Chris ThilkMarch 23rd, 2011
This past Monday, as many people noted, was the fifth anniversary of the first update being posted to Twitter or, as it was called then, Twittr. A lot of people on that occasion took the opportunity to look back at how the service has evolved in those five years. What I’m more interested in, though, [...]
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Melissa WalkerFebruary 14th, 2011
Facebook has been releasing new features and functionality on what seems like a weekly basis lately. Everytime I would get used to something, it gets tweaked or updated completely. Not many of these recent features have been substantial or particularly advantageous to me personally, or for the work I do for clients. It wasn’t until [...]
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Chris ThilkOctober 1st, 2010
More and more I’m seeing paid advertising that seems to have as its central goal to increase the number of “Likes” racked up on Facebook or, now with the roll-out of the “Promoted Accounts” feature, followers on Twitter. These advertisements, whether they happen within the network or are part of a paid placement elsewhere on [...]
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Chris ThilkSeptember 15th, 2010
Twitter made a pretty big announcement yesterday evening. No, it wasn’t the expected additional features such as an analytics package, a suite of business-friendly features or anything else that would have been super-cool for corporate users. Instead what was revealed was a redesigned user interface that, quite frankly, looks a lot like an app that [...]
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Chris ThilkMay 14th, 2010
Almost a year ago I wrote about how the next big innovation in micro-blogging search needs to be a move into “deep link” search, meaning searching not only the text of the update itself but also the link that’s included in that update. Doing so, I posited, would provide better results for the real-time web [...]
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Chris ThilkApril 16th, 2010
The last couple weeks have been extraordinarily busy for Twitter, with a number of new features, altered functionality and other business-related news providing a steady stream of conversation topics. But while the announcements, recapped below, are interesting as we see how the platform is evolving and coming into its own it’s incredibly important to remember [...]
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Chris ThilkApril 13th, 2010
One of the comments made at The Conversation by a panelist or moderator when talking about the use of location awareness apps like Foursquare or Gowalla was that there was a good amount of ego involved in feeling that everyone needed to know where you were and what you were doing. In a sense that’s [...]
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Chris ThilkJanuary 20th, 2010
Forrester Research made a big splash in the pool yesterday with the announcement of an addition to the Social Technographics ladder, their representation of what online activities people are engaged in. Between “Creators” – those who post long-form original material, be it text, audio or video – and “Critics” – people who rate existing material [...]
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Chris ThilkNovember 2nd, 2009
As everyone likely knows, Twitter debuted native list-making functionality last week to the entire user-base after a brief period of selective beta testing. You won’t be notified that you now have the ability to make lists until you log in to Twitter on the web and see the message at the top of the page. [...]
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Chris ThilkSeptember 9th, 2009
One of my biggest issues around Twitter is the lack of meta-data around a user and their updates. You can see followers and such but you can’t get easy access to information around a lot of the actions people take there, which makes the job of marketing professionals a bit harder when trying to compile [...]
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