I was reading this piece on Mashable, by the ever thought-provoking Steven Hodson. And true to form, my thoughts were provoked.
In that piece he talks about the importance of Social Media as the means to discovering top content. which seems to jibe with Louis Grays post about how the primary traffic drivers to his site [...]

Categories: google · search · social networks

I try not to add too much to the twitter whinging (was that too british of me?), but I thought I’d give this a roll. It all pretty much confirms my generalized notion that there is no middle ground on the web.
The Beginning
Let’s start from the beginning, first there was the post that suggested [...]

Categories: rant · social networks · twitter

Ok, so. The internets. It’s all about extremes, something is THE BEST! or something is THE WORST! You know? Apparently everyone on the nets either loves something or hates it, there’s very little middle ground - part of this is the fact that, well, if you’re middling on something, you’re much less likely to write [...]

Categories: blogs · navel gazing · social networks

So recently, I’ve been working on a bunch of little Friendfeed projects. The first two I did were quick and dirty stat gatherers, one to figure out other folks you might be interested in by comparing how many things you liked/commented on in common. The other comes at it from a different angle and looks [...]

Categories: friendfeed · social networks

You know, there’s a lot of bitching about Twitter downtime going around, not undeservedly so. The service is experiencing significant growth pains and is down more than I’ve seen any other popular web service go down. Bitching is one thing, it’s one of the main joys of life - complaining and whining and what not, [...]

Categories: social networks

Well, ok. I was wrong, I was wrong and the internet was right. I was an OpenSocial skeptic. I hated the way Google launched the platform with a lot of sound and fury but releasing nothing. Nothing but a bunch of partners and rhetoric. Fortunately this bag of vapor coalesced into some social networking goodness [...]

Categories: facebook · google · social networks

You know, if you travel in my august circles, you’d already know about Disqus (pronounced “discuss”). It’s the comment service that everyone’s talking about. Yup, that’s right, in my circles everyone talks about blog commenting services. Don’t be jealous.
I’d been reading and seeing how it was the bomb, most recently a post by Fred Wilson. [...]

Categories: blogs · navel gazing · social networks

First up, just so’s you knows where I’m coming from, I love FriendFeed and I love Google Reader. One of the things that’s been frustrating me a bit with Google Reader is the inability to add a comment to the things I share - I mean, sharing something is works but it seems kinda naked [...]

Categories: friendfeed · google · rss · social networks

UPDATED: Tue Apr 1 14:27:25 EDT 2008
I know, I know, too much FriendFeed and not enough iPhone. ;) Just this one more and I’ll stop for awhile. You know, when you’ve got a little obsession you just gotta go with it for awhile, work through the demons.
A lot of these thoughts were swirling around [...]

Categories: social networks · web2.0

I had a busy weekend and spent a lot of my time not at home… much FriendFeed’ing on the iPhone ensues. To that end, inspired by Steven Hodson’s list I thought I’d enumerate them. While FriendFeed’s interface is simple enough that it looks decent out the gate on the iPhone, I think a more focus [...]

Categories: iphone · social networks