One of my favorite things about social media is getting to know people not just by what they say, but also by following along to see what interests them. The things that interest you make you interesting to me. Some people will tell you to grow your social graph (people you follow/friend/subscribe to) because if… Continue reading What is Interesting to me… right now.
Category: Experimentation
Will Social Media Replace Contact Centers with Advocacy Centers?
Last night I had an interesting conversation with Frank Eliason (aka comcastcares) via Twitter. This all started because Shel Isreal asked a question many are asking right now: Do brands belong on Twitter? I think this is an interesting question – which primarily goes to weather or not the “community” will accept brands on Twitter.… Continue reading Will Social Media Replace Contact Centers with Advocacy Centers?
Micro-Messaging – Data Interchange Standards and Track
I’ve been hard at work over the past week. Having your own company which you are attempting to bootstrap in this economy and sponsoring an academic project with ASU Polytechnic and – in my spare time – working on the challenges of real-time information discovery and participation is exhausting. Never-mind the two children under 6.… Continue reading Micro-Messaging – Data Interchange Standards and Track
The myth of “everything” – Responses to my view of Track
My post yesterday – specifically regarding the Great Track Debate – received several responses on Twitter, identi.ca and friendfeed. Many of these – really all of them were positive – but the debate is far from settled. I learned something very important from one discussion in particular – that there is a myth that permeates… Continue reading The myth of “everything” – Responses to my view of Track
The evolution of FFStream and the Great Track Debate
As those of you who follow me on twitter or friendfeed know FFStream – which I began discussing in this post – has evolved into FF-Filtered. The changes are not dramatic, but they are significant. FF-Filtered is now focused on providing “your friendfeed – filtered” – and as that implies what it does is filter… Continue reading The evolution of FFStream and the Great Track Debate
XMPP, Track and the Social Media Command Line
Last Friday I created a FriendFeed Real-Time bridge to XMPP. Over the weekend I’ve had several people receiving their home feed in real time over XMPP (GTalk to be specific). I also wrote a post about what I had done and what I intend to do with this going forward. One thing I heard from… Continue reading XMPP, Track and the Social Media Command Line
FriendFeed to XMPP Bridge – Why, how and the plan.
Yesterday I took about and hour and created a FriendFeed to XMPP bridge. The advantage I had was that I was already running a XMPP server and had a working XMPP bot – these existed for my own personal use as well as for cosinity. Why? Primarily this is about information discovery. The ability to… Continue reading FriendFeed to XMPP Bridge – Why, how and the plan.
Google Data Gadgets
Google announced today that they have released a new gadget feature – Authentication. From the Google Data APIs Blog: For Google Data developers, this means that a gadget you build for iGoogle will be able to run on other OpenSocial containers as well. Of course, you are not limited to using the Google Data APIs.The… Continue reading Google Data Gadgets
Can we please stop talking about monetization?
I can’t take it anymore – I just can’t. NOTE – this post was triggered by a fine post (and subsequent FriendFeed discussion) by Mark Evans – which you can find here. The idea that you can create a “cool” service, attract massive numbers of subscribers, and then monetize the subscriber base is insane. Always… Continue reading Can we please stop talking about monetization?
Phoenix Startup Weekend
UPDATE: 10/17/08 – I’ve set up a FriendFeed room enable everyone to live blog the event – see this post for details. The whole reason I’m going on vacation tomorrow (back next Tuesday) is to rest up for Phoenix Startup Weekend… well not really… If you have not checked it out – you should. If… Continue reading Phoenix Startup Weekend