Social Networking
BrightKite Helps You Make IRL Friends
My initial way to explain BrightKite is that it’s like Twitter (what you’re doing) + Location (Where you’re doing it), which I like. I am trying to determine how to use it (mainly because I use Verizon for my phone service, and it’s currently not supported).
But, I just bumped into it’s Map Friends [...]
I Can’t Write About Twitter Tonight
I was raring to crank out a post tonight about how I use twitter and (I think) effectively follow more than 900 people.
My twhirl app gets between 50-100 messages an hour. Last Sunday night, it took me almost an hour to scan through 9 hours of messages and pick out my favorites.
I was going to [...]
What is Twitter?
Commoncraft does such a good job of explaining things… here’s a great way of answering the question “What is Twitter?”
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I <3 FB Chat… maybe.
I don’t have any idea why this was launched nearly a month ago and I am just finding it, but I think Facebook Chat is a pretty cool idea… and NOT because it’s “CHAT”.
Nevermind that TechCrunch somehow knew about Facebook Chat and I didn’t… must have been that day twitter was down..
First a few screenshots:
The [...]
Influence, Not Numbers, A Network Makes
The other day I was co-working near someone I had seen before but never met, and who was browsing their LinkedIn profile with the tenacity of an archaeologist.
[I try to be careful with my linking and networking, working hard not to take up time with it I should be doing other things. For example, the [...]
No Friends For You
The point is, corporate firewalls are there to keep baddies out. No malware, no spyware, no viruses or trojans or whatever else.
But they also do a pretty good job of keeping people IN, too:
No sharing of information
Don’t meet people in your industry or get to know anybody
Stop trying to be friends. Work, work, work!
End of [...]
Social Network Tipping Points
Anyone who’s been on the ultra-portable micro-update network Twitter for any length of time knows they’ve blown past the tipping point of an acceptable social network.
Here’s Some evidence:
People actually have “heard about” twitter, even if they haven’t joined.
People like Shel Israel declare a “Twitter Follow Policy” to clarify why they will or won’t follow someone.
Usually [...]
