Twitter’s relatively new Lists feature can be a handy way of teasing a melody out of the cacophony of incoming tweets, as well as compiling a collection of worthwhile voices on a particular subject.
But it has some frustrating limitations. You can’t…
Later this month, we’re packing up the tents, band instruments and trapezes, and taking the show down south to Portland, Oregon for a week to attend OSCON 2010.
I’ll be cartoon-blogging the event – and Alex and I will be presenting a session on our Ope…
Last week saw much gnashing of clothes and rending of teeth over the fact that Nike (which is not a World Cup sponsor) is outdoing Adidas (which is) in Twitter mentions, blog references and a few other social media metrics.
Nike isn’t alone. Coke is…
Tod Maffin noted recently that the ubiquity of Starbucks, with the chain’s next-to-worthless Foursquare offer, poses a serious challenge to the app’s usefulness. He calls it “location spam”:
I live in Vancouver. There are more Starbucks in this city th…
What if we had a “contact permissions” code for business cards?
Online participation 101: it’s easier to get people to take smaller steps and build on them, than to ask them to take a giant leap on your behalf.
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