03 December 2009 ~ 0 Comments

On Silicon Valley, Changing the World and Pizza

I just came across a great article by Nathaniel Whittemore at change.org about whether or not Silicon Valley can really change the world. I have no doubt in my mind that there are some fantastic people in the Valley that, can will and are working towards doing just that. But I also know those are [...]

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16 July 2008 ~ 0 Comments

Hahlo or Twitterific To Follow Summize Acquisition

Now that Twitter has purchased Summize and corrected some seriously boneheaded moves, their next major moves need to be in the mobile space.  VentureBeat makes some interesting points on this very subject. If I were the powers that be at Twitter I would be looking to snatch up all of the best thirdparty applications using [...]

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09 May 2008 ~ 0 Comments

A History of the World

I had to share this, it’s from a conference a friend of mine attended. She shared the slides with me and for some reason I found this especially hilarious. It’s a timeline showing how social media measures up against the history of civilization. Click the image to see it larger.

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09 May 2008 ~ 0 Comments

Monetizing Twitter

This article discusses some interesting revenue model ideas for the Twitter team. In Ten Ways Twitter Could Appeal to Joe Average I touch upon ways that Twitter or it’s developers could bring ‘the average’ computer user into the Twitter fold.
I really like the Tiered Model idea of paying more to get rid [...]

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04 May 2008 ~ 4 Comments

Ten Ways Twitter Could Appeal to Joe Average and Become Ubiquitous

With all the recent attention twitter.com has received many people have asked what the relevance of such a service is to the average user? Twitter is very popular among the early adopter tech crowd, but why would people who use their computers less than 20 hours per week ever have a need for such [...]

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23 April 2008 ~ 3 Comments

Twitter Conversion

A few weeks ago I began conducting an experiment to convert web traffic from my most popular blog into followers on Twitter where I promote all my blogs using Twitterfeed. My design blog Goscreative.com on average draws around 200 unique visitors a day with spikes that can jump upwards to 1000 on days when the [...]

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03 April 2008 ~ 0 Comments

Twitter Analytics?

Twitter Analytics?

Tool for mining Twitter for statistics and breaking that data down.  Definitely worth checking out.

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