Spotified and Painless
I’ve been spoiled for a little while and have had a Spotify account for the past year. I didn’t realize how great it was until about 6 months ago and started using it pretty regularly. Mostly I lean on it for music that I want to listen to but don’t really want to buy. For [...]
Retweets 2.0 (aka, Your Tweets, retweeted) (Please RT this)
This week I’ve been happily exploring the new retweet feature on Twitter.com. I can’t wait for this same functionality to spread to my favorite twitter clients. It’s accomplishing a better user experience for many reasons. The integrity of the original tweet is saved (if you want to add comments, just send your own tweet) You [...]
All media will be social, the term ‘Social Media’ will be irrelevant …
FEED: The 2009 Razorfish Digital Brand Experience Report They took a sample set of ‘connected customers’ who are often leading indicators of how people interact digitally. There are a lot of great snippets of data that are worth reading through. Highly recommend. Buzz Canuck: The Blindsiding and Bubble of Social Media Key quote: But in a very [...]
Crowd-Sourced Virtual Reality
Last Month when I was in New York, my wife Andrea and I took a walk over the Brooklyn Bridge. I had my Canon Rebel xti and was snapping a bunch of photographs. About halfway through the walk, I realized just how many cameras were on the bridge at that time. Everyone had a camera, [...]
My Social media thoughts, November.
Just wanted to give my $.02 on where we are with Social Media at the beginning of November, 2009. About six months ago, I was pretty excited about two trends in social media; location based social networks and video. The 3gs iPhone had just arrived, this meant two things to me: Video on the best [...]
Twitter Lists, why you should care
Lists on Twitter launched to everyone this week. A lot of people are very excited this, for very good reason. Some are even saying that it might be the biggest thing to hit Twitter in a while. I’m cautiously optimistic. It’s not going to matter to me until the my favorite twitter clients (cotweet, tweetie) [...]
Signal to Noise on Twitter
A couple weeks ago I sat on a panel at 140tc that was moderated by Guy Kawasaki about brand building on Twitter. There was a lot of great insight by all the panelists, and I had a great time in the conversation. However, there were a couple of disagreements that I wanted to elaborate on. [...]
On the Road
I’ve always wanted to drive across the country. I figured it would be to either visit all the major league baseball stadiums, or to follow Phish. Never thought I would be doing it for my job. Two weeks ago I found out I’d be spending the last two weeks of September with 10 strangers filming [...]
Thoughts on Trending Topics
Twitter’s Trending Topics is one of the reasons that Twitter has become so successful. Revealing the public consensus to the simple question of “what are you doing?” is one of the most enjoyable parts of being a part of Twitter. When my favorite band, my favorite baseball team, or my favorite coffee company show up [...]
Virtual Analog Tweeting
I was just commenting this week how people hide behind Twitter. I’ve never seen anybody yell #FAIL at a business or person in real life, but they tweet that all the time. This is some funny stuff:
location, location, location
What is the future of location based social networking? Location is the most important part of real estate and in baseball it’s the difference between a Cy Young award winner and a minor leaguer. It’s also something that is making it’s way to most mobile phones and conceivably laptop computers someday. The benefits are vast, [...]
Getting coffee @Starbucks.
A real time look at when Starbucks is mentioned on Twitter. It peaks every morning around 8am … This is a great site to analyze trends on Twitter: http://twist.flaptor.com
Local news gets, ‘super local’
The newspaper industry has had a steady decline in recent years. The internet has flattened the industry, no longer do you need to live in San Francisco to easily read the San Francisco Chronicle, just go to their website. Also, if you’re looking to buy a new car or rent an apartment, you now turn [...]
12seconds.tv
I just signed up for an account on 12seconds.tv. It is exactly what it sounds like, you are limited to 12 seconds of video. Kind of like Twitter for YouTube. It’ll get some traction, but I’m not sure just how useful it is. I love Twitter because I can read it in meetings, on the [...]
the landscape
The online world has changed quite dramatically in the past 5 years. It has grown from a single track, bull-horn and a soapbox world, to a conversation. The advent of YouTube, Flickr, Friendster, and Myspace we’re all predictable. People like taking videos, photos, and talking to each other. These first wave social networks paved the [...]