My Latest Articles on RWW

April 17th, 2008 | Published in Personal, social media

For those of you who don’t follow Read Write Web, but occasionally check my site (hi family!), here’s a sampling of my latest articles from Read Write Web:

Facebook’s Lifestream: Nothing to See Here: A new post on the Facebook blog announces the arrival of "a new way to share with friends" - that is, they’re offering a way for you to import content from non-Facebook sites into your Facebook Mini-Feed and into your friends’ News Feeds. This new option is being touted on the blogosphere as Facebook’s "new lifestreaming feature." That is, by far, a grand overstatement of the service, which currently pales in comparison with its competitors…Keep Reading

Real People Don’t Have Time for Social Media: Let’s be honest here: we’re all a bunch of social media addicts. We’re junkies. Whether it’s a new Twitter app, a new Facebook feature, or a new social anything service, we’re all over it. But we may not be the norm. The truth is, being involved in social media takes time, something that most people don’t have a lot of. So how can regular folk get involved with social media? And how much time does it really take…Keep Reading

Content is Becoming a Commodity: Over the weekend, it seemed that everyone in the tech blogosphere contributed to the discussion around fractured blog comments; Robert Scoble even went so far as to say that the "era of blogger’s control" is over. What all these discussions hinged on was whether or not a web service called Shyftr had the right to appropriate bloggers’ RSS feeds and build their brand around our content (a practice they’ve now modified due to this outcry)…Keep Reading

How to Get Customer Service via Twitter: There has been a lot of talk lately of companies monitoring social media, be it Twitter, blogs, or social networking sites, for mentions of their company name and responding to customer service issues. Some of this interaction has been in the Twitter community, with Comcast being one of the more active participants as of late. Although in some cases, customers twittered their frustration after failing to receive the support they needed through traditional methods, in many cases, Twitter was the first place the customers vented their frustration, and then were surprised when they received a response from a support rep or company spokesperson…Keep Reading

5 Ways to Find More Friends on Twitter: It seems like everyone is on Twitter these days, but are you following everyone you should? With so many users, it can be hard to find the right people to follow - you might even miss finding some of your very own friends on the service, especially if they joined later on, after you did your initial search for friends. To help you out, we’ve provided five web apps that can help you locate some of the best people for you to follow on Twitter…Keep Reading

How Important is Offline Access, Anyway?: In today’s world, you’re never too far from an internet connection. In developed countries, broadband access is available in more places than ever, and even poorer countries have internet cafes sprouting up left and right. Modern web workers and business travelers even take extra precautions to maintain always-on connectivity - packing air cards in their laptop bags or buying laptops that already have built-in EVDO access…Keep Reading

Breaking the Techmeme Habit: Techmeme is a great place to stay up-to-date with the current tech news in the blogosphere, showing the most popular and current news items of the day. The site also offers a Leaderboard section which features the current top 100 bloggers and news sources. However, Techmeme is often under fire from bloggers who feel that it doesn’t deliver a diverse enough selection of blogs and voices. Whether that’s actually true or not is up for debate, but in the meantime, we thought we would look at other ways to stay on top of the the latest news in tech, sans Techmeme…Keep Reading