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Facebook has long clustered feed posts by type: friending people, changing profile pics, playing games, etc.
Here are two examples of Facebook clustering feed posts by content… which is a bigger & more important concept …
For much of today, my blog was unaccessible because Media Temple had a far-reaching outage.
After unsuccessfully trying to reach my site, I was made aware of this through Twitter (why no email correspondence?)… with …
Fascinating…. way too early to have intelligent commentary on the Twitter / Uber Twitter developments (see here, here, here), but Twitter’s @Support response is fascinating:
Not previously known as a leading designer, Twitter has been on a roll with their latest iPhone app, iPad app, and New Twitter. Here is a good example of why – but with some learnings …
In May of 2008 I wrote that statistics – specifically around referrals and influencers – could be a sizeable business model for Twitter.
Great Twitter presentation by Raffi Krikorian of Twitter’s API team. The talk is from a presentation at UC Berkeley and he talks about Twitter’s platform, scale, etc.
Twitter has officially launched their Tweet Button – a natural move which will place them beside Facebook’s like buttons… and across millions of pages on the web (soon to be on this blog!). The question …
Remember Burger King’s 2005 Subservient Chicken ad campaign? It is listed on Wikipedia as a notable example of “viral marketing campaigns” and was cited by Wired Magazine as one of the most successful viral ads …
Yesterday, Formspring (http://www.formspring.me) announced a $2.5m Series A investment that was led by Baseline Ventures and FreeStyle Capital. Polaris is excited to also participate alongside a slew of terrific angel investors: Ron Conway’s SV Angels, …
As you can tell from recent blog posts, I have been spending time looking at traffic sources for various sites (Facebook, Huffington Post, Perez Hilton, etc).
New data from Hitwise reveals that one-third of Foursquare’s traffic …
A big, exciting day for Brizzly (whom I have written about more than a few times!). Today they announce two major product launches:
1. Brizzly for the iPhone
Mind you, this is coming from a someone who does not profess to understand Google Wave (after several attempts)…
and from someone who believes that Facebook is the bigger than most give it credit for.
Here are …





