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iFrames and the Release from Facebook Monotony Let’s face it. The Facebook monochrome has left us all bored. The recent incursion of ad margin and the photo strip top has made the Facebook page feel a bit cramped and even cluttered. The great redesign, while holding out the promise of much more company friendly spaces, […]
March 16, 2011
Cross-pollination via Facebook and YouTube Today, I mean exactly today, social media just strikes me as amazing. Of course there are the stunning, revolutionary developments in North Africa spurred on and made possible by the media, but then there are the little things. As I’ve mentioned before, my wife runs a small Facebook like page […]
March 14, 2011
With news that Google’s new venture into the Social Media landscape in a product rumored to be called Google Cirlces, aided by internet concept designer Chris Messina, I thought I’d take a look back at the The Social Agent work he did for Mozilla Late last fall, from late November through December 2009, I worked […]
February 23, 2011
Just a brief follow-up from yesterday’s post on how brands can now act as persons, again drawing from the example of my wife’s fan page. Facebook has provided businesses all the tools to start building a person-like series of relationship building actions. As mentioned previously: liking pages, wall-posting on pages, and commenting in threads (not […]
February 21, 2011
Today’s post is a development out of a brief, light Twitter exchange over the new fan Facebook profile. I was drawn originally to social media strategist Carri Bugbee‘s perhaps humorous thought that Facebook had intentionally reduced the impact of brands on Facebook fan pages in order to force them to buy more ads to help […]
February 2, 2011
Tom Webster at Social Media Explorer discusses some data that he believes suggests that Twitter users are not expressive of either internet users, nor social network users. They instead are those that are most open to and interested in “asymmetric connections” with relative strangers. Data like these do not reflect causal relationships, of course – […]
January 5, 2011
The Picture and A Thousand Words Piper Jaffray tech analyst Gene Munster among the Facebook bulls. He just gave an interview to Bloomberg TV which must have made any Googlers listening cringe.” “Google has given up on social. Facebook owns the social graph, Google can’t replicate it, and that race is over. Google is just […]
January 4, 2011
Fred at a VC posts evidence in an excellently exampled article that RSS still is alive and kicking amid the double Tsunami of connections that are Twitter and Facebook. But I have to lightly wonder where the general protest comes from. More and more (instead of less and less) I feel that industry is misunderstanding […]
January 3, 2011
Had a nice exchange with Aimclear, mostly around the new Facebook personal profile design and for me the power of its aesthetic joining of photographic ads to the rest of its photographic content. Merry Merud’s excellent and detailed post on how deeply Facebook is penetrating into user interests (and how they can serve advertisers) really […]
May 23, 2011
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