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Digital Marketing Specialist, Social Media Consultant, and Tech Geek at Heart

How FriendFeed Can Teach You About Your Friends

FriendFeed has been out for just a few months and has already established itself as a solid startup with an indefinite amount of potential. Founded by four ex-Googlers, FriendFeed allows you to subscribe to your friends’ updates across 35 social networks and to stay up to date with the content they’re discovering and...

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The Attention Economy: Is it Too Much?

Web 2.0 is not only over hyped, but innovators add features to web applications to improve the user experience. Are these extra bells and whistles really improving our lives and making things easier? To me, the answer to this question is a resounding no. I don’t fault people for wanting to be diverse. I don’t fault...

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Take the Private Beta Approach, Since It’s Inherently Viral

How many times has a private beta piqued your curiosity? How many times has it turned you off because of the nature of it being “private?” What about both? While the notion of an exclusive crowd joining a social networking site probably does frustrate you (as it did for me on many networks where it took a bit of time...

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Twitter vs. Pownce: Who Pwns?

With the launch of the private beta of Pownce, the new microblogging network launched by Digg celebrities Kevin Rose, Daniel Burka, and Leah Culver, people are claiming that it is the Twitter killer. After a somewhat heated debate with a friend, I’m not so sure that’s the case. At the present time, each microblogging...

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