Congress Moves to Close Member Access to Social Media
This post is receiving regular updates. Events are logged chronologically with newer information, comments from those involved including Rep. John Culberson below. I have been getting access to...
View ArticleC-SPAN Providing Social Media Hub for Conventions
Political junkies are in the prime of their year right now. Tomorrow in Denver, the Democratic National Convention begins with the GOP convention slated to start the week after. C-SPAN is offering a...
View Article99.96% Uptime is Bogus Marketing
Reliability Update Twitter has been making great progress in terms of uptime and reliability. Fail Whale sightings are far less frequent these days thanks to our efforts but we still have a long...
View ArticleDC Needs a Fred. Any Takers?
Profiled in Sunday’s New York Times, Union Square Ventures‘ Fred Wilson is a legend of contemporary venture capital — a title previously reserved for West Coast luminaries like Moritz and Doerr, and...
View ArticleFor Your Election Night Fun
Election night is around the corner and with it comes all the fun. You can either watch the talking heads make early predictions (such as calling New York State within a minute after polls close) or...
View ArticleEXCLUSIVE: Tropicana Covers Election Day Twittering
There are a couple of election related Twitter projects going on including Twitter Vote Report, which we covered the other day. Not on our radar at the time, however, was an interesting project from...
View ArticleIndecency in Common Areas (or how Twitter advertising schemes will get you...
The National Mall in DC is a fantastic place for everyone. It is often bustling with tourists from around the United States and around the world. The draw of taxpayer-supported Smithsonian museums,...
View ArticleSocial Media Quagmire
What happens when you build your business around a technology that disappears overnight? What happens when you build a client base, a pool of prospective clients or an otherwise niche demographic that...
View ArticleThe Invisible Twitter Expert
An interesting controversy on Twitter today. Matt Bacak (Anyone ever hear of him? ““ Exactly) self released a press release calling himself, The Powerful Promoter. “œFirst Facebook, now Twitter. The...
View ArticleThe Dickensian 2008: A Look Back
This year might be the strangest year ever. It roared in with news of Robert Scoble having his Facebook account suspended for utilizing scripts to sync data between Plaxo and Facebook in violation of...
View ArticleTech Predictions for 2009
As we gear up for 2009, there remains many questions about the economy and the growth curve of the technology industry. As a team, we have come up with predictions for 2009. Ray Capece, Venture Files...
View ArticleTwitter Phishing: Protecting Yourself
A funny thing happened on the way to the forum. Or at least, a funny thing happened over the weekend with regards to Twitter, spam and phishing (from Chris Pirillo). I really had no plans to outline my...
View ArticleTwitter Helping Twitter Find Jobs
Late last night, the #rtjobs hashtag showed up on my radar over on Twitter. It was being championed by @You2Gov as a mechanism to help connect those looking to fill positions with those looking for...
View ArticleProper Form Applies In 140 Characters or Less As Well
Twitter is often written about, often used and as often abused. Everyday, thousands of tweets fly by me at break neck speed due to the volume of people I follow. Many of these short form messages in...
View ArticleTwitter is Life
Everyone loves Twitter. Some research reports seem to indicate that it was the number one most often used word on Twitter last year. That would be 1 in every 3 words written on Twitter are about...
View ArticleIt's Really Simple; Be Valuable and You Will Be Valued
Despite the crazy title of this post, it is not about personal brand. That’s a conversation that is happening elsewhere in the blogosphere and, though I’ve talked about it on this blog, it is not...
View ArticleFirst Mariner Bank: A New Shining Star in Social Media PR
For all the fuss that has been made about Dell, Zappos, Comcast, JetBlue and a whole host of other big names utilizing Twitter and other forms of social media for their messaging and client support,...
View ArticleTwitter is Dead, Long Live Twitter
A year ago today, Twitter was something that many communicators were just trying to wrap their heads around. It was a new form of communication that was threatening to upset the precious fiefdom that...
View ArticleThe Washington Redskins Crowd-sourcing Their Games
A week before the start of the NFL 2009 season, Cincinnati Bengals Wide Reciever-turned-parttime-kicker, Chad Ochocino, tweeted to his fans that he was going to delete his Twitter account due to strict...
View ArticleBuzz Kill
By now, if you follow the technology world at all, or if you use Gmail, you’ve probably noticed a new thingy released by Google in the last few days. The thingy is called Google Buzz and it is billed...
View ArticleThreadsy Aggregates Email, Facebook and Twitter (plus invites!)
TechCrunch 50 startup and runner-up Threadsy reached out to me earlier to look at their service. I’m not usually one to do that but I had some time and their street cred seemed legitimate (TC50, etc)....
View ArticleOur lives in a thousand years
A few days ago, I posed a question on Facebook and on Twitter: What will our offspring know about us in a thousand years? It came after a conversation about how what we know about our ancestors has...
View ArticleOnline Media: Relationships and Finding Signal In the Noise
When I first started using Twitter in the fall of 2006, I was one of only a few thousand people using this weird new service. It was fun because my friends were there. I’m an early adopter when it...
View ArticleWhat Are You Not Telling the World Online?
Last year, there was a brilliant preliminary report that came out of MIT where two grad students decided to explore the idea of privacy implications based on omission. In other words, these students...
View ArticleTo Whom Much is Given, Much is Required (or, Scoble Syndrome)
Photo by Eric Skiff Here we go again. Another day in the life of an ongoing saga between megalomaniac Robert Scoble and myself. In this chapter of this saga, I point out why I have figured out the key...
View ArticleFact Checking in the Internet World
Photo credit: Adam Crowe Like many other industries, journalism has undergone a vast paradigm shift in the last decade. Like advertising, the music and film industries, marketing, public relations and...
View ArticleBlackouts, Boycotts and Regressing From Progress
A couple of weeks ago, the United States, and in fact, the world saw the internet grow up. Namely, through the use of blackouts – a previously unused tactic of protest and grassroots organizing – we...
View ArticleTwitter as a Protocol
Image from Shawn Campbell. Used under Creative Commons Yesterday, I had lunch with a guy who was picking my brain about various topics. One of the conversations we ended up having was about the...
View ArticleAbusing Twitter Direct Messages, Spam and Classlessness
This morning I received a Twitter direct message from the official account for I hate JJ Reddick, one of the best Baltimore sports blogs I know of. I like these guys. I read the blog almost every day...
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