Today at the Realtime Report we developed a WordPress plugin to embed Tweets using the Twitter API. Until we get this into the WordPress plugin repository you can download the zip here and upload to your blog. Read →
Congress is in the midst of deciding whether to interfere in the one piece of the American economy that seems to be working well — the Internet. The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA; the Senate has its own version called PROTECT IP) promises, in the words of House Judiciary Lamar Smith, “protect one of the most productive sectors” of that same economy. He’s talking about copyright holders in the “productive” media, music and film industry, who are trying to protect their cozy 20th century business model by running to Uncle Sam. Read →
rstat.us is an new open-source service that, according to its developers, sets out to clone the basic functionality of Twitter with a non-commercial and distributed system. What does this mean for business users of social media? Until the service starts to attract a significant number of users, not much in terms of reach. The real issue: is this just the tip of the iceberg? Will users rebel against the idea that one or two major sites control their social experience and personal profile data? And will that create an opportunity for a service like rstat.us to successfully challenge the established players? Read →
After browsing through a few questions on Quora, I realized I was looking at Stack Overflow for non-programmers. Both Quora and Stack Overflow try to bubble up the best answers to a question, based on other users’ votes. Stack Overflow has been around a couple of years; and techies have been using less sophisticated versions [...] Read →
During the Super Bowl I got to wondering how #BrandBowl stacked up against the main event. According to Trendistic, #SuperBowl topped out at 7.53% of Twitter traffic at 6PM. #BrandBowl maxed at 7PM, with 0.43% of Twitter traffic. Still, 1/17th of #SuperBowl buzz is pretty respectable. Read →
Kevin at ExactTarget alerted us to this cool visualization of social networking consumption and contribution by gender and age: Read →
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Foursquare has become a battleground. In this corner, wearing sequined trunks, me. In the other corner Tonia. Tonia enjoys certain natural advantages: She has fine motor skills, meaning that she can check in faster. She actually goes places. When she goes places she remembers to bring her phone. But never fear. Here’s my strategy: Live [...] Read →
According to the Pew Internet & American Life Project the percentage of online teens who blog has dropped 14 percentage points in three years, from 28% in 2006 to 14% in 2009. Blogging amongst adults has remained steady, at roughly 10% over the same time period. Behind that number, however, Pew finds that blogging by [...] Read →
I’m 44 years old and don’t really care who knows it. But serving me ads that target me as a 44 year old chump that will click through (yes, I did) and share my email address (no, I didn’t) on the promise of beta testing an iPad — well — that’s a bit much. Read →
