If you use Twitter and think it is a valuable service then you’re probably tired of the steady stream of your friends who tell you it’s just a fad and they don’t feel compelled to join.  They “don’t care what people ate for lunch.”  They’re fine on th ... Read the full po ... Read more

Yesterday's WSJ had an interesting piece about Alacra 's new Pulse Pro offering . For those that don't know, I invested in Alacra in 1999 via Flatiron Partners and have been on its board ever since. Alacra has been developing and selling information services to the banking, brokerage ... Read t ... Read more

I’ve been obsessed with the notion of email as the ultimate social network for a while.  I wrote a post in 2007 titled Social Networks In Obvious Places   that catalyzed me to think harder about this as an investor.  I eventually decided that the email address is the ultimate ref ... Read more

Texting, a simple method to send messages from wireless handset to handset, may be the largest single roadblock to Twitter’s growth. A survey by Pew shows that among internet users between 8 and 17 years old, only 8% use Twitter while 66% of the age group send or receive text messages. ... Rea ... Read more

I'm in a charitable blogging mood today, in every sense of word, so here's another look at the outpouring of donations to help the folks in Haiti. Soon after the earthquake struck last Tuesday, social media became not only a way for the world to find out about the tragedy, but also a way to help ... Read more

John Borthwick , co-founder of Betaworks , parent company to bit.ly, twitterfeed, tweetdeck, chartbeat, and many other interesting web services, posted yesterday on " Ongoing tracking of the real time web … "  Through these various Betaworks companies, John and the team have acces ... Read more

More than one in five of all online ads are served on social networks. MySpace still leads the pack with 9.2% of all online ads, and Facebook is a close second with 8.2%. The 3.7% of online ads served on social networks is split among such sites as Tagged.com, MocoSpace.com, Hi5.com, Bebo ... Re ... Read more

It may not be clear how Twitterwill ever make money, but its growth is not in doubt. The microblogging website is now among the 50 largest internet properties in the US according to new data from comScore covering August web traffic. Twitter took the N0. 46 place with an extraordinary audience of 20 ... Read more

Frank Reed presents two examples in Twitter, Local Business and Results: Naked Pizza, where an exclusive-to-Twitter promotion brought in 15% of the day’s business, and Berry Chill, a yogurt store, whose use of "Sweet Tweet" promos on Twitter to give away yogurt has not diminished daily s ... Read more

Social Media is a funny thing, you meet all kinds of people world wide. Sometimes it's a Social Media Tool you share, sometimes it's a marketing method you both are implementing and want to compare results, and sometimes because - no matter where in the wide world the other is based - you work in th ... Read more