Category Archives: social networking

Videos are Just Lacking Something

Feb
23
2009

Dead Video Tape from the Dark Ages

I don’t know about you but over the last few years I have watched video explode online.   It’s a good thing in a way.  It has served its purpose, even if it has killed the IRC star. I have nothing against video per say.   However sometimes it just isn’t the best medium to present information in.

The Art of Information.

When you are referred to an article, generally you want to scan over it, determine if it is worth reading, and if it is, then  generally you will read the entire article or post.   If you are like me then you will even at this stage scan the article and process it very quickly – after all we all have busy lives that we don’t want to clutter them with information that may not be worthwhile.

Social Media Betas are a Waste of Time

Dec
31
2008

You know the drill, you find a shiny new social media site that you like the look of. All your investigations into the site check out, it’s reviews from your peers sound promising. So you go to register, only to find that it is in limited beta release.  This is the type where you need the invite code to sign up.

Only way to get the invite code is from an existing member or put your name down on the public request for an invite list.  A list that you just know is going to  be  kilometres long already.   So you sign up anyway, hoping that they will get to you soon.  But you know in the back of your mind that this isn’t going to happen.

Open Twitter

Sep
1
2008

Rusty Gate

If you think about it Twitter is a bit of a walled garden, a closed system as Sean Carmody has pointed out.  You have to be on Twitter to use Twitter; a little like Facebook or AOL.  Maybe what we need to step beyond Twitter into an open message distribution service, this would help with the load issue if nothing else.

Stepping beyond the walled garden will allow services like Twitter to jump the shark and avoid the problems AOL had. They were popular with the early adopters to start with, then the mob got bored and moved on, the shininess and gloss just waned away.

Social Networking via Shotgun

Jul
5
2008

Communtication

A good 12 months ago you could depend upon a a solid core of your social network to be centralised on several common social networking sites, such as flickr, twitter, facebook, linkedin. Things where relatively stable, well as much as they can be. Comments on one sns stayed on that sns, comments on a blog, stayed on the blog. The core of the sns mob would from time to time go explore a new sns, sometimes integrating it into the group of core sites sometime not.