Chris Webb

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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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