Tag Archives: Facebook

Google has a real problem with Google+ engagement - especially with new users. Here are some ideas on how to address the situation.

Computer algorithms aren't the only thing contributing to the "Internet Filter Bubble." Who we choose to connect with in our social networks deeply affects who is "curating" the content we consume. Here's why diversity in your social network matters.

Place-Based Networks are mobile social networks that help you connect with other people based on your shared interest in a place.

Twitter is mad at Google for connecting Google+ with search - and for commoditizing their service in the process. How this might not be such a bad thing.

Google+ pushes better engagement with "permission marketing" principles.

There will soon be a day when the majority of our online social interactions will occur through mobile devices, and we will face a much more intensely social world than we can even imagine today. When that day comes, our software will need to be much smarter at recognizing people's social context.

It's one of the great tragedies of modern life that our amazing capacity for emotional intelligence gets short-circuited online. We need software that helps us not only retain, but augment our online emotional intelligence. Here are four areas to focus on and a plea for injecting anthropology into our software development process.

Sparks is critical to protecting Google's golden egg - its search business - from Facebook. With Sparks, Google is trying to get you to share interesting content with people using Circles rather than Facebook. Facebook gets social, but Google really gets information - so here are a few speculations on where Google is likely to take Sparks:

The old business model for local news is deep in debt and essentially running on fumes. The notion of a truly mission-driven news entity is quite compelling. We see examples of it running quite effectively in the nonprofit world in entities such as YES! Magazine, Grist, and High Country News. While these organizations have editorial voices and geographic territories that make them operationally quite different from a local newspaper, they do paint a picture of what could be possible on a municipal level.

One day it dawned on me that my romantic relationships felt a bit like two hearts on a teeter-totter. Staying out on the edge was exciting and fun, but love at the center is more mellow and sweet - it's deeper. It is the stuff of the soul and I can no longer really imagine a world without it.