Archive for February, 2009

Twitter Is Not The Only Microblog

The social media world can feel clubby, and dominated by transatlantic, anglophone perspectives. For this reason, I was fascinated to read a recent post by Swedish blogger Hans Kullin about the nordic microblog landscape.
The nordics have always been a sophisticated and innovative market for social technologies, so word (albeit anecdotal) of a large-scale defection of [...]

Relief for Facebook-phobes

It’s increasingly common to hear from people that they have opted out of membership of social networking sites (usually Facebook) for personal reasons. At root, their concerns usually come back to personal or professional privacy. This is totally understandable in light of well-publicised negative Facebook stories: including professional suicide via ill-judged status updates; account integrity [...]

If only all Web 2.0 apps were this useful.

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