Insight about X, the platform formerly known as Twitter. The former news social media mainstay once described as "microblogging", and now better known as "that hell site", is in the midst of some dramatic changes. .
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The early session has been very much a beginner’s guide to social media.Anyone who thinks that curation is the “next big thing” in social media, as I saw one person say on Twitter, has obviously missed the last 10 years of blogging, for example.[![IMG_2920 - Version
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[https://i0.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2010/02/IMG_1013.jpg] Some interesting posts to while away the last few hours before the weekend: - [Add Social Networking to Your Blog with BuddyPres](http://webworkerdaily.com/2010/02/18/add-social-networking-features-to-your-blog-with-buddypress/)s – social networking comes to the single
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Been *far *too busy today, but wanted to kill the tabs before I headed home for the weekend… - Some [predictions for 2019](http://broadstuff.com/archives/2013-The-Networked-Technology-world-in-2019.html) - Horrible neologism of the week: [twilebrity](http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2010/02/twitter-201002) - Google [beefs up its
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I made a small mistake this evening. I broke my self-imposed social media exile to retweet something by Alan Patrick [http://twitter.com/freecloud/status/7097876834], that linked to this post on his blog [http://broadstuff.com/archives/2002-Twitter-to-be-nearly-entirely-composed-of-Social-Media-Experts-by-2013.html] . And suddenly, I found myself besieged by unhappy social media
Snow has come to London: Those of you on Twitter may be seeing tweets like this in your stream:> #uksnow SM2 4/10What the heck’s that all about? Simple. It’s a crowd-sourced method of tracking snow levels across the country that came into its own [back in
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 [http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2009/12/Brian-Solis.jpg] There seems to be a pleasing trend against social media idealism and towards the hard reality faced by people doing this stuff day-in, day-out. As [Brian Solis]
David Jacobs of Six Apart argued that treating developers well is important, because it allows you to get traction for your platform. But Ethan Beard of Facebook says that user experience has to come before developers. And developers will come up with problems before they come up with great things.
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[](https://i0.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2009/12/IMG_2127_2.jpg) Next up is Ryan Sarver, the director the the Twitter platform, who appears
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Ouch. This is a painful, but compelling, read: > I walked off stage and immediately went to Brady and asked what on earth was happening. And he gave me a brief rundown. The Twitter stream was initially upset that I was talking too fast. My first response to this was:
Last keynote of the day: Bernard Desarnauts of Glam Media and Tinker.com talking (in theory) about where the money is.Media is every-fragmenting. Blogs are growing as are social networks. Traffic is fragmenting around topics, and traditional sites are drawing a small and smaller amount of people’s time.
[https://i1.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2009/10/4049154983_7656f8d1fd.jpg] I’m uncomfortable with some of this panel’s message. There seems to be a distinct undertow of “how do we control the message through Twitter. The examples we’re being given seem to be using
 [http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2009/10/IMG_1976-Version-2.jpg] Former colleagueCiarán Norris [http://ciarannorris.co.uk/] is going to tell us how to listen. Use your ears?🙂First up: why should we
