According to Mike Elgan, if they purchase Twitter, that’ll be exactly what they are developing with Google Profiles. Is it possible that is what Google is planning? Sure. Could they develop something absolutely, positively, useful? Obviously they know how to do that with other products. Will it “kill” Facebook? Eh, maybe. This actually brings up…
Those are the 4 P’s of social networking, according to Doug Cornelius. Go check out his theory of how to measure the information you decide to put online, or not. I think he’s on to something, but also that there’s something missing. Mostly, what I see missing is the idea that you can’t always separate…
Image by mikemac29 via Flickr One of the more interesting conversations I had in New York with the family was, oddly enough, about social networking. Mostly due to the fact that I had “connected” with some of the family I was seeing that day on Facebook, and was sharing my plans to be part of…
Normally, I respect what Preston Galla writes about over at Computerworld, but yesterday’s article just seemed like a whole lot of FUD to me. The BBC reports that researchers at the University of Texas at Austin were able to take completely anonymous data from Flickr and Twitter, run an algorithm on it, and from that…
I read a quote in this article about Facebook Friend Collector’s being pretty normal, that really sums up the value in social networking sites like Twitter and Facebook for me. “You can ask somebody, ‘Of your 300 Facebook friends how many are actually friends?’ and people will say, ‘Oh, 30 or 40 or 50,’” Professor…
There’s just so much good stuff in this conversation with Ralph Losey and Judge Shira Scheindlin that I can’t even decide which parts to quote or comment on. Just go, and either read or listen to the podcast. I will say this though, I wish I could get every attorney in our firm to read…