socialgraft
Are you backing up your twitter history?
Figure A: Typical Twitter experience /artist’s impression Scoble has a great rant up today on twitter’s failing as a platform. This is similar to Jevon’s epic (and correct) rant on why you shouldn’t build a business on Facebook… or otherwise on someone else’s platform. At least not unless you are prepared to take the risks. [...]
Noise Aggregators
Jevon has a great post up today on how the new trend towards social aggregators is missing the point. I’ve called these things underpants business models. Collecting a lot of people’s seemingly-useless personal stuff in one place, but then, through some magical step 2, everyone profits. I, like Jevon, and everyone else, are still waiting [...]
Facebook Fatigue, it’s Spreading
Do you feel like the applications are killing Facebook? For all the gold rush and hoopla surrounding the Facebook platformitization, is it living up to expectations? I don’t think it is. The world could use a great social operating system. But the best applications on facebook are still the original ones: pictures, events, the basic [...]
Social Network Optimization is the new SEO/SEM
Or, how to buy friends and influence people: “need someone with knowledge on how to post and title youtube videos and digg articles in a compelling manner… will be paid bonuses for results (ie getting on the first page of Digg, getting lots of viewers, comments, channel subscribers etc) in Youtube” -NYCraigslist Posting “We [...]
What you need to know about FaceBook
My home town Toronto held FacebookCamp to another near-soldout crowd. I’d say approaching 250. You really can’t swing a cat in this town without someone tagging the cat on facebook.
After the jump my notes, running commentary and everything we need to know about monetizing facebook. maybe.
Thomas Purves
is a technology executive specializing digital payment systems, a futurist and sometimes entrepreneur living in the great city of 
