Through sheer luck, I had the opportunity to chat with Hazel Grian and Simon Johnson – who were the creators of the Tweeture. I was amazed that this project was actually built as a context aware and location aware robot that could interact with whoever had possession of it at the time. I’ll let them…
Seth Godin had a great post about how a focus on good ideas will always have more value than a focus on getting more fans or followers. Reconciling size versus engagement is something that I know a lot of brands and individuals struggle with online. We all want to be important. We all want to…
There was a really interesting and insightful video from Gary V. about how the explosion of social media has changed customer expectations. He talks about how brands & celebrities are embracing the same social networks that we are, and that there is also now an expectation of interaction buy the consumer. If I think a…
Here’s my quick take on Mention Map. I think it’s a really interesting way of showing how we’re all connected on Twitter as well as how people are having most of their conversations with.
We’re all part of multiple social media networks now. Maybe it’s Twitter and Facebook, with a little Ping.fm thrown in with FriendFeed and LinkedIn on the flipside. Don’t even get me started on public Google Waves. And as we’re all getting on more and more networks, our paths are bound to cross at more and…
I helped a friend out the other night who was using Verizon DSL and had recently magically became unable to send outgoing mail. This actually isn’t the first time I’ve heard of this problem in the area so I had a hunch that they were simply blocking port 25. I’m not going to get too…
I got a chance to check out a service called TinyChat this past week. It’s a very cool platform that lets you build disposable chat rooms for events or meetings but also integrates up to 6 live video streams via webcam where you can have your presenter essentially streaming out the content while the audience…
Today I read a very interesting report on Twitter use from Hubspot. Its their 2nd ‘State of the Twittersphere’ report. There’s a lot of other great info in the report that you can download by clicking here (by the way big ups to Chris Brogan for bringing this to my attention). After reading the report…