Posts Tagged ‘Twitter’
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 »
The Web is Not (yet) Social
Tuesday, January 4th, 2011There is a common misunderstanding about the meaning of the phrase Social Web. I believe that most of the Web’s netizens think that the Web is social. But in fact the Web is not currently social.
Whereas Facebook, Twitter, FourSquare, and other ventures are social platforms, they are not the Web. These entities are only part of the Web—although it’s looking more and more “like” Facebook wants you to think that the Web equals Facebook. Read more »
Tags: data silos, Facebook, freedoms, identity 2.0, Linked Data, privacy 2.0, SocialWeb, Twitter, Web 2.0, Web 3.0, Web of Data
Posted in Entrepreneurship & Leadership, Social Media & Semantic Web | 1 Comment »
I’ve Got a Clot in My Klout: Influence Across a Distributed Social Web.
Tuesday, December 21st, 2010I’ve been a fan of Klout since its inception. I was a relatively early adopter of its services and believer in its ideal to become the standard for influence measurement. I still use Klout and believe in their vision. Why else would I place a Klout widget on my About Me page?
But there are two issues that I wish to address. Read more »
Tags: API, data silos, identity 2.0, Klout, SocialWeb, Twitter, Web of Data
Posted in Entrepreneurship & Leadership, Social Media & Semantic Web | 8 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 »
Easy Code to Show Your Most Recent Tweets in WordPress
Saturday, March 13th, 2010I’ve been reworking my website today and decided it was time to add a recent Twitter tweet to the front page. I checked out the Twitter widget and several (of the many) WordPress plugins that display your most recent tweets, but decided that they had a few issues. Read more »
Tags: BuddyPress, Twitter, WordPress Plugins
Posted in Social Media & Semantic Web | 9 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 »
Introducing Twitter-disclosure Slashtags
Wednesday, January 6th, 2010It’s official. On December 1, 2009, the FTC’s new disclosure guidelines went into effect. So what does this mean for Twitter users?
It means that you must disclose any financial relationship that you have with a product, service, company, or industry that you tweet about.
To make disclosure easy on Twitter, I’m proposing a set of Twitter-disclosure slashtags. Read more »
Tags: slashtags, Twitter
Posted in Social Media & Semantic Web | 2 Comments »
