Category Archives: socialgraft

Are you backing up your twitter history?

Posted on August 10, 2009 by Thomas Purves

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 … Continue reading →

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Noise Aggregators

Posted on March 24, 2008 by Thomas Purves

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 … Continue reading →

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Facebook Fatigue, it’s Spreading

Posted on November 9, 2007 by Thomas Purves

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. … Continue reading →

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