Can Amazon.com’s Jeff Bezos Fix Twitter’s Scalability Problem?
Looks like Twitter got a new round of funding today, and you may be thinking “so what?” I’m interested because one of the new investors is Amazon.com’s Jeff Bezos who as Read Write Web put it, is “Mr. Scalability.”
It seems that Bezos keeps his investing activities separate from the business of Amazon.com, so I don’t [...]
Partly Cloudy: Amazon’s S3 Service Goes Down
We’ve been hearing for some time that the future of our data storage is “in the cloud.” Many of us already use cloud storage for email (GMail), files (XDrive) and backup (Mozy) among many others. But what happens when you can no longer reach your data?
Several companies found out today when Amazon.com’s S3 [...]
Can Brands Be Social? Shel Israel says “No.”
Wiley author Shel Israel has started an interesting conversation with Jeremiah Owyang about wither or not “brands” can be social. Jeremiah asked if brands should build their own networks, or use existing social nets. Shel says brands can not be social, only people can. I’m not so sure I completely agree - yet.
As I have [...]
Twitter is a Conversation Ecosystem
Readers of this blog know that I am part of a small group who are trying to push the edges of our company and are working on some social application experiments. Twitter is one of those experiments, and I keep a personal stream as well as one for our Wrox imprint.
An early adopter of [...]
My Twitter Alter Ego, and the Question of Brand in Social Applications
I have been doing some experimenting with social applications as it pertains to publishing. I tend to think of this blog as part of a “personal brand” if you will - it’s about me and my thoughts on the industry I happen to work in. Should I ever leave book publishing I suspect [...]
