Deconstructing the LEGO Internet

Earlier this week Jesse Stay, the man behind the Twitter service SocialToo, wrote a rather interesting post suggesting that in order to move the web forward to that mystical 3.0 version we need to start looking at ... continue

Penelope talks miscarriage – gets slammed, Jarvis talks penis – gets patted on back

What are the limits to the conversation in our social media world? At what point does it become either too much information (TMI) or cross the line of polite society? Back near the end of September Penelope Trunk, CEO ... continue

Daily Mail article on Gately’s death sparks social media outrage

Daily Fail Mail writer Jan Moir's article, originally titled Why there was nothing 'natural' about Stephen Gately's death, has taken over Twitter, spawned a Facebook group and crashed a website that handles press complaints. The piece, now titled ... continue

Coke Zero Facebook app will find your doppleganger… someday

Well, that was disappointing. The techno-spooky interface of Coke Zero's new website, billing itself as a "worldwide social experiment," starts with words on the screen: If Coke Zero has Coke's taste... is it possible someone out there has ... continue

Well isn’t that just spiffy – get paid to make new friends

Being able to sift out the spammers, never-ending supply of social media gurus, and just plain irritating “let me show you how to get x number of followers’ is hard enough but now we ... continue

Going too far? Penelope Trunk’s miscarriage tweet divides social media types

Was it TMI or a welcome, candid look into women's workplace issues? Penelope Trunk, of The Brazen Careerist, tweeted to her now-19,000 followers during a work function that she was currently miscarrying. Like, that second. Trunk said: I'm in ... continue

The absolute best picture describing Web 2.0 and Social Media

This has to be the absolute best picture ever to illustrate the whole Web 2.0 and Social Media world – most days anyway. Related posts:The Social Media PrismDo You Have a Social Media Last Will and ... continue

Anyone with some attention to sell, I seem to have lost some of mine.

Did you see those last three Twitter messages that flew by? Did you really read all the messages posted to your Facebook timeline in the last hour? Have you managed to get ... continue

Once again @Facebook rips off @Twitter, but who really cares anymore

This is getting borderline ridiculous. The big news of the Internet today? Facebook yet again takes a page out of the Twitter playbook. As Duncan reported here earlier Facebook is starting to rollout ... continue

For all the good of social media is it fixing the root problems

Social media has become the voice of the common person who with enough pull behind them can make companies sit up and listen. Not everyone has that kind of pull but we all relish ... continue

Apple’s love/hate relationship with its users

Apple is an anomaly in today’s tech world. Long the mainstay of small segment of computer users it had a loyal following who would probably leap off of cliffs if Steve Jobs asked ... continue

The coming trust crisis in the social media expert space

I had the privilege of attending my second Gnomedex two weeks ago and there was a regularly used joke: everyone claims to be a "social media expert" just because they've used Twitter. The line may seem glib, but ... continue