Tweet After the social networking sand settled with Facebook on top over the last half decade, the social behemoth seemed untouchable. Twitter, far behind in second place, wasn’t a direct competitor for a while, since it focused on public conversation and Facebook mostly targeted private, friends-only conversations. Google+ entered the picture and managed to shake [...]

Tweet It’s been a busy couple of weeks, ones that haven’t included a lot of time to engage with social media, but given it’s one habit I can’t break, I’m still on Facebook and Google+ at least once a day. As the novelty of their latest changes and launches have worn off, I’m stuck on [...]

Tweet My last posts have largely covered the subscribe feature that was announced earlier this week, but I haven’t yet dug into all the changes that have taken place since F8 (at least, not on my blog.) My comment which was quoted by Nick Belton of The New York Times  sums up my thoughts best: [...]

Tweet Yes, there’s plenty of tech news beyond Facebook Subscribe happening these days — and will be plenty to discuss about Facebook this week after their big F8 Developers conference, but right now I’m fascinated with the minuta of social dynamics on both of these networks. To be honest, since Facebook rolled out subscribe, and [...]

Tweet In my last post, I gave Facebook’s new subscribe feature a bit of a hard time. Clearly an effort to play catch up with G+ and Twitter’s more public social networking capabilities (and thus, better opportunities to use heaps of social data for public search relevance and, thus better opportunities for targeted advertising), I [...]

Tweet Today, Facebook announced a major new feature that lets you “subscribe” to any user on the site. Unlike Twitter, Facebook has always been much more about your personal social network vs your public network of random people who are somewhat interested in the same things or topics. The problem is, without the public social [...]