Love it, hate it or have no idea what the hell it is, Twitter seems to definitely (kinda) finally making some ripples outside the early-adopter society. That means that everyone must now ask whether or not Twitter will become the next ubiquitous web “thing” like Google, Facebook or email (ed. note: not actually convinced Facebook [...]
The lovely folks over at TechCrunch have assembled a nice gallery of comments left on the CBSSports NCAA Facebook application that has not quite performed up to snuff. With a whole bunch of problems being reported, users around the country are sounding off.
As TC points out:
“But it is an even more serious issue for CBS [...]
WSJ has a look at the growing trend among social networking sites like Bebo and MySpace using original video content as a way to grow and expand their user base:
“The growing popularity of YouTube poses a particular competitive threat to social-networking sites. Roughly a quarter of users who view videos on MySpace also watch shows [...]
Sure, it could just be a swipe at a giant, but Scoble is no slouch himself so when he asks if Facebook is doomed, it’s probably worth taking note.
Among his issues:
“As much as I like Mark Zuckerberg, I can not recommend Facebook to anyone until they fix this problem. There’s ABSOLUTELY NO WAY someone’s account [...]
So, two days ago there was an article in the New York Times that looked at just how difficult it was to delete your Facebook account.
There was plenty of buzz about this on the webs for a while.
Now, a mere two days later comes this article in the New York Times in which they report:
“Aiming [...]
Nice little piece on a site about the PSFK conference that looks at two pieces in BusinessWeek (here, here) exploring, first, MTV’s marketing plans in the new media world and then examining the backlash on MySpace and other social sites from users tired of being bombarded with ads or being drawn into what first appears [...]
