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Social Networks
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A Challenger Appears: Chime.in Enters the Social Networking Ring
18 Nov 2011 by Brian Nelson
Bill Gross has been getting a lot of press lately. The serial entrepreneur and CEO of UberMedia masterminded keyword search advertising in the heydey of the dotcom era, a system Google has perfected to earn billions, but Gross now believes he’s onto a bright idea in the social network space — with Chime.in. In a territory saturated with household names like Facebook, Twitter, and ...
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Why Ashton Kutcher, aka “aplusk”, hates Twitter
17 Nov 2011 by Dave Parrack / 2 Comments
I can’t say I’ve ever been a particular fan of Ashton Kutcher. But his erroneous, ill-informed tweet and subsequent throwing of toys out of his Twitter-branded pram has me thinking he’s an absolute idiot. In a nutshell: Kutcher claims to have heard about the firing of Penn State head football coach Joe Paterno in passing without hearing the full facts. He tweeted in defense of Pa...
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Google+ Pages for Businesses — the Good and Bad
09 Nov 2011 by Brian Nelson / 1 Comment
Google just announced that Google+ Pages for Businesses are here, finally allowing a flood of brands and celebrities to create yet another social network outlet for interacting with customers and fans. At a glance, Google+Pages is shockingly simple and seems to offer almost no difference from the standard profile all users get upon joining, but there are a few details that are bound to make things...
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Oink Has Arrived — Let the Social Ranking Experiment Begin
02 Nov 2011 by Brian Nelson
After Kevin Rose’s exit from Digg, he quickly formed a team with the goal of creating apps that would challenge the conventional social/mobile experience. He called his venture Milk, and less than a year later Oink is being unleashed among the masses. Oink is a social ranking app for the iPhone and web that encourages users to “rank the adventure” by rating things they encounter ...
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Diaspora Seeks Donations, PayPal Freezes Account
24 Oct 2011 by Brian Nelson / 1 Comment
UPDATE: After some prodding and community outcry, PayPal released Diaspora’s account. Remember Diaspora? The group of NYU students that asked for $15,000 on Kickstarter.com to create a decentralized alternative to Facebook, and made headlines when they garnered a shocking $200,000 instead? Yeah, they’re still around, and to my surprise, they have some pretty cool stuff to show...
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Real-Time Search and Improved Hashtags Now Supported in Google+
24 Oct 2011 by Brian Nelson
Vic Gundotra, the mind behind much of Google+, made a rare video appearance recently to show off two new features that will keep Facebook on its toes and probably elicit a disgusted groan from Twitter. Real-time search and improved support for hashtags will help Google+ contend with the established utility of Twitter by allowing users to see trending topics, as well one-up Facebook by supporting ...
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Digg Newsrooms Lured Me Back, and I Like It.
13 Oct 2011 by Brian Nelson
In the past couple years, Digg.com has taken its licks. After experiencing incredible growth soon after being founded by Kevin Rose in 2004, the site hit a high point in 2007 and Digg began to roll out changes that led to a series of user complaints which culminated in 2010 soon after the release of version 4. A mass exodus of Digg’s top users and a general feeling of disenchantment among st...
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Official Facebook iPad App Is Finally Here
11 Oct 2011 by Craig Lloyd / 2 Comments
Finally do we no longer have to keep asking Mark Zuckerberg when his iPad app will be hitting the public spectrum. After months of speculation, delays, sneak peeks, and even a dead giveaway, us iPad users finally have our Facebook. Unsurprisingly, it looks almost identical to the hidden iPad app that was included in the iPhone app update back in July. It has a nice, two-pane view and strongly re...
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When Twitter Goes Bad: Celebrity Promotion
11 Oct 2011 by Dave Parrack / 5 Comments
I don’t believe Twitter was conceived as a tool for celebrities to voice their opinions and promote their latest moneymaking venture, but that seems to be what it has become. And I’m sick of it, quite frankly. I know, I know, I can just unfollow the handful of celebrities I currently receive tweets from, but that’s not really the point. What is the point is that many of these cel...
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Louis C.K. Invokes the Power of the Bootlegger on Twitter
10 Oct 2011 by Brian Nelson / 1 Comment
Louis C.K. knows how to treat people; particularly, people who illegally record and (probably) intend to share his shows online. After a recent show in Ashville, NC, Louis posted this to Twitter: Naturally, most bootleggers wouldn’t respond to such a request fearing repercussions. Louis tried to dispel any distrust by quickly following with this: It didn’t take long for pmartin6245...
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