Posts Tagged ‘friendfeed’

Time for Twitter to Go Gentle Into That Good Night?

Twitter is dying. Here are the symptoms: Microblogging peaked and began the descent into the trough of disillusionment in Gartner’s 2009 Hype Cycle for emerging technologies Twitter has long suffered unscheduled outages due to architecture, scalability, and now Denial of Service (DoS) attacks.  And they lose users each time they are down. Facebook acquired FriendFeed [...]

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Commune, Collective, or Community – The Secret to Aggregating Users and Creating Value

Are you organizing people the right way? I read a post from @TheBrandBuilder where he talked about dropping the word followers from Twitter, replacing it with something else.  He made the point that it is not about leading, it is about creating a community.  I read a post from @Scobleizer decrying Twitter and FriendFeed in [...]

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