What's the business value of twitter?
Is Twitter valuable to your business? Yes. Well, maybe. Tweets such as "staring at my navel," "contemplating the universe" or "having a bath" don't do much for a business (or…
Is it possible to be a good social citizen and a successful brand at the same time?
Fresh on the heels of Facebook's Beacon mess, Google's blows it with Reader. As I mentioned about a week ago, you need to be a good friend when engaging socially…
Hey, social networks! Customers expect you to be a good friend
Isn't it funny that many social networks call the folks you choose to associate with "friends"? How ironic then that Facebook's recent Beacon clusterf... er, kerfuffle was one of the…
Fred Wilson predicts the end of Techmeme. Does this create an opportunity?
Are social aggregators of blogs over? Fred Wilson thinks so. And generally, you won't go wrong listening to what he has to say. What I found disappointing, though, is that…
VibeAgent and the future of social search
TechCrunch announced that VibeAgent launched today. Speaking as a guy working for a hotel company, it's pretty cool. The weight VibeAgent gives to reviews to determine search relevance is excellent,…