I started wondering last evening what twitter would be like if in addition to followers we could also see who was actually being paid attention to. The groups many of us use in clients like
The realtime web is living on borrowed time. Not in the sense that time’s running out on realtime. But in the sense that the realtime web actually involves two kinds of time. One is the
The realtime trend continues unabated, with presentations at TechCrunch50, Facebook’s recent updates, and next-generation newspaper designs all extending the impact and value of the stream in social media. Disaggregation begets reaggregation, as demonstrated by the
In the process of considering the differences between “regular” consumer social media, and social media in the enterprise, I’ve been turning over the idea of ambient intimacy vs ambient knowledge. I thought “knowledge” might not
Last Friday was the Techcrunch Crunchup conference about the Realtime web. It was followed immediately by the annual TC party at August Capital. Of the many conferences I’ve attended, Crunchup was more interesting and relevant
Your Facebook updates are going public. In what’s being viewed as a response to twitter’s success, and as a protective measure taken before a release of revamped Facebook search, user updates will soon come with