Tag Archives: social networking

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.

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.

NYTimes.com – Man Accused of Stalking via Twitter Claims Free Speech

It’s an inter­est­ing case because while Twit­ter itself is a pub­lic medium, the per­son is direct­ing their mes­sages to a par­tic­u­lar person.

Messy Matters – This Post Won’t Go Viral

Per­haps the more inter­est­ing aspect is that most adop­tions occur with­out a peer-to-peer influ­ence or within one step of the orig­i­nal peer.

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.

Marco.org – Own your identity

The main point behind this blog and own­ing this domain is that exact rea­son, own­ing my iden­tity on the web.

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.