Back in March, I wrote a very provocative post about Twitter versus Tumblr. I predicted that Tumblr might very well surpass Twitter as the next big thing. Now, it hasn’t happened yet, but Tumblr is evolving nicely. We’ve seen the demographics shift from more than 40% of the audience under 24 to an even spread across the demographic spectrum.
Tumblr Surging as Content Publishers Adopt Channel
By Andrew Davis | Published December 4th, 2009
Twitter, Facebook vs. OpenID: Identity Management Made Easy
By Andrew Davis | Published November 30th, 2009As Facebook Connect and Twitter grow so does single sign-on The more I experiment with new platforms the more I find myself trying to manage my online identity. With the huge adoption of both Twitter and Facebook, I find myself having the option to sign-in with either Facebook Connect or Twitter’s API. Could Twitter and…
Google Wave Feels Like a Chat Client, But is it?
By Andrew Davis | Published November 22nd, 2009I don’t know how many people have received Google Wave invites. In September, we were told 100,000 users would be invited to participate. I opened my Gmail account last weekend to find my invitation awaiting my attention and with great excitement I clicked through to start my Google Wave experience. I am ready to change the way I communicate online. There’s only one problem: with so few early adopters invited to participate I don’t have anyone to communicate with.
That being said, I’ve had my first valuable interaction on Google Wave and feel confident in telling you what I think about my initial experience.
FourSquare and My Personal What-Now Factor
By Andrew Davis | Published November 16th, 2009I’ve been using FourSquare for months now. I can’t recall where I heard about it, but I immediately signed up and started using it on my iPhone. If I was pitching FourSquare as a television show I’d pitch it like this:
FourSquare is Facebook meets Twitter meets Google Maps meets Yelp meets the Boy Scouts.
Micro-Apps Emerge as Immersive, Connected Experiences
By Andrew Davis | Published November 9th, 2009Okay, so I just made up a new term “micro-app.” That’s the only way I can describe TheHotlist.com — it’s a micro-app. Basically, TheHotlist uses Facebook Connect to deliver a rich interface for your Facebook events. The interface is intriguing, delivering you a map and a calendar and showing you who’s attending what, where. It’s interesting and it may highlight something we’re going to see more of: deeper web applications built as massive mash-ups using networks like LinkedIn or Facebook as their core.
Amiando Makes Event Creation and Management Easy
By Andrew Davis | Published November 1st, 2009Conferences, seminars, mixers, even fund-raising event management On September 10, 2009, all around the world, thousands of people gathered at restaurants and bars to support a local charity. All of these events were coordinated locally and attended internationally. Of course, a bunch of smart developers could have gotten together to build a complicated ticketing and…
Yelp! Where Niche Experts Can Reign Supreme
By Andrew Davis | Published October 26th, 2009Remember Citysearch? Well, Citysearch is dying. Four or five years ago, Citysearch was where I went when I needed to find something new to do in Boston — or in any city I was visiting, for that matter. It was a great resource. But it wasn’t consumer (or visitor) focused and it didn’t evolve fast enough.
Get Satisfaction: Are You Ready for Customer-Centric Customer Service?
By Andrew Davis | Published September 21st, 2009Our latest New Media Life Cycle Analysis takes a look at Get Satisfaction’s evolution. If you’re a marketer, venture capitalist or a content creator of any sort working on, with or for a brand you must get familiar with this new support paradigm. This New Media Life Cycle analysis will help prepare you or your client for what’s to come in the online support community.
Perfect Time To Sell Skype: In the Gestation Phase
By Andrew Davis | Published May 21st, 2009Today’s Oprah show will travel around the world using Skype’s video telecommunications technology. It’s a perfect opportunity to talk about why this is the best time to sell Skype. It’s no secret that eBay wants to sell Skype and their partnership with Oprah provides all the fuel for the right kind of sales strategy for a startup like Skype.
Justin.tv: Hundreds of Channels, Nothing On
By Andrew Davis | Published May 8th, 2009Hundreds of channels but there’s nothing on
The site began as a social experiment in something co-founder (and namesake) Justin Kan referred to as Lifecasting or broadcasting his life live on the web, 24/7. That experiment lasted a few months and the site has come a long way from this. After adding hundreds of lifecast channels the site was opened up to the public in late 2007 moved on from experimentation and entered gestation phase.