Free Stuff for the Slightly Less Hip

If you aren’t quite hip enough for the Keane live webcast, check out Peter Shankman’s live twitter giveaway. Shankman, always the social media provocateur, is live streaming his Help A Reporter Out giveaway. Answer questions via Twitter, win stuff. Its thats simple. Follow @skydiver for the questions.

If You Hate the Twitter Fad…

…then you’ll love this vid. Thanks @stevegarfield for the tip. And, yes, I do see the irony here.

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SXSW: The Twitter Saturation Myth

There’s a lot being made this weekend at SxSW about so called twitter saturation making communication all but impossible. But really, it’s not so bad, twitter is being widely used because it fills a critical need at events like this, and user behavior can and has adapted to make this additional information more useful.

As [...]

Widget Makers Weeded Out in 12-18 Months

Can I get an AMEN?!?! Ross Levinsohn from Velocity Interactive Group just said that the widget market will be dramatically consolidated in 12-18 months as a standalone concept. Widgets are tools for distributing viral content, and there will be a huge shakeout, leaving just the companies that do it well.

What is content anyway? Does [...]

The Problem(s) With Twitter

First off, Twitter is a great idea. But it was only really good at the start. Unlike most new technologies it got worse with scale. First with slowdowns and outages as they added features, then as a result of information overload as more people came online.

I don’t know that I entirely agree with Scott Carp [...]