Tag Archives: social media

TED.com – Defend our freedom to share (or why SOPA is a bad idea)

Clay Shirky deliv­ers a clear and cogent his­tory and expla­na­tion of PIPA/SOPA, walk­ing through through both the intent and what the ram­i­fi­ca­tions of the bill and how it changes the entire legal sys­tem under which web­sites operate.

January 19, 2012 – 5:38 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Art, Copyright, Culture, Politics, Quick Posts, Social Media, Technology | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments Off

The Contactually Blog – E-mail is the Universal Platform

I don’t put much stock in sto­ries that say e-mail is dead for pre­cisely this reason.

January 5, 2012 – 1:55 am | By Justin Yost | Posted in Business, Communication, Quick Posts, Social Media | Tagged , , , , | Comments Off

O’Reilly Radar – The end of social

The more we share the less value each piece of infor­ma­tion has to the peo­ple (but not the sys­tems) that we share to.

December 11, 2011 – 2:13 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Communication, Culture, Economics, Quick Posts, Social Media, Technology | Tagged , , , , , | Comments Off

guardian.co.uk – Networks are not always revolutionary

Fair point I think, hav­ing the net­work or hav­ing fame isn’t enough to guar­an­tee suc­cess but it does help.

July 17, 2011 – 4:36 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Art, Communication, Culture, Politics, Quick Posts, Technology | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | Comments Off

TechCrunch – Groupon Was “The Single Worst Decision I Have Ever Made As A Business Owner”

The more I read about Groupon the more I want this busi­ness to just go away.

June 13, 2011 – 6:09 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Economics, Quick Posts, Social Media | Tagged , , , , | Comments Off

Marco.org – Why the Quick Bar (“dickbar”) is still so offensive

All true and won­der­fully pointed, thanks Marco.

March 20, 2011 – 7:15 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Design, Quick Posts, Social Media, User Experience | Tagged , , , , , | Comments Off

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.

March 15, 2011 – 1:34 am | By Justin Yost | Posted in Communication, Design, Quick Posts, Social Media, Technology, User Experience, Web Design | Tagged , , , , , , , | Comments Off