“I shut down a whole bunch of experimental Twitter apps. I feel a phase ending. I don’t see Twitter as my platform.” – Dave Winer In my work to bring Cullect back from hiatus, I’ve been doing a full code review and asking myself what should stay, what should be fixed, and what should go. …
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Mental Exercise: Who Wins When Twitter Stumbles?
In continuing my short sell of social media, I’ve been imagining Twitter and Facebook as holdings in a hedge fund manager’s portfolio. In my amateur understanding of hedge funds: the goal is to reduce risk and maximize returns by investing in assets that move in the opposite direction. The magic is in finding the complimentary …
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Shorting Toxic, er, Social Media
Over on the Twitter the other day, I wrote: “Yes, that giant sucking sound you hear is me buying up CDSs against UGC-backed securities. #shorting_social_media” Right now, the similarities between the overheated real estate market of a few years ago and the current chatter around the marketing potential of Twitter and Facebook are uncanny. Turns …
RealTimeAds.com Launches at MinnPost.com
I’m pleased to announce the launch of RealTimeAds.com – a advertising product now in beta testing at MinnPost.com Karl and I have been building and testing the system for a couple of months now and I’m quite happy with it on three of fronts; It feels like it makes advertising approachable to people and organizations …
[Client] CagedTweets.com Launched
CagedTweets.com is a Twitter archiving service for businesses. Founder Andy Schroepfer and I designed, built, and launched in 6 weeks (in time to announce it at 140conf). Got a crazy project you’d like to launch this summer? Call me – 612 345 9110. Let’s make it happen.
What if Google Blocked Your Site?
“Yet, Google’s system makes no distinction between people who have malsites and people who get hacked and then fix their sites. Neither Google nor Twitter notified me at all, despite the fact that both have my email address via my respective accounts at those services, nor did they give me any fair warning to remedy …
More Usable URLs: Twitter.com
URLs are consistently the least usable aspect of our interaction with web-based information services – which is terribly unfortunate considering their prominence in how we access, share, and interact with these services. With that in mind, let’s take a look at how Twitter’s URLs could be more usable – by either being more logical, more …
Unspoken, Unfortunate, Synonyms
From what I can tell; “SEO” is an unspoken synonym for “works better in Google” “Social Media” is an unspoken synonym for “works better in Twitter” Both of these are unfortunate for they: turn something easily understandable into something vague and amorphous – the exact opposite of good framing mask the monopoly those companies have …
Twitter as Trusted CraigsList
A couples weeks ago or so, I made my first purchase off Twitter – a Nokia E71. I had been eyeing it on Amazon for weeks, but never had a reason to click purchase. Then late one Friday night Dino mentioned a friend of his was selling. Notice Dino isn’t selling the phone. A friend …
Give Me $5 For Follow
Since the beginning for 2009, I’ve been ‘following’ 1 Dunbar of people on Twitter. Since not everyone in that 150 posts at the same frequency, things are pretty quiet (arguably a good thing). I’d like to add a few more of you to the mix, but I don’t know who. So, I thought I’d put …