“It turns out that when I used my Facebook account to create my profile, Pinterest accessed my personal information to automatically have me start following common connections,” Elizabeth Lupfer writes. ”In my book, Pinterest brok… [read more]
Last month I deleted my Klout account. The deletion of my account was a protest of sorts. My goal was not to get others to delete their Klout profile, but to make a statement about behavior. I believed then and I still believe that Klout has negative… [read more]
Jeremiah Owyang – @jowyang Empire Avenue: Was once a highway for influencers, yet now an infrequently travelled back alley. What happened? I have a massive amount of respect for Jeremiah Owyang. So when I read this tweet, it struck me in an odd… [read more]
This is a guest post from Julie Beall. This is the first guest post ever here on my personal blog. I asked Julie if I could use this after she had a horrible time trying to post a comment and had sent this as a Word document. Julie does not have a bl… [read more]
I was delighted to be a guest on RAW Nights with Kelly Mitchell. She invited me to talk about Dashter and social media, but as is often the case, the conversation turned to social media and technology in general. My personal opinion is that the hyper… [read more]
I’m not a big self-help book reader. Books by men like Zig Ziglar, Tony Robbins and Brian Tracy have never had much appeal to me. So, when I read those names in the dedication to the “authors and other influential people” in the b… [read more]
Maria Reyes McDavis – @websuccessdiva started using the publish sync extension! Visit: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/sync I favorited Maria’s tweet over at Twitter a few days ago as a way of bookmarking it. Today I finally got… [read more]
Some conversations are meant for a larger table. I thought I’d share a conversation I had with Neil Cauldwell this morning. He is the founder of Nurph.com. Nurph’s mission is to “extend the conversation by chatting in real-time with… [read more]
I’ve been trying to put my finger on what bothers me about the new Google+ social offering. While surfing in a circle I’ve called “The Edge,” I found a thought provoking status update from Stowe Boyd around the way a “sh… [read more]
Patrick Neeman – @usabilitycounts #ux “Just how do I design if not with prototyping? The short answer is ‘on paper.’” @mralancooper Some things never change. I can’t get away from pen and paper. Sometimes the faste… [read more]
I love infographics. The infographic below is not the best I’ve ever seen. It did, however, make me stop and think for a moment, so it accomplished its mission. As I was looking at all the numbers associated with the activities happening in 60 … [read more]
For a long time, I’ve tried hard to make Sundays an internet-free day. In truth, I have no idea how long it’s been since my wife, Rocky, first asked if I’d turn off the internet and social media access and disconnect from the online… [read more]
Love it or loath it, the smartphone app Color is one of the most innovative Web products to have launched this year. It has a user experience that is as unique and different as Twitter was 5 years ago… I believe that Color has a very good chan… [read more]
I don’t hate QR codes. I hate how QR codes are being used. I hate the lack of thought being given to QR Code use and I hate the hype over their use. But I don’t hate QR codes. QR codes are inert. QR codes are only as good as you make them… [read more]
The best conversations I’ve been a part of recently have grown organically. Here’s how it works. Someone like Matthew Shadbolt throws out a question, or a thought about a link. Someone like Gahlord Dewald throws out a response. Sometimes,… [read more]
I gave my initial reaction to Color yesterday. Today I was able to test it in the wild. I talked Audie Chamberlain into downloading the app at lunch and snap some photos with me, since that’s the only way the app actually works. I have to say,… [read more]
