Privacy is a recurring theme in Social Media, which reflects much of the recurring themes in the real world. When Facebook makes a change to its layout inevitably someone will raise the specter of how it impacts your privacy. But is all this talk of privacy really just a falsehood, a myth that was created [...]
December 7, 2010 By
Facebook Avatar Changers Make a point
Over the weekend I saw a large number of people in my network on Facebook suddenly change their avatars to be cartoon characters from their childhood to show their stance against Child Abuse. This was another awareness raising campaign, similar in nature the to the “color of your bra” and “where do you keep your [...]
December 3, 2010 By
3 Myths of Social Media Influence
Increasingly brands are becoming obsessed with finding and reaching out to the people that they perceive as, or are told are, social media influencers. Agencies, Digital Marketers, Social Media “experts” are telling companies that this is the way “to do” social media effectively. After all there are 500 million people using Facebook, you can’t reach [...]
December 2, 2010 By
Gowalla checks in with Foursquare
Gowalla, the Social Location Sharing app based in Austin, Tx released its new iPhone app today that not only includes a complete redesign of the already slick looking interface but includes in the new functionality the ability to checkin with Foursquare their biggest rival. A lot of people were surprised by this move, including Dennis [...]
November 30, 2010 By
Hanes Virtual Sock Drive
Socks at the Holidays, something that a lot of people will get as a gift and smile politely and then groan inwardly over. But what if you didn’t have any socks, what if they were actually something you would not only be happy to get but actually put at the top of your list of [...]
November 29, 2010 By
Facebook Groups – Less is More
At the beginning of October Facebook announced the Group feature, I wrote a summary of the announcement at the time. Immediately after the announcement there was a land grab for groups with “hot” names, such as Social Media. I watched as my Facebook stream was populated with A list Social Media people being added to [...]
November 24, 2010 By
Facespace & MyBook: What the partnership means for marketers
MySpace recently announced a move that brings them closer to Facebook. MySpace users will now be able to sync their account and share their activity across both platforms. While a lot of social media users have long since forgotten their MySpace account (and the password that went with it), 91 million other users are still [...]
November 16, 2010 By
Facebook Email – It’s not about you, it’s about me
Yesterday Facebook announced their new messaging system, the one that isn’t email but comes with an email address. Lots of comments flooded twitter from people watching the live stream event and even from some who were actually present. The overwhelming sentiment seemed to be that people were drawing analogies to Google’s Gmail and their failed [...]
October 7, 2010 By
Has Facebook Locked Up Location Services with their Patent?
Filed in February 2007 Facebook has been granted a patent as of October 5th, to what appears on the face of it to cover all location based services. This is the full Patent filing. Here are the elements of the patent that certainly make it look as though the world of Social Location Sharing belongs [...]
October 6, 2010 By
Facebook Big Announcement No Phone but New Features
The tech and social media world held its breath as they waited for Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook to announce the Facebook phone. Instead Zuckerberg opened his announcement by saying we are not going to tell you what you think we are. What they announced was interesting but of course not as game changing as [...]
