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Tag: Social Networking
Why Flipboard Looks to the Fediverse for Its Next Big Evolution
Eight years ago, I sat down with Mike McCue to talk about Flipboard. When we spoke at the company’s Palo Alto, Calif. offices, he shared that the company had found its stride and that this would be the last startup he’d ever build. Much has changed since then, and Flipboard faces a transformative moment. After […]
LinkedIn at 20: Adapting to Changing Networking Trends
In 2013, I documented a major milestone: LinkedIn’s 10th anniversary. At the time, I wrote that the company has achieved a status most startups dream about, becoming a key player in bringing our professional lives online. Indeed, after two decades, LinkedIn has moved beyond being analogous to being the MySpace or Facebook of our professional […]
Facebook Risks Biting The Hand That Feeds It
Earlier this week, Facebook announced a major change in how its more than 2 billion users will experience the social network. It’s around the News Feed, the most recognizable and important part of the service, and the update wasn’t just a minor tweak to its algorithm — it was something much more significant. Facebook is […]
Finally! Research Shows Just How Popular Twitter Is Beyond The “Cool Kids”
Being here in Silicon Valley has made me remember from time to time that what happens here in this sheltered ecosystem is not always the same elsewhere around the country, let alone the world. The fact that we’ve probably adopted more usage of location-based services like Foursquare or Gowalla doesn’t mean that businesses in places […]
Are Facebook pages worth anything?
A while ago, I was sitting and talking to one of my co-workers and they asked me a simple, yet interesting question: “What benefit do we get for having a Facebook presence?” After being asked this question, I had to figure out the best way to respond. My common answer is that it depends on […]
A marketer’s take on social networking’s mortality rate
In a recent post on the Social Times, Nick O’Neill, a social media newshound (and who seems to be right up there with Mashable, TechCrunch, and Read/Write/Web in reporting great bits of news), has written that social networking sites will be “dead in two years“. That’s an interesting observation, but I think it’s going to take […]
Redesign? Are you sure you want to do that?
It’s funny how things happen that only reinforce my decision about what to write about. We’re undergoing a redesign of our website and the new one will be awesome and have all the basic glamorous features that most new websites have – updated navigation, better organization, and throw in a back-end application – basically it’s […]
Google’s next acquisition? Welcome mobile search
It’s really cool finding out what other folks are looking at these days. I suppose that’s why they call it social media – that’s pretty much how I came across this latest website and social tool. Introducing ChaCha – perhaps the next acquisition by Google? Why do I say that? Well because ChaCha allows folks […]
Bad Yaari: Social spam isn’t okay
So I get an e-mail today from one of my contacts in my GMail with the subject line: XXX sent you a friend request on Yaari… and so I decided to check it out. What’s Yaari you ask? Well I honestly don’t know myself. The website says that it’s a social networking sites for Indian […]
LinkedIn’s Beta Site more Wiki’ish…it seems
So announced today on the LinkedIn blog, there is a new beta site for the social network for busy professionals. LinkedIn is opening it up to feedback but you’ll need to have an account to login and check out the new changes. What’s interesting about these changes is that they’re utilizing more wiki-style design…being able […]
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