Category Archives: Social Media

The Web Ain’t Dead. Blekko.com Has Come to Save It.

Posted on September 1, 2010 by Stephen Pickering

blekko: how to slash the web from blekko on Vimeo. This is  a VERY cool, and very paradigm shifting new site: Blekko.com. I caught this on John Battelle’s Searchblog tonight, got a beta invite, played with if for a few … Continue reading →

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What is Social Media?

Posted on August 29, 2010 by Stephen Pickering

// Well it can be a lot of different things. Which is one reason it is so exciting and presumably so valuable. From the point of view of a business or an individual who has their own personal website or … Continue reading →

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Fail Whale: The Shadow Side of the Social Media Experience

Posted on August 26, 2010 by Stephen Pickering

Update Thursday Aug. 26th 2010 – As you can see I wrote this Sunday the 22nd the day after Leo’s blog post. I was a bit too negative and ranting. So I sat on it a few days. Read the … Continue reading →

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Facebook’s Privacy Solution is So Simple

Posted on May 24, 2010 by Stephen Pickering

Instead of screwing with the granularity of your main page or account, confusing and aggravating the users, all that Facebook has to do is have two separate pages for each user: one completely private (except for those one chooses to … Continue reading →

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