Tag Archives: twitter

Cthulhu and other crazies – Apple’s Ping is a big pile of steaming dung

Ping out of the gate is basi­cally a failure.

NYTimes.com – German Law Would Limit Facebook’s Use in Hiring

Ger­many has pro­posed to limit what social net­work­ing sites employ­ers can review.

Street Giant – Leroy Stick: the man behind @BPGlobalPR

The man behind @BPGlobalPR speaks up and tells com­pa­nies how to not have their rep­u­ta­tion totally trashed.

The Dangers of Building on Someone Else’s Platform – trevoro.ca

If you busi­ness is built around the idea of fill­ing gaps in a company’s offer­ings be extremely wary.

Measuring Tweets – Twitter Blog

50 mil­lion tweets per day, that’s incredible.

What About the Open Web?

Face­book: Far­mVille is big­ger than Twit­ter, beyond insane when I think about it. To prove the pop­u­lar­ity of these extra-curricular sec­tions of Face­book, John­son explained: “Appli­ca­tions make up a huge part of Face­book. There are over 90,000 appli­ca­tions on Face­book. “69 mil­lion active users are using Far­mVille alone, that’s more users than Twit­ter.” Inter­est­ingly, Face­book noted

Facebook and Twitter: Different and Both Useful

Which do you care about more sim­ply get­ting a stream of con­ciu­si­cous thoughts from peo­ple or a stream of tons of dif­fer­ent aspects on that per­son and lots of infor­ma­tion to put it into con­text. That’s the dilemma fac­ing peo­ple sign­ing up for social net­works. Each spe­cial­izes in an area that makes it use­ful to