Tag: COMMUNITIES

When it comes to potential new features for Twitter, the Japanese version has always been a testing ground. For example, Twitter in Japan is supported by ads, which haven't hit the US yet (and nobody seems sure if they ever will!). While I'm just fine using Twitter without ads, we'd love to see an English version of Twicco, which basically adds group support to Twitter. You can test it out for ...

It's all about the future at FOWA. Well, what do you expect? It's in the conference title. Gary Vaynerchuck of WineLibrary.tv, one of our favorite video podcasts, is giving a talk on "How to Grow a Community in The Future" and we're liveblogging it! Gary is a machine and a heck of a funny guy, so before Friday afternoon turns your brain to cobwebs, follow along with Gary's presentation. ...

It's becoming harder and harder these days to exist at just one social media site or another. Some of your friends are sharing pictures at Flickr and Zooomr, while others are uploading videos to ImageStation and Vox. Making sure you keep all these communities updated with the pictures and videos from your adventures can be exhausting, but PictureSync from Holocore can make mince meat out of all ...

Tumblr is a new tumblelog service whose FAQs probably describe itself a nutshell the best: "To make a simple analogy: If blogs are journals, tumblelogs are scrapbooks." It has the look, feel and functionality of a stream-of-consciousness blog, instead of the typical structure and theme/agenda that the traditional blogging platform has (sidenote: can we really refer to an aspect of blogging as ...