Living in Public – Facebook, Privacy and Frictionless Distribution

You already live in public. You always have. All that has changed is how easy it is to distribute the evidence. We used to take for granted that the stupid things we did (we’ve all done them) would only live in the connections we had with friends and family. The photos were printed on paper… Continue reading Living in Public – Facebook, Privacy and Frictionless Distribution

Social Media is about Aggregation – Not Publishing/Networks

I’ve been using FriendFeed for several months now. As a matter of fact, with the addition of real-time FriendFeed is now my primary Social Media interface. Why? Because the critical attribute which makes Social Media useful (yep, I’m banging on the adding value drum again) is aggregation, not publishing or networks. Publishing and networks are… Continue reading Social Media is about Aggregation – Not Publishing/Networks

Facebook – issues with friend status updates…

It seems like Facebook is having issues with displaying friend status updates. Last night the iPhone app was unable to get status updates… today it is the new Facebook home page. Let me know in the comments if you are seeing any errors like this in your various Facebook applications/feeds/etc…