Jeffrey Mann

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Entries Tagged as 'Hype Cycle'

Of Microblogging, Twitter and Hype Cycles

August 19th, 2009 · 13 Comments

This is Hype Cycle season, which always leads to lots of comments on blogs and other social media sites. I wrote the Microblogging technology profile, and have been alternately bemused and amused about the reactions to its position this year. Talking about Twitter always generates reactions, especially on Twitter.
This year, Microblogging (which includes the Twitter [...]

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Tags: Hype Cycle · Twitter · being an analyst · blogging · consumerization · microblogging

How Blogging Is Like Salted Caramel

December 31st, 2008 · 1 Comment

I was just reading an article in the New York Times, and something felt very familiar. My wife has been telling me for about a year that caramel is the new chocolate, and this article backs her up (much later than she realized it, of course). Previous inexplicably popular food fads like asiago cheese, chipotle, [...]

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Tags: Hype Cycle · caramel