Book Reviews
Hatching Twitter by Nick Bilton
A look at one of the most influential companies of our times.
Tag: Twitter
Thoughts, observations, and occasional rants about the destructive social network.
Big Data
Expand Your Data Focus
Looking at the importance of external data sources.
Platforms
Frenemies and the Age of the Platform
In my first Ignite talk, I stress the importance of getting comfortable with being uncomfortable.
Big Data
Visualizing Twitter
What did Twitter look like in 2009?
Faves
Maybe I Am a Social Media Expert
Reevaluating a term that I truly despise.
Big Data
Big Data and Teenage Sex
Yes, one has a great deal to do with the other.
Big Data
Social Media and the Fourth V of Big Data
In order to benefit from Big Data, we need to embrace uncertainty.
Big Data
Why Big Data Is Like Porn
It isn't terribly easy to define, much like a few other subjects.
Communication
Post #500: In Defense of the Big Idea
On merits of big ideas in a culture that emphasizes the tactical.
Analytics
The Social Data Police
A post on catty ex-clients and how Amazon uses data to improve its review of reviews.
Platforms
The Gradually Closing Platform Strategy
Facebook and Twitter keep on closing their platforms. This is no accident.
Platforms
On Stocktwits and Frenemies
Twitter goes from friend to enemy in an instant. The platform giveth and the platform taketh away.
Communication
The Inevitability of Negativity
Once you reach a certain level of prominence, expect detractors. But don't let that stop you.
Platforms
More Cross-Platform Pollination
Zynga is hardly the only company that sees the benefits of existing—and even promoting—other platforms.
Platforms
When Laziness Trumps Technology
We have the right tools. What about the right mind-set?
Platforms
The Wrong Questions
On today's fixation with traditional queries.
Platforms
Twitter 2.0: Becoming More "Platformy"
Twitter is growing up before our eyes—and smartly copying others.
Platforms
Ecosystems Extend Platforms
Rinse. Cycle. Repeat.