So this afternoon shortly before 2pm I noticed that my Twitterfox app went silent. No new messages in, but it wasn’t showing up red like it would if twitter were down. Curious as to why Twitter was so quiet I visited Twitter.com to login to my page to see if perhaps there was an issue with twitter.com. I logged in fine, but what I found was a bit startling, the nearly 800 people I was following were gone. Also the…
One of my favorite Google properties is Reader. I use it daily and if I could keep up with it would add hundreds of thousands of blogs and websites to the feed just because it makes my life that much easier. But with the recent social changes being rolled out to Google Reader I got to thinking about how Google could take some of that social power and put the data back in the hands of bloggers. What if Google…
There used to be a time when I had a safe haven on the net free of spammers. My perfect little Zen garden full of information shared by those I trusted most, but today that place of Zen was tainted by the spammer world. This place of enlightenment was Google Reader. Before the social overhaul Google Reader was a place where my friends and my fellow search geeks could share interesting reads, and even if it wasn’t something I cared…
So there has been a lot of buzz this week revolving around the launch of the new Twitter home page, which features trending topics that are hot at the moment, hot for that current day, and hot this week, as well as a hot this month. But more importantly Twitter’s home page is now dominated by a search feature. The new focus on search has people talking about Twitter being the next big thing in search when it comes to…
There are a number of celebrities using twitter and social media these days. Some of them have their people do all the updates, some of them only update occasionally and others update regularly and interact with their fans on a regular basis. However last night I saw a level of interaction from a celebrity that I hadn’t seen previously. Hannah Montana star and pop music starlet Miley Cyrus spent a good chunk of her night interacting with female fans on…