A couple of items in the news this week got me thinking about the social search space. But not from the usual angle. We have all heard about ChatRoulette by now, and of the random
Twitter is now reporting that 50 million tweets bleep through the grid every single day. It’s a staggering number, 600 per second, of which “approximately 83 tweets per second contain product or brand references (20%)”
Thus at bottom the message already no longer exists; it is the medium that imposes itself in its pure circulation … the universe of communication … leaves far behind it those relative analyses of the
I told myself that I would refrain from posting today, having perhaps posted too much last week. But sometimes a post simply gets stuck, and like a ditty on spin cycle, begins writing itself. There’s
It has been a busy week for realtime social media enthusiasts. Google’s launch of Buzz has given us something to try out and to talk about, and this has been the biggest test of a
Update: The recent launch of Google+ and twitter’s imminent UX redesign got me thinking that it might be worth reposting this concept for Action Streams. Most of our social services are currently structured as feeds,