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Twitter makes sure that they throw in the obligatory “this ain’t about Google Apps” disclaimer when actually it pretty much is. This attack had nothing to do with any vulnerability in Google Apps which we continue to use. [From Twitter Blog: Twitter, Even More Open Than We Wanted] If Twitter were using something other than [...]
I’ve been cleaning up my Twitter-roll and unfollowing a bunch of people, here’s why: 1) You don’t tweet. I don’t think anyone really needs to pump out 50 tweets a day to be interesting… but the corollary is true as well, if the only tweet you have posted in the last 2 months is “going [...]
I’ve been tracking my link traffic with bit.ly (liking very much btw) and have noticed a couple of interesting patterns. These observations may form a basis for how twitter compliments bloggers and media in ways beyond simple promotion of posts. When I post a link as a tweet, the link gets more traffic than when [...]
Much talk about Twitter and business plans, considering I had an email exchange with a good friend on this very topic I thought I’d throw it out for public discussion. Advertising: I am skeptical of this because it puts a bullseye on them for user pushback. Plus, as social networks teach us, advertising on these [...]
Top trending topic on Twitter is #fixreplies in response to the “small settings update” that they instituted yesterday afternoon. We’ve updated the Notices section of Settings to better reflect how folks are using Twitter regarding replies. Based on usage patterns and feedback, we’ve learned most people want to see when someone they follow replies to [...]
I think that pretty much from the beginning there existed a tension between users and software developers around the notion of interoperability. Users want it while developers more often than not view it as a threat to their strategy to lock users into their apps and services. With social networks the tension has increased because [...]
I think I wrote something about this application last year. Acrylic Times is a very slick RSS client application that faces huge challenges in spite of being a beautifully designed application. 1) It’s a license in an era when people have an expectation of free. 2) The RSS client market is not growing and it’s [...]
For media, there are two primary use cases for RSS, promotion of new content and content syndication. The latter is true plumbing that offers low cost, reliability and convenience while the former is a means for promoting new content through RSS client applications, widgets, iPhone apps, purpose specific apps, and so on… you see the [...]