What’s the difference between a tweet and an opinion? And what’s the difference between an opinion and news? The Washington Post recently discovered, and determined, that the lines were too blurry to delineate: As tweets on Twitter, they’re pretty innocuous. “We can incur all sorts of federal deficits for wars and what not,” read a [...]
It’s hard to remember how Facebook used to be—way back in 2004—when the social networking community was first introduced to the public as the place to “connect and share with the people in your lives.” Lucky for us, now we don’t really have to. On September 10, Facebook launched its newest service, Facebook Lite, a [...]
This is one of the most inventive new uses of social media aggregation I’ve come across in a long time…but it might also be the most controversial. If you haven’t heard of it, marketing guru (and founder of Squidoo) Seth Godin recently launched his “Brands in Public” project, described on Seth’s blog as: You can’t [...]
Ever wonder how the Internets can make you rich? Wonder no more! (Funny stuff.)
Mark Twain once said, “Everybody complains about the weather, but nobody does anything about it.” The same might be said of social media in 2009. Plenty of companies are looking into it, or inquiring about it, but far too few are taking decisive action. Others are simply afraid of it, but they, too, aren’t doing [...]
