Posts Tagged ‘microblogging’
Is Surrogate Blogging via Google Plus a Good Idea?
Saturday, July 9th, 2011I recently came across this discussion on Google Plus (G+) about Kevin Rose’s decision to stop using his personal blog in preference to G+. He is now redirecting all visitors to his blog to his G+ profile. Within G+, well-known tech leaders such as Bill Gross and Paul Allen (not of Microsoft fame) have both indicated that they are seriously considering doing the same thing.
What does this mean for blogging? Is this a bad portent for blogs? Is it wise to use a surrogate platform owned and controlled by a third party for your content creation and sharing platform? Read more »
Tags: data silos, identity 2.0, Linked Data, microblogging, privacy, Web 3.0
Posted in Entrepreneurship & Leadership, Social Media & Semantic Web | 8 Comments »
It’s Time for Blogging to Evolve
Saturday, March 5th, 2011The concept of blogging needs to evolve. Whereas Twitter and Facebook seem to have stolen some of the wind from blogging, I believe that netizens in general still desire to control their webspace and their webpresence. That is one reason that Diaspora–the upstart distributed social networking project–found initial funding success on Kickstarter. People want to have control over their content and privacy. They want to use their personal website as the anchor, as the foundation for their online communications. Read more »
Tags: data silos, Facebook, microblogging, SocialWeb, Twitter, Web of Data
Posted in Entrepreneurship & Leadership, Social Media & Semantic Web | 10 Comments »
Apple’s Ping Versus the Social Web
Saturday, September 4th, 2010In my last article, I wrote about the potential impact that Apple’s iTunes Ping, their just-released social network for music, might have on other social networks like Facebook and Twitter. The more important question is, What impact might Ping have on the Social Web? Read more »
Tags: data silos, microblogging, net neutrality, Ping, SocialWeb
Posted in Social Media & Semantic Web | 4 Comments »
Apple Unveils Ping and Enters Social-networking War with Facebook and Twitter
Wednesday, September 1st, 2010During Apple’s media event today, CEO Steve Jobs previewed iTunes 10 which will include Ping, a social network for music (Ping press release). I believe this is possibly a game-changing event for Facebook, Twitter, and the Social Web in general. Read more »
Tags: data silos, Facebook, microblogging, Ping, SocialWeb, Twitter
Posted in Social Media & Semantic Web | No Comments »
Nosquare and Nowalla: Polluting the Stream
Saturday, March 13th, 2010Location-based services are great. But please stop sending updates (check ins) to your Twitter and Facebook accounts. It is the perfect example of social-networking tie-in gone wrong.
Why do I say this? It’s simple. For those of us that are hundreds or thousands of miles away–which could be many of your followers–tweeting your current location provides zero value. Read more »
Tags: Foursquare, Gowalla, location-based services, microblogging, rant, Twitter
Posted in Social Media & Semantic Web | 2 Comments »
A Flock of Twitters: Decentralized Semantic Microblogging
Wednesday, February 24th, 2010In my last article, Flocking To the Stream, I ended with this thought about the growing issue of social-networking fatigue:
…as the number of streams continue to increase and as the flow rate of each stream picks up, people will grow tired of having to subscribe to, having to join yet-another-stream phenomenon (YASP). Does the Web truly need additional stream providers each with their own data silos? Is there a user-centric solution to this rapidly growing, overflowing-stream issue that puts YASP to rest once and for all?
This article answers these two questions in great detail but the succinct preview version is as follows: Read more »
Tags: data silos, foaf, foaf+ssl, identity 2.0, microblogging, privacy 2.0, sioc, SocialWeb, Twitter, WebID, WordPress Plugins
Posted in Social Media & Semantic Web | 28 Comments »
Flocking To the Stream
Wednesday, February 17th, 2010I recently began to go through some article backlogs on the websites of various people whose thoughts and perspectives I want to understand better. One such person with whom I’m trying to play catch up is Nova Spivack. If you don’t follow Nova then I suggest taking the time to remedy that Read more »
Tags: data silos, microblogging, SocialWeb, Twitter
Posted in Social Media & Semantic Web | 6 Comments »
