If You Could Sell Children Online, I’d Be A Father Several Times Over

Parents arrested after baby offered on Craigslist. This comes on the heels of a German woman who put her baby on eBay as a joke.

Dot Bomb 2.0?

There has been a lot of chatter about the reliability of Twitter and just as much about its lack of a business model.

Despite the user uptake of Web 2.0 services, I still don’t understand how these services intend to monetize themselves, even if they are very useful – Remember the Milk comes to mind.

Facebook has yet to make money and even Google’s Eric Schmidt admitted recently that it has yet to figure out how to make money off YouTube.

Mark Evans has a quick post with some links that further explore the business models of Twitter and FriendFeed.Technorati Tags: Web 2.0, social networking, FriendFeed, Mark Evans, Twitter, Facebook, Remember the Milk

Twitterless

Supposedly Twitter can deliver news quicker than traditional media.

Except when it’s offline. Again.

I’m Not Really Sure Why I Twitter Either

Wired columnist Lore Sjöberg concludes the internet is to human interaction as Pringles are to potatoes. And yet he continues to try out new social networking sites.

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Twitter Jitters

I’ve recently started using Twitter, if only to see what all of the fuss is about. Truth be told, I only have three people following me and I’m only following them.

I’m actually using it more as a tool to update my Facebook using a Facebook application called TwitterSync as well as a method of updating my Remember the Milk tasks via SMS, Google Chat or by sending an e-mail.

The latter use is starting to become almost essential, but as Matthew Ingram points out, for a service that is supposed to be all about real-time communication, Twitter has been doing very little to address recent reliability issues.

Whether you believe Twitter is merely a fad or a legitimate new method of communication, anything that markets itself as “real time” should take reliability seriously.
Technorati Tags: Twitter, Matthew Ingram, Web 2.0, social networking, blogging, micro blogging, Remember the Milk, Facebook

Don’t forget that you’re an early adopter

Shel Holtz makes an important point about the use of services such as Twitter, Friendfeed and even Facebook: The mainstream hasn’t heard of Twitter. They’re still wrapping their minds around Facebook and blogs. And Friendfeed? Way, way too leading edge.

It’s something I have to keep in mind with clients, who even though they are in the advanced technology arena, are not as aware of these these tools as I am simply because they have other priorities.

Technorati Tags: Twitter, Facebook, Web 2.0, Friendfeed, Shel Holtz, social media,

Twitter can break news, but it can’t provide context

B.L. Ochman has a short post about how services such as Twitter can make everyone a reporter.

While I agree that Twitter can break news, it can’t provide context and deep analysis.

It also raises a very important question: What’s to stop someone from twittering an outright lie that leads to some serious damage such as panic in the streets?

Feel free to call me a cynic.

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