Category: Social Media
TED.com – Defend our freedom to share (or why SOPA is a bad idea)
Clay Shirky delivers a clear and cogent history and explanation of PIPA/SOPA, walking through through both the intent and what the ramifications of the bill and how it changes the entire legal system under which websites operate.
The Contactually Blog – E-mail is the Universal Platform
I don’t put much stock in stories that say e-mail is dead for precisely this reason.
O’Reilly Radar – The end of social
The more we share the less value each piece of information has to the people (but not the systems) that we share to.
Messy Matters – This Post Won’t Go Viral
Perhaps the more interesting aspect is that most adoptions occur without a peer-to-peer influence or within one step of the original peer.
The Filter Bubble – Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee weighs in: “There’s danger in the filter bubble”
For a long time I went back and forth on worrying about this and I’ve settled on worrying about it, I’m just not sure of a solution.
TechCrunch – Groupon Was “The Single Worst Decision I Have Ever Made As A Business Owner”
The more I read about Groupon the more I want this business to just go away.
Marco.org – Why the Quick Bar (“dickbar”) is still so offensive
All true and wonderfully pointed, thanks Marco.
furbo.org – Twitterrific firsts
Third party clients have been at the forefront of the Twitter experience for many years, that differentiation and unique spin on the Twitter stream is what drove many of Twitter’s core functionality today.
The Next Web – Twitter explains why developers shouldn’t build new clients
So basically Twitter is going to push hard into developing/perfecting official Twitter clients, so everyone else we’re coming after your business model, switch, differentiate or be dead in the water.
NYTimes.com – American Medical Response Settles Facebook Firing Case
Good decision employees should be able to comment in their private off time as publicly as they wish about their company (minus releasing trade secrets and such).