How many social networks are you a member of? Last summer I was a member of around 20. With so many profiles, I couldn’t keep track and decided to pare them down. I dropped more than half, kissing friendster (I was one of the first users), myspace, doostang, ning, meetup, and a few others goodbye. [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Social Media'
So Many Social Networks
October 28th, 2009 · 2 Comments
Tags: Social Media · musings
Coercive Social Networks
June 5th, 2008 · 1 Comment
The beauty of network effects is that once in place, its very hard to displace. For example, now that you and all of your friends are on facebook, its very hard to get you to switch to an arguably website because of the high costs of switching. It’s a pretty big chicken or the egg style [...]
Tags: Social Media
OpenID
April 18th, 2008 · 1 Comment
I have experimenting for the past few weeks with the OpenID platform. I love the concept in theory, one secure set of credentials to use on the web to avoid having 50 different log ins and passwords. OpenID avoids the typical holdup problems associated with these efforts by not centrally administering the credentials, but rather [...]
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Social Media, the Generational Divide, and Politics
April 1st, 2008 · 1 Comment
In the beginning we used media like TV and radio to broadcast content. You still see a lot of legacy media on the internet: The Professionals Talk: The first website I ever visited on the internet was CNN I remember thinking how cool it was to get the news whenever I wanted. Podcasts are the [...]
Tags: Social Media