Category Archives: social interaction
I do not recommend that you read this
Recommendations are a powerful feature on the social web. They represent real value, just look at the king of recommendations Amazon.com making huge revenues with it. And while I do look at them at times, I am always a bit … Continue reading
Posted in friends, social interaction, web 2.0
Tagged friends, recommendations, social, web 2.0
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The magic is gone
I’ve been on a 2 week summer vacation and hardly spend any time on “Social Media” services. On return I found myself not getting back into old habits as easily. I haven’t spend a lot of time on Twitter or … Continue reading
Posted in human behavior, social interaction, social media
Tagged human behavior, social interaction, social media
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Status update: the future of the web is here!
/rant on I read a number of posts in the last week that seem unrelated but ended up making me think about this social media circus we are in. Unless you are deaf, blind, and have been sitting on a … Continue reading
Are you enslaved by your mobile device? Take this test!
We are all becoming slaves of our communication habits. With our mobile devices as the new high priests, we hail the prayer of information and we are bonded by blackberry and iPhone. You do not recognize yourself in this description? … Continue reading
Posted in addiction, Blackberry, human behavior, iPhone, Mobile, social interaction
Tagged addiction, Blackberry, human behavior, iPhone, mobile device, social interaction
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The unlimited power of social media is bound by my human limitations
Social media allow us to interact over content, anywhere, anytime. And we love it. Interaction is what makes web 2.0 valuable. While mainstream users are discovering and engaging in this interaction on services like Facebook and MySpace, the early adopter … Continue reading
Posted in content aggregation, noise, social interaction, social media, Uncategorized
Tagged content aggregation, noise, social interaction, social media
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Do we really need privacy controls in Social Media?
A small discussion yesterday on Friendfeed after I posted a video that puts up a big warning about the way Facebook deals with your privacy. I do not know if any of the claims in that video are correct. Jason … Continue reading
Email isn’t dead yet, but it needs radical innovation
Alex Iskold has a good write up on the competition e-mail is facing from broadcasting tools like blogs and twitter, discussion tools like forums and wiki’s, or business tools like Todo, CRM. He asks himself is E-mail in danger? He … Continue reading
Posted in Alex Iskold, e-mail, Facebook, gmail, Google, Microsoft, social interaction
Tagged Alex Iskold, e-mail, Facebook, gmail, Google, innovation, Microsoft, social interaction, Yahoo
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Why the old-fashioned TV is the best social media channel known to mankind
Yesterday I spent the evening watching the Dutch soccer team play against Italy in the European Cup 2008 tournament. It was a great game for us. Holland beat Italy with 3-0 and that is a great score against the current … Continue reading
Posted in social interaction, social media, social networks, TV
Tagged social interaction, social media, social networks, TV
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Why noise will be tackled by scaling down the social media conversation
If anything web 2.0 technology has provided us the capabilities to have a continuous 24×7 public conversation on the web. There are blogs, communication services like Twitter, content services like YouTube, search services to help us find the things we … Continue reading
Posted in Mobile, noise, social interaction, social media, social networks, web 2.0
Tagged interaction, Mobile, noise, Social media conversation, social networks, web 2.0
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On Twitter and the missed opportunity to execute a social utility business model
Bernard Lunn has written a good post on the (lack of) a social media business model. He writes about the difficulties for social networks to monetize using advertisement. Although he builds his storyline a bit different from me, he is … Continue reading
Social “search” will not kill web search
Glenn Derene suggests that Social Networks might replace search giant Google as a place where people will start their search. He bases this on a conversation he has had with a VC. A quote from his post: So what is … Continue reading
Posted in Facebook, Google, human behavior, KNOL, social interaction, social networks, Wikipedia
Tagged Google, human behavior, social interaction, social networks, Social search, web search
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Centralization of social interaction is not a good idea
This weekend an interesting discussion arose around the new RSS service Shyftr. Louis Gray started the discussion with a post , Robert Scoble, Tony Hung, Mark Evans and many others, including myself chipped in our 2 cts. From there on … Continue reading
Posted in conversation set free, social interaction, web 2.0
Tagged centralization, converation set free, social interaction, web 2.0
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Our fear of not being there when it happens
Several posts drew my attention the past few days. Their scope entilily different, but the underlying social behavior seems to be the same. First there was Robert Scoble writing about “Not productive enough? Turn off the Internet”. He has been … Continue reading
Statistics on Friendfeed usage provide interesting insights
A small update: I just saw a post of Justin Smith (Inside Facebook) interviewing Bret Taylor (co-founder of Friendfeed) about the difference between the Facebook and Friendfeed newsfeed. I don’t usually add links afterwards, but this one fits really well. … Continue reading
Posted in Facebook, Friendfeed, social interaction, Uncategorized
Tagged Facebook, Friendfeed, newsfeed, social interaction, statistics
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Dreaming away about a user centric web
FactoryJoe wrote an interesting post earlier called “Relationships are complicated”. In this post he talks about the (technical) difficulties to support complex (on-line) relationships. He provides (an excellent) example of the way Facebook deals with this complexity, reducing your relationship … Continue reading
Posted in destination service, Facebook, FactoryJoe, Portable contact list, Social Graph, social interaction, social networks, Uncategorized, user centric web, web 3.0
Tagged destination, Facebook, FactoryJoe, Portable contact list, Social Graph, social interaction, user centric web, web 3.0
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Social networking may be declining, social interaction won’t
I read a Business Week article this morning which suggests that the current MySpace generation is becoming fed up with the ad bombardments on the site. They seem to be spending less time on MySpace because of it. A quote … Continue reading
Posted in advertisement, Beacon, Facebook, Friendfeed, Google, myspace, social interaction, social networks, SocialAds
Tagged advertisement, Beacon, Facebook, Friendfeed, Google, myspace, social interaction, social networks, SocialAds
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