Tweet Facebook (or was it Friendster?) redefined what a “friend” meant. However, it wasn’t until Twitter when suddenly following was all the rage. This one-way street of stalking / viewing content from another person who didn’t have to return the favor enabled a whole new psychology of the share. Twitter’s primary following architecture worked very [...]

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 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 [...]

Tweet It’s been nearly half a decade since I’ve blogged, publicly, on a regular basis outside of blogging for work. I’ve even gone through stints as a professional blogger, covering the tech industry, business innovation, and mobile marketing, but I just didn’t find the time to blog as a hobby. My lapse of blogging really has [...]