Renaissance 2.0
There seems to be a new trend for services that want to focus on establishing small private social networks, which I call MicroNetworks. This new breed of social networks are providing a private platform for people to connect with another person instead of large groups of people as on the regular social networks like Facebook…
Google Plus continues to grow with over 60 million users after six months and they keep adding new features little by little. One of the most important features that I am hoping to see soon is something called Public Circles. Let me explain why I think this will become important for the future of the…
Social networks like Facebook and Google Plus are battling it out right now for supremacy and video chat has become one of the fiercest battlegrounds. Google has taken the lead with its hangout feature which supports up to 10 video participants at the time while Facebook has improved its chat feature by adding video capabilities….
Most people today never heard of Utterz which was an innovative and fun community that launched around the same time as Twitter. You could do all the things we do now on Twitter and Facebook but even more. For example, not only could you publish posts on their website with text, images and video, but…
Eventually, Google will need to make some decisions regarding the way they let people like things if they want to have any consistency across all of their products and services. For example, on its new Google Plus network you can click the plus one button to “Like” something. See image of G+ However, on google’s…
I’m really liking Google+, the new social network from the search giant. Everyone who’s gotten into the field test release for G+ seems to be liking this effort much more than Google Wave and Google Buzz which is a good sign. However, everyone has complaints and suggestions too. What else is new? Here’s my two…
I love when @ChrisBrogan blurts out “You’re doing it wrong” every once in a while on Twitter just as a friendly reminder that there isn’t one right way to do all these social things we’re doing. I think he does it as a reminder for himself more than for us. He’s right too. No matter…
Here’s my first text-to-speech animation that I called “SOCIAL MISFIT”. It’s about how silly all this social media stuff can be sometimes when people take things too personally when complete strangers decide to unfollow you on a social network for no good reason.
Twinbox is the new name for Outlook plug-in formerly known as OutTwit while in beta. It’s the tool that allows you to work with twitter from within your Microsoft Outlook email client. Obviously, this can never replace Tweetdeck or Seesmic Desktop when it comes to full-powered twitter clients but it can be the perfect solution…
Yes, I know how to spell! I was just trying to be cute with the title of this post. Hindsight is indeed 20/20, especially when it comes to web 2.0 startups. There’s no better example than with Twitter, the ultra hot buzzword these days. Let’s take a look back at some reviews of Twitter to…