Twitter the most pure social network

Some social network thoughts…..
I’ve been using Twitter more and more lately and i have to say that i’m really enjoying it.  I love the simplicity and ease of use.  The fact that they limit the characters, is only text and is just a list of your friends thoughts makes it always interesting.  Of course, Facebook [...]

Like Hansel, these are so hot right now

My cousin P-Walk asked me what sites are “hot” right now. My list of sites that may be below the radar of regular people but getting some well-merited attention is:

yelp - anyone who loves food in a city should use this
dopplr & tripit - for travel sites they are both good
imeem - getting some [...]

Building Participation & Cognitive Surplus

Clay Shirky has a great speech about cognitive surplus. A phrase that refers to the free time we have away from our jobs or studies to do stuff. Over the past 30-50 years, what everyone did with this cognitive surplus is watch TV. Sitcoms were the big universal thing everyone did. [...]

Facebook let’s you add to your mini-feed

Lots of folks do stuff around the web that is outside of Facebook. For instance, i post lots of Flickr photos and i save web sites to delicious. I’ve always loved the Facebook News Feed as it does a good job of letting me know what my friends are up to. Today [...]

Do you “get” Twitter?

I read a post today by Fred Wilson that his kids finally “got” twitter. He wrote:
We are headed to Honolulu today. I twittered that fact and within minutes Joshua was back to me (via text message) with a recommendation for a ramen place called tenkaippin. I didn’t ask for it, but he offered it [...]

Bebo for $850 million. Now Hi5?

This is an interesting graph which shows Bebo, MySpace, Facebook and Hi5. Clearly one of them is stuggling.

However, what Bebo has that Hi5 does not is a English speaking user base which is able to be monetized. AOL has a slew of Advertising companies that must be just itching to get their [...]

Facebook is a combination of web 2.0 companies

Facebook is a combination of Web 2.0 companies. That’s one way to look at it. The flip side - and more accurate - is to say that there are many Web 2.0 companies that are taking a piece or feature of Facebook and making an entire service out of it. Not the most [...]

MySpace vs. FB & the Top Social Network Sites

As with most people, i’m obsessed with Facebook these days.  But is it the best?
From a numbers perspective, MySpace is still the big dog. I read an article yesterday from danah about how Facebook is attracting more affluent, middle-class users whereas MySpace indexes higher for less privileged users.  It’s a good read (article is here)
I [...]

Facebook Will Take Over The Web

I’ve been a long-time facebook user. Dartmouth was one of the first 10 schools on the service in 2000-2001 and you could tell even back then that it was a special service. I’ve always thought it was the best social network - even as MySpace and others came around.
Facebook is a better services [...]

Update: Facebook & Twitter

 I wrote a few weeks ago (here) that Facebook’s News Feed application was exactly like Twitter. Well now there’s a Facebook application called “fbtwit” that can transfer your FB feeds to Twitter so they can stay in sync. Looks like i wasn’t the only one who thought they were the same.  You can get [...]