Twitter has become a new method of communication for many of us in the social media, technology and even marketing space. And, while the microblogging service hasn’t exactly gone mainstream, fascinating stories are emerging involving the platform. There are also more and more mainstream media coming to the fold as well. Carlos Granier-Phelps is documenting [...]

Image from WikipediaThere’s a Lijit search widget over on the right side of my blog. A friend asked me last week what it did and why I had it. Frankly, because I really like the neat little avatar display of all my social networking sites where I can be found. You can click on them [...]

 ”We’re really interested in building community!” brand managers enthusiastically say. “We’re hoping a social network, perhaps a CEO blog and, um, er, widgets! We must have widgets. Then we’ll have a community!”
The question is, did I hear an actual person say this or is it hypothetical based on the general misunderstanding of social media in [...]

I click on “Share” in Google Reader. Some magical web 2.0 wand waves and the post is automatically bookmarked on del.icio.us. I thought this should be a simple process. But when I started diving into it, I realized the Yahoo-Google competitiveness probably wouldn’t allow it. (Yahoo owns del.icio.us.) Of course, this is just big company [...]

This week’s episode of SME-TV didn’t take us quite as far as our last jaunt (to Canada to explore Radian6). That’s because the founder and main man behind social media profile aggregate platform Profilactic lives a mile (literally one mile) from my house.
Shawn Morton and I sat down Saturday while the wives and kids were [...]