Critical Social Mass

The release of Twitter lists and the new “listed” metric has me thinking about reputation and how its applied to people in consumer web examples. I had an interesting chat with my pal Kelly (@verso) about the listed metric Friday. She doesn’t see it as immediately useful since there’s no way to determine the impact [...]

Feeds: Dead to You or Still Kicking?

There’s been a fair amount of debate among the early adopter crowd lately about the place of syndicated content in relation to Twitter. The debate has been renewed in light of the general release of Twitter lists, which allow people to create and follow bunches of Twitter users en masse. Since many people use Twitter [...]

Feeds: Dead to You or Still Kicking?

There’s been a fair amount of debate among the early adopter crowd lately about the place of syndicated content in relation to Twitter. The debate has been renewed in light of the general release of Twitter lists, which allow people to create and follow bunches of Twitter users en masse. Since many people use Twitter [...]

Who’s in Your Gang?

Image from I CAN HAS CHEEZBURGER I had a weird brain wave crossing with Robert Scoble last week. Basically, I’ve been trying to find value in FourSquare, the hot new web app on the block, that launched this Spring at SXSW, where any self-respecting hot web app gets its initial hotness. If you care, FourSquare [...]

Google-Facebook: Identity Management in a Brave New Internet

So there’s been a lot of press in the last few days about Facebook shutting off access from the recently announced Google Connect social platform. For those of you that pay attention to identity management, but haven’t paid attention to this particular situation, note the following couple of quotes: Robert Scoble comments: Facebook is being [...]