Twitter - so simple it's stupid

i am sorry but i can't imagine using twitter and i am more freightened by why someone would care to hear about the banal events of someone elses day. i am not amazed that it's the toast of the vacuum chamber but i...

'Workstreams' for mobile business?

So Google made good on all their mobile machinations and release a product that knits together GeoRSS and KML and it's called Google MyMaps. Intrigued by the idea of drawing my own maps, I decided to plot out the route I take when I jog. What's immediately obvious is that...

Three Reasons Why Twitter Will Be Sold Soon

"Who will buy Twitter? That should be on every user's mind because it's going to happen fast. Let's look at the facts first.  Fact #1: According to Technology Review, Twitter had 100,000 users at the end of March. More important, the community is doubling in size every...

Web 2.5

"It seems, these days we are moving on from Web 2.0 to Web 2.5. Let me explain: When I started off in the Internet, some 15 years ago, things were nice and simple. You used a program called gopher to retrieve information. Later a new gadget called Lynx appeared. It was a...

Twitter your newspaper?

The buzz on Twitter just keeps growing louder and more forceful--this week the Financial Times even took a run at analyzing the phenomenon. Now, newspaper publishers are reportedly looking at the Twitter model as...

Twitter...Blackberries and the Age of Constant Interruption

Being constantly disrupted is not my idea of a good working environment. Call me old fashioned but I like to focus on what I am doing at the moment until it is done, at least for now!

SXSW wired: Web 2.0: tired

/All the cool kids are are there..."Forget the Web 2.0 expo; this is the place to meet the techies with some truly clever ideas. Not only are there a good number of startups from outside Silicon Valley, but...

Twittermania Sweeps SXSW

It seems you can no longer ignore twitter..."I've been resolutely ignoring Robert Scoble's frequent mentions of Twitter in the hope that it might go away. No such luck. Twitter has apparently infected the crowd...

Twitter vs. Dodgeball

An interesting observation from Ross Mayfield on the emergence of Twitter:"Alexa graph, included in my post about how Twitter Tipped the Tuna I'd venture because dodgeball is too complex, the web experience seems like a chore, not as many affordances. And they were bought by...

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