Data portability is a concept that’s been around for a longtime. The initial concept was focused on single sign-on, which meant you could go from site to site (wherever you had a membership) without having to log in. Of course businesses wanted this because they could get a better sense of who you were as a customer BUT companies such as the the artist formerly known as Microsoft wanted to...
So . . . I recently saw some stats about people accessing Facebook and Twitter via their mobile devices and the numbers are pretty compelling. Access to social networks from mobile browsers increased from 22.9% to 30.8% (1.2009 – 1.2010) Facebook site traffic from mobile browsers increased from 11,8 million to 25.5 million (1.2009 – 1.2010) Twitter went from 1 million to 4.7 million...
I’ve been talking to many businesses about where they should be focusing their energies, in regards to mobile site vs. app vs. iPad app vs enormous movable flaming billboard. After listening to many business talk about the performance of their iPad apps vs their site (some selling twice as many items through their iPad app as opposed to their site) I realized that the customer is as usual in...
During my Web 2.0 class, I share with my students my belief about progressive disclosure as it relates to their personal brand. The gist is this. You need a LinkedIn account and it should be something your grandmother (or HR) would appreciate, complete with professional photo dependent on your vertical. You may have a Twitter account and this is a combination of professional insights and personal...
10. You created a profile for your kitty. 9. If someone rejects your friend request, you show up at their house and tearfully demand to know why. 8. You have been diagnosed with something called “Facebook ass.†7. If you don’t update your page for 10 minutes, friends assume you died. 6. Named your daughter Gracebook. 5. Only photos on your Facebook page are of you uploading photos to your...
Some months ago I was surfing the net and came upon a post that featured a brief conversation at the end of it. Someone was watching a panel discussion and they were talking about the future of search. (I wish I could find the post.) They were discussing the rise of social search and predicted that search/search results would eventually have three layers. Social – Return results from your...
Last night we talked about the monster that is Facebook. Monster you ask? Y E S. Facebook could own the Internet or better yet; become the Internet. But more on that in a little. We started out by watching the Facebook in real life video. This video puts, what is now accepted as online behavior, in an interesting light. It’s also really funny. From there we talked about how Facebook fits...
Almost as funny as the Twitter life cartoon. Enjoy!
The web 3.0 video below reviews the concept of the semantic web and frames it in a way that most can understand. It’s worth watching and the focus of the semantic web is context. “Joshua wrote the post” or “Sarah watched the movie”. This is something that Google doesn’t do. They’re trying to do it with social search but let’s be very clear about...