One day in the near future we will reach some sort of a tipping point with everything social. The new-platform frenzy of the last 5-8 years where almost every year we saw the explosion or a new social platform sometimes at the expense of an old one will slowly fade out. I might be wrong [...]
So streams are the new darling. So says Twitter. There is something very seductive in the evolution of streams as well as the evolution of the discourse around streams. It’s fallacy is the usual early-adopters twitter-centric outlook that tends to categorically ditch the old world and embrace the new but if you read through the [...]
via One of the most sacred truism of social media is that it is no place for direct marketing and salesy messages. Yet recent developments and observations seems to suggest that this might become just another cliche’ as companies are experimenting with social platforms as sales and promotions and even a new breed of direct [...]
Probably both and neither. I’m talking of course about the most recent Twittersphere common mantra, i.e. is twitter killing blogging? Please allow me to make some random observations as well 1. Recent social-technological developments and trends prove time and again that we are suckers for dense, ambient, immediate communication. The instant the reply/feedback the better. [...]