What’s the Use in Twitter? Where is the Value?

I’ve been in all-day meetings here at work, and during a break I Twittered some of my thoughts from the meeting and casually mentioned that I was doing so to someone who was looking over my shoulder. My comments drew some interesting responses from some of my colleagues:
“What’s Twitter?”
“What a waste of time.”
“Why does anyone [...]


Pressing the Flesh in the Web World

Earlier this week, Web Worker Daily’s Mike Gunderloy posted a reaction to an Information Week blog posting from Andrew Conry-Murray titled “Meat Space Still Matters in a Web 2.0 World.” In the article, Murray argues that despite all the innovation occurring in the “web 2.0″ space - tools that make it easier for people [...]


Social Communications

Today, Jeff Pulver points out a trend in communication that has emerged as a part of social networking:

There is a transformation going on in real-time social communications, and I’ve discovered that I can now get the same effect as a group “shout out” by simply changing my status message on Facebook. This also happens when [...]


Please Pownce on Me!

I finally got a Pownce invite and I am anxious to compare it to Twitter. I plan to post a about my experience sometime next week.
Please feel free to add me as a friend so I can give it a fair test.
Of course this also means I have 6 invites, so…
Thanks to the folks [...]


Long Tail’s Chris Anderson on “Free” at O’Reilly TOC

Jeff Gomez, writing at one of my favorite and thought-provoking e-content blogs Print Is Dead, has a great article covering Chris Anderson’s speech at the O’Reilly TOC conference entitled “FREE: The Economics of Abundance and the Price of Zero.”
Anderson discusses several ways he and his publisher are considering making aspects of his upcoming book free, [...]