by Jeffrey Mann | April 8, 2009 | 6 Comments
Last week saw fevered speculation about an impending acquisition of Twitter by Google, and just as much fervent debunking of those rumours. I don’t pretend to have any inside information, so I won’t comment on whether this will happen or not. We don’t like commenting on rumours anyway. But I do have some ideas about [...]
Category: Google microblogging social software Twitter Tags: acquisitions, business model, Google, twitter
by Jeffrey Mann | March 27, 2009 | 6 Comments
Twitter famously has no visible means of financial support, aside from the money it has raised from venture capital firms. A viable business model for Twitter has become the elusive MacGuffin sought by many observers of social media, like the statuette in the Maltese Falcon. Fairly vague comments from Twitter co-founder Biz Stone have ignited [...]
Category: blogging social software startup Twitter Tags: business model, macGuffin, Maltese falcon, twitter, Twitter hoax
by Jeffrey Mann | March 16, 2009 | 1 Comment
A year ago, I had no idea what the letters SXSW signified. South By Southwest started as a small music festival in Austin, Texas, but has now grown into a collection of festivals encompassing music, film, media and interactive technologies. I have never been to SXSW, but I come close to feeling like I have, [...]
by Jeffrey Mann | February 1, 2009 | 6 Comments
This New York Times article reflects an issue that has been lurking at the back of my mind ever since I started using social media sites like Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, Yammer, Linkedin and my infrequent private blog. While I’m not a really high volume poster, I like to share a fair amount of stuff on [...]
Category: blogging consumerization social software Twitter Tags: new york times, personas, security, social software, UI
by Jeffrey Mann | January 12, 2009 | 8 Comments
I’ve been using Twitter for the last ten months or so, and many people have asked me why. How can sending 140 character missives into the ether be a good thing? The simplest answer is that it’s fun. I enjoy coming up with quick little updates on what I am thinking about or doing, and [...]
Category: being an analyst blogging consumerization social software Twitter Tags: microblogging, social media, social software, twitter
