Post Microhoo: Is A Microsoft-Facebook Play In The Cards?!
Developments today prompted me to pull this post I’ve been working on ahead of Part 2 of the "Microhoo Post Mortem Post". Here’s why: Today, some not so minor controversy erupted in the blogosphere in...
View ArticleUpdate on: Is A Microsoft-Facebook Play In The Cards?!
There have been surprisingly fast developments in the brewing war over social networking open standards involving Facebook and Google’s FriendConnect and OpenSocial, which I first referenced in last...
View ArticleWallop: Microsoft’s Branding Cluelessness Claims Another Victim
Microsoft’s indirect attempt at a youthful social networking site, Wallop, is packing it in after 2.5 years as a venture-backed spin-off company. And one thing appears to be clear: Regardless of the...
View ArticleSocial Media Lessons: Controversy Erupts Surrounding Facebook’s...
Yet another controversy has erupted around Facebook (the recent Terms of Service PR disaster having barely scabbed over) in the last few days, this time around the redesign of the Facebook user "Home"...
View ArticleWhy You Absolutely Must Get Twitter’s Unique Selling Proposition (USP)
I have mentioned social media sensation Twitter, originally billed as a so-called "micro-blogging" service, in a number of posts over the last year, and by now there is almost no way that you haven’t...
View ArticleTwitter Tries To Change Retweets, Doesn’t Get The Social In Social Media
A passage from Twitter CEO Evan Williams’ post why the new, formalized Retweet function "works the way it does" shows lack of depth and clarity in Twitter’s thinking about the significance of trying to...
View ArticleMobile App Install Ads & Facebook’s Earnings Report
Very interesting tidbit for the #stats hound in Facebook beats the street and Wall Street yawns: Facebook earnings report for Q2/2014 reveals that their App Install Ads may be driving significant...
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