There has been a lot of debate about if you should use social media as a “weapon” against companies you have complaints with. Some people find it unethical and feel you shouldn’t turn to Twitter or its ilk to lodge complaints about companies, but it seems some of those companies not only are listening to those sources, but being proactive with them. According to a recent article in...
This morning dawned on a new future for the Twitter platform and its developers. The Terms of Service (ToS) for use of the API (application programming interface) is going to change to state that advertising can no longer be injected into a user’s timeline. Companies such as Ad.ly, Magpie and Sponsored Tweets and others have popped up around the Twitter platform that would allow users...
One of the amazing things about social media is that every time someone comes up with an idea, there is almost inevitably a competitor that pops up with the exact same idea, or something darn close. Sometimes you can brush it off as mere coincidence, and other times you have to figure one of them definitely used the idea of the first one as the seed for their own company. While...
People are fuming mad about how their privacy is being treated, and even how difficult Facebook makes it to delete their accounts. The problem is that MySpace has become a joke, and while sites like Bebo and Orkut are big in other countries, there is no real viable alternative currently for people to move over to. Enter the concept of Diaspora. Perhaps it was just a coincidence of...
While Twitter had an amazing idea on its hands when it first launched, one thing it lacked was any way to interact with it beyond its somewhat clunky Web interface. Luckily the company had the foresight to release a rather robust API (Application Programming Interface), and the third-party applications began coming out at a frightening pace. There were times where it literally felt...
There is no doubt that I am an opinionated person, just looking at my body of work here at Techno Buffalo over the past six months will tell you that. And I’m even willing to admit that I don’t always get it right, no one can have a perfect batting average, but I’m also not usually a person to rub it in anyone’s face when I do get it right. However, in the case of my warnings about...
The smartphone market is sure where the entire cellular market seems to be headed, but once you reach a saturation point with this technology, where do you go next? For the time being, speed is certainly being worked on with the WiMax and LTD initiatives to bring us faster mobile broadband. Applications are being developed at a blistering speed, and the operating system battlefield is...
Social networking has had its hay day it would seem; big social networks seemed to be a dime a dozen, and there was plenty of pie for everyone. Now it seems that unless your name is Facebook, it doesn’t matter how popular you may be in one or two countries, you have to be a dominating force globally or you just don’t matter. Two years ago Bebo was an up and coming social network on...
Apparently there are some things in this world that Google touches that don’t automatically turn to gold. When Google Buzz launched last month, it seemed like Google might finally be on to something, that the search giant might have finally figured out how to do social networking. … then everyone started using it. Buzz has been less than successful to say the least. As we mentioned...
Back when the Power Rangers were actually good, you lived for the moment they’d call in their Zords to fight the overgrown beast of the day. Really, though, the Megazord was the be-all end-all that stood the test of time. The web isn’t so different. We’ve got a powerhouse of web platforms like Twitter and Facebook where people do most of their information sharing. Combining these...