Many organizations worry that if they put their clout behind an individual, he or she will gain notoriety and power and eventually double-cross the organization. So, instead, they go for bland.
— Seth Godin on How (not to) pick a company spokesman
Those organizations are right to worry. Scoble was happy at Microsoft, but he built so [...]
Marketers and even customer service people are taking Twitter very seriously.
I complain to the internets a lot because I live in a parallel universe where the wrong font choice is a crime against humanity. One of my tweets was about Dwell architecture magazine:
A week later a rep from a self described guerrilla marketing firm emailed [...]
This was going to be a lengthy post about how it’s better to build simple systems with minimal rules so the optimal feature set emerges organically (aka: paving the cowpaths). Instead I’ll just mention Muxtape and del.icio.us so you can draw your own conclusions.
Anyway, the real reason Twitter is 100000X better than Facebook is that:
Facebook [...]
