On Thursday, I was invited by Brian Solis to attend a dinner briefing in San Francisco with one of his clients. Shortly after arrival, other invitees began to dribble in through the door - a venerable who's who in the tech blogging space, including Jeremiah Owyang, Harry McCracken, Robert Scoble and...

I am not new to social media, having been in newsgroups and chat rooms since the early 90s. I’m also not new to information overload, as I’ve always been a news junkie and a voracious reader. But every once in a while, my life changes with respect to how I give and receive information, a...

Written by Dawn Foster. I’ve been on a time management kick lately with posts about reducing my side project overload, managing my time through better prioritization of activities and using Harvest to track my time. One of the things I learned from tracking my time more closely is that I spend...

Everyone’s talking about it. No, not Eastenders. Suddenly, everyone wants to know about Twitter. I’ve been asked several times recently “What is it, exactly?�, and I can only say the usual: it’s a bit like texting, but imagine your text going onto the web, and if people find your texts int...

By Mona Nomura of Pixel Bits (FriendFeed/Twitter) The main advantage to Windows for me, is that I am familiar with maintenance. I go straight into registry files, poke, shift, and delete stuff - confident my actions will not interfere with my PC's innards. I know Windows. OS X is a whoooole differen...

If you haven't yet checked out Twitter my question is, what are you waiting for. All the major companies, whether it is media, professional ball clubs, Fortune 500 companies or successful entrepreneurs are using Twitter. Once you have gotten excited......

Filed under: Internet, Features, News, Social Software We're big fans of FriendFeed, the social network aggregator that helps you keep track of your friends' activities across different platforms like Twitter, LastFM, Flickr, YouTube, Facebook and about 1,000 36 others. If you're a fan or if you're ...

Here are details on how you too can get the hell away from Twitter, increase the functionality available to you and still not lose your whole social network. I hope at this point I have some credibility as a late adopter and as a person who does not jump at every new service that comes along. It too...

I’ve been asked to give a lot of talks lately on the fast changing social marketing and media world and the questions I inevitably get from the audience go something like - “Should I use Facebook or LinkedIn?” or “What’s the value of Twitter?” or “How do I c...

Filed under: Internet, Social Software Because it wasn't hard enough trying to decide which Adobe AIR-based desktop Twitter/FriendFeed client to use, MySocial 24x7 had to go and complicate things by releasing their own desktop client. MySocial 24x7 started out as a Firefox sidebar add-on, but if you...