September 2009 - Posts

• Tyranny of Twitter: herd instinct prevails

  There have been various pieces of analysis put forward to debunk the view that the web increases diversity, and to put forward the contrary view that it limits choice by fostering the herd instinct. Now, e-Marketer has a post - Twitter Power Users Solidify Read More   Digg this |   Add to del.icio.us |   Post to reddit |   Add to facebook |   Add to StumbleUpon |   TwitThis posted 18 September 2009 14:20 by Steve | 0 Comments Filed Under: Social

• Data driven design? Analytics vs aesthetics?

  Something else for marketers and especially designers to embrace - data driven design. James Governor has a great analysis of the drivers behind Adobe's Omniture acquisition - Adobe Omniture: Data meets design. Here comes Google! if you are a marketer Read More   Digg this |   Add to del.icio.us |   Post to reddit |   Add to facebook |   Add to StumbleUpon |   TwitThis posted 17 September 2009 21:17 by Steve | 0 Comments Filed Under: Marketing, Technology

• US Govt announces its own AppStore

  Looks like everyone needs a healthy developer ecosystem these days (except Skype). Yesterday, Vivek Kundra, CIO of the US Govt announced their very own AppStore for government cloud services, called Apps.gov. Coverage here in the New York Times, Read More   Digg this |   Add to del.icio.us |   Post to reddit |   Add to facebook |   Add to StumbleUpon |   TwitThis posted 16 September 2009 17:39 by Steve | 0 Comments Filed Under: Technology

• Skype closes its developer program. What?

  GigaOm reports Skype has closed its developer program: Skype Kills Extras and its Developer Ecosystem. Strange indeed. We haven't needed to look closely at Skype's program but the comments with the story suggest it wasn't a happy place before this news. Read More   Digg this |   Add to del.icio.us |   Post to reddit |   Add to facebook |   Add to StumbleUpon |   TwitThis posted 11 September 2009 16:11 by Steve | 1 Comments Filed Under: Communities

• Social networks. Virtual goods. But real cash

  On Wednesday the New York Times had a piece on the unlikely but multi-billion dollar market for purchasing virtual goods for real cash - Asian Social Networking Sites Profit from Virtual Money. Yesterday the Guardian's Victor Keegan had a post Read More   Digg this |   Add to del.icio.us |   Post to reddit |   Add to facebook |   Add to StumbleUpon |   TwitThis posted 11 September 2009 01:10 by Steve | 0 Comments Filed Under: Technology, Social

• Twitter continues to generate friction (still)

  Venerable UK journalistic institution, John Humphrys caused a kerfuffle around making his first tweet today - here on the BBC web site. UK Govt got slammed (wrongly) for reportedly appointing a Twitter Tzar - here the story put to rights by Charles Arthur. Read More   Digg this |   Add to del.icio.us |   Post to reddit |   Add to facebook |   Add to StumbleUpon |   TwitThis posted 03 September 2009 13:45 by Steve | 2 Comments Filed Under: Blogging, Social