TechCrunch reported yesterday about an interesting new iPhone app they came across in the App Store. It’s an official app made by the National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations (NASDAQ), the American stock exchange. In the words of TechCrunch writer, MG Siegler, “That itself is interesting, but perhaps even more interesting is a key [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Twitter’
A letter to Twitter: Porn Spam Must Die
Dear Twitter,
I am writing to you on this steamy New England day to vent my frustration, annoyance and overall dismay at the increase in porn spam over the past two months. I joined Twitter on October 29, 2007, long before Oprah joined and spam bots found yet another channel to clog up with their crapola [...]
Is Oprah Twitter’s shark?
Jumping the shark. Risky, dangerous and often fatal. The question is…can Twitter gracefully jump the shark and survive?
I have love this idea of jumping the shark. It is such an interesting phenomenon – one which doesn’t happen that often. I didn’t know much about where the term came from so I did a little research [...]
When will that tweet cost you?
I suppose it’s inevitable. There’s that old thing about, hm, what’s that? Oh, right Making Money. The bacon, the benjamins, the bill-payer, the thing that keeps companies alive and growing. It’s one of the trickiest nuts for all of these social media companies to crack (R.I.P. matchmine). I always wondered how Twitter would foray into [...]
Microblogging is the new black
It’s hard to keep up. First brown was the new black, then eggplant, then came Facebook and now microblogging. You’re in right? Do you know what the hell microblogging is? Okay, let’s start by answering a few simple questions: Are you on Twitter? Yammer? Pownce (no, not the cat food)? Do you religiously update your [...]
