Social Media Communities within Communities There is an op-ed floating around Twitter today: As a social network, Twitter is a dud. Is it ironic that an article deriding Twitter is being spread on Twitter? Irony is so ill-defined. Twitter is not for everyone, and I respect that, but the author, Alex Groves, seems to be
2.0 Identity 2.0 - A Primer Google your name. Right now. I’ll wait. Put your name here: Good. What came up? Look at the first page of results and ask yourself these questions about each one: Is it really me? Did I create this? Do I control this? You need to be able to say
Back-end Help Me Scale I’ve been reading Eran Hammer-Lahav’s intelligent posts on microblog scalability, and now I’m concerned about my own “microblog” site, Picofiction. Similar to social networks, social updates, social messaging, social… Like many social web sites—amongst our weaponry…—Picofiction lets you “follow” your favorite authors, displaying all their