of How Facebook Responded to Tunisian Hacks

I’m not sure what’s more shock­ing, that a coun­try wide key­log­ger was in use, or that Face­book took these actions to defend their users and free­dom of speech.