Tag Archives: Twitter

Teens Not Twittering? Absolutely. Here’s the Evidence.

No, I didn’t conduct the research myself, but as astutely pointed out by Ben Parr, the recent report commissioned by Morgan Stanley regarding one teen (and his friend’s) internet / technology related activities may seem the sweeping generalizations of a small group of individuals … but they do have some roots in evidence.
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The Many — or Singular? — Problems of Friendfeed

The most prolific Friendfeeder of them all (to give you an idea of how Robert-Scoble-as-lifestreamer >> Scoble-as-blogger, just look at the number of comments on his Friendfeed vs. Blog … currently a ratio of 10:1 as of this writing) gives the low-down, which includes the lack of people needing an aggregator, how it sucks on [...]

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Bing Bigger Than Digg? Twitter? Not Quite.

Ben Parr at Mashable says Bing, Microsoft’s latest search engine offering, is doing well.  So well, in fact, that its bigger than Digg, Twitter and CNN.

But none of that matters if Bing doesn’t grow and find a way to compete with Google . So after a month, where are we? We knew that Bing was growing, but [...]

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Holy Moly! Google OS Lives! (… As A Net-Only Cloud-Based Linux-Based OS)

You know, it figures 5 minutes after I pre-order Windows 7 (home premium, if you must wonder) off of Amazon.ca do I learn that Google OS is coming to netbooks far and yonder in the next few months.  Google’s own blog has the details, but its purpose is to allow people to use their netbooks [...]

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Twitter Scams Suckering In Gullible, Desperate

And I supppose in desperate times, there are more desperate folks (and to be fair, perhaps “unsophisticated” rather than “gullible”).  The Los Angeles times reviews the proliferation of Twitter scams, offering to teach people how to make buckets of cash via Twitter — not being up front, however, that they’ll charge you on the backend [...]

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How These Six Words Could Energize Friendfeed on the Mainstream Media

Well, who knows if it really would — but I think one of the biggest inflections in Twitter’s popularity over the past 6-12 months has been the mainstream media’s push, and obvious love affair with socia media.  Of course, CNN is one of the biggest culprits / lovers so far, with almost every one of [...]

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Better Question: Would a Social Media Revolt “Matter” If Nothing Was Remedied?

Ben Parr asks “Why Social Media Revolts Take Place”, and goes through the usual places (crib notes: they do something that seriously cheeses its users, obviously visible in hindsight).  I think the better question is “what would have happened if said sites didn’t cave to their users?”  Hulu, Facebook, Twitter (and, say Digg) all generate [...]

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