In a previous post, I had argued that Social Media has changed the rules of the game. I had posted this question on LinkedIn to get a feel from people in the community and received several thought provoking and interesting insights.
I’ve segregated the responses FOR and AGAINST the topic to give you a balanced view.
Yes, [...]
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Posted in Social Media, Web, tagged Social Media, Web on June 9, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Jay Deragon wrote an interesting piece. He compares Social Media to Autobahn where there are no rules for speeding, you could actually cause an accident if you drove slow, which is against the socially accepted norm of driving within the speed limit and slow is good.
Is The Social Web Like the Autobahn?
In many ways yes. [...]
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Posted in LBS, Mobile, Social Media, Social Networking, Web, tagged business, LBS, location, Mobile, mobile search, mobile social networking, search on June 6, 2008 | 5 Comments »
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Another one in the “What I want…” series. I’m focusing on ‘Local Search on mobile’ and not ‘Search on mobile’ because people searching from their mobiles will usually be doing so on the go and hence would mostly be focusing on local content like searching for something or someplace close by (or someone, [...]
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Stumbled upon this post by Josh Lowensohn which talks about a new service in town….Adocu
It’s a Twitter clone. There’s no 140 character limit, but spaces are not allowed, you have to fit everything in one word like “whatingodsnameisthis”.
They call it Nanoblogging.
I’m a bit skeptical about this but then I was skeptical about Twitter as well [...]
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Posted in LBS, Mobile, Social Media, Social Networking, Usability, User Experience, Web, tagged business, location, Mobile, mobile social networking, scenarios, Social Networking, User Experience on May 27, 2008 | 20 Comments »
In a previous post Social Networking and the Mobile Phone, I had discussed how mobile can extend the reach of a social network and open up new ways of socializing. I have gone through a couple of mobile social networks out there and they are nowhere near my expectations. So I decided to list down [...]
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I had mentioned in a previous post about how Twitter’s popularity is spawning support systems around it. With the mind-boggling number of Tools out there and more being launched everyday, I decided to list some essential tools which would really help improve your Twitter experience.
Clients
Twhirl - The best, most ultimate PC client out there. An [...]
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In a previous post Social Networking and the Mobile Phone, I had written about the values mobile phone brings to a social network. Social networking, by definition, is about people that want to keep in touch with their friends and share info among them by the hour. Now, you can’t expect someone to roam around [...]
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Social Media is fairly new and there’s no ’sure win’ strategy. Social media doesn’t really work with a grand strategy and campaign launch. It is somewhat organic. It’s not selling or spying. It’s about understanding people, potential users, being a friend, finding some truth on thoughts and perception. It’s not an online survey where you [...]
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Popularity of twitter is spawning support systems around it, latest in the line being short URLs.
We’re all familiar with TinyURL, but with only 140 character to work with there’s a need to shorten it as much as you can. Enter is.gd
BHC3 demonstrates via an example in his blog
Full URL: http://bhc3.wordpress.com/2008/04/05/friendfeed-rss-is-a-fantastic-discovery-tool/
82 characters
TinyURL: http://tinyurl.com/6qhk4n
25 characters
is.gd: http://is.gd/7oc
16 characters
So [...]
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When I first came across Twitter, I couldn’t understand it. So I can put 140 characters on a web site to tell the world what I am doing at the moment… Who cares? And why would I want to know what others happen to be doing at the exact moment they decide to share it [...]
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