Portals and KM
Dan Schawbel wrote an excellent post on Mashable on the Top 10 Reputation Tracking Tools Worth Paying For. I have reviewed one of them on the AppGap – see Radian6 – Monitoring Social Media. You can find Dan’s view of Radian6 and 9 others through the above post. I list the complete ten below in this cross-post from AppGap wi (Read More)
TechRadar: All News Feeds
Leading VoIP service Skype goes from strength to strength, with revenues rising by 26 per cent last quarter. Yet despite this success, parent company eBay is rumoured to be looking to offload its cash-cow to none other than Google. (Read More)
"Tech" via Carlos Lorenzo in Google Reader
I know I am a technology guy, and I am very logical and literal. Because of this I get annoyed when people use conversation and Twitter, Microblogging, or Status Updates as synonyms. Have you ever tried to have a conversation on Twitter or Identi.ca?Part of the reason for my annoyance this morning are two blog posts regardi (Read More)
: When you reply to a status update it starts to become a conversation. Due to the "half duplex" nature of Twitter it's kind of hard to thread it together. I think people like Twitter because it is SIMPLE.
: I think as all of these products mature--FB, Twitter, MS even--the playing field will narrow, and the products will do more to differentiate. Right now, the key to ubiquity is the open platform that exists from site to site--I hope as the field narrows, that open platform mentality is not lost.