Tag Archives: social network
The Incredible Run of Google+
Since an image is worth 1000 words, here is a graph done by Leon Håland analyzing the growth of Google+. It took only 24 days for Google+ to reach 20 million users, while it took over three years to reach … Continue reading
How Google Can Win the Social Network War
First there was Orkut, FriendFeed, MySpace. Then Facebook came and took 750 million people behind its wall as they eagerly connected with school friends, shared baby photos and played Farmville. Now Google Plus, the coolest kid in the block, has … Continue reading
Mute chatty posts on Google+
Google+ tends to show you again and again the same posts, every time there is a new comment. This may be annoying or useful, depending on the circumstances. If you don’t want to remove Scoble from your circles, you can … Continue reading
Leveraging the address book as your social network
Think about it: your list of friends, family, colleagues and casual acquaintances is not on Facebook or Linkedin. It’s in your pocket, in your phone’s address book and your email address book. If you’re smart you keep them in sync, … Continue reading
A path to design social apps that don’t suck
Existing social networking apps suck because human social interactions is simply more complex than adding a ‘friend’. This presentation shows quite clearly why Facebook sucks and the email/phone addressbooks suck, too. Take a full 40 minutes to read it carefully … Continue reading
Email must die
The declaration from Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg resonates very well in me: “Email is probably going away,” she said. Not only email should go away: I hope it will die! There are so many better ways to share documents, decide … Continue reading
It’s all about Contacts: who do you know?
When it comes to doing anything, finding a job, an apartment or a used car, what counts most is who you know. In the old times it was the size of your rolodex, now it’s the size of you digital … Continue reading
Pimp your addressbook with Avatargrabber
Who said that syncing is boring? Alfredo Morresi developed the ultimate time-wasting-syncing-social-tool to pimp your addressbook. Did you know that your phone and desktop addressbook can associate an icon to any of your entries? But, honestly, who has ever wanted … Continue reading
The future of Social Networks
I really liked watching this presentation, I think that Charlene has good points. My social graph is not flat and it’s more extended than any Google or Facebook knows. Which leads to my concerns: how much do I want to … Continue reading
Mobile micro-blogging with Funambol at Girl Geek Dinner
I made an experiment last Friday at the Italian Girl Geek Dinner: I grabbed the latest JAM email client that supports sending photos and I used it to report from there using the new service Twitxr.’ Twitxr is like Twitter … Continue reading
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