Episode 21: Twitter Outages May Cause Social Network to Go Dark
May 28, 2008
Erin Kotecki Vest a.k.a. Queen of Spain joined us for a twitterific rant. Most recently she had a stunning interview with presidential hopeful Barack Obama. She discussed Barack before we dove too far into Twitter.
Our conversation was sparked by TechCrunch’s recent coverage of Twitter and its consistent service problems.
Aaron loved Arrington’s statement post of nothing…
Then it began. We debated back and forth whether or not Twitter was dead, and then the merits of FriendFeed, which seems to be a Scoble driven vehicle.
Finally Erin slammed home we keep coming back, no matter what. Twitter won’t die.
Geoff says it will be like paging, a big social network will add the function then the phenomena known as Twitter will die. Conversation ends there.
Then mindless babble about who is the real Britney in social media. Candidates included Peter Cashmore, Arrington and others.
Episode 20: Plaxo, LinkedIn, Comcast, Twitter and Technosailor
May 21, 2008
Aaron’s turning 40, according to Geoff. That’s only partially true. Actually, Technosailor.com just turned 4. Livingston Communications, Geoff’s firm, is a sponsor. He notes that next week they are launching a new service they are calling a “Social PR Firm” that transcends typical social media marketing and communications.
Aaron asks Geoff what the best way to move into this venue of Social PR if you’re not focusing primarily on social media. Geoff thinks it depends on the stakeholders. At the end of the day, social media is a tool and not the end-all, be-all of communications.
Aaron talks about how he is trying not to refer to his site as a blog, and instead, as a site. The concept of blog vs. media property.
Geoff segues into Twitter pitching. Every time he comes online on Twitter, he’s getting pitched by people. He’s tired of it. I don’t blame him. But unlike him, I’m not taking time off from Twitter.
Can you take off from Twitter? It didn’t work for Hugh Macleod who came back after a very small amount of time because all his business contacts were there.
Caller Tobias Bray calls in and shares some insights. He asks, why do you go to a social network? Why do you do it and what do you get out of it? Toby compares Twitter pitches to multi-level marketing efforts.
The Mac Mommy was chomping at the bit to talk about the Comcast-Plaxo deal. Geoff thinks it’s “Shiny Object Syndrome” that causes Comcast to buy a crappy service such as Plaxo.
Toby, who has history in the cable industry, thinks that Comcast is trying to remain relevant in the the social space.
Aaron has a bright idea and thinks Comcast is trying to get the massive address books database to tie into their phone service.
Regardless, no one really has a clue what the Comcast play means or what the end goal is.
Aaron wonders who LinkedIn goes to and Mac Mommy asks, “Where’s the beef?”
Then the show went downhill… You’ll just have to listen to it. ;-)
Recent Comments