My son reminded me today that I had just told him a month ago that it was just a matter of time until Facebook bought Foursquare, or just copied their location based model. It was just too obvious. Facebook with their huge volume of users would be too interested in [...]
If you have not experimented with applications like FourSquare and Gowalla on your mobile device yet I suggest you load them and become familiar. I suspect that either, or both, of these companies will soon be acquired by much large platforms like Facebook, or companies like Google. Either than or [...]
OK, I am only going to write about this one time, and then I am going to let it go. I start every presentation I give on social technologies with the same slide, and each time I review it, the audience nods their heads as if to say, “now I get it…” This slide is a simple vocabulary lesson to try and bring some coherence and sense to the jumble of terms people are now using in the social space. It seems that each new day brings some new variation on an activity with the word social pasted in front of it.
As you might have noticed, I took the month of June, and part of July off from writing this blog. The only excuse I really have is that I had three books that were all do to the publishers during this time. For the most part, they are done, and [...]