I like the guy, but this is just awkward.
Category Archives: Social Media
How to Delete a Google+ Account
Tired of Google+ already? Here are the steps to delete your account: Sign in to Google+ in a desktop browser. Click your full name (or email address) in the Google+ bar at the top of the screen. Click Account settings. Click the Account overview tab. Click Delete profile and remove associated social features. Confirm your [...]
Half an Hour on Google+
I got an invite to Google+ tonight, and decided to give it a shot. On paper, Google+ seems a ton better than Facebook. I think the whole Circles thing is pretty genius. The ability to group people and filter content by those groups is something Facebook has been in need of for quite some time. [...]
Five Thousand Tweets Per Second
Abdur Chowdhury over on the Twitter blog: During major events, people use Twitter to share news and thoughts with friends, family and followers around the world. Messages originating in one place are quickly spread across the globe through Retweets, @replies and Direct Messages. We see this behavior during everything from sporting events like the World [...]
Google+
Steven Levy: Google still wants to organize the world’s information. But this time, it’s personal. Yet another social media network I won’t be joining. Except that maybe I can’t ignore it as much as I want to: Another twist is that people in your circles don’t have to be members of Google’s social net. If [...]
The White House Learns About Its Social Media Followers
This is great stuff, and I hate social media crap most of the time.
On Twitter and Journalism
This is a must-read from Brian Stelter who covered the Joplin tornado with an iPhone.
‘A Goddamned Sea of Notifications’
Michael Lopp: The problem with notifications is that the cost to create them is close to zero — just hit that Like button or go ahead and click that retweet button. As their creation cost approaches zero, notifications rapidly become spam-like as the noise of their quantity masks the quality of their signal. But we [...]
Maybe the iOS 5/Twitter Thing Means Income for the Social Media Company?
This could be very interesting.
Tweeting with the Newton
Well, I know what I’m doing with my eMate tonight.
