Category Archives: Social Media

January 28, 2013

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In a follow up on this post from last year, I found this on TaskRabbit for San Francisco. It’s a job posted by AirBNB: Wow. AirBNB is so cool. Using Task rabbit to send things to a sick employee. Just awesome. What a very cool company. 

January 14, 2013

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NYTimes:  Many young men these days have no experience in formal dating and feel the need to be faintly ironic about the process — “to ‘date’ in quotation marks” — because they are “worried that they might offend women by dating in an old-fashioned way,” Ms. Rosin said. “It’s hard to read a woman exactly [...]

January 11, 2013

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My Facebook profile is locked down to nothing now. I don’t have any “likes” on any pages yet Facebook still says I do. I also don’t have any photos or personal info but I was tagged in a lot of photos so that still shows up. In short, Facebook is a wide distribution list & [...]

January 2, 2013

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Ryan Block is an uber cool guy. He’s the reason I started reading Engadget back in the day. I love his Apple Events Coverage at Engadget and at GDGT. Ryan and I have chatted at events and I wasn’t aware of his departure from Facebook and Instagram. The entire article on NYTimes is a VERY [...]

October 23, 2012

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It’s so hard to use social media. It’s simple to download the latest app that connects you to the latest hot social network and invite a ton of friends, make a post and attach a photo of your burrito. That is an easy thing to do. Using social media like a diary is not. To [...]

February 16, 2012

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Since completing a 30-day break from a lot of things, I’ve been too busy to actually write about the experience. I failed on a couple of things. One of those was no meat and another was no beer. I did well but caved in a few days short of my 30-day mark. There are no [...]

February 9, 2012

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When you are operating a website that enables communication between users, there are a lot of very important considerations to make such as how much you provide to the user. Can they post publicly or is this a private person 2 person service? What sort of features do you build in to enable more connective [...]

February 3, 2012

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via Poynter: After guiding Facebook pages, Twitter accounts and more since 2008 at the Cincinnati Enquirer, TBD (where we worked together) and The Huffington Post, Mandy Jenkins is moving on. Congrats and that’s impressive. Why move on? Mandy Jenkins: It’s just a time to move on. I’ve been doing this for a while and it’s [...]

January 17, 2012

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I get asked this pretty often so, following the festivities of this weekend, I opened on my home iMac a few tabs of people I met who are “celebrities” but YouTube stars which is different than a real celebrity. Anyway, I gave it 48 hours. Basically, twice a day I refresh the pages of these guys and [...]

January 16, 2012

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UPDATE: The video I was in is now online. You can watch it here via YouTube or the embed is at the bottom of the post. I make an intro at 4:57. Also, WoodysGamertag posted this behind the scenes video you might enjoy.   Urban Dictionary’s definition of “YouTube Stars” One of the people in [...]