I accidentally hit the keyboard and typed ‘grr’ at the start of this post but considered keeping it. It’s been that kind of week, don’t you think?
–I should’ve seen it coming when my recent Foursquare vs Gowalla post became one of the most-read posts on our blog. Location-based apps are going to [...]
Continue Reading →I’ve had writer’s block the past couple of days and couldn’t for the life of me come up with interesting blog content. Guess it was post-holiday fog or something. Then a few hours ago, I clicked on a link from my Austin friend Wesley Faulkner and was hit square in the face [...]
Continue Reading →I’ve spent the last seven days trapped in the house with two sick children, which means I have more links piled up than I know what to do with, and my fuse is shorter than Balloon Boy’s 15 minutes (too soon?). So if I offend anyone, deal with it. This Vortex will [...]
Continue Reading →Mr. Hyde it is. Dr. Jekyll was always the boring one, don’t you agree?
News from the Social Media Vortex
–The technosphere was thrown into a tizzy (no really, they were) over the news that Facebook will include @mentions in your status updates. It’s being spun as an !attack [...]
Continue Reading →It’s funny – I started this weekly wrap-up to skewer the insanity of the technosphere. It’s an odd little world that thinks an awful lot of itself and needs a dose of reality on a regular basis. But sometimes I just can’t muster the energy to make fun of Scoble’s latest rant, or whatever that [...]
Continue Reading →Perhaps it’s the end-of-summer quiet but there wasn’t a lot of technosphere silliness this week – just actual news! Don’t get too comfortable; September is just around the corner.
News from the Social Media Vortex
–It’s America’s Funniest Home Videos for the 21st century. YouTube is now giving revenue share to uploaders [...]
Continue Reading →I’ve been awash in home-selling negotiations this week so I’m particularly cranky. You’ve been warned.
News from the Social Media Vortex
–As you’re well aware by now, Facebook acquired FriendFeed this week. Allow me to couch that: you’re well aware of this news only if you live in your browser. For those who frequent FriendFeed, [...]
Continue Reading →News from the Social Media Vortex
–Someone broke the Interwebs yesterday morning, with a denial-of-service attack hitting Twitter, Facebook, Google, and LiveJournal. Twitter was the hardest hit (or the worst prepared), with the service going completely offline for a couple of hours. [And as of this writing, the site was Continue Reading →
