CNN, quoting AOL:
Today was a seminal moment in Internet history. We’ve never seen anything like it in terms of scope or depth.
Twitter, AIM, Google News, TMZ, the LA Times and other sites all suffered outages as news broke about Michael Jackson late yesterday.
John Welch:
All this shit, Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, FriendFeed, DoucheBlog, all of it, is just people talking to each other, in a fairly direct way. It’s analgous to a telephone. You don’t really think much about the phone system, it’s only there to allow you to talk to someone far away. Same thing for online shit. [...]
Time has posted a piece about a service I never knew existed:
Presto and Celery, which both launched in 2006, deliver e-mail printouts almost in real-time because they require subscribers to purchase hardware to handle incoming messages. (In addition to personal updates and interesting articles, caregivers can send reminders about doctors’ appointments or family functions.) Celery [...]
From Open Press Wire:
Are you tired of hearing it yet? I sure am. It seems Twitter has fostered an extreme steroid fed bacterial growth of social media experts, social media gurus and super follower magnates. Unfortunately there isn’t much of an antibiotic floating around to separate the experts from the idiots. If you weren’t aware [...]
Oh brother:
Even if you’re not the type of person who uses Facebook or Twitter yourself, there’s no denying that these new forms of connection and communication are powerful and becoming increasingly important. That’s why your business should be on Twitter now.
Haven’t we already covered this?
Twitter tips are not included in the list of reasons I read [...]
Urban Dictionary:
1) A joke used to refer to persons claiming to be experts in the field of social media. The punch-line being that those with enough expertise in the field know it’s an impossible field to be an expert of.
2) A self proclaimed title by carpetbaggers and snakeoil salesman to mesmerize unsuspecting people with their [...]
Yesterday, I discussed the work of BJ Fogg, a social media guy at Stanford, and I said I could not find the pricing for his 6-week Facebook course. Turns outs there was a reason I couldn’t find that information. Here’s an email I received from him this morning:
FYI — To date. I’ve not received a [...]
Over the last few months, I’ve grown increasingly annoyed by social media – and those trying to make a buck off of it as “social media gurus.”
So what does CNN do? Give me someone else to dislike:
Many of these older folks use social networks to keep tabs on younger family members and they often find fruitful connections with [...]
There’s an event in May called “140 | The Twitter Conference” that is exactly what I was talking about yesterday:
On May 26th and 27th at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California, we’re bringing together the top gurus in the Twitosphere to discuss all things Twitter, from understanding the business value of Twitter to exploring the what makes a great Twitter [...]
Macworld:
Businesses can make use of Twitter as a public relations channel, but they need to be aware of security when sharing ideas, market-research firm Gartner has said.
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Many businesses are using Twitter as a public relations and marketing channel, Gartner said. Businesses are “tweeting” about corporate accomplishments, distributing links to press releases, and responding to other [...]
